The theme for my 2019 goals is “Aim Low” after what happened last year. This year you’ll notice that most of them can be accomplished from my bed lol and that is BY DESIGN
1. Cookbooks Cook Through: 23%
This is the stretch goal. On New Year’s Day, Steven and I went through our cookbooks and marked all the recipes we’d never made but wanted to try this year. In all, it was 29 books, and I marked 70 recipes. Steven marked 215 lol. So far I’ve made 16 recipes (see below) and he’s made 11 (5.12% complete).
You can probably guess that Steven’s are yellow and mine are pink
2. 50 States of Reading: 31%
This is a project I actually started in 2018: Read a book set in each US state. I’m doing it like a legit road trip where I started in Maine and headed South. Here’s the map of what I’ve done so far:
I also stopped in Washington, DC because I’m into the DC Statehood Movement
And here are the books I’ve read:
3. Read One Book a Month We Already Own: 8%
We own a lot of books I’ve never read, mostly because Steven. So I forsee a lot of really bad sci-fi in my future. But in January I found one I’d gotten at a past library book sale!
A History of Histories by John Burrow
It wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but whatever.
4. Transcribe my Grandmother’s Diaries: 37%
My grandmother kept a diary for SIXTY YEARS, y’all, (1941-2000) and this year I’m going to transcribe them all. Right now I’m in 1963. No thoughts on the Cuban Missile Crisis, but I do have a window into how much time our foremothers spent ironing (hint: A WHOLE HECKIN LOT). Here’s a sample entry from An Historic Day:
August 14, 1945. Stayed here and did work all day. Went town at noon and bought suit. War over at 4:00PM
5. Take a Picture of Everything I Make: 100%
Last year I had all these goals that involved making things but never had photographic evidence. No longer! Here’s everything I made in January:
Mostly baked goods, I guess
Total: 40%
Not bad for January!