Friday Flashback

Those of you who follow my blog (and let's face it, I'm pretty sure my readers are those loyal few who have been with me from the beginning) may recall this post from January 2010. I had declared 2010 the Year of Change and had created a year long To Do list. I was tired, flabby, depressed, and feeling stuck. I vowed at the end of that post to show you my completed list when the year was over.

So, a couple of months late (this IS Friday Flashback, after all) I am fulfilling my promise.

What is important to note is that 2010 was indeed a great year of change for me, but I ended up taking opportunities that were as yet unplanned when I made my To Do list. Therefore, my focus was shifted significantly in some areas. For example, I had huge plans to write. I did do a lot of writing, but it was mostly literary analysis instead of fiction.

Here is the list as it stood at the end of 2010:

My temple attendance was lacking. I went only 7 times. That was, however, 5 more times than I went the previous year. Improvement!

I only fasted 4 times. Fasting is a really hard one for me. The most difficult part is remembering to get started. I usually show up to church on fast Sunday, see that they are holding testimony meeting and go, "Oh man!" These 4, however, were 4 more times than I fasted the previous year. Improvement!

I read the Book of Mormon and Jesus the Christ, but didn't quite finish either of them (blush).

I only read one other spiritually-themed book. No excuses there.

I read 45 books in 2010. I am satisfied with this number. Fiction writing got put on the back burner when I decided in March to return to college and finish my degree. I also joined the organization Bloomsbury, which provided opportunities for learning and writing. I definitely wrote in 2010, but it wasn't the kind of stuff I was keeping track of.

I had struggled in 2010 with sitting around being unsocial, so I had decided I had to instigate at least two social gatherings a month. I did this for the first few months and then found that by summer my social life had taken care of itself. I was suddenly over-scheduled!

I think 14 dates with DH is probably about correct, give or take. We also took one short family vacation in May in addition to family reunions in the summer.

I had no problem trying 16 new recipes. I'm sure I tried more than that. I cooked a lot in 2010.

I dropped 11 pounds in 2010, which is less than I was hoping for, but hey, it's improvement! DH and I dropped our gym membership early in the year and started doing Power90 instead, so the number of workouts was significantly more than recorded.

As far as projects, I did a bunch of things, the biggest ones being creating my own cookbook and, of course, going to school. Though it wasn't on my To Do list, I completed 12 college credits in 2010.

Let it not be said I never fulfilled my promise to update you on my list.

The End.