Holy Cow. Already this year we've had temps from 12° to 76°, five doctors appointments, $3.05/gallon gas, and I've written "2007" on four checks (so far). I've got a lot of stuff I want to do this year and here's an outline:
--Get back to physical therapy. For a while I was working out three times a week in the therapy pool at the local hospital and it was very good for me. Given the energy I'm expending on the prolotherapy I don't think I can manage that much so my goal is: twice a week, three weeks out of every month for the next three months. Then I'll reassess. I'm tracking this goal through Joe's Goal's with a badge over in the right column. I've been twice since the beginning of the year and I'm appalled at how much stamina I've lost in just eight months. I had been water jogging for half an hour, but now I'm reduced to walking back and forth across the pool for just ten minutes. Oh well. Baby steps.
--Pay attention to blogging. WIP Wednesdays didn't survive the holidays and this year has gotten off to an inauspicious start BUT tomorrow is a new day and all that, so: WIP Wednesdays every Wednesday for three months then reassess. Which brings me to
--Much knitting. If your a Ravelry member you can see from my revamped queue that I have big designs in mind and a lot of them have cables. I've never really done much with cables so I'm looking forward to Zimmerman's Dickinson Pullover particularly. Plus whatever I knit for Joe.
--Loose 15 pounds. This is a continuation from a goal from a couple of years ago when I wanted to loose 40 pounds slowly so it would stay off. Last May I'd gotten down 30 pounds when I had to go on Lyrica which, contrary to their PR, does cause weight gain mostly because it makes you hungry all the time. So I went from being perfectly satisfied on 1700 calories a day to ravening on 2300. Despite my best efforts, I regained five pounds. But I hope now that I've left Lyrica in the dust. So 15 left to go by the end of the year. I'm tracking this through the snail in the grass badge on the right.
--Build a new computer. This is going to happen very soon. My brain's still fried from the traveling over the holidays and I've been completely unable to approach this, but it's on the top of The List.
Those are the big ones. I might add to this post over the next few days because I'm sure there's something I'm not remembering that I wanted to include.
Here's some gratuitous yarn:
