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21 for 2021: January OP

So it looks like I can do sublists on desktop but not on mobile. So if my lists looks waaaay longer than 21 items, just trust me.

Checking in on my list, I got a chunk of the newborn photos dealt with. I just need to figure out where to hang them; ultimately I want a wall of family portraits, but I think that’ll be a problem for 2022 me.

5mo is looking like he’s going to self-wean sooner than expected. I’m beating myself up about it, but at least I’ll be able to stop clothes shopping sooner.

For the first two days of the new year, I’ve got a string of two whole days each of reading and taking my vitamin. I also sent one text. I hope to check in here roughly weekly, but that’s not really a goal in itself. Unless...

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21 for 2021: August OP

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.

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Just finished this book, my fifth this year (others were Just Mercy, Furious Hours, The Removed, and Anxious People). I couldn’t put this book down. Great mix of scrappy teen detective, murder mystery, family story all interwoven with race and the criminal justice system in a way that makes you feel it in a visceral way through the eyes of the main character, Tracy Beaumont. Highly recommend! Also, I was wrong about whodunnit and that doesn’t happen so often (I’ve prob read too many mysteries in my life) so was pleasantly surprised to be wrong. Next up is There There by Tommy Orange #thisismyamerica #kimjohnson #readersofinstagram #read21in21 #bookstagram #book #reading (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLm1UvpBtj7/?igshid=18vb0vae11wkl

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You guys folks! When I'm done the book I'm reading, remind me to re-read The Sparrow so I can complete my updated headcanon, because Jimmy Quinn is 100% a gen-z whose native tongue us Tumblr and Emilio, who is late Gen X and a brilliant linguist, thinks he's amazing.

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21 for 2021: February OP

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.

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