Year-end tally: 49, or 42%. Fucking Kelly, as usual.
Hooray! New Year! 2015 was kinda shitty. Fingers crossed 2016 will be kinda awesome.
I made up a first draft that had a ton of new recurring items (do x thing x times an x). When I added them all up, it was like an extra 200 hours a month. Obviously, that was idiotic and completely against the spirit of the Überlist. First I make the master list, then I think it over and cull, trying to remember my overall theme for the year: Less.
Let’s to this thing.
- BE A BETTER HUMAN:
Be more generous with praise and stingy with criticism. Still need a lot of improvement, but making progress.
Be as patient with my parents as I’d be with anyone else. Again, could be better, but improved.
Eat all the cheese. Literal and figurative fail.
Daily capsule journal to help my memory
Have a dinner party like a normal person
- THE BEST NEST:
Fill bedroom display case with stuff I love to look at.
Paint the pony wall colors I love.
Fix coffee maker or admit failure and quickly buy a cheap replacement without boring myself to death researching every fucking coffee maker in creation, or just forget that and keep using the Clever Dripper.
Empty, defrost, and clean deep freeze before new pig is ready.
Hot tub time machine!
Cut and mount switchplate cover in pantry
Figure out some way to mount that awful plug in the pantry
Swap around IKEA drawers.
Set up fancy new charger.
Shelf for cake taker collection
Cover steam pipe in basement
Cover steam pipe per bathroom/hall in other places it looks terrible
Streamline and maintain HomeRoutines
Replace laundry room light and back door lights with LEDs as they burn out.
Raise up those pantry cabinets off the floor
Set up little dining room in apartment with my beloved dinette
Reprint dish sign with correct room name
Add slats to shed pallets to prevent anguish.
Keep FMaD dough in the fridge
- A FRIEND IN TECHNOLOGY:
Opt out of all my self-inflicted spam as it arrives.
Set up email on my phone
Reset my original Scrabble app.
Investigate auto-backup options and implement one for the ipad
Fix naughtyneedlesknitting.com issue or just kill site
Fix outofthefryingpan.com issue
Troubleshoot dad’s email thing
Re-enter Paprika recipes and set up automatic backup
- MAKE:
Cure and smoke my own bacon!
Cure and smoke my own ham!
Add day numbers to 2017 calendar
Make one wine kit.
Make one beer kit.
Knit or sew something new each month 1-mittens for T; 2-cashmere nightgown; 3-unloved cowl; 4-sari tunic for me, dress for T; 5-brown slip dress, indigo slip dress; 6-linen slip dress; 7-sea sheath dress; 8-yellow/gray flower sheath dress; 9-sheet sheath dress; 10-Sarah hat & duck doll for T; 11-Night Creatures mittens. 12-Dad slipper socks & hat
Cook or bake something new each month: Bolognese, bagels, flour tortillas, lobster, sauerkraut, half-cooked-freeze-ahead wings, reliably perfect pressure cooker white rice, pressure cooker chili with beans from dry, crock pot chex mix, squishy yeast rolls, hollandaise, oven toasted cheese bread, rustic croutons (torn-up bread, considerably better and prettier than cubes)
- HEALTH & LOVLINESS:
C25K 3x/week
Mini Yoga 3x/week
Lose 10 pounds.
Then lose another 10 pounds.
Weekly scrubby bath and husk maintenance
Win the Workweek Hustle (in a regular, non-Yarn School week)
Enroll in that cancer plan
Look into medical deductions, both for parents and as caregiver
Annual exam
Pick a PCP already and get a general checkup
Mammogram
- 1/2 credit
2 1 dental cleanings
Twyla to dentist
Use current and new beauty samples
5 fruit/veg each day
- THRIFTY JOY:
Use and enjoy What Did I Buy Today?
Earn $3 Mad Money credit for each day I don’t spend a penny and buy a treat every month or two.
Buy a large bank and put all the loose change in it, then use it for a family weekend treat at the end of the year. Didn’t fill it up. Really big bank.
Continue weekly fridge cleaning and menu plan to rule my leftovers with an iron fist.
Resume The Doomsday Pantry.
Finish 2015 Reckoning.
Re-inventory all freezers and pantries, then print out a list for each to track current use.
Update physical lists when adding/using, then update in app asap
Pay off all rando store cards.
Pay down 10% of all other debt.
Monthly YNAB Reckoning for business and personal.
- MODEST AMBITIONS:
Don’t be shy to ask customers for help spreading the gospel of the Harveyville Project/Art Club. Did a bit, but not enough to get credit.
Rosetta Stone Spanish 2x/week
Take my Craftsy bread class already!
HVP LLC.
Income tax on time.
Sales taxes on time. Q4 2015 Q1 Q2 Q3 2016
File 1099s in January.
Market Cupcake Ranch fiber.
Figure out google business thing for shop
Do a google business thing for Harveyville Project
- POT LUCK:
New collar for Georgie
Weekly clearing
- CHERISHED FAMILY MEMORIES, BITCHES:
Transcribe all the weird things Twyla’s said from our texts to a notebook.
Make that yardstick marker thingy for Twyla
Short weekday “school” for Birdy. Work up to 30 minutes.
Spend time outdoors on nice days
Print a copy of Year 1 book for us.
Make Year 2 book.
Make Year 3 book.
Re-read No-Drama Discipline
- 1/2 credit
Fix up an awesome room for Twyla. Good progress, but didn’t finish.
Family dinners at a table
Twyla dental routine
Twyla toy pickup routine
Invoostigate preschool
- LESS:
Date all “To sell” boxes and donate after 6 months if not sold
Replace any missing drop ceiling tiles next door, then empty out the south sump closet.
Sell pizza ovens or printing equipment
Destash 100 balls of yarn.
Destash 10 pounds of fiber.
Read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
Inbox zero.
Make something from or cull one print cookbook each week.
- 1/2 credit
KonMari: Clothing. Half-credit because I didn’t sell/mend the sell/mend bins, though I did an excellent initial run and dispatched bags and bags of clothing.
KonMari: Books
KonMari: Papers
KonMari: Health & beauty
KonMari: Office supplies
KonMari: Art & craft supplies
KonMari: Kitchen stuff
KonMari: Household supplies
KonMari: Tools & home improvement crap
KonMari: Tech
KonMari: Linens
KonMari: Livestock/Garden
KonMari: Twyla’s Clothing
KonMari: Twyla’s Toys
KonMari: Collections
KonMari: Pictures, letters, mementos
- SOUL-CRUSHING WORRIES:
Repair grade school roof (really needs to be replaced, but the repair is holding up for now, fingers crossed)
- 1/2 credit
Figure out WTF to do about the ceiling tiles (need a better permanent solution)