Friday, January 4, 2013

2012 Year in Review

So, at the beginning of the year I posted some aspirations for 2012 (I don't like "goals" I never seem to follow up on them...):

Here's a brief review.  Hey, I had more success than I expected, but I looks like some of these aspirations will be carrying over to this year...


Places I'd like to travel this year:
-England (for work and maybe some family history?) - check, July
-Washington DC
-Salt Lake City - check, December
-Seattle - check, September
-Alaskan cruise (I hope!) - check, June
-Alcatraz

Things I'd like to do:
-establish and stick to a regular exercise plan - I had my moments...but...
-attend the temple at least twice a month - well...on and off...
-visit 2 new temples - check (Freiberg and Salt Lake)
-complete Project Management certification - postponed
-take some formal training in genealogy and attend at least 1 conference - Conference yes, formal training no
-purge the storage in my room and get the rest of my stuff out of my parents' house - um...
-continue learning how to sew - check (I even have my own machine now!)
-explore new cooking adventures - still in progress, I think this will be an ongoing goal

All in all, not as bad as I thought.

And as I did last year, a month by month review:

January:  Awesome trip to Disneyland with Katy and Jessica where we stayed at the Grand Californian (I love, love, love that hotel!)
February:  Short, last minute trip to Germany which included a trip to the Freiberg Temple.
March:  We did a special trip to the Oakland Temple Visitor's center followed by  a meal at Fenton's.  I also experienced the Boiling Crab for the first time with the guys from work.
April:  Lost a good friend (Erin) and reunited with some other good friends (Monica, Sharon, Alexa).  Visited Filoli for the first time.
May:  Another last minute trip to Germany (I was gone a total of 96 hours...).  And a solar eclipse that was pretty sweet.
June:  Saw the opening night of Brave and then left for Alaska!  It was amazing!  Visited Filoli for the second time.
July:  Family history conference in Sacramento and Germany (most likely for the last time), England and 1/2 a day in Scotland.  An amazing trip (which I unfortunately have no pictures of...).
August:  Katy moved out :(  Lily (my "niece") was born :)
September:  Kate moved in :) and I got to travel to Seattle with my work guys for our "offsite" meeting.  Our condo was burglarized (this is how I lost the pictures from England and Scotland).  We decided to celebrate Christmas in September to lift our spirits.
October:  Halloweentime at Disneyland with my girls (Katy and Jessica).  And a new job!
November:  I got older again.  The election drove me crazy and I wasn't terribly happy with the outcome.  Sucessfully completed 30 Thankful days.
December:  I threw a successful white elephant gift exchange.  Christmas with the family!  And an awesome trip to Salt Lake City and Midway Utah.  So much fun...

Aspirations for 2013:

Carry over from last year includes:
-establish and stick to a regular exercise plan
-attend the temple at least twice a month
-complete Project Management certification
-take some formal training in genealogy 
-purge the storage in my room and get the rest of my stuff out of my parents' house
and
-Alcatraz


I don't have so many lofty travel goals this year; since I have a new job, I anticipate I won't be able to take as much vacation time.  But I'm hoping to go to a couple of trainings through work that will take me to some interesting locations (like maybe Disney World in Orlando?).

I would also like to add "learn to love 2 Nephi (Isaiah)" to my aspirations for 2013(Thank you for the inspiration awesome Gospel Doctrine teacher in Utah).

This seems like a rather short list, perhaps I should ask my friends for suggestions.  Hmm...

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