Yearly goals for 2018

[luzula]

Here's how I did with my bingo card of yearly goals for 2018!

Things I did:

• Sleep 20 nights outside/in a tent. (22 nights this year.)
• Make a new friend. (I got to know a woman who's on the union board with me, and one woman who I did forest inventories with this summer who I really bonded with.)
• Go swimming in 20 new lakes/places by the sea. (26 this year! It was a really warm summer.)
• Go to one of the Swedish national parks I haven't been to. (Yes, I was in Store Mosse National Park--a friend had her 40th birthday party in a cabin there, but I didn't get as much chance to geek out as I would've liked. It's a large wetland in southern Sweden that somehow escaped being drained out.)
• Change banks. (Yes, finally! I didn't actually leave my old bank, but I moved my savings to two other banks that don't invest in fossil fuels and other bad stuff.)
• Spend 24 hours in a tree. (Yes, I wrote this up here.)
• Do something which sounds interesting but is out of my comfort zone or that I have never done before. (Yes, I rode on a horse!)
• (Re)install Linux on at least one of my computers, hopefully both. (Kind of? I got a new work computer and got them to install Linux on it for me. Still counting it, though.)
• Post 3h of podfic. (Yes, 5 hours and 11 minutes! Note how it's sneakily worded to say "post" rather than "record". This is so I could count an old WIP I finally finished the editing on.)
• Half the books I read should be non-fiction. (Yup.)
• Track the wood-living fungi species (especially polypores and Corticiaceae) I see during the year, and also learn fungi microscopy better. (I went to three different fungi courses/workshops, did a little microscopy on my own, did a lot of forest inventories which always improves my skills, and started work on a reference collection of wood-living fungi that now has about 50 species.)
• Participate in at least one other fic exchange in addition to Yuletide. (Yes, I did Chocolate Box and thought about doing some other exchanges--there are so many multifandom exchanges running during the year!--but ended up not doing more.)
• Go tree climbing at least 8 times. (Yes, I climbed a lot this year, but didn't keep track of how many times after I reached eight. Lots of banner-hanging!)
• Co-organize a forest inventory camp in the summer. (Yes, I did this.)
• Babysit a kid with noone else there. (Two kids, in fact! \o/ They were about five and two years old.)
• Go to the union congress on the national level. (Yes, it was a good experience.)
• Go cross-country skiing a couple of days. (I will be doing this for two weeks now!)
• Organize my moss herbarium properly, with at least 150 species in it. (Woohoo, it now has 250 species, which is about a fourth of all moss species in Sweden.)

Things I did partly:

• Go running 50 times. (I only did 38 times. Fail. /o\ In my defense, the tracks were really icy in the beginning of the year, and then I was sick a lot, with two colds, a sinusitis and a flu, and then during the summer I was doing other outdoorsy stuff, and then I had two other colds in the fall. Will do better next year.)

Things I didn't do:

• Delete my gmail accounts and save the email somewhere else. (No. I ran into trouble when I was backing up the email because Thunderbird froze, possibly because I had too much email. And then I just let it slide. Haven't used them for a long time though, and I don't trust Google to actually delete my data even if I tell them to. : / )
• Perform with my sister or record an album with her. (No. She still has a small kid. We were going to do some sort of Christmas thing but didn't get around to it.)
• Do research of some kind, damn it. (Ha ha, no.)
• Visit exeterlinden and/or my friend Jennie. (Nope. I tried but it didn't happen.)
• Take a dance course and/or go dancing three times. (No, I didn't go dancing even once, if you don't count the department Christmas party, which I don't think I do.)
• Try out Marcq St Hilaire's method of determining one's position with a sextant. (I meant to do this but it never happened--one time I was all set to go out to the archipelago to do it but then it got cloudy...)

Comments

[tamsin]

Wow, you've achieved a lot. Congratulations!

[luzula]

Thanks! : )

[ride_4ever]

I always read your "bingo cards of yearly goals" and I usually feel like there so much to absorb that I get too overwhelmed to comment.

So...just this: yay goals and wishing you a happy goals-accomplished new year!

[luzula]

Thank you! And no pressure to comment. : )

[isis]

You did pretty well, I think!

I have determined my position with a sextant. Well, I have attempted to do so. I got within a few hundred miles...

[luzula]

I have determined the latitude with a sextant before, and got within four kilometers. But I wanted to determine the longitude as well, and see how close I can get...

[seascribble]

Many cool thinkgs, well done!

[luzula]

Thanks! I love this format for yearly goals--part of the point is that you don't have to do everything, and you can mix small and big things, and things that you're doing for fun with necessary things.