{"id":577,"date":"2006-01-04T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/04\/looking-forward-goals-for-2006\/"},"modified":"2006-01-04T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T03:13:00","slug":"looking-forward-goals-for-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/04\/looking-forward-goals-for-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Forward: Goals for 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have begun 2006 with an emphasis on setting (and hopefully) meeting some goals. I&#8217;m not great at resolutions and when <a href=\"https:\/\/gregmce.livejournal.com\"><b>gregmce<\/b><\/a> puts up his Uberlist, I always just read in amazement. But I think this year, I&#8217;ll see if I can do some successful goal-setting. The biggest has begun &#8211; yesterday I bought an exercise bike. <\/p>\n<p> I love riding my bike, but in the winter, it just collects dust. And when I do ride, I don&#8217;t ride enough for my legs and butt to be comfortable. So I figured an exercise bike might get me up to speed (heh). And best of all, I can meet another goal and watch DVDs while I ride. Tonight, for example, I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dissolute.com.au\/avweb\/tara\/620.html\">&#8220;Stay Tuned&#8221;<\/a> (a Tara King episode of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.originalavengers.com\/home.html\">The Avengers<\/a><\/i>) while I rode for 30 minutes. Let&#8217;s see if my exercise bike fares better than my treadmill. The treadmill lived the typical life of a piece of exercise equipment: 3 months of use, 3 years in the way, 3 years in the basement out of the way, sold to continue the cycle.<\/p>\n<p> So, here we go, an incomplete list of goals for 2006. (I figure I&#8217;ll have more goals as the year progresses.) <\/p>\n<ul> <\/p>\n<li> Exercise on my exercise bike (or actual bike) daily for at least 20 minutes. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Catch up on watching my DVD collection (see the first point). <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Read 30 minutes a day (not including rereads). <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Get Jack Dodger (my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofvillains.com\/\">CoV<\/a> main) up to level 40 before Issue 7 comes out. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Make nice dinners for myself more frequently than before. (Let&#8217;s try for once a month.) <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Return to my Portion Control regime (it really was good for me). <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Lose 10 pounds and keep it off. <\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li> Get floor to ceiling bookshelves in my reading room. <\/li>\n<p> <\/ul>\n<p> There are other things I might add to this later, like &#8220;Get started on my Masters degree.&#8221; However, I&#8217;m not ready to commit to them yet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have begun 2006 with an emphasis on setting (and hopefully) meeting some goals. I&#8217;m not great at resolutions and when gregmce puts up his Uberlist, I always just read in amazement. But I think this year, I&#8217;ll see if I can do some successful goal-setting. The biggest has begun &#8211; yesterday I bought an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livejournal","tag-goals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pagefillers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}