Here’s last year’s resolutions and a brief summation of the results.
- Reduce overall monthly expenses by 10%. Totally done, but not in the way I planned nor with the results I planned.
- Move forward with our adoption. Mostly done. Not finalized, no court dates set, still doing permanency counseling.
- Make more things from scratch. Ehh, maybe two-thirds? I really slacked off on making bread. I need to re-up my commitment here. Making bread is easy. Making desserts is necessary because of my commitment to avoid HFCS (except in pancake syrup.)
- Landscape. Totally done, but not in the way I expected.
- Reduce our paper towel habit. Totally done, but I’ve been buying paper towels again a bit, because nothing beats disposability when you have to clean up dog puke.
And for 2011. . .
- Look and feel less overwhelmed. I may *be* overwhelmed, but I’m sick of *looking* overwhelmed and if I look less overwhelmed, maybe I’ll feel less overwhelmed. That may be a lot to ask of a lipstick. There is likely a school of thought that says I ought to change my life so that I *am* less overwhelmed but there isn’t really anything that I’m willing to change about my life.
- Establish a proper emergency fund. I’m thinking two months living expenses, including day care.
- Make more things from scratch. Bread, yogurt, desserts, cleaning solution, waffles, hot chocolate– the current ones. I’m adding gift bags here and maybe something else. . .
- Reduce clutter. Less stuff around means less stuff to pick up!
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