palace of winds

At the start of 2010, I made 5 goals. Report card time!

• Post more than last year. Success! This is post #37, and I only had 16 in 2009. It’s not super-fantabulous, but honestly it’s better than I expected I’d do.
• Read more; keep track of it. Win! The goal was 24 books, and I ended at 29, AND I at least mentioned everything I (remembered I) read. I want to do this again in 2011.
• Take more pictures. I — did take pictures. I don’t know that I took more pictures. I definitely didn’t go out specifically on picture-taking missions, and I still feel shy about toting my camera places. Still a lot of room for improvement here. I’ll give myself half on this one.
• Travel. Check! (Hi past self!)
• Start cooking again. FAIL. Utter fail. This goes back on the list for next year.

And, to be thorough, the list of stuff-I’d-like-to-do-but-probably-won’t:

• Website facelift. Yep, didn’t do this! I also bought a domain for the Poe-face that I’ve done jack all with.
• Write about Peru. Also didn’t do this! I have started writing about Bali, though. I feel like I should get half credit here…
• Write fiction. Decidedly not done, not a bit.

Final score: 4/5. I’m pretty happy with that. My last hope for 2010 was that it would be better than the last part of 2009. I’ve been struggling a lot in the last month or two, feeling pretty bad about some things, but there’s no question that 2010 was overall a big improvement. And I’m going into 2011 positive: I’m doing what I can about the unhappy stuff, and trying to cultivate a better attitude toward the things out of my control. I used to be really good at that, at taking deep breaths and side-stepping fear, and I think I can be again.

Happy New Year, everyone.