OK, then, 2011

[multipurposegoddess]

I don't feel like looking back over the past year. Still too much in the middle of trying to assemble a life out of the pieces I have left to reflect on it.

However, I am immensely grateful that I do have the pieces I have and I'm pretty sure that I'll eventually get to a point where I can just, you know, live and not deliberately work my way through every single moment of the day.

To that end, not resolutions, but reminders, should I need them in the future, of how I want to be and should be spending my time:

• Really small-scale agriculture. I'll be ordering my queen and bees this month, and I'll start keeping worms pretty soon, too, now that I think I've figured out where in my yard they can be kept. There is some attendant gardening/landscaping that goes with those.
• Home improvement stuff.  There's so much to be done. Foundation stabilization, fixing the crack in the living room ceiling, sorting out the oddball plumbing, decking the attic and figuring out easier access to it, rearranging the furniture, fixing/replacing the back fence so I can let Walter run around in the backyard (that'd be number one with a bullet)
• Gym. I've got the membership, I need to get back to using it
• Study the Way of the Dumpling. I haven't figured out the details, yet, but I need to be making and eating more dumplings of all kinds this year. Also noodles, but dumplings are a priority.
• Get my books into LibraryThing and read some of the ones that have been marked To Be Read for ages a  la this blog post
• Get back in the habit of feeding the birds. It's so much reward for so little effort, really.
• Figure out my budget and trim everything that can reasonably be trimmed
• Set up the sewing machine so I can, at the very least, hem all my too long pants

That's enough for now.