We’ve discussed what we accomplished in 2012, so how about the upcoming year? What things do you plan to get done this brand spanking new year? What things do you hope to get accomplished this year?
Get laid.
We just got married and maybe this is the time to really get our financial house in order.
Publish two articles, do interviews for a third.
Finally win NaNoWriMo.
Find a new job.
Write my first book. I don’t care if it gets published, I just want to write it.
Drop at least 100 lbs.
Finally get around to getting my license.
There are other things I would like to do, but those are the biggest.
Get a more permanent job (I’m a contractor right now).
Job hunt more earnestly…until I actually find something.
Run a marathon.
Get my kid potty trained, for cryin’ out loud.
remodel my bathroom (DIY, involves learning how to do two-coat plaster)
set my micro-online business on better footing (includes learning the new Photoshop, InDesign, and polishing up my web coding skills, among a lot of other things)
get a puppy
get a lot farther along on my native grassland/habitat restoration project
also looking forward to learning more about making peace with my failures.
Lots of things, but getting my health together is top priority.
Receive an actual paycheque for sports writing.
Insulate the attic.
Shave a couple more strokes off my personal best on the golf course.
Fix the screen door (hopefully I can scratch that off the list tonight).
Write my second book.
To be titled, “No, Seriously, Vaccines Aren’t Going to Hurt Your Child!”? 
I forgot to put my hopeful accomplishments in - I would like to break through my ongoing weight loss plateau and lose the last 30 pounds.
I’d like to find a new charity to work with - my anxiety disorder support group has come to an end now.
As I mentioned in another thread, I think it’s time to get our basement and garage sorted out.
I also have two projects in the yard that I’d like to get done this year - finish up a large flower bed, and make a patio in the space I de-grassed this last summer. I might also work on our walkway - I’m not thrilled with how the plantings turned out, and I might take them all out and just put gravel down.
Ha. Nah.
I’ve written every damned thing I’ve ever wanted to say about vaccines. No more books on the subject thankyouverymuch or I think I’ll scream. I’m thinking about another parenting related book and possibly some trying my hand at some historical fiction. I’ve Downton Abbey on the brain right now so probably from that era.
Congratulations on your weight loss. That’s very cool.
Find my first job as an attending physician.
Lose 15 pounds.
Pass the written boards.
Go back to college and get a bachelors. Get a job…and not just a job, but something I like. (But I’ll take any job, I’ve worked since I was 15, and I am BORED OUT OF MY MIND!)
Get fitter. I used to weigh about 400 lbs and I now have weighed roughly 200lbs for two years. I’ve 5’6" so still big, but so much better. I want to walk more and be fitter.
I’d love to lose 15 pounds (20 would be even better) and take up running again.
I’d also better finish my daughter Juliet’s baby sampler. Given that she’s 13 and I took it half-finished with me to the hospital, I’d say it’s high time!
Other things that would be wonderful but realistically prolly won’t happen: learn to can, learn to crochet, do some quilting. I’m guessing the four kids and two jobs will get in the way of those!
Build my first acoustic guitar, re-organize and clean the garage, tidy and start finishing the basement, read more, walk more, play more. Actually plant tomatoes and raspberries in the bottom of my back yard this year.
Finally, figure out what my New and Useless Skill to learn this year will be. The last 5 year’s were: Basic Music Theory, Luthiery (built a ukelele and a Telecaster), DIY Solar Collectors (Learnt the theory, never built any), Origami, Blues Harmonica.
Take several more woodworking classes and spend lots of money on tools.
Clean out the damned basement and turn it into someplace useful or fun.
Finish recording all my vinyl and get rid of it.
Continue reviewing all my genealogy records and enter all the data that I missed the first time around (mostly sourcing). This is tedious drudge work, but necessary.
Drop another 20 pounds, but I’m not going to obsess about it.
Very freaking cool. I know 200 lbs isn’t your target weight, but dropping 200 lbs and keeping it off is awesome. Good work, you!
For me, I just need 2013 to be better than 2012, which should be pretty doable considering how terrible 2012 was.
Let’s see…
I want to:
Complete my second and third terms at college;
Set up and launch an IndieGogo project to get a comic book done;
Go to Iceland in July;
Get stronger and more flexible at the gym;
Get some sort of summer job;
Buy an ebook reader and build my own ebooks for it;
Keep learning French;
Draw more.