It is more fun to write about kitchen witchery and traveling than it is to write about the grown up things we need to get done. I've noticed that M and I tend to get more done in the Winter than the Summer, but that may just be because we have a firmer grasp on our finances and planning and what not at the very beginning and end of the year, rather than somewhere in the middle. It's pretty arbitrary, but sometimes I like to try and find meaning in it.
My new driver's license came right after Christmas. Since then we have:
- Changed my name with my employer
- Changed my name with the bank
- Changed my name with half a dozen customer sites requiring internal background/security checks
- Changed my name with about half the airline and hotel loyalty programs I use
- Downloaded and filled out the forms to change my passport (just need pictures, and to send it in!)
- Opened our joint savings
- Transferred the "savings" we have put away together into the new account to disambiguate pre- and post- marriage funds
- Reviewed our household budget and made some goals for saving for 2011
- Finally made a follow up appointment with our financial planner...
- Talked to my dad about something we've been collectively putting off since July
- REPLACED THE WATER HEATER
- Taken the old tv and an old monitor to the Recycling center for proper disposal
- Gotten rid of the door desk and 80% of what lived on top of it
- Moved a bookshelf into the office
- Framed and hung the posters we bought for the office in 2008
- Accepted some of our personal limitations and agreed that finding a house cleaner and gardener (each 1x - 2x a month) is better than NOT taking care of our home and yard and always feeling guilty about it
PHEW! If we keep this up, we may whittle down the to-do list this year faster than it grows back. (Hahaha... but I can hope.) M is quietly awaiting his UC transfer acceptance, and goes back to school on the 24th. We're both headed to ALA for booth setup the following weekend, and then he gets to play in the desert while I'm at Sales & Service the first weekend in February.
It's a busy start to the year, but it already seems calmer and more productive that 2010. Woo!
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