Yearly goals 2017

[luzula]

So let's see how I did with my bingo card for 2017. I am too lazy to represent the actual card--I got one bingo row.

Things I did:

• Post 3h of podfic. (Yes! 3h 24min in total. I am happy with this since I made very little podfic in 2016.)
• Make a new friend. (I got to know one of my housemates who moved in one and a half years ago. I like her a lot.)
• Go swimming in 20 new lakes/places by the sea. (Exactly 20, though I cheated on one of them since I'd swum there once a couple of years before.)
• Go to one of the Swedish national parks I haven't been to. (I went to Stenshuvud with a friend; it was heaven for a nature geek.)
• At least one fourth of the books I read should be rereads. (Yes, more on this in an upcoming book post.)
• Collaborate on research project about forest and climate. (Well, so-so. But we did send in an article, even if it was only a comment on another article.)
• Hold a speech on May Day. (Yes, I did this.)
• Go running 20 times. (I did 48 times. My experiment with running was such a success! \o/ I'm still a very slow runner, but I like doing it and I feel like it's very good for me. Before the summer I had some pain in one foot, but then I did other stuff over the summer and when I started running in the fall again it was quite gone.)
• Try ten new recipes. (Yes! I feel like I got some more variety in my cooking this year. And I bought some delicious lamb from a local organic farmer which I tried out some really good recipes for.)
• Visit my friend Ida for at least a couple of days in the summer. (I'm so glad I did this.)
• Track the butterfly and moth species I see during the year. (Yes, I bought a moth lamp/moth trap and used it quite a lot and saw many new species.)
• Post at least three fanfiction stories. (I posted four! I'm so happy about that. Granted, one of them was an abandoned WIP, but I had to do some work for it to be postable.

Things I did partly:

• Sleep 20 nights outside/in a tent. (13 nights. I was outdoors a lot, but mostly in situations where we slept indoors.)
• Delete my gmail accounts. (I got an email client and started downloading my email folders locally in preparation for deleting the accounts, but one of them is so huge the program keeps freezing up when I try it...).
• Go tree climbing ten times. (I did seven times.)
• Visit three friends who don't live in my city, that I don't usually visit. (Two visits. I did really try! I was going to do a third one in December but she got a bad cold and we canceled.)
• Record an album with my sister. (No, but we made progress on the songs. She has a small kid, so you can see why this is proceeding with glacial speed.)

Things I didn't do:

• Get a tattoo. (Nope. Still thinking about it.)
• Make lots of jam in the berry/fruit season. (Haha, fail. I did pick lots of mushrooms though?)
• Change banks. (Ummmm. I keep putting this off.)
• Write a scientific article together with Senior Scientist Guy from my summer mountain work. (Er, no. We have an old WIP but I failed to even poke him about it.)
• Spend 24 hours in a tree. (I wanted to but it didn't happen--I want some sort of ground backup from other people who can climb, and we didn't have a proper climbing camp this year.)
• Take part in at least two union negotiations. (Nope. This was a badly chosen goal--I did all sorts of union stuff but not this.)
• Do something which sounds interesting but is out of my comfort zone or that I have never done before. (No, I don't think I did.)
• (Re)install Linux on at least one of my computers, hopefully both. (I should have managed this. Fail.)

Comments

[riverlight]

Oh, what a marvellous list! You have such delightful concrete goals. And I'm so impressed with how much you've accomplished.

[luzula]

This is such a fun thing to do--I was inspired by some previous housemates, who introduced me to this method of doing New Year's resolutions.