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"Do you have a goal? You gotta have a goal!" - Kit DeLuca, Pretty Woman
I have a lot of goals, and I'm trying to be more realistic about goals I set. I generally set goals for each year (instead of "resolutions") and I also have longer term goals set to work towards as well.
Goals for 2008
Last Updated
January 7, 2008
- Purchase 2 or more acres of land to build my house own, putting 20% down.
- Work on home designs and get down to one or two options can use for taking to architect for final blue prints
- Try (again) to find a pair of boots and a pair of house shoes for going out in the yard in
- Get back to going to church regularly
- Go on at least one photo session somewhere and shoot at least three rolls of film
- Improve sleeping habits, preferably in my own bed rather than on the futon
- Get some more paintings done
- Do better with classes and get over all GPA up
- Sleep in my bed at least 50% of the year
- Get at least three more lists to Featured List and an article to Featured Article status on Wikipedia
- Work on weight - aim for 155 or less
- At least $2500 in savings even after buying land
- Get through back log of manga reviews in Animania
- Get through back log of Chocolate Experiences scrapbook pages
- Read at least 100 books for fun this year (tracked in LJ)
Goals Results for 2007
Successess
- Replace towels, washcloths, etc. with matching ones - completed in January!
- Get another bookcase or two to deal with book storage issues (especially manga) - completed in January!
- Complete at least three video games from my backlog completed this year - completed in August
- Spend at least $100 on new clothes this year - completed in May
- Go to one movie at the theater, by myself, this year - completed in July with viewing of Transformers
- Take myself to a real sit down meal at least twice this year - completed in August, and exceeded as I took myself out about 6 or 7 times!
- Take advantage of Flickr's new collections system to go through and reorganize all photos - completed in August
- Get car loan balance below $2500. - completed in September; at year's end, below $1700!
- Get at least $2000 added to savings - completed in September; over $2500 in savings at year's end!
- Participate in NaNoWriMo 2007 and get more added to either "The Guardian" or "Enslaved Heart" - completed in November
- Get my chocolate experiences scrapbook started and all current ones added - added October 1st; partial success as it is started and several pages done, though have a backlog again
Failures 
- Get the weight down below 150, preferably 145 - over the year, I gained 11 lbs
- Exercise at least once a week - ugh, I was doing good to get in exercise once a month and walking attempt didn't fair much better
- Obtain and maintain a B average in my courses at Regent - barely holding on to a C
- Complete TCE Bookstore v3 on time and have it be totally awesome! - Launched at its final deadline, but had (and still has) many issues and missing features so I consider this a failure
- Complete at least 145 bentos - I got bento #99 done, then stuck on what to do for #100 :-P
- Continue working on improving my eating habits; get back to regularly using SparkPeople to assist in this goal - just got tired of using SparkPeople and trying to track stuff, eating is all over the place
- Limit eating out to once a week and special occasions; get budget AND spending on dining out to $50 a month or less.
- Complete five paintings
- Get a new pair of boots and a new pair of flip-flap type shoes - added April 1st, just couldn't find any I liked
- Work on oversleeping issue and start getting to work on time! - added April 1st
- Get back to sleeping in the bed again - added April 1st
- Go on at least one photo session somewhere and shoot at least three rolls of film - added October 1st
- Get caught up on my Animania manga reviews (queue: 15 volumes) - added October 1st, got a few new ones but still not caught up
- Clean up desk in home office and reorganize! - added October 1st, never did get around to it
- Create at least 3 more home designs, tweak, get feedback, and then try to narrow to one - added October 1st, too much laptop, not enough desktop time
Cancelled 
- Get existing student loan balance below $9000 - cancelled in February 07 to concentrate on car loan and savings instead
- Get all of the good images from my negatives scanned in and archived to CD
- Replace bakeware and mixing/storage bowls in kitchen; improve storage methods for better organization (and less danger when opening cabinets :-P) scrapped this one since I got some new cookware and Hershey got that infection - will probably do this month with the Christmas Kohl's card
- Make a video disk for my mom of the grandkids and of me - dropped in September, never got around to it and figured it be better when she has a comp and I can just email it
Long-Term Goals
- Get my weight down to 120-130 lbs . I need to eat healthier and I want to start a regular exercise program. I'm doing good on the eating part, for the most part, but seriously sucking on the exercise.
- Build a decent amount of savings in the bank and have enough diverse investments that I do not need to worry excessively about retirement.
- Build a house (planned for 2009).
- Learn to how to ride horses.
- Learn Japanese....as much anime as I watch....might as well :-)
- Learn a musical instrument.
- Finish either one of my novels or a non-fiction work and attempt to get it published.
- Attend a concert, broadway production, ballet, opera, symphony concert, ice skating competition, and an equestrian event. Not all at once, of course. LOL.