I try to do this every year, and every year I am stymied by the Winter Curse. I even tried rebooting this in late 2015 and the curse promptly caught me. This year I am making tentative plans, both what firm ones I can and some ideal ones which might not work for reasons beyond my control. I will do my best but no promises.
Books to read
I'd like to say I'll read 52 books in 52 weeks, but I have tried that and I tend to get distracted by writing and so stop reading anything too serious. I also like to say I'll read all the classics but in truth my ability to focus has been hampered by too much internet time over the years and many of the classics are not difficult to plow through. But I can make these commitments:
Read 60 minutes a day
Read these books:
- In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Mitford Series by Jan Karon (13 books)
- The All Creatures series by James Herriot (5 books)
- The Anne of Green Gables series by LM Montgomery (original 6 books)
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Emma by Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence
- Les Liasons Dangereux by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
- Lake Woebegon Boy by Garrison Keilor
- Liberty by Garrison Keilor
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Odd Thomans series by Dean Koonts (7 books)
Total - 45 books
On the one hand some of these are kind of cheating because I've already read them, But I do enjoy re-reading them and gain some new insight every time. On the other hand I only have to buy 16 of them, all the rest are either open source or already in my library. My hope is that I can get around the Winter Curse that way. Hopefully.
Projects
Embroidery:
Finish my stocking, of course. Then make up two darling little cat pictures I've carried around for decades. After that make up my wedding sampler. Honestly that should take most of the year but if I end up with time left over and money I'll start in on my holiday gingerbread village. If not I'll start in on the hens to hang in the dining room. I have nearly all of it except fabric for the wedding sampler and the hens, which is quite reasonably priced.
Sewing/quilting:
Finish the Geeks Tea Quilt, which might be broken down into easier to hang chunks. After that it's the charm quilt for our bed. The Fucking Quilt needs mending, but it's also falling apart and it is a family heirloom at this point so I'd like to be able to put another one on the bed after this year. Granted it seems silly to keep the Fucking Quilt and the Flag Quilt when we're not using them but I have hopes of a house where the Flag Quilt can go in a guest room and perhaps the Fucking Quilt can be displayed in our bedroom somewhere.
Knitting:
Stashbusting continues. I currently have a hat on the needles, which should work up quickly, and a scarf to match a set of mitts. After that I'm making a buff for winter riding, which I will do one way or the other. Then my mittens finally. I have the stuff for three lace scarves to work on over the summer. And I want to finish my Pride Afghan. I have the yarn for everything but the Pride Afghan and the patters for most of it all but patters and acrylic yarn are all fairly cheap, so I can acquire those as I go.
Health:
Like it or not, to save my knees the weight has to come off. I'm going to go whole hog in a week or so and get myself down to 2100 kcal/day. Given that, according to the all hallowed Fitbit I burn 3100 a day that ought to give me a 7000 a week deficit, or two pounds without even going to the gym. If I can get to the gym all the better, That should, at a minimum, get 100 lbs off my knees by the end of the year, which would be awesome. At this point everything else is secondary to that.
Politics, religion and blogging
This will be the year I blog my way through the bible. My goal is one political or religious post a week, and one update post a week.
Writing:
I intend to finish all my outstanding stories this year, hopefully by publishing one chapter a week on them. The First Run and Percival's Dominatrix are all long form, I hereby commit to only one other story open at a time other than those two.
So those are my goals for the year. I'm not adding anything about education at this time because I've come to realize that there are only so many hours in a day and what is on this list is taking priority. If I can get this to work I might add more later, we will see.
Right now I have a parade to watch and knitting to do. Peace out.
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