This sixth year, I only managed to get half a day for Me Day, enough to cover the basics: a little R&R, some reflections on the past year, and the personal inventory.
Made it out of the house just in time after getting Max playing by himself while Chloe and Clark slept in.
Beeminder kept me working out consistently all year, but my kids and startup kept more of those sessions at home instead of at the gym. I maintained but didn't increase my fitness. I had wanted to push it hard this year, but had other priorities. Same will likely be true of next year.
41 push-ups, -3: fast, strict, chin touching the ground.
18 pull-ups, +1: fast, no kipping, chin above bar.
I'm walking too much lately from playing Pokémon Go with Chloe while we take the kids places, especially yesterday, so didn't feel the need to do more of that.
Reread The Diamond Age, to get pumped up about creating the future of education. Actually enjoyed it a lot more than the first time.
I ordered the same blood tests from last year from DirectLabs. Not a huge amount is different. HDL is up a bit, but LDL is up a bit; iron is not overloading again; testosterone down a little bit; very small fluctuations in other numbers, normal-range numbers.
Easy to stay at 99 things this year. Doubled down on Uniqlo T-shirts and added a lot of Untuckit shirts over them, ditched some of once-treasured-now-useless objects, replaced some clothes that wore out with the same ones, and didn't really think about the rest of my possessions much at all.
Finances kept trucking along more or less as predicted; living in SF with two kids and an early stage startup was bad, but not really spending money, having two businesses, and investing small amounts of money in cryptocurrencies was good.
(If you're me, you get to see finance stats here. Since you're not me, you see nothing.)
No interesting trends; most of the tests are still showing increasing trends except for Finger Tapping, which is decreasing, but I also switched from doing this monthly to yearly about two years ago, and the lack of regular practice is indistinguishable from the beginning of age-related decline. Doing this yearly from now on will be better, although not as good as monthly, but it's a lot harder to get 17 minutes of distraction-free computer time in a similar mental state every month than it was before kids and bossing.
I either just had all immediate family over to visit a couple weeks ago or am about to in a couple weeks, so doing pretty good on the familial connection front for once! (Blame the new kid.)
Chloe surprised me with her own interpretation of a favorite dish invented by my mother: Italian Stir Fry, except this time it was with my favorite ramen noodles. Amazing! And she made a gluten-free, sugar-free, French silk pie (my favorite). I love this woman.
I sat down with my journal and evaluated three areas: what went well, what didn't go well, and how my relationships are now. Summary: I think I pretty accurately lived according to my priorities of CodeCombat and family and very little else, similar to last year.
Relationships with family are better, and with my closest friends. Chloe and I are doing well despite the kidzkrieg. I have a lot of other acquaintances that need a refresher and haven't gotten one this year, similar to last year. Still doesn't seem like this will be able to be a priority over the next year, though.
Did this during parental leave a couple months ago, so it was easy to refresh.
I was bad at Me Day this year and only took half a day for myself; instead I just did some urgent work and did some parenting. Did not have time to do extra stuff.
I have been pausing and destroying habits like crazy since Clark was born two months ago; the question is more like, which will I bring back? Probably not the one where I ever check my spam folder!