Hello, ladies and gents. It’s tradition that I do my New Year’s Resolutions on December 27.

It is December 27.

SO LET’S DO IT

A review of the 2021 resolutions:

• ACCOMPLISHED: The blogs, as usual. Always, always.
• FAILED: Try to be more consistent with actually posting my blogs. HA. I keep making this resolution and never succeed. Says something about me, huh?
• ACCOMPLISHED: Walk at least 4,800 miles. YUP! There will be a blog on this soon.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Run twice weekly whenever possible. Yup! I actually started doing three times a week when I could, and I plan to continue this.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Keep working on my 2020 NaNoWriMo. I did! I actually have a complete (or like 99% complete) draft now. I’m going to leave it alone for a while but then come back to it.
• FAILED: Run a marathon. Nope. Still haven’t gotten my miles there.
• FAILED: Win NaNoWriMo 2021. Nope. Was still working on 2020.
• SORT OF ACCOMPLISHED: Do stuff with my writing. I’ve been working on my 2020 NaNo, does that count?
• SORT OF ACCOMPLISHED: Try once again to get my blogs in a physical format. I got a few more of these done. Still not at completion, though.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Revamp my “200 Books” list and keep reading fiction. I did this back in February!
• FAILED: Respond to all the blog comments I’ve gotten over the past several years. Ha.
• FAILED: Work out my arms. HA!

Not as good as it could have been. Let’s look ahead to 2022:

• The blogs.
• Walk at least…let’s do 5,000, why not.
• Run three times weekly whenever possible.
• Complete a new draft of my 2020 NaNoWriMo.
• Win NaNoWriMo 2022. Maybe I’ll have the draft done by then?
• Run a marathon. I’m going to be able to do it one of these days!
• Continue to get blogs in a physical format.
• I MUST WORK OUT MY ARMS!

Let’s go.

‘Sup, nerds?

So it’s December 27th, which has become the day on which I review my resolutions for the current year, figure out how badly I did at keeping them, and then set up resolutions for next year that will likely be kept just as badly.

READY??????

A review of the 2020 resolutions:

• ACCOMPLISHED: The blogs. Yup. And I actually posted them this year! HOLY CRAP
• ACCOMPLISHED: Walk at least 4,500 miles. I’m actually getting at least 5,000, so that’s pretty cool. A review of my walking miles will come, as always, on January 1st.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Do something with my writing. Finally.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Run a half-marathon. I guess technically this should go in the “sort of accomplished” category since it was a virtual version of the Calgary half-marathon and not an in-person thing, but let’s be honest – that was really the only way to do it this year. So I’m counting it.
• FAILED: Run a marathon. Wasn’t able to get my distances far enough fast enough because I’m a loser.
• ACCOMPLISHED: Win NaNoWriMo 2020. Done! And I’m actually still working on it, which is new for me.
• FAILED: Get my blogs in physical form. I didn’t even touch this project this year. Go me.
• FAILED: Get a body composition analysis. Okay, to be fair, I had one scheduled for the beginning of April, but pandemic.
• FAILED: I’m going to try to be more consistent in posting these blogs, but pffft. I mass-posted twice, that totally doesn’t count.
• FAILED: I’m also going to keep trying to be better for Nate. I’m still the worst. And probably worse than normal because I’m not handling this pandemic very well, let’s just say that.

THAT’S A LOT OF FAILURES I’LL TELL YA WHAT

How about some resolutions for 2021?

• The blogs, as usual.
• Try to be more consistent with actually posting my blogs. No more of this “once every 500 days” nonsense. Maybe…every few months at most?
• Walk at least 4,800 miles. I could probably try for 5,000 again, but who knows what nonsense 2021 will bring and I think 4,800 should be reachable.
• Run twice weekly whenever possible.
• Keep working on my 2020 NaNoWriMo. I’ve somehow managed to keep working on it after November ended this year, which is unheard of for me. But I like the story even though it’s a dumb idea and I have no idea what to do with the ending at this point in time, so let’s keep truckin’.
• Run a marathon. Hopefully this year I’ll be able to get my distance up to that point. It’d be nice to be able to do an in-person marathon, too (preferably the Calgary Marathon), but I seriously doubt we’ll be at that point with COVID come the end of May.
• Win NaNoWriMo 2021. November is always the busiest month of the year, so LET’S THROW A NOVEL IN THERE TOO WHY NOT
• Do stuff with my writing. What? Who knows. That’s part of the fun, I guess.
• Try once again to get my blogs in a physical format. I really need to do this. I fear losing them, which would be losing almost 15 years of daily logs.
• Revamp my “200 Books” list and keep reading fiction. Ever since I’ve gotten Kondle, I’ve had such an urge to read. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve had that urge. I think it’s because I feel like I can get any book I want whenever I want it and I don’t have to be limited to whatever measly selection the U of C library has (for whatever reason, it’s selection seems way worse than UI’s library) or how prepared I am to carry a chonking 600-page book around with me.
• Respond to all the blog comments I’ve gotten over the past several years. I’m really bad at that, sorry.
• Work out my arms. My legs are strong (from walking/running). My back is strong (from hauling tons of nonsense in my backpack when walking). My core is relatively strong (from walking/running/other stuff). My arms? Carrying a gallon of milk up from the car to the condo makes them burn like the center of the sun. I hate strength training so much, but I’d like to get my arms on par with the rest of my body.

I think that’s everything. I’ll add more if I think of anything.