I have only a couple of mincemeat cookies left out of all the sweet treats from Christmas. They'll be eaten by the end of the day.
My top priority goals for 2015 are as usual — clean up my nutritional act, get to the gym for a resistance workout three times a week, have a long walk including some hills three times a week and go out on a walking excursion with my camera at least once a week with, possibly, one or more extra photography excursions substituting for the workout walks.
For the rest — make a dent in my myriad long-term projects, perhaps even completing a few of them. The top priority ones are:
- Editing a huge index to an equally huge collection of old newspaper articles for the local historical society;
- Scanning the complete collection of photos from both sides of my family dating back to the invention of the camera, protecting the photos in archival envelopes and compactly filing them in archival boxes in the part of the house where the temperature stays the most even and where there's the least chance of water infiltration, writing captions for the scans and making copies on DVD, CD-ROM or in a printed book or a PDF of the book for family members;
- Weeding my hard-copy book collection and replacing as many as possible of the ones I want to keep with NOOK books.
All of the 'stuff' for those projects is right around me in the corner of the dining room that I use as an office, because if it's out of sight it will be out of mind as well. The kicker is that having it in sight is continually irritating and not conducive to entertaining, supposedly providing motivation to get on with the projects.
The first two projects involve a lot of sitting at the computer, so I'll need the exercise listed in the top priority goals. There's a lot more I could add to the project list, but this probably enough to be going on with for the next year.
Marianna