Resolution review: November

A progress report on my three resolutions for 2009:

Every day, I will clean for 15 minutes.
Basically, I failed at this again. However! Jess’s comment about getting on a cleaning kick resonated with me, and I spent practically a whole Saturday cleaning almost the entire house. It’s not obeying the letter of the law, but I got the job done, mostly. I had a second wind later on in the month in my determination to have a clean house to come to after Thanksgiving. I still feel like a slug about this resolution, but there’s something to be said for going on a cleaning spurt. I felt markedly better about it all when I had checked off a long list of things in one fell swoop, so I think that will be my working model in 2010.

Every week, I will write and send my grandmother a note.
Done! This month, I sent a Thanksgiving card with a handful of snapshots from our kitchen makeover and our Denver vacation. I’ll bring a whole photo album with me when we visit for Christmas, but I thought it would be nice to send some prints. Also, the card itself was hilarious. On the front, there was a picture of a squirrel wearing a Pilgrim hat and brandishing a drumstick, and inside, it read, “May the forks be with you! Happy Thanksgiving!”

Ha!

For anyone who doesn’t happen to find that funny, let me introduce you to JG. He will heartily agree with you. (Whatever.)

Every month, I will take at least a few hours just for myself.
As pathetic as this is, my Saturday of cleaning was also my time to myself. JG had gone climbing for the day, which left me alone to do as I wanted. I cleaned and cleaned, made my first layer cake, and ran errands. At the end of the day, I was pretty exhausted, but I felt so productive. I could do anything! Well, almost. We ordered takeout for dinner that night, but I had no qualms about it.