mdlbear | River: Done with 2024 (Reply)

It's been a rough, busy year, even though it feels, looking back, that I wasn't very productive. A lot of what I'd planned on doing didn't get done; I'm trying to convince myself that packing up the Whidbey Island house and my Seattle apartment, buying a house on another continent, and moving into it lock, stock, and kittycats (it's not the first time I've had occasion to use that phrase) was enough.

Oh, and selling my car, Molly, and buying a new 3-wheeled enclosed mobility scooter, which N dubbed Scarlett. Because it's a car-let.

Get the Whidbey Island house clean and ready to turn over to its new owners, on the first of March. Having a hard deadline helps with the procrastination. Usually.
* I'm going to give this one 85% -- it did get cleaned out, but it took a couple of extra months. (Fortunately, the new owners still weren't living in it. We're still friends.)
Finish the EOL paperwork: find a lawyer (who hopefully can serve as an executor as well), and get the will and advanced directives done. Carried over from last year, because procrastination.
* A complete wipe-out. 0%
Continue my cancer treatments, and in general end the year in better health than I ended last year with, though I'll settle for simply living through it. This is, well, yeah. If I fail completely at this, you won't be subjected to another New Year's Eve post, and I won't be around to care.
* 100% (It helped that almost all of the long series of appointments were made without requiring me to make any phone calls. When necessary, they called me.)
Along with that, self-care. This includes the kind of healthy living -- nutrition and exercise -- that will help me as a cancer survivor.
* Gonna go with 70% for this one -- I was doing pretty well up until we moved in October; after that I haven't managed to get back to my morning exercises, or daily walks. But living in a three-story house helps a lot. Some people pay good money for machines that let them simulate it. We'd originally thought that one of the first things we'd need was a stairlift. We were wrong. I'm not complaining.
I think I'll break mental self-care out into its own goal. I'm not sure what that means, really, so there's plenty of room for fudging. I probably wouldn't recognize it if I tripped over it. Optimism may be too much to expect right now; I'll settle for dark humor and something vaguely resembling hope.
* I still don't know what it means, but I don't recall having any major depressive episodes (minor ones, sure) or anxiety attacks. Dark humor, check. Hope -- something very vaguely resembling it. But I'm going to try to be compassionate toward myself and give it 100%.
Move out of the country with my chosen family, hopefully in time to avoid the chaos that's inevitable around the November elections. That depends on finding acceptable health care for all of us (including our cats), which may be a tall order.
* Well, here we all are. 100%, even though the health care is still a little bit up in the air, and the stuff we shipped is still on a boat.
Get back to music. Can I add singing and guitar practice to my healthy living habits? Could I possibly record scratch tracks of all my songs, as a legacy? We'll see. (Last night's participation in the New Year's filk circle -- I sang three songs -- is at least a start.)
* Well, no, but a little more than last year. 50%?
Write more, hopefully including continuing to write my memoirs.
* 40%, like last year? That's being very generous. I've kept up my blogging, at least.
Keep in better touch with people, especially with my kids. (Last night's conversation with R was also a start.)
* Well, I haven't lost touch with anyone I was already in touch with. And zoom calls, text, and emails with my kids increased over last year I think. I'm going to give this one 70%.

Total (85 + 100 + 70 + 100 + 100 + 50 + 40 + 70) = 615 out of a possible 900, so a bit over 68%. Not great, but twice as good as last year's 34%. I'll take it.

Another unscheduled action was writing a "what has the bear been doing lately" infodump to be distributed mostly by email to people who aren't keeping up with Dreamwidth. Next year, I guess.