2022 Year in Review

1. What did you do in 2022 that you'd never done before?

Did the whole board of zoning appeals thing for permission to renovate the house. It was kind of a months long shitshow but we're approved. 

2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? 

As usual, don't do resolutions. I royally sucked at my to do list. 

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? I have a new nephew, Hayden! And my stepsister had a baby, Diego. 

4. Did anyone close to you die? Oh... I almost said no but then... Higgy boy. 14 years and a very peaceful end. 

5. What countries did you visit? UK, Belize, Korea, Mexico!!!!

6. What would you like to have in 2023 that you didn't have in 2022? Consistency. Showing up for myself more. Finding things I like to do and doing those things! 

7. What dates from 2022 will be etched upon your memory, and why? Hmmm... this is a tough one this year. I feel like the whole thing was a blur. I think going from zero to 60 in terms of people getting back to more normalcy post-covid made it overwhelming a lot of the time. 

8. What was your biggest achievement of this year? Also tough... I don't feel like I achieved much. Again, it was another season where survival felt like the important thing. I bit off a lot more than I could chew for much of the year and it showed. 

9. What was your biggest failure? Taking care of myself. Setting up healthy habits. Making good choices on a consistent basis (especially food and exercise related choices). 

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Not mine :) 

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? An unnamed colleague. Goal for 2023 - care less and try to get out of working with them as much as possible. 

14. Where did most your money go? Paid off the Lexus, architect bills, Adam golf, inflation, the contractor

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? London! Belize! Korea! Mexico! all the smaller trips we got to do. It was a great year for wanderlust. 

16. What song will always remind you of 2022? Lizzo's new stuff, It's ME, HI, I'm the problem, it's ME! 

17. Compared to this time last year, are you: a) happier or sadder? b) thinner or fatter? c) richer or poorer?

a) mostly happier. I love it here. I've identified what doesn't serve me, now it's time to leave that shit behind.  

b) so much fatter. UGH.  

c) richer, but about to be crazy spending on what will basically become a new house. YOIKS. 

18. What do you wish you'd done more of? (same as 2021) exercised.  I'm such a bitch without endorphins and I consistently suck ass at remembering that when life gets hard. 

19. What do you wish you'd done less of? eating and drinking things that aren't super great for my body. 

20. How did you spend Christmas? Plan is to wake up, open Santa presents and head to NYC! 

21. Did you fall in love in 2022? Ohhh Lucy dog. I miss her so but she's living her best life. 

22. What was your favorite TV program? sports? I enjoyed the World Cup and EPL soccer a lot more. 

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? see above re: unnamed but I think the disdain was already highly developed by this time last year  

24. What was the best book you read? Little Black Stretchy Pants

25. What was your greatest musical discovery? Midnights

26. What did you want and get? a new title

27. What did you want and not get? a new job description that makes more sense

28. What was your favorite film of 2020? Downton! 

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? I turned 41 on a Monday. We didn't do a ton, which was fine. One of my bosses sent me some amazing flowers and we had a low key dinner at Johnny's. I got to do tea at the Brown Palace the following week, except Adam had covid, oops. 

30. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Adam not getting covid. 

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2022? wearing the few items that fit

32. What kept you sane? friends

33. What political issue stirred you the most? Roe v Wade

34. Who did you miss? Lucy, Higgins, all the friends we've met along the way that we don't get to see as much, my family being further away

35. Who was the best new person you met? Didn't meet this year but developed a closer relationship with a friend and she's going to be a life friend. 

36. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2022. 
I feel like I didn't spend enough time learning lessons this year. Good food for thought to go into 2023. 

22 Things to Do - Review

Normally I go over this in June-ish and most certainly did not this year. I feel pretty disappointed in myself. Without further adu, here's how I did.  

22 Things To Do - 2022 Edition

1. Figure out my next steps at BMCD and what I want my path to look like. Kind of but not really. Especially in the last month, I feel more further away from this than ever. 

2. Find and hire a designer to help us with our master renovation since this is going to be a little outside of my wheelhouse. Another kind of but not really. Does an architect count? I can handle the design decisions but thankfully Wes did the space constraint heavy lifting for us. Should be starting the addition any day now! It was a lot more of a journey than we anticipated.

3. Find at least 2 volunteer opportunities. UGHHHHHHHHHHH yes. no. sort of. I am still doing Lead to Read so check for that! I did Big Brothers Big Sisters for half the year but that I definitely bit off more than I could chew and was slightly mislead about how involved Adam and Owen could be with me. We ran a very successful food drive at work and also did a day cooking meals at the Ronald McDonald house, not terrible for a still slightly covid weird year. 

4. Figure out our landscaping situation and what works here in Kansas. Nope but our yard is about to get destroyed during the renovation so this turned out not to be a priority at all. Maybe in 2024.  

5. Go to London. FINALLY. One I accomplished. 

6. Celebrate Alli's birthday in Belize. Make that 2. 

7. Take Mom to NYC for her 70th. We leave next week! 

8. Eat 3/4 veggies at nearly every meal and quit being so stupid about it. Epic fail, nothing more to say. 

9. Do something Peloton every day even if it's just 5 min core or a mediation if I'm sick/injured/whatever. I don't think I even made it out of January on this one. 

10. Find a local race to run since we're missing Rock the Parkway and run a 5K with Owen. Check! Owen won his age division and we did a second one! 

11. Cooking class with friends. Nope. 

12. Find new doctors/dentists/etc (GAH!) Kind of. Owen has a doctor. I figured out how to utilize the on site clinic. Dentist = fail

13. Read 10 books and put my damn phone down. I think I read one. Ugh. 

14. Master the sous vide. I think I decided I don't like it! 

15. Figure out our plans for KC theater tickets. This is also a pretty solid fail. I got season tickets and we have only seen a couple of shows because we have too many other things going on. Not sure how to handle this for next year. 

16. Find friends/community/whatever here and figure out if we are wanting to do church or not. This is a half credit goal. Church = not right now

17. Mother/Son trip Nope. 

18. Go visit the farm. BOY DID WE EVER... This led to our 6 month foster of Lucy dog. HA! 

19. Go to the lake. We managed to do this! 

20. Plan a CDC trip now that we all live in the Midwest again. Half credit, I got to see Kristen in STL. 

21. Visit a new ballpark. Brewers game!

22. Go to a Chiefs game. I think I accomplished this 3 times with another one next week! 

7 and a bunch of partial credit... not my finest year.