Friday, 20 January 2012

Goals for 2012

Not to run with the crowd, but this is as much for my benefit as everyone else's.

1. Complete Masters degree successfully
2. Get a full-time job (after Masters degree)
3. Walk to and from work at least once a week, weather permitting (this has actually been every work day since the 3rd January so far, but I don't want to give myself too many unreasonable goals)
4. Get Shades of Norwich organised in a more efficient way (the Vampire: the Requiem game I help run for 40+ people)
5. Write every day. Yup, snowball's chance in hell, especially with my study currently filled with an airbed for one of our friends. But this is a thing where aiming for the stars just might work, and I'll take a good average as success for this.
6. Get the extra people out of my house. For the past few months, we've had two friends living at our house because they had nowhere else to go. Hopefully one of them will be going to China sometime in February and the other will be moving into his own place. So really this goal should be 'hold it together until you have your house back'. I'm not doing so well at that right now. (Breathe. Remember that they are your friends, you love them, they are not taking advantage, they will be out as soon as they can be, they help around the house, they do not mean to be rude or inconsiderate or judgemental and they put up with your mess and stress)
7. Do thank you letters in a more timely fashion
8. Budget. Oh God, budget. Partly as a result of 6, finances have gone to hell. Overdraft is scary, impulse control is poor. Then there will be more chance for nice things
9. Get on top of e-mails. Hotmail keeps accidentally putting all my inbox e-mails in the deleted folder, which just reminds me how many e-mails I have in my inbox. Ugh.
10. As part of 8, eat better, make bulk food to freeze, find more economically sensible and healthy lunch substitutes that can be made with a minimum of effort and time