#21for2021

I should probably do my NaClYoHo wrap-up first, but meh.

My 21 for 2021 list was also kind of a dud. I review that as well.

So this year, I'm just going to focus on one room of the house each month that I can improve in small ways, NaClYoHo style.

There are three areas that I need to work on with Husband:

Basement

Carpet

Couch

TV

Put stuff back

Desks?

Office chairs

Decorate

Bathroom

Replace towel rack

fix or replace toilet paper holder

New linens? -Shower curtain -Bath mat -Towels?

Bag for bath toys

Front of house:

Paint

Wall sconce

Door bell

Camera?

mailbox

address numbers

screen door

main door?

And now, the monthly projects that I can do myself:

January: Our bedroom

Get the desk and computer out

Go through hanger clothes and get rid of what doesn't fit

Put away summer stuff and pull out winter stuff (hopefully will happen in December)

Bag up clothes to be donated

Replace the nightstands

Organize my nightstand (husband can do his own)

Vacuum under bed

Wash all blankets and pillows

Hang new art

Put all shoes in organizer

February: 5yo's room

Hang his art

Organize plushies

Wash all blankets and pillows

Box up and store outgrown clothes

Organize his dresser and closet

Organize his books

Fix ripped or battered books

Shop for new bookshelf

Consider getting cork board for awards certificates etc

Hang art in 1yo's room (that's the main thing his room needs, so I'm lumping it in)

March: living room

Go through recipe printouts. Copy them into my cookbook, try them, or throw them out.

Organize bookshelves

Get rid of dead plants

Repot live plants

Start seeds

Shop for shot glass case for husband (if found, save for his birthday)

Go through toy box for things 1yo has outgrown

April: Dining room

Organize coupon drawer (dividers, etc)

Organize craft cabinet

Go through "baby stuff" drawer; donate things like bibs we don't use anymore

Go through tray of 5yo's art; everything should be filed, displayed, or recycled

Generally tidy up the china hutch

Get rid of dead plants

Repot live plants

buy new tablecloth

Go through drawer of linens

Buy pillow forms for throw pillow shams

May: Kitchen and powder room

Contact paper fridge

put magnets back

fix broken magnets

Clean whiteboard; figure out new system for it

Throw out dead plants

repot live plants

consider buying new curtains

Buy new curtains for powder room

Consider replacing mirror

I haven’t checked in on this since February, which should give you a pretty good TL;DR on how I’m doing.

I’m down to 12 caloric beverages a week. Some weeks I still have carryover, but on a much smaller basis. I’ll probably stick with 12 through September. 

Reading has been way too lax, although I try to get in at least a chapter or two a week. I should definitely get back to my graphic novels, if nothing else.

Newborn pictures aren’t going on the wall until I can get some new family portraits taken and set up a proper display wall for that. We’ll call that a 2022 project. But the pics are framed and displayed nicely on a bookshelf, so I’m calling that done.

I didn’t think there were going to be official class pictures this year, because COVID, so used a thing on the Shutterfly App that let you put a “School pic” background on a nice pic of your kid. But then the school did official pictures in June. So I need to order those before I can do any more steps.

Shopping has gone well since things are starting to re-open. Not as good as I’d hoped (no tailored jeans, not the swimsuit I wanted), but still very good.

Haven’t done the days out with 5yo yet; by the time things were sufficiently open, we were too busy. I want to start in September once we have a proper routine.

I think the front door is going to end up being a 2022 project. We kind of upped our ambition: New screen door, maybe a security cam, new mailbox, nice numbers, in addition to the light and doorbell.

Success on the perennials! We’ll see how they do next year, but there’s way more purple coneflowers than I expect (which may be from last year), a couple phlox that haven’t bloomed yet, and one small but cheerful bee balm. I planted some other stuff, too, but no real success stories atm.

We got 1yo baptized in May. It was pulling teeth to get it set up, but it’s done!

Haven’t kept track of the texting, but I do text a bit more than I did last year, I think.

Pretty good, though not perfect, on vitamins.

Composting is mixed because the center is only open 12-2 Saturday afternoons, and so more often than not we’re not around. But other than one stretch where it got fruit flies (yuck) I’m doing all right.

No knitting at all.  Haven’t touched the photo book.  No blogging of any kind. Virtually no creative writing. Shit the bed on LetterMo.

 So I think my focus for the next couple weeks will be reading and the photo book.

Master list below the cut; I’m sure the formatting will be fucked and I apologize.

Time for my first check-in of the month!

I’ve been good staying within my limits for drinking. I even accidentally shorted myself one week and was fine.

6mo self-weaned. The las day I nursed, he only at for about a minute and I had to force his face against my chest. The next day he cried as soon as I pulled the boob out. This is bad for everyone. But no serious shopping until there’s more vaccines and more stores (and their fitting rooms) are open.

I’ve been pretty solidly hitting six days out of seven on the vitamins. Reading... less so. Still, I’ve been reading much more than the last couple years, so it’s still working. I’ve churned through my Avatar graphic novels, and I’m very slowly working my way through my Roosevelts book.

I haven’t been keeping close track of the texts, but I think I’ve averaged at least one a week. 

LetterMo is having mixed results. I’ve been doing just fine on the writing, but technically I’m supposed to go to the mailbox every day, and with the snow, that just hasn’t happened.

I should start my seeds in the next week or two. I set up monthly donations to two charities, so I’m calling that done although I may discuss one or two more with Husband.