My parents read the last blog entry, and after a few phone calls the family members are all on board for making Christmas 2015 be the holiday of the handmade gifts. The excellent thing about this is that I know exactly what I want to make for most of them, because I had it all planned out (but ran out of time) by October last year.
So!
Current 2015 goal:
- Hand-make all Christmas gifts for my side of the family. Potentially do the same for other friends and family. This will be excellent practice for the future etsy store, and if it is fun I'll end up making extras to attempt to sell once it is up and running. (A healthy amount of online crafting sales is my eventual business goal/fantasy especially once kids are in school and I have lots of free time.)
Potential 2015 goals I am pondering:
- Figure out how to grow healthy seedlings that survive, and get them planted outside on time. Sounds like a small goal, but this was my biggest garden issue last year that led to almost nothing producing a respectable amount of edibles. And I have a LOT of seed.
- Slowly weight lift daily for at least 5 minutes, arms/back one day and legs/stomach the next. Sounds simple, but whenever I have steady weight loss, I am on this regimen. I could use some muscle gain.
- Walk 1000 miles, as tracked by my Fitbit. That equals 2.75 miles a day... I tend to do a mile a day if I am totally sedentary, so this should be a doable goal, especially as I work up to longer hikes. This requires that I get outside almost daily, which I need to be doing more anyway, especially with a high-energy dog. The baby can handle a jogging stroller in 2-3 months.
- At least 10 minutes of Pilates or swimming per day. I have ten 10-minute Pilates video segments in my DVD arsenal and a saltwater pool in the backyard, and tend to feel the best when I have been doing these two exercises regularly. How hard could it be to find 10 minutes?
- Blog for at least 10 minutes per day, whether I feel like it or not. This would be encouraged by the new iPad, which is currently helping me type while I nurse. Talking with an artist and researching writers online, it seems that they force themselves to create daily even when they're not feeling the creative spark... it works for them. Maybe it'll work for me too.
- Avoid wearing jeans until Valentine's Day, to be able to say I avoided real pants for a year. Hehe.
If I do all the potential goals, that is an investment of a minimum of an hour per day in mostly small chunks. Torin's getting better at entertaining himself now that he's found his hands, so... heck, I'll do them all.
For a daily reminder I will make up a list of daily and long-term goals to use as my computer background. My exception will be that the daily items can be skipped on days when sick or not at home. Lastly, I will update here once a month with my actual tallies of miles walked, produce plucked, gifts made, etc.
Think it can be done with a baby in the house?
So!
Current 2015 goal:
- Hand-make all Christmas gifts for my side of the family. Potentially do the same for other friends and family. This will be excellent practice for the future etsy store, and if it is fun I'll end up making extras to attempt to sell once it is up and running. (A healthy amount of online crafting sales is my eventual business goal/fantasy especially once kids are in school and I have lots of free time.)
Potential 2015 goals I am pondering:
- Figure out how to grow healthy seedlings that survive, and get them planted outside on time. Sounds like a small goal, but this was my biggest garden issue last year that led to almost nothing producing a respectable amount of edibles. And I have a LOT of seed.
- Slowly weight lift daily for at least 5 minutes, arms/back one day and legs/stomach the next. Sounds simple, but whenever I have steady weight loss, I am on this regimen. I could use some muscle gain.
- Walk 1000 miles, as tracked by my Fitbit. That equals 2.75 miles a day... I tend to do a mile a day if I am totally sedentary, so this should be a doable goal, especially as I work up to longer hikes. This requires that I get outside almost daily, which I need to be doing more anyway, especially with a high-energy dog. The baby can handle a jogging stroller in 2-3 months.
- At least 10 minutes of Pilates or swimming per day. I have ten 10-minute Pilates video segments in my DVD arsenal and a saltwater pool in the backyard, and tend to feel the best when I have been doing these two exercises regularly. How hard could it be to find 10 minutes?
- Blog for at least 10 minutes per day, whether I feel like it or not. This would be encouraged by the new iPad, which is currently helping me type while I nurse. Talking with an artist and researching writers online, it seems that they force themselves to create daily even when they're not feeling the creative spark... it works for them. Maybe it'll work for me too.
- Avoid wearing jeans until Valentine's Day, to be able to say I avoided real pants for a year. Hehe.
If I do all the potential goals, that is an investment of a minimum of an hour per day in mostly small chunks. Torin's getting better at entertaining himself now that he's found his hands, so... heck, I'll do them all.
For a daily reminder I will make up a list of daily and long-term goals to use as my computer background. My exception will be that the daily items can be skipped on days when sick or not at home. Lastly, I will update here once a month with my actual tallies of miles walked, produce plucked, gifts made, etc.
Think it can be done with a baby in the house?
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