I started a new blog under my first domain name, dponline.org. It’s actually not live yet outside of WordPress — weird, but I guess it will take time for the nameservers to update. I hope that’s all it is. I’ve already spent far too much time trying to figure it out.
The holidays were nice — great having Clare here. We celebrated a little late, but that’s okay. I wasn’t really ready for Christmas on Christmas Day anyway. It was nice having those extra days.
I spent yesterday and today de-christmasing. Nearly everything holiday-related is out of the main floor, but I have a lot to do in the attic in terms of putting everything away.
No resolutions this year — just a continued effort to keep the procrastinations at bay.
I make annual promises to myself around the first of the year and usually by the end of the first week in January I’ve broken all of my promises. Last year I decided that even if I broke promises I’d re-make them as soon as I broke them and do this all year and hopefully I’d be a better person by December 31, 2011.
Well, that didn’t work either. I was the same person on December 31, 2011 as I was on December 31, 2010.
This year I decided to set 12 goals for myself — one for each month of the year (which ends in 12 — how cute is that?). My plan was to concentrate on one thing each month — trying to make it a habit.
I started out with the goal of walking at least a mile a day.
On January 1, just after my morning coffee I put on my walking shoes, tied my hair back in a ponytail holder, put on my coat and, according to my smartphone application, walked 1.3 miles.
Monday and Tuesday’s routes
On January 2, just before dark I put on my walking shoes, tied my hair back in a ponytail holder, put on my heavy down coat and, according to my smartphone application, walked 1 mile.
[Please note that I walked the exact same route. Interesting that on 1-1-2021 it was .3 miles longer than on 1-2-2012.]
On January 3 I suggested we go out for dinner. We walked from the parking lot to the restaurant to the movie theater and back to the parking lot. I told myself that had to be a mile. It according to Google Maps it really was less than half a mile.
On January 4 I didn’t leave the house. (that was the day the furnace quit and the temperature outside did’t get out of the low 20s)
On January 5 Clare and I went to the mall. We may or may not have walked a mile.
Today I plan on walking to the Bethesda Community Store to buy some fish for dinner. Maybe I will take the long way. I doubt it will be a mile.
So this morning as I sat drinking my coffee I made a ridiculously long to do list. I guess that because I don’t have any pending work at this time, I can get things done around the house. Mmmhuh as my old friend Violet would say in a tone of disdainful disbelief.
I’ll probably actually get to the computer related items on the list:
blog entry
order CD for Ella
Check work email
buy vacuum (?)
update calendars
scan pics (30 minutes)
check doctor appt vs wrestling schedule
check freecycle
freecycle 1 thing
I’ll also do the grocery shopping (because we are out of half & half and eggs) and exercise (because I use half & half in my coffee and eat eggs), but I probably won’t get much else on the list completed which is a shame because the Christmas tree is going to spontaneously combust any second.
The cats claws will probably need to wait as will the water filter and laundry.
Clutch Cargo Lips 