It took me a little longer this year, but, like I said, here’s how my goals for 2022 shook out! As I wrote after New Year’s, I purposely gave up on a lot of these, because I realized I didn’t want to do them anymore. That’s OK–and I hope, if…
Up until the past few years, I responded well to lists of goals. That’s probably obvious, if you’ve read any of my previous New Year’s entries, but even though I didn’t always meet my goals (see: aforementioned New Year’s entries), the act of setting them was fun and useful for…
Happy 2022! This year was another weird one. Despite everything, I still like making lists! And checking things off them! (Or not.) So, without further ado, here’s the update of last year’s list: 1. How to deadlift 200+ lb. At the end of July, after weighing (no pun intended) my…
I mean, I learned a lot more than ten things in 2021, but here are a few of the ones that came to mind: 1. My queer identity is valid. I’m allowed to be bisexual, grey-asexual, and gender non-conforming, and nobody but me gets to say whether I “really” count…
I haven’t added one of these blocks in a while, because it seems ineffective to repeat what I’m doing each post. That’s because addressing anti-Black racism as a white person requires not a couple one-time changes but long-term shifts in practice and thinking. I’m still working hard on making my…
Whether we wanted to or not, we all learned a lot in the past 12 months — about ourselves, about how we react to unprecedented events, about the strengths and faults of the communities we live in, about epidemiology for laypersons — like, SO much. And that’s on top of…
How did I do with last year’s goals? Who can really say? … This blog. This blog can say. 1. How to own a condo or other residence. Oy yoy yoy, the Toronto housing market. Husband deserves all the credit on this one–he really dug into the market and the…
Here are 10 things I learned in 2019. 1. How to stop squirreling things away I am really bad about hanging onto stuff. Used to be, my big excuse was that I “might need it.” That one, I’ve got over; at the start of the year, my bigger excuse was…
It’s that time of year again! The time when we all get to see how over-optimistic I was last January! Here we go with my goals for 2018: 1. How to better understand spoken German. Starting in March, I began listening to a learning German podcast every weekday: Slow German.…
Here are 10 things I learned in 2018. They are helpful in that they helped me; results not guaranteed for anyone else. 1. How to balance bullet journals and flexibility. I like keeping records. I like maintaining habits, planning out routines that help me achieve goals I want. However, because…