2018 Goals: Progress Made in April

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A few goals done, a few new ones added that are branched off of the other goals, and made a little progress on a few.  Kind of wanted to make more progress on some, but still, not a horrible month.  I’m thinking next year though I’m going to redo how I do my goals, or maybe I’ll start in July when I do my mid-year revisit.  We’ll see 🙂  Meanwhile, I had to revise one due to the financial situation, namely two senior pets are expensive.

Financials

  1. Contribute $2,000 to my Roth IRA
  2. Mortgage balance under $120,000
  3. Credit Card paid in full

Fitness and Health

  1. Strength training targets
    1. 40 lbs for lying leg curl
    2. 60 lbs for fly
    3. 40 lbs for reverse lateral
    4. 70 lbs for lat pull downs
    5. 30 lbs dumbbells for the bench exercises
    6. 50 lbs for triceps push downs
    7. 60 lbs on seated row
    8. 40 lbs for leg extension
  2. Swimming targets
    1. 30 minutes, 800 yards
    2. 45 minutes, 1000 yards
    3. 50m freestyle without having to pause at the wall
    4. 100m freestyle without having to pause
    5. 200m kick without having to pause
  3. Dental work
    1. Fillings (three rounds)
    2. Deep cleaning
    3. Cleaning
    4. Teeth replacement
  4. Get back to following Naturally Slim principles

Around the House

  1. Get a new grill – DONE!
  2. Insulate attic
  3. Get an estimate on converting living room grate to trap door
  4. Mow once a month
  5. Clean gutters
  6. Declutter/straighten every room in the house – modified this a bit to split between clean/declutter and bigger projects that will get added as needed to the end of the list or dealt with when funds better allow
    1. Home office – DONE!
    2. Living room
    3. Dining room
    4. Kitchen
    5. Breakfast Nook
    6. Bathroom
    7. Master Bedroom
    8. “Cat room”
    9. Library
    10. Utility Room
    11. Garage
  7. Replace master bedroom mattress and box spring
  8. Finish metal fence
  9. Redo networking so both desktops are hard-wired, along with TV, PS4, and maybe PS3 – got everything I need, just need to get it done 🙂
  10. Build shoe rack
  11. Paint home office – NEW! Decided to split these out after all 🙂
  12. Paint kitchen – NEW! Decided to split these out after all 🙂
  13. Garage remodel – NEW! Big one, but will be doing most of the work myself so main expense will be the shelves I’m getting and time

Everything Else

  1. Non-goal blog post at least once a month
  2. Learning Japanese
    1. Finish Human Japanese Beginner
    2. Finish Human Japanese Intermediate
  3. Buy new laptop or fix current one – expanded this to also see if the current one can be fixed
  4. Play at least 5 console games
  5. Watch one or more episodes from ten anime series
    1. Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card
    2. A Place Further Than the Universe
    3. How to Keep a Mummy
    4. The Heroic Legend of Arslan
    5. Yona of the Dawn
    6. Dance in the Vampire Bund
    7. Sunday Without God – OMG so much crying at the end of episode three!
    8. PERSONA5 the Animation
  6. Watch the Harry Potter movies – Cancelled After the first, just not as interested in the rest even if Alan Rickman makes a perfect Snape
  7. Read at least three hours a week
  8. Take either the Zend Framework or PHP Certification exam
  9. Complete at least two Udacity courses related to web work – DONE!  Did the courses on Intro to JavaScript and ES6
  10. Get all pictures currently on CD moved to comp; get all negatives in sleeve album
  11. Get all negatives scanned and digitized as well – got the scanner though starting to think I may have done this years ago *doh*
  12. Clean up my MP3 tags
  13. Get my stuffed bunny Hoppity repaired – he’s off at Realms of Gold!
  14. Go through Wilton Cake Decorating courses