2010 Goals

2010 Reflection Questions

I’ve done this written exercise for the past two years now, and I really enjoy the questions that it requires me to consider, so I’m doing it again.  It might be a bit redundant in regards to the last post, but hopefully there’ll be something in there that I didn’t discuss. My answers for 2008, … Continue reading »

2010 Goals: The Accomplishments

For the past two years I’ve set year-long goals for myself, and at the end of 2009 I did a retrospective, “Here’s what I accomplished, and here’s where I failed” post.  This year I have no intention of talking about what I didn’t do, but only focusing on the highlights.  What I did accomplish.  I … Continue reading »

>30 Days of Thankfulness: Day 12

> Day Twelve: A Clean Desk And the time needed in order to get it into that state. Back in September, when we’d mostly gotten ourselves settled in, I took the above picture of my desk, with the caption stating it’ll probably never look like this again.  I don’t claim to be prophetic, but merely … Continue reading »

>Balancing Act

>It’s the story of my life, I think: the search for balance among all the things I have going on in my life, and how to arrange my priorities so that I can pay at least a little attention to them all at some point, without letting some things – or everything – fall completely … Continue reading »

>Now: Day Twenty-Three

>Today is June 23rd. Our express shipment is being picked up on Friday, which includes all our office stuff… including our 1TB external hard drive.  Although we bought this hard drive well over a month ago and I’ve asked him repeatedly, apparently transferring all the music we had on Tony’s computer was more important than, … Continue reading »

>The Cost of a Clean House

> Errant comma aside, this is my current housekeeping philosophy. Last week I gave up a portion of my control issues: I hired a mama-san.  (And to answer a reader who commented that a mama san isn’t a maid but rather the owner of a bar, sorry… that’s what everyone here in the American community … Continue reading »

>2010 Goals: April Quarterly Review

>I’ve been meaning to do a quarterly review of my 2010 goals for the past few weeks now, but these days unless something’s written down I’m not remembering to do it.  So I’m a few weeks behind, but those few weeks aren’t making much of a difference, really. as you’ll see from the review here.  … Continue reading »

>This past Monday I sat down to balance our banking accounts and actually work on our budget for this pay period.  I was actually really surprised that I hadn’t done that closer to the 15th when we got paid, because I’m normally more on top of it than that.  I ended up not only doing … Continue reading »

>Selling vs. Leasing the House: A Few Preliminary Answers

>Earlier this week I initiated correspondence with our property manager in Colorado to inform him that Tony and I are considering selling the house when the current lease expires, and I asked him to represent us in that endeavor.  Although Tony’s mom is a licensed Realtor in two states and had offered to help us … Continue reading »

>Parenting

>I can’t say that I didn’t do well as a mother last year.  Unless I can hand over all the credit to Tony, Bear’s teachers and friends, or The Critters themselves, I had a significant hand in raising them.  And in the past twelve months I accomplished a lot with them: I’ve taught Bug how … Continue reading »