Resolutions Report Card for 2025

I was trying to think what I could post about today, when it struck me that I had recently run across my New Year’s Resolutions for 2025, and I figured I might as well give myself a report card on how well I did with each. So here goes.

1.  Go to every Holy Day of Obligation, and that includes Sundays. [I missed a few Sundays. So, broken.]

2.  Go to Confession, at least once during the year. [I went twice. So kept.]

3.  Write for one hour, each day. [Nope.]

4.  Read for one hour, each day. [Not even this one.]

5.  Keep better track of all medication refills and doctor appointments. [Kept.]

6.  Walk for at least 20 minutes a day. [Hah!]

7.  Pay more strict attention to diet, both in types of food and hours. [On and off, so to a certain extent.]

8.  Order no more than one book a month. [Also hah!]

9.  Shower every day. [Ummm… Well… There were some cold days …]

10.                    Try to get a leg exerciser. [Nope.]

11.                    Clean one shelf or nook a day. [Did so, then ran out of nooks. Should probably go through that cycle again.]

12.                    Play at least 1 DVD movie a day. [Well, no. I made this resolution because I noticed I had a bunch of movies in the Archive that I never watched much. But the whole point was to have them on hand when I wanted them, not to constantly be viewing them. So, I don’t particularly regret not keeping this one.]

So I kept 2, broke 7, wavered on 2, and discounted 1. It seems kind of disappointing. Or you could say it was a net benefit, because I was already ‘doing’ the negative things anyway, and accomplishing the positive things was … well, a positive thing.