Eos Posted April 3 Share Posted April 3 I realize my Goals threads have become me talking to myself, but all are welcome to chime in. So silly me, thinking that "empty nest" would mean just the two of us home but in fact dh and I are ships in the night these days. He's currently gone for three weeks taking care of his parents after I was gone for two weeks taking care of my mom, and I will leave when he comes back for another two weeks at my mother's. But what it means right now is I am alone in the house for three weeks. I am getting a little weird, I fear. I used to split up my goals into headings but found when youngest left for college that I didn't really need those headings, they were probably a sort of unconscious homeschool-y structure. So here are my April goals, in no particular order: Exercise every day, plus an arms workout video most days. I would like to lose some winter weight, maybe 8 pounds. Make a chess set for my sister. Take a stone wall building workshop this weekend, then start planning my own walls. See the eclipse! Create the place for a new hive of bees. Corral my new committee into finishing our task before I leave on the 22nd. Visit my mother and take her to see my sister. This coming week: eclipse, start the chess set, find the landscape fabric and mark off the hive space. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovinmyboys Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 I love thinking about goals. Unfortunately I don’t always love accomplishing them. My April goals are pretty boring- spring clean the house, make sure we have enough food and medicine stocked for a week, and finish taxes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 2 hours ago, lovinmyboys said: spring clean the house, We host an Easter party every year that makes me do this, it sure helps with the motivation! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Howdie! I was a goals thread dropout long back, but I've felt the need to state goals for the near term. I just came off a series of work deadlines that took up all of my focus and disrupted what few good habits I'd been building. So in April, in addition to continuing to chip away at my work backlog & the usual daily stuff, I hope to accomplish the following: Personal goals: Daily exercise: "yoga etc.," walk the dog, practice TKD. Re-start TKD classes, attend at least weekly. Food choices - more fruits & veggies, resist the call of Easter candy etc. Restart quarterly chiropractic appointments. Restart church attendance. Read daily. "Spring clean" my bedroom. Donations of purged items. Finalize my 2023 tax info. Other personal maintenance that tends to be unfairly sidelined when I get busy. Professional and other learning: CPE requirements - inventory/document what's done to date, and take some more credits. Some CERT training(s). Projects: Side roles in the opening of our new restaurant. Eclipse - we're throwing an event in the very middle of the path of totality, which is where one of our buildings happens to be. Hope to finish our "lake house" and start using it for selected weekends. For my kids & others: Tax returns / extensions (at least 4 people's). (My kids will be doing their own, but it's their first, so I will guide as needed.) Some items related to the kids' college onboarding. Update some financial stuff for/with my kids. Kids need to schedule and complete the car maintenance due in April. (They drive the car the most, so I'm saying this is for them.) I feel like I'm forgetting stuff, but this looks like a good start .... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 16 minutes ago, SKL said: resist the call of Easter candy I literally had to feed mine to the chickens 🙂 17 minutes ago, SKL said: the opening of our new restaurant. Exciting! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Continue working at least 5/x week on job search/grad school/skill improvement. Help my mom get this year’s taxes filed and make an appt with preparer for last year’s. (Long story. ☹️) Begin a new exercise routine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, ScoutTN said: grad school/ Ooh, for you? Exciting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 1 hour ago, Eos said: Ooh, for you? Exciting! Yes, at age 58, I need to go back to work and have no/few qualifications. Hoping for an “embedded” teacher program that will pay for some of my licensure coursework while I learn to be a school teacher. Teaching is NOT high pay, but I can do it, it has a good schedule and benefits, and it is always in demand. We know quite a few 50-something business people who’ve lost their jobs and are having real trouble finding any work. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 4 Author Share Posted April 4 10 minutes ago, ScoutTN said: Yes, at age 58, I need to go back to work and have no/few qualifications. Hoping for an “embedded” teacher program that will pay for some of my licensure coursework while I learn to be a school teacher. Teaching is NOT high pay, but I can do it, it has a good schedule and benefits, and it is always in demand. We know quite a few 50-something business people who’ve lost their jobs and are having real trouble finding any work. I hope this goes smoothly, it can't be an easy transition. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 (edited) 13 hours ago, Eos said: I hope this goes smoothly, it can't be an easy transition. I expect it will be hard. I don’t have lots of options, so I will do my best to have this be a good one. Eta: If something easier comes my way, I will take it. 😎 Edited April 5 by ScoutTN 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 On 4/3/2024 at 7:18 PM, Eos said: Exercise every day, plus an arms workout video most days. I would like to lose some winter weight, maybe 8 pounds. I think I gained at least three pounds over the weekend, eating lots of delicious foods with ds. Fail. Make a chess set for my sister. Take a stone wall building workshop this weekend, Did this - it was fun and so interesting! then start planning my own walls. See the eclipse! This was a fantastic day. Create the place for a new hive of bees. Corral my new committee into finishing our task before I leave on the 22nd. Did some good work on this with just one other member. Visit my mother and take her to see my sister. This coming week: eclipse, start the chess set, find the landscape fabric and mark off the hive space. Did neither of the second two, so I'll take them as this week's tasks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Got mom’s 2023 taxes filed, which required a trip to the SSA office. Plan in place to tackle the 2022 ones after the current tax season has ended. More admin work needed on mom’s stuff, but we are making progress. I think I have a substitute job for the rest of the school year. Hoping to get onboarding/paperwork done soon. No progress on exercise. No time. No money for a trainer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 April goals updated: Add 2 days of cardio and 1 of resistance/weights to my weekly routine. Get campout prep done: hiking badge prep, new tent set up and repacked, budget for food, etc. AHG catch-up. Do several trainings and read up on some changes. Prep handouts for summer thing. Job onboarding?! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 1 hour ago, ScoutTN said: I think I have a substitute job for the rest of the school year. Congratulations! And best of luck with the onboarding! I'm with you on the no time or money for trainer. I can't imagine joining a gym but I've started doing workout videos for the first time in my life, recommended by a Hive member on the Well-Trained Bodies thread. The ones I'm using are called "fitbymyk" on youtube and I like them. She's quiet, the music isn't terrible, she's not too woo-ey, and the 45 second intervals are perfect for my beginner level. I bought some handheld weights at Goodwill and I am seeing progress! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 ❤️ “not too woo-ey”!!🤣🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 (edited) I finished the bee platform and will put up a fence around it today. Started the chess set but need someone to cut the apple pieces as they are just too hard for me to saw by hand. I will edit the survey questions today and ask the committee to approve them and start building it. I did a few other things that weren't on my list but I'm ignoring one big task. This week or rather this weekend: put up the bee fence, pull together survey, clean the house, help dd put her stuff away, walk with hiking bestie, hike with other friend, plant peas?? pack to visit my mother, and go. And do the one big task. Edited April 20 by Eos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginevra Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Please, do continue to “talk to yourself”. I love seeing women who continue to make goals and accomplish them. It’s inspiring! I have been continuing to section-hike the Appalachian Trail with my hiking buddies. At the end of our most-recent section, we asked a bystander to take our picture. We got into a conversation with her; she is also section-hiking the AT. I would guesstimate she is early-to-mid 60s, said she started hiking when she retired after never having hiked before, which coincided with Covid shut-downs, and that her hiking posse has completed more than 500 miles. It was so cool! One of my big kids is moving back home end of this month, so I need to clean some things out. He plans to move into the room that was our hs room, which ends up being a good motivator for me to truly and for real finish giving my old materials and books new life with someone else. Dh and I are going with friends on a trip abroad next month, so lots of details to finalize for that. I need to get cracking today because next weekend is a two-day hike and those eat up my whole weekend; I don’t come home from them ready to tackle anything! Actually, I should note that this trip is monumental because dh has never left the country other than the countries directly adjacent to ours. So I’m doing my best to make this is very good experience for him and hope it will inspire him to do more of that in future. 🙂 I will share details once we have returned back home. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 On 4/3/2024 at 7:18 PM, Eos said: I realize my Goals threads have become me talking to myself, but all are welcome to chime in. Ha! I feel this, lol. 😂😂 I do it all the time. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 25 minutes ago, Ginevra said: I have been continuing to section-hike the Appalachian Trail with my hiking buddies. At the end of our most-recent section, we asked a bystander to take our picture. We got into a conversation with her; she is also section-hiking the AT. I would guesstimate she is early-to-mid 60s, said she started hiking when she retired after never having hiked before, which coincided with Covid shut-downs, and that her hiking posse has completed more than 500 miles. It was so cool! That is so awesome. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 We just got back from AR. The eclipse was just amazing. Will continue to exercise on the treadmill and exercise bike. Also do some yoga/physical therapy stuff. The goal here is to keep loosening chronic and debilitating muscle knots so that I may hopefully be able to hike again and just generally get out of almost constant pain. It’s one inch forward at a time. I would like to get back on my real bike more this month and this summer. Reconnect with a friend. Experiment with outdoor cooking over a fire and learning more fire building methods in general. I have a new large rectangle cast iron skillet that I just seasoned up dedicated to just outdoor cooking. Helping ds landscape his yard this month. He has gorgeous stuff popping up everywhere. We just got our trail cleared for the summer. Going camping with ds in a dispersed camping area for the first time with ds in a national forest. I have already practiced pitching the tent, camp setup, and fire building. I can do these things by myself, (6 foot 4 person tent) which was my goal. Don’t laugh.😆 Learn to play poker. ♣️ My sons are into that, and one is quite good. It is so simple and yet so complicated. I used my loose change and Amazon shopping points to buy some decent chips that look authentic and a nice table mat. I am planning to recreate a casino in my kitchen, along with funny signs and stuff. This will all be a surprise for them both. The goal this month and next is to learn some strategy. So far, all I know is aggressive and tight. lol. Two of the signs, which I will mount temporarily, say, “If you don’t know who the sucker is at the table, its YOU!” And “I don’t even fold my laundry.” I may or may not sit down at the table with my Ray Bans on. 😎 Ok. This is getting too long and I’m talking to myself again. 😜 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 @Eos I’m intrigued by the chess set!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 Onboarding done, but I have a bad cold and need to be well before I jump in. @Ginevra I love your hiking adventures. Have a great trip with your Dh! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 1 hour ago, Ginevra said: 🙂 I will share details once we have returned back home. Please do - so cool! 44 minutes ago, Indigo Blue said: Don’t laugh.😆 Learn to play poker. ♣️ Excellent. Can you share a pic when you get it decorated? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 7 minutes ago, Eos said: Please do - so cool! Excellent. Can you share a pic when you get it decorated? I might set it up later to see what it looks like. The rest of the chips are coming today. I’ll try to take a pic later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 42 minutes ago, Indigo Blue said: @Eos I’m intrigued by the chess set!! I've made one for ds long ago and a recent one for dd. Dh's was simpler with alder and birch sides, a little crown of beads for the K and Q, a staff for the Bishops, wool strips for reins for the Knights. Dd's was a little more elaborate with pressed flowers glued on, using natural materials from special places for her. My sister's one is going to be similar with apple and fir wood from our childhood home plus dried flowers and seaglass incorporated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 1 hour ago, Eos said: I've made one for ds long ago and a recent one for dd. Dh's was simpler with alder and birch sides, a little crown of beads for the K and Q, a staff for the Bishops, wool strips for reins for the Knights. Dd's was a little more elaborate with pressed flowers glued on, using natural materials from special places for her. My sister's one is going to be similar with apple and fir wood from our childhood home plus dried flowers and seaglass incorporated. Oh gosh, Eos. You have to post pics! I’ll show you my casino, lol. 😅 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indigo Blue Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 (edited) @Eos here is our kitchen casino. We will set this up later for when the boys visit just to make them laugh. We’re not doing cash games or tournament style….just goofing around. Please don’t quote photos! Edited April 21 by Indigo Blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eos Posted April 21 Author Share Posted April 21 @Indigo Blue I love it! I would come play a hand! So fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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