We're going to Problem's tomorrow for New Years Day, so we're having hoppin john tonight. The lads are ready to party. Happy New Year!!
It feels mostly like December has been a Winterval production, which is as it should be. Quiet on the people front, busy on the me front.
December's picks:
HOME
3. Cleaning is on hold under after the holiday!
The thing that has to be done during Winterval, I decided, is putting the plastic on the windows. Preparing for winter, right? DONE.
SYSTEMS
4. Structural integration ten series to finish!
5. But the big thing this month is my holiday, Winterval.
Not quite done with either, Winterval's not over obviously and I missed a bodywork appointment because I had to have, wait for it, a root canal. Remember, my toothache. Yay.
Annd, I got a smartphone. Ahhh. I hate it.
PLAY
6. Figure out a weekly/monthly time to work on admin/business development stuff.
Ooh, done! I have implemented new best practices: set times to email clients to confirm appointments, prep before appointments, and post—i.e., take notes—after appointments. I'm also taking a trainer holiday between Xmas and New Years, ever striving to be a good example of self care. Maybe I'll take one in summer, too? And I have a set time to do a little thing every week for business development, let's see what comes out of that.
PASTIME
Write
7. Figure out a plan or schematic for how this is supposed to go...
Ooh, also done. I have this set up in my timetracker, what's alla Poppy and what's Nomnomnomicon (my new blog) and when I have time to work on them? What I've been doing for Nom is getting together all my photo assets, FINALLY done with that, omg that took forever.
See
December ended up being pretty OFF people, which I sorely needed. No offense, people.
8. Breakfast with Sparty
9. Wine Party chez Trouble
10. Lunch and Christmas concert with family
11. King Spa with A-Bomb
I did have breakfast with Sparty, that was nice. We went to Whisk, it was good. (I am the worst food reviewer ever.) I cancelled on wine party, that was the day after my root canal and I was on antibiotics. We did go to my niece's concert, that was nice. And King Spa was cancelled, A-Bomb was sick.
Oh, I did go to this Logan Square Skate Night on a whim, it was fun to do something on a whim. I ran into Riley and Mangle and skated around with them a bit. Still know how.
Oh and just last night, I met Jen from my Power 30 group. Weee.
Watch
0. Cosmos
1. Idk, I'm running out of stuff again...
2. Theory of Everything, A Beautiful Mind
Type 0: Cosmos got me through most of December, but oh noesss I finished it. I tried NDT's Inexplicable Universe, too shouty, and also David Attenborough's Planet Earth and Life, really kind of the opposite of what I want: what like about Cosmos is it zooms me out, the planet shows zoom in, nice closeup of all the suffering on the little blue dot :(
For Type 1, I think all I did was finish off that season of Hawaii Five-0. Until I started Arrow, oy vey.
Der schweetums and I watched lots of good Type 2 stuff this month: we finished season four of Longmire (srsly wtf), and we did watch The Theory of Everything and A Beautiful Mind, and also Birdman and Pawn Sacrifice, and we stuck our toe in The Flash, which is what got me stuck on Arrow. But we put The Flash on hold and have been watching Ash Vs. Evil Dead, which der schweetums loves. Then we finished up with the original Star Wars movies, Empire and Jedi, so then we went out to see The Force Awakens. Weee.
January Picks
I have this mapped out on my power grid, do a little bit of cleaning every week or every month at least, a little bit of admin, a little bit of business development, a little bit of blogging... these are the things I want to get work on this year.
HOME
3. 2016 means ASSAULT ON THE FRONT ROOM. Make it nice :|
SYSTEMS
4. Aagh get up to speed with this phone...
PLAY
5. TBD.
PASTIME
Write
6. Whatever gets written for aP...
7. Start writing Nom!
See
8. New Years Day chez Problem, maybe I will take pictures with my phonnne
9. Reschedule King Spa?
Watch
0. Find something to replace Cosmos, or start from the top...
1. Eeeegh I guess I'm watching Arrow
2. Ash vs Evil Dead to finish, after that TBD
Eh, these aren't the pickiest picks. Not the planniest plan, but sometimes that's the way to go.
