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Every year I post my resolutions and evaluate how I did on last year's. This year... eh... not as good as last.

New Year's Resolutions 2008
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1. Start working out again regularly and lose weight (start weight: 160)
   Accomplished: Nope
   I neither lost nor gained, really. I'm at 158 right now.


2. Finish 30 things on my 101 goals list
   Accomplished: No
   I finished 6 things. I made progress on others, but my 101 list doesn't look good now. I chose the number 30 so that I would get a bunch done last year and about the same number this year in order to have 'em all done.


3. Finish a draft of a possibly publishable novel
   Accomplished: No
   Sounding like a broken record here. I really, really did try to get my NaNoWriMo 07 novel finished. And I wanted to finish my NaNoWriMo 08 novel, but as of Jan 1, 2009 I have no finished novel-length piece


4. Grow hair out for Locks of Love
   Accomplished: In progress
   It's at about 8 inches now; needs to be 10


5. Clean out wardrobe/closet- be brutal!
   Accomplished: Yes
   I cleared out about 2.5 boxes of clothes, which is good, but there's still a lot more weeding out I should probably do


6. Watch every movie I've purchased but haven't yet watched on DVD
   Accomplished: No
   I watched 14 of my DVDs, leaving about 100 unwatched ones still. Yikes!


7. Volunteer at the library
   Accomplished: Yes!
   I did this one! I volunteer 2 hours minimum a week at each of two different libraries (i.e. 4 hours a week, though usually it comes out to 5). I've done: shelf reading, picklist, missing list, in-transit list, reading lists, purged sections, checked incoming children's book donations against library catalog, and handled the morning book drop. I love it and am so glad I got involved with the libraries!


8. Sign up for a Fidelity account at work and have money put into it each paycheck
   Accomplished: Uh-oh. No
   I requested the info from work but never actually signed up :-( Now with the state of things...


9. Get caught up on the SF archive
   Accomplished: No
   I DID, however, get 61 stories coded and added to the archive, which is a huge amount. There are still about 40 more to code, but I made a huge dent in stories posted from 2008 and 2007. All I have left is May through October of 2007 and the few fics posted within December 2008. Not too bad.


10. Get to 1000 badges at Zone Games
    Accomplished: Yes!
    I made it to the 1000 badges club and I'm now at 1102. Awesome! :-)


11. Make a swag bag for cons
    Accomplished: No but worked on it
    I bought a bag, and more than 12 patches. Then I bought another bag I preferred. Then I bought another one I liked even better. So good thing I didn't get to sewing earlier. But I still hope to work on this goal and get it done in 2009


12. Pay off entire student loan
    Accomplished: YES!
    This was my hugest goal for 2008 and I'm thrilled to have accomplished it. No more student loan! That's amazing to me and something I worked hard for.


13. Write fics in 3 fandoms I've never tried writing in before
    Accomplished: Yes!
    I wrote in a few different fandoms I've never played in before. The first 3 from 2008 are: Firefly, Torchwood, and The Breakfast Club.


14. Set a fandom expenses $ limit and stick to it
    Accomplished: Yes!
    I set a limit and kept track all year, for the most part. I put in everything from food purchased at meetups and used books purchased for a quarter to expensive hotel rooms. And I came in about $330 below my limit. Yay!

So that's...
6 accomplished
8 not accomplished but made good progress on every single one of them and hope to finish some of them off this year
So even though I accomplished fewer than half, I still feel good about them because some of the ones I did accomplish were huge for me.