Looking Towards 2017

I've not blogged for over a year.  I'm not sure why. There's something cathartic about logging your thoughts, so I'm definitely going to try to do more of it this year.


It's totally cliche to do a resolutions post, but that's ok, I'm thoroughly unoriginal.

I don't really have resolutions so much as I have a set of goals I'd like to work towards this year.


Nutrition- I've got several bulletpoints here

• Log my food most days.  I'm aiming for at least 25 days per month
• Incorporate more whole foods.  
• Pay more attention to how much sugar I'm consuming
• Drastically reduce the number of restaurant meals we're having.  I'm aiming for one per month 

Fitness-

• Do some form of exercise at least 4 days per week- don't get too caught up on this.  It can be yoga, walking the dog, doing an exercise video, riding a bike, etc.  
• Spend more time doing yoga in general

 Finances

• Track our spending
• make reductions in food budget
• increase our savings

 Home

• Start making small renovations towards making our house the home we want it to be
• Do the UFYH app 20-10s at least 2 per day
• once winter is over, spend one weekend a month in the yard making improvements.  Most of these improvements are just manpower, not expenditure

Education

• spend 1 hour per day working on my coursework.  
• Aim to test for a new class every 8-10 weeks
• BIG GOAL- Finish my ChFC designation

 Knitting

• Reduce my yarn stock by 30%
• Start holiday knitting now, make a spreadsheet and double check it
• reduce stash of remnants by 50% instead of an overflowing basket, half a basket
• finally finish a pretty thing A Pretty Thing
• Make some modifications to my alpaca fingerless mitts so they are a little easier to wear
• Finish fixing the mitt that my dad's dog ate
• Log any new yarn purchases on Ravelry
• Knit an Ease sweater
• knit another Skew sock 
• Knit Tradewinds
• Knit Wink
• Set aside an evening and photograph and log yarn  stash on Ravelry.  Add at least 10 of the existing hanks 
• Do project pages for everything I start in 2017 on Ravelry
• Take a Craftsy class
• Take a knitting class- Maybe a Fair Isle Class?
• Knit at least 8 pair of socks this year.  This will include SKEW
•  I really want to make and wear this Cabled Poncho

Life in general

• Try to be more aware politically.  
• Be the change I want to be
• work on being more positive
• work on getting more and better sleep

I think this list should keep me out of trouble this year.