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momijizukamori) wrote2024-01-01 01:43 pm
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2023
(I am ditching my year-range format for the date because I just end up confusing myself when I look back at past ones)
- learned how to lay brick (and decided, as soon as I'd finished the little 3.5' x 6' landing, I am never doing it again)
- first visit to the vet ER which worked out fine in the end but was very stressful for all involved
- learned how to do metalwork for jewelry!
- actually had a resist-dyed silk project work out properly
- finally built the media PC I've been wanting to build for YEARS.
- passed the rough-in electrical inspection for my basement reno!!!
- kept my Duolingo streak
- learned how much throwing your back out sucks (answer: a lot)
- was part of the dev team for a new product launch at work
- Fiona has occasionally let me touch her without bribery! After a couple of pets she tends to be like 'no I don't like this actually' and gets up, but - progress!
- finally filled up the notebook I started at the beginning of 2021 as one-spot note storage.
Goals for the next year:
- get insulation and drywall done on the basement reno
- read something in Japanese at least once a month - I'm hitting the point where I know I need to be reading more to cement stuff, but it's always kind of a slog.
- practice something creative at least once a week. There's a bunch of stuff I'd like to learn or get better at, but I am Too Aware of how trash I am at them, which makes me not want to do them, even though I will only get better by doing the thing. I am going to try to brute-force bootstrap this until I can get a habit going like I did with Duolingo and kanji practice. We'll see how it goes, I guess?
- learned how to lay brick (and decided, as soon as I'd finished the little 3.5' x 6' landing, I am never doing it again)
- first visit to the vet ER which worked out fine in the end but was very stressful for all involved
- learned how to do metalwork for jewelry!
- actually had a resist-dyed silk project work out properly
- finally built the media PC I've been wanting to build for YEARS.
- passed the rough-in electrical inspection for my basement reno!!!
- kept my Duolingo streak
- learned how much throwing your back out sucks (answer: a lot)
- was part of the dev team for a new product launch at work
- Fiona has occasionally let me touch her without bribery! After a couple of pets she tends to be like 'no I don't like this actually' and gets up, but - progress!
- finally filled up the notebook I started at the beginning of 2021 as one-spot note storage.
Goals for the next year:
- get insulation and drywall done on the basement reno
- read something in Japanese at least once a month - I'm hitting the point where I know I need to be reading more to cement stuff, but it's always kind of a slog.
- practice something creative at least once a week. There's a bunch of stuff I'd like to learn or get better at, but I am Too Aware of how trash I am at them, which makes me not want to do them, even though I will only get better by doing the thing. I am going to try to brute-force bootstrap this until I can get a habit going like I did with Duolingo and kanji practice. We'll see how it goes, I guess?