2012 Analysis

So, this time last year I listed my New Year's Resolution. Let's see how well I did:

1) Don't work as many hours - make it home for dinner with my husband most nights a week.
Score 1 point! I will admit there were times I worked many late nights, but I did make it home in time for dinner MOST nights a week. YAY!
2) Major promotion at work.
Score 1 point! By June I was promoted to Preconstruction Manager and currently manage all the estimating, budgeting, and purchasing functions of our company and have 4 direct reports! Awesome!
3) Cook all week meals at home.
Score 1/2 a point. We did OK at this - but we have some room for improvement.
4) Buy less prepared food.
Score 1 point! We did pretty well at this! And we are going to take it one step further in 2013!
5) Take back the chickens.
Score 0 points. I failed at this resolution. Luckily - my husband is still the best and loves those little chickens and makes sure they don't starve! In my defense, I decided to go back to school to get my Master's degree, which was definitely more time consuming than anticipated!
6) Clean up, clean out, and get rid of the JUNK in our house.
Score 1 point! We had a yard sale this spring and then immediately called a donation service and had them come pick up everything that was left. Of course, as the year went on we have identified more things that we never use and are planning on getting rid of those in 2013!
7) Not bring more JUNK into the house.
Score 1 point! I did really well at this. Don't get me wrong, I spent more money in 2012 than I should have, but it was on things like - a new fence, soil and stone, plants, canning supplies (amazing how many jars we went through!), homebrew supplies, etc. All that work definitely relieved the stress way better than retail therapy anyway!!

So, final score: 5.5/7 = 78.5%  Hmm... C+   I can definitely do better than that in 2013.