Like most of us, I am mostly crap at following through on the traditional New Year's resolutions. The only one I have come even close to following was the one of January, 2013, wherein I went on a yarn fast. In the following twelve-plus months, I impulsively bought one skein of laceweight, a couple skeins of DK merino for a gift, and a skein of sock yarn that was practically free because it got me over the free shipping threshhold. (Yes, I can rationalize with the best of them.) I have slipped from the "fast" to a more of a "starvation diet" on yarn purchases, and am knitting down my stash slowly but surely. Will I knit the last of it before I slip away to knitter's heaven, that place where yarn never tangles, the patterns are always clearly written, and coffee and tea and adult beverages are only an arm's-length away? And an infinite number of good things to watch on Netflix? Time will tell. for now, I am knitting as fast as I can.
Anyway.
A year is really too long for me to think about carrying through on a single intention, but I seem to have started the year with one without any premeditation; I shall endeavor to carry on with it as long as possible.
I shall clear the decks.
On the weekend between Christmas and New Year's, I organized my laundry/craft room. Although the impetus was to find a place to put a possible knitting machine*, the endeavor was a lovely way to start the new year. It deserves a post of its own, so no more here.
Organizing that room gave me the bump to finish a couple of long-neglected projects, each of which also deserves its own post. Considering that neither one took even an hour to finish, I felt considerable self-loathing at how long they had sat.
The next step is to organize my office, something that has haunted me, literally, for years. As Smokey put it, Your office is scary. But it will happen, a little bit at a time.
I have some other parallel goals for the year: step back from some volunteer activities in order to have more time for myself (and accomplish my other goals), clean up various little rat's-nests of clutter around the house, see our attorney to update our wills, get a living will and/or health directive written and distributed, get my paperwork in order. (In case you are wondering, no, neither of us is in imminent danger of dying, but it is so much easier to take care of these things when one is healthy.)
Well, there you have it: my intention for 2015. Clear the decks. Organize the hell out of my living space. Clear the clutter. Dispense with the unnecessary. Eliminate the unneeded. All of this meshes with our newish, retired status. Deal with this crap so our kids don't have to.
* Not gonna happen. No place for it, plus my iPad barely works (new one on order) and my computer is dying; those item are far more important to me than a possible knitting machine.
