We were gone for most of
the month so I felt a little stressed about finalizing my goals. I decided to
stop stressing about it because I felt I did what I could.
Yearly goals:
1. Reach
my target weight by the end of the year. – These cruises have really been killing me. I’m
back up to my highest weight ever again. This is discouraging. (MAJOR FAIL!)
2. Finish
knitting my Fair Isle vest. – I finished my vest
and I love it!
a. January
– spun 4 oz. of Into the Whirled “Rhinebeck”, 4 oz. Hobbledehoy Gemmy Bats
b. February
– spun 4 oz. of Fiber Optic “Turquoise to Tangerine Gradient”; started on 4 oz.
of Pumpkin Queen.
c. March
– spun 4 oz. of Miss Bab’s “Blackwatch” that I bought in 2011.
d. April
– spun 5.4 oz. of Loop’s Bullseye Bump in the “Somewhere” colorway and 4 oz. of
Highland Handmades Masham fiber in the
“Talbot” colorway.
e. May
– spun 4 oz. of Brown Alpaca from a fleece that I bought from my friend Lisa.
f. June
– plied the Loop bump and the Masham fiber.
g. July
– spun 4 oz. of Leading Men Fiber Arts
in the “Steve and Andy” colorway.; 4 oz. Fiber Addiction “Freak Like Me”
colorway.; started on a Loop Batt
h. August
– spun 4.8 oz. of a Loop batt (Raindance colorway)
i. September
– spun 4 oz. of Purple Fiber (282 yds.)
j. October
– spun 4 oz. of Fiber Optic gradient (ink-powder)
k. November
– spun 4 oz. of alpaca (Stella)
Total:
54.2 oz.
4. Use
at least 4 skeins of my handspun this year. –
a. January
- Basket Weave scarf
b. February
– Summer Shadows shawl by Angelea McGarrah
c. March
– working on the Oaklet Shawl by Megan Goodacre
d. April
– Finished my Oaklet Shawl by Megan Goodacre
e. May
– started on the Belle Greene Shawl by Nina Machlin Dayton
f. June
– still working on my Belle Greene shawl.
g. July
– Finished my Belle Greene shawl
h. August
– finished Don’s ribbed hat.
5. Dye
my own yarn or fiber – dyed some KnitPicks
fingering yarn in indigo
6. Walk
at least 1200 miles this year.
a. January
- 157.71 miles (avg. 5.1 miles per day)
b. February
- 148.34 miles (avg. 5.3 miles per day)
c. March
- 182.63 miles (5.9 miles per day) I’m really happy with the mileage I got this
month!
d. April
- 181.6 miles (6.1 miles per day) I really rocked on my mileage and my daily
average this month!
e. May
- 165.82 miles (5.3 miles per day). I didn’t do as well as last month but I
still did pretty well. I spent the last 3 days in bed with food poisoning,
which really messed up my daily average.
f. June
- 151 miles (5 miles per day). This was a struggle this month but I was happy
to see that I still did better in total miles than in February (I know! There
were less days but the total miles was still better!)
g. July
- 172.03 miles (5.5 miles per day). I struggled with this because I like to walk
early in the morning and it was hard to do this and get ready for work.
Sometimes I walked half the time in the morning and half in the evening. It was
also hard to walk when I got home because the heat this month has been
horrendous.
h. August
- 177.82 miles (5.7 miles per day). I went over 1200 miles for the year already
and I’m so proud of myself. On August 15, I had the highest mileage ever in one
day (15.74 miles).
i. September
- 148 miles (4.9 miles per day). I did pretty well this month and even got in
my 10,000+ steps on travel days, which I felt good about.
j. October
– 159.11 miles (5.1 miles per day). I
think I did pretty good for having spent 2 weeks on cruises and a week at
Disney World.
k. November
– 120.6 miles (4 miles per day).
l. December
– 153.7 miles (5 miles per day)
Total: 1918.45 (Woohoo! I’m so happy with
this total!)
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
goals: Last year, I only had a 60% successful completion rate so I am aiming to
do better than that this year.
1. Daily
– Name 3 things that I’m grateful for each morning. – I do this every morning
before I get out of bed.
2. Daily
– A Photo A Day project – I’m proud that I'm still up to date with
this.
3. Weekly
– Contact a friend and tell them something nice. – I really like doing this.
a. January
- I went out to lunch with my friend Sandy one week and I’ve contacted others
through Facebook.
b. February
- Contacted long distance friends on Facebook and wished them happy birthday!
c. March – kept up with friends on social
networking and tried to schedule lunch with my friends Sandy and Sylvia but
they were either going out of town or having to work.
d. April
- Contacted some friends but couldn’t ever work out a day we could meet for
lunch.
e. May
– tried to meet up with a former student but she ended up getting sick on the
day we were going to meet for lunch.
f. June
– Met a lot of nice new friends at the knitting retreat and connected with some
known friends too.
g. July
– Went out to lunch with Sandy once, Dyanna once, and Kathy once. I tried to
meet up with Femessia, and Sherry but they were out of town. We also had dinner
with David a couple of times.
h. August
– We traveled so much this month that I really didn’t get a chance to go out
with friends. I did connect with many through Facebook and text messages.
i. September
– I made some new friends on the cruise and one couple will be on the same
cruise as us in October.
j. October
– met the couple from the other cruise, met Sherry M. (from Colorado, who I
haven’t seen in about 10 years) for lunch.
k. November
– went to Curacao and visited with Karin and Joseph
l. December
– sent out my yearly newsletter to friends and family
4. Weekly
– Work in my yard/garden at least once a week.
a. January
- It has been too cold in January to do too much but I’ve blown the leaves out
of the driveway, raked leaves in the back yard, and fed my worms.
b. February
– raked leaves out of the backyard, removed branches that have littered the
yard.
c. March
– weeded, cut dead stuff from winter, fertilized the lawn
d. April
– weeded and edged my flower beds., set up 2 new rain barrels, dug out rusty
pole in concrete which was in the middle of the lawn.
e. May
– Did a lot of weeding when I was home but it was hot and humid outside!
f. June
– Did some weeding.
g. July
– I did some weeding but it was so hot! I also planted some elephant ears that
I bought at the flea market. We bought a lawn mower since my lawn man moved.
h. August
– I didn’t do as much as I should have but I made sure the front yard stayed
weeded.
i. September
– Now that the weather is getting cooler, I was able to get out and do a lot of
gardening this month. I weeded the front flowerbed, the bed by the back deck
and also the round one under the pecan tree. I started to tackle the long bed
in the back too.
j. October
– picked up many branches and blow downs from the bad rainstorms.
k. November
– cleaned downed limbs out of the yard and trimmed bushes.
l. December
– it was too cold or rainy when I was home so I didn’t do much this month in the
yard.
5. Monthly
– Knit 10 squares on my Mitered Square Sock Yarn blanket. (Total 120 for the
year)
a. January
– completed 10 squares
b. February
– completed 15 squares
c. March
– completed 11 squares
d. April
– completed 11 squares
e. May
– completed 13 square
f. June
– completed 10 squares
g. July
– completed 10 squares
h. August
– 8
completed (fell short this month because I didn't realize until the last day of
the month that I hadn't gotten finished. I will start on these earlier in the
month so I'm sure to get it finished.)
i. September
– completed 12 to make up for the ones I didn’t do last month. I also got a
head start on the next months too in case I get behind again. I know I will not
have much time in December to do much so I want to stay ahead.
j. October
– completed 10 squares.
k. November
– completed 10 squares
l. December
– completed 10 squares
Total – 130
6. Monthly
- Read one non-fiction book every month. I really enjoyed doing this last year
and it forced me to read books out of my comfort zone.
a. January
– The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
b. February
- The Roosevelts: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
c. March
– Publish on Amazon Kindle by Kindle Direct Publishing
d. April
– The History of Hand Knitting by Richard Rudd
e. May
– Becoming Unique by James Charles
f. June
– A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
g. July
– Pioneer Girl by Laura Ingalls Wilder (an annotated autobiography)
h. August
– Knitting Rules – Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
i. September
- Echoes of an Angel: The Miraculous True Story of a Boy Who Lost His Eyes but
Could Still See by Aquanetta Gordon and Chris Macias.
j. October
– Knitting Lessons by Lela Nargi
k. November
- Shirley I Jest by Cindy Williams
l. December
– Lunch with Charlotte by Leon Berger
Overall for the year:
Yearly
goals – 5 out of 6 goals completed.
Daily/Weekly/Monthly
goals – 100% of my goals completed
Summary –
I felt I had a wonderful year and I’m very pleased with my progress. I want to
repeat many of the same goals this coming year because I felt this monthly
accountability helped me stay on track. I want to adjust the goals as yearly though
to help me not feel so stressed out. I will see at the end of next year if it
helped or hindered me.
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