21 in 2021, 13.4 complete 📍- The End

This year I made a list of 21 tasks that I want to start AND finish in 2021. I don’t call them resolutions, because I personally believe that resolutions are about personal growth – but that’s just me; the dictionary definition for a resolution is simply “a firm decision to do or not to do something.”

Task, resolution. Six of one, half-dozen of the other.

Will I actually finish this list this year? Nope! Read on!

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Here’s the full list typed out:

1. ✗ Donate textiles @H&M — Removed 12/1
2. ½ Curate coffee mugs — Half point because I got some mugs out, and only added one!
3. ✓ Upgrade shallow bowls — A gift! Thank you S!
4. ✓ Donate to Free Little Pantries, local ☒☒☒☒☒☒☒☒
5. ½ Clean out cosmetics — Half point for progress, more to go
6. Clean out spices
7. Clear out rolling racks ☒☒◻︎
8. ✗ Finish pie dish repair — Removed 4/12
9. Return to Amazon’s Top 1,000 Reviewers
10. ✓ Hang more art (canvases, prints, tapestries)
11. ✓ Practice digital drawing more
12. ✗ Make space for Glowforge — Removed 5/26
13. Treadmill 10 minutes ◻︎◻︎◻︎◻︎◻︎
14. ✓ Treadmill Walk outside w/ Kid 20 minutes ☒☒☒☒☒
15. ✓ Treadmill Bike w/ Kid 30 minutes ☒☒☒☒☒
16. ✗ Donate textiles @H&M — Removed 12/1
17. Curate travel mugs, H2O bottles
18. ✓ ThredUP bag, outbound — Completed 7/6
19. Internet yoga ☒☒◻︎◻︎◻︎
20. Internet yoga ◻︎◻︎◻︎◻︎◻︎
21. ✓ Write five new evergreens ☒☒☒☒☒ — Completed 4/11

Changes since last update
#2 Curate coffee mugs – I got some mugs out, and only brought one in for all of Jantembuary. That’s progress! More out than in definitely matters.

#5 Clean out cosmetics – Another partial! I threw away stuff, and donated some unopened & unexpired samples. I still have two smaller boxes to deal with, but I made a big dent.

#9 Current ranking has plunged down to 10,4xx – haha! A far cry from the top 1,000 that I was going for, but for the record I have not been writing multiple detailed reviews each week. The only way to get back up there is to crank out a lot of high quality reviews and collect those thumbs up…and I don’t have time for that.

#19 Internet yoga – 2/10 complete. My favorite internet instructor wasn’t available, so Kid Jupiter watched me try a different “class.”

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I think my tasks are pretty self-explanatory, but for clarity I’ll break down tasks as this year goes on. Today I’m going to talk about numbers eighteen through twenty one.

• #18 Fill & send ThredUP bag
  • Situation: I don’t have the time to sell or consign clothes locally.
  • Plan: Send a bag of clothes to ThredUP, hope to get a few bucks.
  • Outcome: The pay structure changed since my last bag, but I guess I don’t care anymore. Attempting to recover spent dollars on non-designer items is futile.
• #19 &20 Internet yoga
  • Situation: I love yoga but don’t have time (or childcare) for in-person classes (if available – damned pandemic).
  • Plan: Do more Amazon Prime yoga in the playroom during nap time.
  • Outcome: I forgot…because I need those nap times to do other things like cook and shower.
• #21 Write five new evergreens
  • Situation: I wanted more blog content that wasn’t time specific.
  • Plan: I needed to write more articles that could be easily refreshed.
  • Outcome: Done! I wrote
    • Five Faves on Steak Night
    • Public Note: Vitamin Patches
    • Infusing vinegars, the first batches
    • Five Faves at Whole Foods
    • Five Faves in Fredericksburg, Texas

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Closure

So I started this Jantembuary with 21 tasks to complete. And I completed 13.4 in the end, so I didn’t touch a few – that’s fine. Seven things remained unticked, let’s talk about them.

• #6 Clear out spices
  • Plan: Discard old spices.
  • Outcome: I’ve only thrown out a few old powders…but not enough to make a dent in my collection. For the record, I cook at home a lot, so nothing gets dusty.
• #7 Clear out rolling racks
  • Plan: Empty and store three rolling racks that I needed in our other houses.
  • Outcome: I made sense of 2/3 rolling racks. The last one was relocated to the laundry room. Out of sight, out of mind!
• #9 Return to Amazon top 1,000
  • Plan: Write a lot of quality reviews and be a high ranking reviewer again.
  • Outcome: I don’t have that time right now. Maybe one day.
• #13 Treadmill 10 minutes
  • Plan: Hop on the treadmill for a bit.
  • Outcome: I have a lot of other things that I would rather do. That’s all.
• #17 Curate travel mugs & H2O bottles
  • Plan: Donate the mugs and water bottles we don’t use regularly.
  • Outcome: Haven’t had the time really. I’ll work on it more in 2022, otherwise I’ll deal with them on the other end of our next PCS (but not ideally. I prefer to move as little as possible).
• #19 & 20 Internet yoga
  • Plan: Do more yoga on Amazon Prime.
  • Outcome: I forgot about it for eleven months, and when I tried recently Yoga with Adriene wasn’t an option. Kid Jupiter watched me do some Cosmic Kids yoga, but he wasn’t interested and wanted to watch Monsters Vs. Aliens instead.

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That’s all for my 21 in 2021 experiment! Thanks for riding 2021 with me.

    

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