Resolutions

You know what sucks is great about blogging your resolutions? You don't forget them. They are there on the internet just waiting for you to be foolish enough to look at them and remember what a wretched failure at life you are.

That cloud got more done than me!

So let's review Jeremy's horrid, pathetic, and ultimately doomed attempt at not sucking it up in 2012. Last year, my goals were:

1. Read three Books.

I nailed this one to the friggin wall. Not the way I intended though. I intended to read the Pirates of Venus and a few other pulp novels. Instead I read 3 books (and a few billion articles) for my graduate class. I'm going count that as a win.

2. Post a picture or video or Josiah every week.

Yeah, not even close. I did 29 Son-day posts, that's 23 short of the 52 I'd have had to do. So, I can call this one just under half-failed. I'll blame grad school for this. Maybe if I counted FB stuff I might be closer.

3. Attain a blue belt.

Hahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahhaha. No. Not even close. Between doing 'dad-stuff', backing up Mo in her grad work, dealing with a demanding semester at work, and my own grad work, my attendance to martial arts classes dwindled to basically doing the fitness classes once a week.

4. Lose 30 pounds.

See the above, it parallels closely to this one. I lost 3 pounds. I lost a bunch in the first 6 months or so, then gained it all back in the last 6.

5. Learn sign languages.

Didn't figure I would. Totally didn't.

6. Reduce Posssessions.

This one is weird. I did take several loads to Goodwill, and that was good. I also gained a few things that are hard to itemize. Honestly, this whole minimalism thing is kinda tricky. It also wasn't a firm goal. I have no idea if the things I got rid of are more than the things I gained. It was vague when I wrote it a year ago and it is unmeasurable now. So...maybe? I don't know.

It's a good thing Santa doesn't deliver gifts based on completion of resolutions.

So....
In a grand display of hope vs. futility I give you my 2013 resolutions:

1. Get through the MBA program. 

I don't wanna be taking 1 class a semester for the next two years. By this time next year I want to have one class left to be done with it. That means two 8-week-courses per semester. It's going to suck a little.

2. Continue doing Son-day blog posts every other week. 

Same thing, but more reasonable to what I can apparently do.

3. Attend either a martial arts or fitness class once a week. 

At least. I'm not going to progress in belts or get much lasting fitness out of that, but it should keep my depression under control and help me actually achieve the other goals. If I belt up once this year, fantastic. Bonus points for me.

4. Reduce my books by half. 

I have a ton of books. I'm not really sure how many, the shelf by my desk has about 120 plus magazines. I have another shelf in the bed room and another at work. If I can reduce it down to one shelf, I'd be happy with with that. Especially with all the business books coming in from my courses. It's probably the biggest factor in going toward more minimalism.

5. Save 30k toward the house down payment. 

Mo and I are saving up for a down payment on a house. For our plans, we need between 50k and 60k. So far we have just over 20k. It's a good start. Based on the 2012 budget, we should be able to save another 13 to 15 in 2013. There's a few goofy wildcards coming up though, so I'm shooting for a pretty achievable 10k in savings this year.