What are your goals for 2013?

[heygrey]

(Have we done this yet?)

D&R or otherwise.

[bunnymendelbaum]

-Have a baby.
-Start running again.
-Sell our house.
-Buy a lot.
-Sell Mini & buy new used car.
-Be debt free.
-Live more responsibly.
-Be nicer to my husband.

[roselis]

Hopefully be in a relationship at some point

Replace the railing in my living room.

Fence in the back yard.

Put in lights in the basement. And paint it

[emjacobs]

Plan a wedding

Get married

Love on my baby nephew before he goes to Germany

Lose weight (haha)

Cut spending

[mrsemilys]

Good post:

Reach my goal weight and strength training goals (I'm pretty close!)

Replace our deck and hopefully add an outdoor patio space

Get pregnant with #2

Continue to build our savings

Take a family vacation

[SusanBAnthony]

Buy a house.

Decorate it a little at least.

Maybe get a job. Or go back to school. Or something.

[Deleted]

Find more time for relaxing (I have to shut the mind off)
Keep up the good work in the exercise dept.
Keep tweaking my semi-decent housekeeping system.
Get pregnant again at some point.

[Deleted]

New house should be done in March. That will leave...
Packing apartment
Painting kitchen/living room, 2 x kids rooms, and possibly 1 x bath before move in.
Moving everything to new house.
Backyard everything including sprinklers, sod, retaining wall, trees, and eventually a swing set/playhouse. The next year we will add a small wooden deck, concrete edging yard, concrete slab on RV entrance side and small slab on other side for BBQ and smoker (DH's babies), and some patio furniture.
Buy some furniture for the family room and a new bed for ourselves.
Make my pantry REALLY awesome and organized. I don't know exactly what I will do but I am looking forward to it.

Other than hosue stuff I will just try to survive 4 more months in an apartment with my kids and DH will start a new job on 12/31 so there will be some stress with the job transition. It is a good job so it shouldn't be too bad.

ETA: Finish losing baby weight from #3 (she is already 8 months). Hopefully get pregnant with our 4th and final child toward the end of the year.

[pumpkin]

~continue to work on losing weight
~figure out how to date and hopefully meet someone
~pay off credit card
~be in a position to buy a new/new to me car
~continue to work on decorating and organizing my home
~have finally unpacked and gone through all the boxes in my garage
~find more things to do that make me happy and feed my soul
~spend more time with family and friends and those who truly enrich my life
~simplify!

[Deleted]

-Get H and I Passports
-Spend less money on frivilous stuff
-Put up a deck
-Remodel our bathroom

[thewop]

Run 1/2 marathon
Get pg with #2
Take a vacation
Paint kitchen
Trim in livingroom
Pay off my car

[ssmjlm]

-Have a baby
-Not go crazy

House wise:
-Pantry redo
-Finish priming and painting trim
-Desk for office
-New floors in first floor

[munkii]

Start school full-time (part-time is not working)
Pay off non-SL debt
Finish the kitchen reno (half-current, half-50's will drive me nuts before too long)
Landscaping: tear out all the ugly bushes, cut down the dead tree, deadwood like crazy, add lighting
Finish painting the house
(Mostly) Finish all the rooms in the house
Start a garden

[sassafrass]

Lose the last 20 pounds
get pregnant
pay down debt


those are the three big ones.

[emoflamingo]

-Pay down some debt. (A good chunk will be done with our tax return & my H's yearly bonus.)
-Lose weight and start being healthier.
-Save money towards finishing our basement.

[peach]

-have a baby
-get curtains for all the main living areas
-save money toward our kitchen renovation, and build up our savings account
-get rid of all the ugly blue paint outside; repaint the deck, stairs,etc. this summer
-build some raised garden beds in the back yard

[mrs.jacinthe]

-run a half
-complete an oly tri
-make a kid
-buy a house

[amblor]

Have a baby!
Completely finish all flooring, baseboards and quarter round including kitchen.
Finalize a plan for the kitchen.
Replace exterior doors.
Finally paint and decorate the master bedroom.
Redo the front screened in porch.

[vanillahip]

- remember that gbcn exists and come BACK here more often!
- put a second bath in our house
- run a 10k
- run a sub-30 5k
- weed out my closet, reorganize a wardrobe of ONLY clothes that fit well and are flattering, and donate allllllll the crap
- live a more minimalist lifestyle (haha good luck with that...)
- maybe maybe, in the second half of the year....... get KU? 😬

[wawa]

-Finish this renovation (odds and ends up stairs, flooring and laundry room downstairs) (end of january)
-Have baby (end of february)
-Lose baby weight (end of 2013)
-Get in the groove of actually keeping the house clean and organized on a day-to-day basis(ongoing)
-Decorate the house for real - actually hang art/photos, etc
-Clean up the landscaping mess around the house

[abby]

Get the basement in full working order

Overhaul our outside landscaping

Tile both bathroom floors

Replace lighting and countertops in both bathrooms

Buy new kitchen appliances

Enjoy life more!

[FoxInFiji]

- Move back into master bedroom!! Finish drywall, prime, paint, hang light fixtures, and stain + poly windows. Trim would be nice but it's going to take a while.
- Finish master bathroom (grout, build vanities, install fixtures, finish drywall, prime, paint, install lighting, DIY mirrors and cabinet inserts)
- DIY closet system
- Purge, clean, and purge again. Nothing is going back into those bedrooms unless it has a place and we love/need it.
- Order, stain, poly, and install doors
- Build bi-fold closet doors or modify old ones
- Make trim, stain, poly, and install
- Hang new TV in the master bedroom.
- Finish main bathroom (final trim, spackle, paint, caulk sink backsplash, built linen closet shelving, install linen closet door knob, and extra long door stop)
- Paint LR, entry, and hallway
- Finish building basement wall and patching all drywall. Paint.
- Install basement pendants and maybe build desk underneath.
- Install new basement flooring, trim, and doors??
- Decorate master bedroom and master bath??
- Create 1-2 more flower beds. Continue to collect and fill in existing flower beds.
- TTC

ETA: You guys this is making me really bummed I thought we were almost done until I wrote it all out!

[gnomesweetgnome]

- finish grad school
- adopt a baby
- stick to my half marathon training
- lose ~18 lbs.

[wawa]

Dec 18, 2012 11:19:41 GMT -5 FoxInFiji said:

ETA: You guys this is making me really bummed I thought we were almost done until I wrote it all out!

Hugs! Sucks how that works, doesn't it? In the grand scheme of things you ARE almost done. Just look back at how much you've already done. You have walls! You have electrical! You have plumbing! You have floors! You have tile! These are big huge things. And they're all FINISHED.

[Deleted]

Personal:

- Keep losing weight!
- Start back exercising - walking/jogging, eliptical machine
- Spend a little more time taking care of me (doing nails, spa nights, journaling)
- Take more sewing classes and become better at sewing, hopefully purchase a new machine
- pay down credit cards one at a time

House:

- install a french door in the kitchen leading from dining room
- install deep shelving in my linen closet = more storage
- Purchase or DIY some new curtains for several rooms in the house
- Purchase new shutters for front of the house
- Hopefully get DH to install a garbage disposal!!
- Purchase new light fixtures for our hallway and dining room

[aweilba]

- Run a 10k. I ran a 5k this past summer, my first ever, and I'd really like to do a 10k this summer.
- Become more organized at home. My classroom is very organized, and I think I spend all my organizing juices there instead of my house.
-Get new carpet. Oh gosh, it's so overdue.
- Start volunteering/tutoring at the local Boys & Girls Club. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time, but since I had to work two jobs, couldn't. DH just got a new job that pays more, so I can quit my second now (yes!), which frees up time to do this!

[pickle123]

Decorate house
Baby #2
Be a better more thoughtful wife/friend/daughter/sister

[mac08]

1. Organize my house and get into a good routine of keeping it that way
2. Lose weight (I've already lost 10 lbs so far since mid-November)
3. Get pregnant

[prazenjc]

- have a healthy baby w/o any complications.
- support dh as he finishes his BSN degree accelerated program.
- with a very busy toddler and a newborn, we aren't likely to accomplish much in the area of D&R....maybe get some new appliances or change our faucets.
- oh, i forgot that we are planning to have a family reunion on my mother's side next summer. this is timely, as i will be on maternity leave.

[sillygoosegirl]

1. Begin renovating the new house and not run out of money doing it (I imagine some compromises will be required between these two things...)
2. Find part time family-friendly work that still pays something similar (per hour) to what I make now.
3. Go to Peru.
4. Climb Mt. Hood.
5. Get pregnant.
6. Plant a garden (or maybe I should start small with edible perennials since there's so much else going on)
7. Spend more time with my friends.