Life bingo for 2019 - how did it go?

[luzula]

Here's how I did with my bingo card of yearly goals for 2019.

Things I did:

• Sleep 20 nights outside/in a tent. (28 nights this year.)
• Make a new friend. (I got to know my new flatmate who moved in in the spring and who is awesome.)
• Go swimming in 20 new lakes/places by the sea. (23 this year.)
• Go to one of the Swedish national parks I haven't been to. (Yes, I was in Åsnen national park which is the newest one, in southern Småland.)
• Go running 50 times. (Yes, 55 times.)
• Go tree climbing eight times.
• Post 2h of podfic. (Yes, a total of 2 hours 49 minutes.)
• Read at least 25 unread books from my book case. (Yes, 32.)
• Write three fanfics. (Well, I've posted three, but I've worked on more that aren't posted, at least not yet.)
• Have at least 100 species in my wood-living fungi herbarium (fungarium?) and/or 350 moss species in my moss herbarium (92 fungi species, 406 moss species.)
• Have a party when I turn 40. (Yup, I did that.)
• Learn GIS. (Yes, I learned to use the parts of QGIS that I need for forest activism stuff.)
• Be part of an Extinction Rebellion action. (Yes, but more significantly I was part of this protest)
• Improve my sleep habits. (Yes, I was more strict with myself about going to bed at 11 pm. I can't say there was no backsliding, but overall it got better.)
• Not be on the union board anymore. (Yes, I'm back on the board of the environmental org instead.)
• Go on a trip to either Öland, the mountains or western Norway (and geek out about nature). (I did the first two and enjoyed it a lot.)
• Quarrel less with my mom. (Yes, I have managed this! \o/ It's been a combination of choosing my battles, distracting her when needed, and doing my best not to be provoked myself.)
• Lose 2 kg of weight. (I started on 65 kg, was briefly down at 60.5 kg but am now at about 62.5 kg. The weight loss is mostly because I want to carry less when running/hiking.)

Things I did partly:

• Do something new. (I just realized I hadn't really done anything for this, so then I changed tiny!niece's poopy diaper, which I have never done before. But that just took five minutes, so it seems a bit of a cop-out...)

Things I didn't do:

• Try out Marcq St Hilaire's method of determining one's position with a sextant. (No, I guess I just didn't prioritize it.)
• Perform with my sister or record an album with her. (Nope. And now she has another baby...)
• Take a dance course and/or go dancing twice. (Nope, I only danced at my sister's wedding.)
• Learn to stand from a sitting position with my legs crossed, without using my hands or knees. (I can stand without hands or knees using another method, but I just haven't been able to learn this, though I have practiced a bit. Maybe it also has to do with how you're built?)
• Build a tree platform from pallets and put it in a tree, and then sleep on it. (Nope.)
• Develop my workout and exercise routine. (Well, I did do a physical therapy program during a lot of the year, but I don't really count that.)

Comments

[ride_4ever]

I <3 reading your annual Life Bingo report.

And Fraser wants you to keep that one with the sextant on your to-do list.

[luzula]

I will definitely keep the one with the sextant and try to do it next year. : )

[karanguni]

Your bingo is always amazing!

[luzula]

Have you tried doing it? I got it from friends originally and I'm so glad I did.

[mergatrude]

Congratulations! You have an amazing life. <3

And changing that first diaper definitely counts!

[luzula]

Well, it was a new thing for me! Also it was interesting to see the construction of a baby body (the piece of clothing, that is).

Wishing you fewer wildfires and less smoke!

Mazel tov for massive accomplishments

[jesse_the_k]

Physical therapy counts twice as much: it's workout/exercise that you have to do because you hurt! It's at least twice as hard.

Re: Mazel tov for massive accomplishments

[luzula]

Thank you! I was not in that much pain--it was more something that was wrong with my body in that it restricted certain kinds of movements, but didn't hurt unless I stepped "wrong". It is pretty much fixed now, but it took at least nine months of PT and stretching. Luckily I am good at sticking with PT programs...

[chestnut_pod]

Mazel tov! What an excellent bingo card.

[luzula]

Thank you! I always encourage others to do a yearly bingo as well--it's fun and easy to customize to whatever fits your life.

[seascribble]

You accomplished so many things! (I...thought Småland was only the kids' place in IKEA /o/ Small land? Land of the smalls?)

What is the other way of standing up without hands or knees? You might be interested in a game one of my hockeys I follow on insta did with his stupidly athletic friends, where they have to put their head/nose on a piece of cardboard on the floor without letting their limbs touch the ground. I think only one of them did it...

[luzula]

No, Småland is a geographical area in Sweden, not quite a county, but something similar. It's the area where Ingvar Kamprad who founded and owned IKEA was born. (He was a Nazi in the 40's and 50's, btw, did you know that? Fun thing to know when you shop at IKEA. : / ) But yeah, "små" does mean "small", so the name of the children's area is a pun.

I sit with my butt on the floor and put my feet down on either side of my hips, and then stand up.

What, you mean you can only have your head/nose touching the floor and nothing else at all? That sounds impossible unless you're standing on your head...

[seascribble]

Ahhh, makes sense. It's a cute pun. Eurgh about the Nazism though.

That move sounds like it would incredibly hard on the knees.

No no, sorry, I wasn't clear. You can't touch the floor with your hands, arms, legs, etc. Only feet and face. Like this, but using a much smaller piece of material, like a folded piece of cardboard, so it's harder. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FmWfJjC_yo

[luzula]

A cereal box I could do, but all the way to the floor? At a first try that doesn't seem possible for me...