I hope you had a Happy New Year. I spent New Years Eve playing Quidditch Pong with my husband and New Years Day walking the empty streets of Corning, NY with my Mom.
Saturday I celebrated Christmas with my immediate family and met my new niece for the first time. We opened presents and ate a ton of junk food which was a rough start to all those healthier 2021 goals.
So I don’t know how you made out with making your goals for 2021 but for me, this is the first year I don’t really know what I want. I feel like I’m not sure of my own direction any more. Things I used to consider essential are no longer that important. I think part of the problem is that I had such high hopes for 2020 that were absolutely crushed by the pandemic. I don’t know what is safe to hope or plan for in the coming year. I guess my goals come with the qualifier “barring unprecedented circumstances” but here are the highlights:
- Drink one glass of water before every meal.
- 52 Microadventures – 1 per week (examples include things like going sledding, having dinner cooked on a campfire, and having a camp out in the back yard)
- Pay off school loans (already figured out what I need to pay a month to accomplish this)
- Hike 4 high peaks (Tentatively planning on Street, Nye, Phelps, and Tabletop)
- Wilderness first aid class (either at BU or through NOLS in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania, Apr 10, 2021-Apr 11, 2021)
- Sign up for Cornell Outdoor Extension Women’s Rock Climbing class if it opens up to the public in the summer, fall, or winter semester (not available for Spring)
- 1 drawing a day (have a book called 642 things to draw to keep me on track)
Good luck this year, everyone.