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I'd thought I'd posted some kind of resolutions list last year, but apparently not?
Things that were accomplished over last year:
- New job! New job is actually still pretty good. I like what I do, I like my coworkers, I really like my boss, my company is fairly low-drama, it's also very flexible regarding childcare and where you work from, my contributions are meaningful as well as appreciated, and I like making significantly more money than the last place. I'm often stressed, but it's busy-stressed and pretty much never distressed-stressed. Which is a fabulous change from the last two jobs.
- An agent is looking at the book! Although she's been looking at the book for several months now, so who knows what that means.
- ARR is healthy and happy and doing very well at preschool. And we very much like the preschool.
Things that were middling:
- While not as bad as it could be, I haven't been doing great on the healthy eating and exercising front.
Things that were not super fun:
- My year wasn't too bad. The world's year...holy cow, 2015, you sucked. Let's try better this year, ok?
- Did not do well on the writing/submitting/publishing front. Needs more effort this year.
- Did not always do well on the work-life balance front. Some of this was because the first half of 2015 was kind of recovery from 2014, where I screwed myself up but good. New job meant an end to the panic attacks and got me back off Klonopin. But it left me with a delightful case of stress-induced IBS, which continues to flare up now and then. Also, Chuckro and I kind of burnt through our respective wells of cope and spent a lot of the spring exhausted and sniping. Some changes to my work schedule and to his self-care routine seem to have helped some with that.
Resolutions:
Nothing huge, just trying again to restart some behaviors that have fallen by the wayside.
- Slightly better food and exercise.
- Less time wasting time on the internet. (If I want to be unproductive, let's read or watch one of the billion bits of media I keep saying I want to consume. Or play video games. The goal is more conscious time-wasting, for actual relaxation rather than just exhausted numbing.)
- More focus on writing.
- More focus on Chuckro.
I think point 2 can help with points 3 and 4.
Nothing revolutionary here; they're all things I've been better at in the past and have let slide. Time to reset.
Things that were accomplished over last year:
- New job! New job is actually still pretty good. I like what I do, I like my coworkers, I really like my boss, my company is fairly low-drama, it's also very flexible regarding childcare and where you work from, my contributions are meaningful as well as appreciated, and I like making significantly more money than the last place. I'm often stressed, but it's busy-stressed and pretty much never distressed-stressed. Which is a fabulous change from the last two jobs.
- An agent is looking at the book! Although she's been looking at the book for several months now, so who knows what that means.
- ARR is healthy and happy and doing very well at preschool. And we very much like the preschool.
Things that were middling:
- While not as bad as it could be, I haven't been doing great on the healthy eating and exercising front.
Things that were not super fun:
- My year wasn't too bad. The world's year...holy cow, 2015, you sucked. Let's try better this year, ok?
- Did not do well on the writing/submitting/publishing front. Needs more effort this year.
- Did not always do well on the work-life balance front. Some of this was because the first half of 2015 was kind of recovery from 2014, where I screwed myself up but good. New job meant an end to the panic attacks and got me back off Klonopin. But it left me with a delightful case of stress-induced IBS, which continues to flare up now and then. Also, Chuckro and I kind of burnt through our respective wells of cope and spent a lot of the spring exhausted and sniping. Some changes to my work schedule and to his self-care routine seem to have helped some with that.
Resolutions:
Nothing huge, just trying again to restart some behaviors that have fallen by the wayside.
- Slightly better food and exercise.
- Less time wasting time on the internet. (If I want to be unproductive, let's read or watch one of the billion bits of media I keep saying I want to consume. Or play video games. The goal is more conscious time-wasting, for actual relaxation rather than just exhausted numbing.)
- More focus on writing.
- More focus on Chuckro.
I think point 2 can help with points 3 and 4.
Nothing revolutionary here; they're all things I've been better at in the past and have let slide. Time to reset.
