- Do a half marathon trail run WITH KYLE! Kyle is adamant about not participating in the full 13.1. At this point, the plan is to run Red Rock trails from back to front a 2.5 times and call that the trail run. Surely I can convince him to do at least half of it with me.
- Teach my kids to do chores consistently. We’ve moved from a 2 to a 4 on a scale of 1-10. Our new method is quite fascinating. The entire family works on one room for four minutes and then moves to the next. It’s been working quite well.
- Become excited about something new. 2024 held achieving a lot of my big goals and now I’m over here like what’s next? The word “less” is speaking to me. Lots of my photography process has changed and that’s exciting. And now I make people magnets of their favorite photos!
- Sabbatize! Yeah, I’ve not done this at all. Well there may have been two days.
- Run a 1:51:00 half. I must have been feeling quite energetic when I wrote this goal. Best yet is a 1:53. Can my older self shave off a couple minutes? Not sure this is still a desire in my heart.
- Normalize spending freezes. Like extensive spending freezes. Avoid purchasing anything that’s doesn’t clothe the children or fill our bellies or is consumable. I want less in my life. Less clutter. Less distractions. Less chaos. Less stuff. Less money spent on things that I’ll throw away. I chunked a crap-ton of stuff. However, we did drop a bit of money on a garage conversion.
- Plant strawberries. Done. And I’m thinking they’ll make their appearance soon.
- Lose 22 pounds so that running a 1:51:00 half is much easier and I feel less crummy. 7 down. Peanut butter was my arch nemesis. Gave that up and things started happening. Then my metabolism was like psych, this is where you stay…FOREVER!
- Go see Nate Bargatze’s Big Dumb Eyes. I finally took this off my calendar. He’s hilarious, but frugal Brooke has nixed this one.
- Be more intentional with friends. Eh… the tangible come over for supper life has not necessarily improved. When goal 2 is checked off; maybe more of this will happen.
- Never return to the AMC and pay $39 for four icees and a bottle of water. CHECK!
- Read The Year of Less. Done! Great book.
- Throw away the gray water hose hanging out in my backyard. Done.
- Successfully grow grass in my entire backyard. Getting closer.
- Give away things that are not regularly utilized. The purge has already begun! Loads were given away.
- Utilize my new purple water bottle that replaced all of my broken water bottles. What purple water bottle? One of my kids must have stolen it.
- Post two blogs a month. Really. I wrote this? Which Brooke thought consistency was something I could achieve. My method is write 3 a week for a couple weeks and then chunk the deuces for 2 months.
- Document my days. Routines sound nice, but are simply not part of my life.
- Finish the Bible reading plan I’ve been going through. Done.
- Run from the south side beginning of the Canyon Ridge (Rim?) trail to the horsetail trail and back WITH KYLE. Donesy!
- Average no more than 1 hour of cellular device screen time. LOL!
- Plan ahead and send snack day snacks on my child’s snack day. Two weeks into the first school year and this has been achieved thus far. However, I believe this means nothing.
- Order Christmas presents on Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday? Still not sure if I’m at a place where I can enter stores on that day. We’re still in glorious (wretched) summer.
- Make it through the next 25 (26?) days of this wretched 30-day-no-sugar challenge my dad has me on. I got close, but then was frustrating by all the changing rules.
- As always, don’t get pregnant. Succeeding!
- Learn something new about off-camera flash. Accomplished! Highly recommend Godox V1 flashes.
- Create joy and coziness in every day life. Hygge. My new room/office/peace place is everything good and cozy.
- Live off of lamp light once the sun sets. Happening more so than last year, but not as intentionally as I’d like.
- Give away the box of toys/blankets I hid from the children last year. It’s been a year and they’ve not asked for one single item from that box. I need to check on this one.
- Turn my chicken coop into a green house (only if I am gifted the lining I’ll need for my birthday). Turned it into raised plant boxes. Does this count?
- Obtain a rick of wood. Obtained loads of wood; used loads of wood; will obtain more wood when fall rolls around.
- Determine why I cannot connect with my backyard and remedy the problem. Actually, I think I may know the problem and it might be illegal to remedy the problem so never mind. It’s the ferocious dog that growls and barks at me anytime I set foot out there. If you see the side of my front yard un-mowed, it’s because I’m scared of having my leg bit off.
- Track how long it takes a toenail to grow back after falling off after running a marathon. Well I can confirm it’s less that 7 months, but I failed to note when it was fully back.
- Normalize guiltless sitting. Why did I even say this! I am incapable.
- Make roast, potatoes, and carrots at least twice a month. Pretty sure I’ve made this once in the past 6.5 months.
- Figure out how to get over it! Is it possible?
- Be a good tooth fairy if this is the year J loses his first teeth. All his teeth are still intact; yet I lost a tooth (crown) three times and had an oral surgery to extract the remaining roots, something about a bone graft, and received an implant. Surgery is weird. I’m a baby when it comes to teeth. Also, not sure why Kyle allowed me to have my phone as I was coming too. Looking like a hillbilly on the back right side, if you look close, for the next three months.