Progress on Goals and Resolutions
Jan. 20th, 2020 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThe internet is rife with dismal observations about how many people fail their New Year's resolutions before the end of January. So I thought it would be nice to check in and see how folks are doing.
Here's my big list of goals. As you can see, I'm smokin' it on checking the list, largely because we're still playing with the Vitamix and making lots of new recipes that I then log. I don't necessarily expect that to last all year, but so far so good. I have started working on at least 10 goals. I have already met 3 goals: selling a poem of 10 lines or less eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award, getting rid of one cookbook that didn't have any recipes we wanted to make, and using a specific storyline as a fishbowl theme. \o/
What's up with your New Year's resolutions or goals?
Here's my big list of goals. As you can see, I'm smokin' it on checking the list, largely because we're still playing with the Vitamix and making lots of new recipes that I then log. I don't necessarily expect that to last all year, but so far so good. I have started working on at least 10 goals. I have already met 3 goals: selling a poem of 10 lines or less eligible for the Dwarf Stars Award, getting rid of one cookbook that didn't have any recipes we wanted to make, and using a specific storyline as a fishbowl theme. \o/
What's up with your New Year's resolutions or goals?
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2020-01-21 01:01 am (UTC)Find a BIG parking lot. Something like the back reaches of a regional mall, or a large stadium or concert venue. This is a place where you can have a bit of a run without having to worry too much about keeping things perfectly straight or running into things. You can find out how the car you're practicing on behaves, and try things out.
After you're getting experience with that, wait for a decent snowfall, and then do it all over again. [puts on raised-in-snow-country hat] Driving in snow is a real-time physics exam. If you did OK in a high-school physics course, and recognize this fact, you'll be way ahead of the eejidts I always see littering the roadsides and ditches when things get dicey. [takes off hat] Get done with that, and you'll be well on your way to being a better-than-average driver.
And above all, make sure you know where your towel's at, and DON'T PANIC!
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2020-01-23 11:12 pm (UTC)& extra-yes to learning to drive in snow. The only way to learn how to control a car in a slide is to go sliding. Should you switch from a front-wheel to rear-wheel drive vehicle or the reverse, you need to entirely relearn, because everything's the opposite. Yes, the Van the Size of the Van the Size of France is, indeed, rear-wheel drive.