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So, I usually have a five by five bingo card of yearly goals, here are the ones I had for 2020. Many of them were derailed by: 1) the pandemic, obviously, and 2) falling for a new fandom after having been in a fallow period fannishly. The latter had already begun to happen when I made the goals, but I didn't realize how much it would change what I did in my free time!

Things I did with a vengeance:

Finish and post the Flight of the Heron longfic that is eating my brain. (Ha ha, I finished that longfic and am halfway through a third one.)
Post 5 hours of podfic. (Haven't tallied it properly, but it's more than 30 hours!)
Make lots of gooseberry jam. (Okay, for lack of gooseberries I only made a very small jar of gooseberry jam, but I'm still counting this because I did pick huge amounts of blueberries, lingonberries, cherries and rosehips and make jam from much of it.)

Other things I did:

Go running 50 times. (54 this year. It varied, for a while I ran a lot, but then developed shin splints and had to take it easy, and also I didn't bring my running shoes to the summer place.)
Make a new friend. (No new RL friends, but I'm counting my three new fannish friends in FotH fandom!)
Do something new. (This is a sort of wild card--I'm counting "writing novel-length fic" as an achievement even though it overlaps with another goal.)
Go birdwatching at the coast when it's stormy and the pelagic sea birds blow in to the coast. (Yes, I did this in January before the pandemic--I went with two retired former colleagues and it was great.)
Try out the "flipped classroom" teaching method. (Yes, it was worthwhile.)
Learn to do union negotiations in support of workplace struggles. (Yes! We're doing negotiations over Zoom, so I've been able to participate, and have actually started to be active and contribute and learn a lot.)
Visit my friend K, who has moved recently. (Yep, got that in before the pandemic hit.)
Have hiked at least 200 km of the local trails. (Yes! I liked this goal a lot. I got to count 60 km that I did in 2019, but then I hiked a lot in the beginning of the year, and did a weekend trip during the pandemic that maybe I shouldn't have, because I took public transport.)

Things I did partly:

Do a moss inventory of a 5x5 km square of Skåne, for a survey project. (I did half of the field work for it, before the pandemic came.)
Go tree climbing eight times (I have arborist equipment). (I think I did five, and two of those was for picking cherries?)
Sleep outdoors (well, in a tent/hammock) 20 nights. (Technically I could have done this despite the pandemic, but how much fun is it to go camping near where you live? I think I did seven nights, four while hiking and three in the summer while visiting a friend so we didn't have to be indoors together, because pandemic.)

Things I could have done despite the pandemic, but did not do:

Focus on learning more about lichen epiphyte species on bark and wood. (Ha, no. This fell to the wayside because new fandom. I'm also not making ANY progress on my backlog of moss specimens.)
Don't gain weight. (I'm back up at 65 kg, but would prefer to be 62. I'm not overweight, I just prefer to not carry around those 3 kg, especially when I go running and suchlike.)
Develop my workout and exercise routine. (Lazy me, did not do. /o\ I did have a problem with my shoulder in the first months of the year, which hindered me for a while.)
Build a tree platform from wooden pallets and put it in a tree, and then sleep on it. (Nope. I did have the revelation that it would be much better to build something similar to a portaledge like they have in rock climbing, because it's so much lighter. My idea was to have a "floor" of sailcloth, or other strong cloth, and just bring that, and then you can cut down saplings and make a temporary frame wherever you are.)
Try out Marcq St Hilaire's method of determining one's position with a sextant. (Okay, this is somewhat pandemic-related, because I didn't want to take public transport out on the islands. But I could've done it in the summer when I went sailing for two weeks with my parents.)

Things I didn't do for obvious, pandemic-related reasons:

Go to Scotland. (This is the one I'm saddest about missing. Hopefully this year!)
Go on a week-long hiking trip in the mountains.
Go to one of the Swedish national parks I haven't been to.
Get to see the capercaillie or black grouse lekking in the spring.
Go on a trip to Estonia and help survey forests there.
Go swimming in 20 new lakes/places by the sea.

Worthwhile things I did not have a goal for, but which happened because pandemic:

I spent a lot of time at the family summer place.
I got a much better relationship with my mom because we spent so much time together. Very happy about this one!
I spent a lot of time with my parents' lovely and affectionate dog who is 12 and won't live forever.
I picked large amounts of wild mushrooms and dried them.