1. Stop wasting so much time on my phone playing games. On 12/31/2024, I deleted all games on my phone except for four New York Times puzzles (Strands, Connections, Wordle, and Weaver) that I play once each per day. If I want to play Sudoku, my plan is to use puzzles in book form. If I want to do a jigsaw puzzle, I have a number of new, unopened ones on the shelf.
The time freed up should help me accomplish more of the following goals:
2. Bake bread at least once a month.
3. Finish two quilts.
4. Complete The 52 Book Club's 2025 Reading Challenge with e-books already on my Kindle and library and/or free books. I won't say that I won't buy any books this year, but if I do it won't count toward the challenge.
5. Complete the Storyworth project and have it printed by Mother's Day. Kasey gave me a one-year subscription for it awhile back, and I have since had to renew the subscription so as not to lose completed entries (which is not enough to justify printing).
6. Start volunteering.
7. Find a new reflexologist.
8. Relearn Canasta. Carey and I used to play all the time, but have forgotten how. We so frequently lament that there is 'nothing on tv worth watching,' so instead, why not play a game of cards to spend time together.
9. Get my Singer Featherweight up and running and in use.
10. Make some progress on our family trees.
11. Check out our local farmers market.
12. Send 52 letters in 52 weeks.
This is a longer list than last year's, because:
a. last year's shorter list wasn't very challenging,
b. some of these do not require much sustained time over the year, and
c. these are all things that I continue to tell myself, "You really should..."
Storyworth looks awesome! I love to write and currently put a lot of journaling into my memory planning, but I like the list of questions. My parents taught me to play canasta, and we had endless marathons. I need to teach Vic again. Happy New Year!
ReplyDeleteWe used to keep a table set with cards and score sheets at all times! I remember many hours of entertainment.
DeleteI look forward to hearing about your journey through these goals.
ReplyDeleteWell, we shall see how it goes.
DeleteThis is such a great list - I'm right there with you on wasting time on my phone. Mark and I used to play cards everywhere we went but never learned Canasta. Nowadays I can't get my kids to play cards, so maybe I need to find a card group!
ReplyDeleteIt's been a tough couple of days trying to break that game app habit, but on the up side, I got around a hundred pages of my first book of the year read today. :)
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