foo-year’s revolution
May 26, 2007 by srchalup
Speaking of whole grains, in the last post, remind me (and scares me!) that we’re almost halfway through another year. Yeesh!
I don’t recall now whether we made our New Year’s resolutions at Rosh Hashanah or in late December, but I thought I’d post them and see how we’re doing.
These are our family resolutions, rather than any personal ones. We pledged to help each other achieve them.
Eat Healthier, specifically have a whole-grain veggie meal for dinner at least twice a week, buy only organics when possible, no more bread with white flour, sugar, or corn syrup as substantial ingredients, drink less diet soda (splenda) and more tea/water/juice. Very Good; most of these things are fait accompli; still falling prey to the Cookie Monsters about once a month; Mike is drinking way too much diet (splenda) soda, but it’s still a shift from all diet coke, and has him at only 3 cans coke per day maximum.
Exercise! Moar!. Mike, gym 2 – 3 times week, including training session. Strata, daily half-hour cardio plus gym twice a week, incl training session. Mike: Great! Strata: Flunking out; health and work issues got me off-track and I haven’t gotten back on, been to the gym maybe a dozen times in 6 months, ugh!!! At least I’m gardening.
Downsize, specifically get rid of stuff we’re not using, buy less, reduce our carbon footprint, etc. bouts of freecycling that need to be resumed while I’m on ‘vacation’ (ha, you should see my to-do list), exercise restraint at flea markets, online catalogs, etc. Very Good
Puff Appreciation; be nicer to the Puffs, they are getting old; spoil them more, get the yard fenced so they can enjoy the garden, get better food. The fencing got off the ground this spring, first one neighbor and then the other, plus we hired a guy to close off one side and put in a gate. He’ll be back after Memorial Day to close off the other side. The pet food scare really got me off the ground trying a raw diet for the cats, but they rebelled. On the other hand, they are now off dry food entirely, and getting canned stuff 2 – 3 times a day; all the canned is organic and/or human quality, and no more ‘products’ or ‘by-products’ allowed in it. Little or no grain, only rice flour. Boo’s habitual arthritis and tail dandruff has all but vanished! I make more time for them, and they mug me for love more often. Excellent!
Clean Up Our Act!, keep the house neater, declutter it, maintain stuff more, such as outdoor painting touchup, regular window washing, and similar. Poor; we played catch-up for Passover and my Mom’s visit, but the house has been mostly a pit. Contemplating a Roomba and maybe a Scooba. Realized that the “Downsize” item is strongly linked– less stuff, looks better, we keep cleaner.
Green Up Our Act by doing more recycling, conservation, etc. Bought TerraPass offsets for both vehicles and our house; recycling cardboard, mail, and paper cartons regularly now in addition to plastics/glass. Continuing to use the city yardwaste bin for garden stuff. Trying to keep to 100-Mile Diet when possible; buying local. Switch to more LED lights at home. Very Good, so far. Watch our act plummet if we bring Birdie back on the road, at 6mpg, ugh. Will TerraPass it, but still!
Get Out More Often and just be social, see friends, etc. Poor, as life has been deadline driven for both of us for most of the year so far, and our uncleaned-up living space prevents impromptu at-home socializing. Gotta do better. No, we can’t hire cleaners, it doesn’t really help and it’s too expensive for us right now.
Public Service by Choice; stop saying ‘yes’ to too many things and concentrate on the ones that matter, like our chairing of the Emergency Preparedness Committee here, or my seed distribution and community garden stuff. We made time for the SNAP class, keep up with SPECS, are sworn Disaster Services peeps with Sunnyvale. Good, but let’s see how the 2nd half of the year goes. Strata is interested in SAR support work (logistics, support for SAR active personnel), which is part of the possibly revving up Birdie equation. Mike agrees, and wants to finish Birdie’s comms infr to support that.
Active Investment; somewhere along the line, we stopped putting away $X/month and started using it to pay extra on the mortgage and to get us both going to fitness training. It’s been over a year since we made those choices, which we noticed were just on autopilot around the new year. Need to re-examine those choices, and rebalance our life energy and our financial investment portfolios. No action on this yet. Flunking Out!
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