2013 Goals: The Final Verdict

Welcome to 2014! Another year in the books, another set of goals mostly complete. Which is crazy because I feel like I was just deciding what they should be. I made a list of things to work on last year--not resolutions, though, because those have too much of a pass/fail vibe, and I think that as long as you're improving you can give yourself a high-five. I'll have a new set of goals to tell you about on Monday, but first let's see how I did now that 2013 is officially over:

1. Exercise everyday. We've already established that setting the bar at "everyday" was a mistake. I'm still moving my butt on a regular basis, which is the important thing for dealing with my scoliosis.

2. Drink more water. Since I've been exercising more, my water intake has increased, too. I even got a cute little bottle to take on my hikes... which have been put on hold since it's been single digit temperatures and I'm not crazy.

3. Read two books a month. I kind of fell off the wagon with this because of finals and the holidays, but I'm already back in gear. I'm in the middle of American Gods by Neil Gaiman and it's excellent.

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4. Reach 900 sales in the Oh Nostalgia Wedding Collection and 300 in Oh Nostalgia. Nope. Life has totally changed. Let's look at this in more detail in number five...

5. Overhaul both product lines. Overhauling isn't quite what happened, because I ended up closing the wedding shop indefinitely on August 1st, and Oh Nostalgia is actually closed now, too, with no immediate plans to reopen. I was a little misty-eyed about it at first, since those shops were a big part of my life for several years and they helped me discover the path I'm on now, but it was time. I was having trouble focusing on things that weren't interior design, so that was a pretty big clue. I'm ready for whatever comes next--which is hopefully getting my design consultations going for real.

Peace out, jewelry-making.

6. Paint the cabinets. DONE! And several months later they still look brand new and are super easy to clean.

7. Plant stuff in the garden. Planted, yes. I planted stuff so hard. Got my hands all dirty and everything. But then I accidentally killed everything when it got hot. (Remembering to water the plants is not exactly top of mind with me, so...)

8. Stick to a budget. Well, we DID just go to Europe, so that's our bad as far as the budget goes. However we're eating at home more, doing house projects ourselves instead of hiring them out, and I might put myself on a clothing/shoes spending freeze until spring. I really don't need anything else, but Forever 21 has a strange power over me. Staying away until the weather warms up will probably be smart.

9. Focus more on interior design. Absolutely, 100%. I'm doing one last semester and then it's ON.

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10. Do more DIY projects. I haven't done these in the way I imagined I would, but my god have we been doing a lot to the house. Totally counts.

**Bonus** Figure out the furniture situation in the family room (and preferably put it in there). Done and done. The black Eames knockoff might eventually go into another room, because nobody gets excited about sitting there except me, but for now things are solid.

How did your goals for 2013 turn out? Did anything surprise you? What was the hardest thing for you to work on this year? It was exercise for me, hands down, only because I can't do that while laying around on my computer. It's just so hard to motivate myself when there are pictures of Tom Hiddleston to look at. You know how that goes.

I'll be sharing my 2014 goals on Monday, so pop back over then and see if we have any that match.