I sat down to write my New Year’s Resolutions for 2011 yesterday and I suddenly realized that I couldn’t even remember the Mid-Year Resolutions that I had made six months ago. Obviously I could stand to track my resolutions a little bit better!
I will at least be putting the list up on my wall this year, as well as in my planner, and using the Streaks app for iPhone for some of them. But before I post my 2011 Resolutions, I want to see how last year’s resolutions fared:
- Read the Bible in 90 Days: I managed to make it entirely through Kings before I moved. Then school swept me away, but I did also read the entirety of Chronicles because it was assigned the first week of one of my classes.
- Complete NaNoWriMo: This was accomplished with some dirty tactics. I’m hoping to have a more legitimate win next year.
- Earn a 3.5 for fall semester: Check! I did even better than that.
- Achieve 5,000 fitness minutes: Wow, I stopped tracking this one completely, but I’m quite certain I didn’t make it.
- Apply to study abroad: I looked into this the first week of school and eventually realized that going to Oxford is simply not what God has planned for my summer. We’ll see about next year.
- Have one date night a week: This was a partial success. Matthew and I had a few actual dates and a lot of random evenings watching many episodes of Doctor Who together.
- Stick to the monthly budget: This one makes me grimace. I would say that we have gotten a little bit better about making a budget together, but we still struggle to stick to it.
- Blog three times a week: Ha! Everyone knows I failed this one.
- Take Sunday off: This went out the window very quickly once the semester began, but I still think that it’s important.
- Eat fewer processed foods: SUCCESS! Matthew and I buy few packaged foods and eat at home most of the time. At one point this semester, I ended up eating oatmeal with brown sugar on it because we had no other sweets in the house.
Final tally? 2 great successes, 4 partial successes, and 4 misses or near misses. That’s pretty good considering that I basically forgot about my resolutions entirely for six months!
Photo Credit: Ed Donahue – licensed under Creative Commons.
Day One of my Winter Deep Clean went well, but Day Two was derailed when some friends came down to Portland to visit another mutual friend in the hospital. (Please pray for Ben Suprunowski.) But that’s okay—life happens. I’ll pick up where I left off after New Year’s Eve. Until then, I’m hibernating.
We went over to the hospital with our friends today and after a good visit we finally had to leave because our friends had a long drive home. But then we had to make a “quick trip” to Powell’s City of Books.
Naturally, that didn’t happen, but here are four things I love about adventures in Portland:
- Going on an epic quest for a book that only results in a delicious cup of Stumptown coffee.
- Playing “Who is the weirdest person at this intersection?” in downtown.
- Stumbling into PastaWorks for the first time with a friend who looks at the meat case and says, “It’s beautiful!”
- “I think we just made Portland weirder.” / “I don’t think you can make Portland weirder.”
It has been a looooong semester, folks. A lot of side projects and ambitions I had before the move fell to the wayside when we emerged from the mountain of boxes and I had to launch full speed ahead into my first semester after two years on a quarter system.
I finished my final final today, and boy does it feel good. Here are some thoughts I had reflecting back on this term.
- If another student says a class is hard, they are probably right.
- When you show up to your Linguistics final at 8am and the other students in the class look like zombies and one student is literally singing to himself, you know it has been a hard term.
- Thank God I can usually write well fast.
- I should enjoy my time spent living in an on-campus apartment because in later stages of life, I doubt so many friends will drop by constantly.
- The faculty and staff at WPC are obsessed with “unpacking” ideas.
- Sometimes college students act like velociraptors in the cafeteria.
- Good coffee is one of the biggest factors in your choice of college.
- Never take the Writing & Literature club to see a movie based on a book that they have all read.
- College students don’t need alcohol to act crazy. They have sleep deprivation to do that for them.
- Quarters are a precious commodity that will not be parted with save for clean laundry.
- Don’t open the fridge in the music lounge.
- It’s awesome to go to a school where you can have coffee with the college president.
- Make friends with the maintenance and security guys.
- Even if you have a migraine and guess on 75% of the answers on an exam, you might still get an A.
- When finals are over, you don’t know what to do with yourself.
- Winter break is only three weeks long and then I have to do it all again.
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