For the first time in my life, I find myself writting in my head a list of goals I want to achieve next year. Some are mundane, some are harder to achieve. I thought about sharing that list here.
Please consider sharing yours as well. Consider it like sharing ideas, something to push others in to thinking about small things they can do as well just because they can.
Now, without further ado:
The List
- survive
A reminder from j4k3. Should always be a priority.
- renew my entire fleet of hand tools and, if money allows it, some power tools
I have lot of maintenance chores, renovations and improvements to do around the house and my current tool stock is essentially shot, so…
- start making furniture for my house
Have you seen the price furniture goes for these days? I have a carpentry shop nearby willing to look at my doodles and work out the details with me and make the rough cutting of the big pieces that require precision tools for it. I’ll have to take care of the rest.
- put together a cook book with my partner
This just came to me/us the other day.
Throughout this year, we shared with a good number of people food from our table. We are not foodies nor trained chefs, we just enjoy having good, tasty, healthy food. Many people told us they could never make what we cook daily and a few even told us we should open a place of our own. Because we’re not that insane yet, the book will do.
No publishing intention: it will be about putting together a collection of recipes anyone can follow and share it. All inclusive.
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paint the freaking walls
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finish that computer tech course
I’ve been playing with computers for twenty+ years. Now I want my know-how recognized. And on this I have money tied and a deadline!
- write my own first book (romance, with raunchy bits)
Or should I say just put it together? I write my fantasies basically since I was taught to put letters together to form words. My biggest flaw is that I’m my worst critic and I drop draft after draft. Well… it needs to end.
- work with my dogs
I have two, very over reactive dogs. Of the big kind, that are constantly fighting each other for no reason. I need to do something to counter this.
- get back on working on my plot of land
That place is a fire hazard and I want to start growing my own food again.
- read more books
As an added incentive to culture and reading habits: support an online ebook repository, download and keep offline copies of as many books you can manage. Culture is the worst enemy of bigotry and ignorance.
Finish at least one book per quarter. I start a lot of books but never finish them.
Cook more so we eat healthier things at home.
Spend more time outside
Be more diligent about working out to get in better shape and hopefully improve knee pain.
Work on increasing water intake. Stop going from coffee to tea to wine.
The big one - repair/remodel my mom’s house that i inherited and decide which house to live in and which to sell before i go completely broke, while trying to maintain a positive relationship with the kid who’s living in the other house and now thinks it’s his.
Try to be nicer and more forgiving to people who deserve it. Ignore the others and try not to let them get to me.
The same one i make every year - listen more and talk less.
Renting is not an option for you?
Renting it out? It could be. My husband doesn’t really want to be anyone’s landlord. I worry about how quickly that renter/ landlord relationship can become an us vs. them situation. I’d probably have to get $3k/mo to cover the cost and have a tiny cushion for repairs and that seems like a lot.
Mortgage cost?
Having a rental house is being demonized nowadays. By default, the owner is a bad person, regardless if they try as best as they can to be fair. That’s sad.
If people sit down and reach an agreement, legal, on which both parts feel safe, there is no harm there.
Mortgage, taxes, insurance, and lawn mowing total just over $2, 500. I could take a hit and rent it to my son and DIL who are currently paying $2,000 for a two-bedroom apartment.
Taxes and insurance are yearly costs in my country.
Let me guess: HOA contracted lawn care service?
I’d prefer to set my kid with a good head start in life than let go of such a property but I’m me. Family is family.
Insurance monthly and taxes annually- i was just dividing it out to monthly. I pay a lawn guy to mow weekly and trim the trees one or twice per year - If it’s rented I’d rather keep paying that than risk having it look bad and pissing off the neighbors. The house is 4 bed, so really more than either of my kids need/want. Talked about selling it and helping the kids with down payments on something smaller. Right now we still don’t know what we’re doing. Some of it will depend on what we can afford to do at the other house.