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<\/center><\/p>\nSince Quick Takes are happening just a few days after the start of 2020, I figured that I would share my intentions for this year. Several of these intentions are getting a bit of a boost from one of my local readers (who I don’t know if I’m allowed to name) who sent me a fairly substantial Amazon.Com<\/a> gift card. (The thank-you note for that is in the mail!)<\/p>\n Also, there will be Amazon<\/a> affiliate links because I am an Amazon<\/a> affiliate.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 1 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Word of the Year and Saint of the Year.<\/strong> At Rita’s<\/a> suggestion, I got a saint assigned to me<\/a> and a word assigned to me<\/a> for 2020.<\/p>\n Saint:<\/strong> St. Isaac Jogues, patron of the Americas and Canada Last year, my word was “faith” and my saint was Joseph of Cupertino. I can understand “faith” because I was graduating from my degree program and looking into a lot of uncertainty, but I’m not sure how St. Joseph of Cupertino played into things except for maybe getting me through my Document Production class?<\/p>\n Both generators, by the way, were created by Jennifer Fulwiler<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 2 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To dare to be creative with my bullet journal.<\/strong> I used to love to draw and do art until 6th grade when I got a B in my art class in school. I’m a complete perfectionist, so taking up bullet journaling has been an exercise in letting go of that. I made the decision to take some risks with my January layouts after watching Mary Beth’s video<\/a> and finding out where she got her images<\/a>.<\/p>\n I ended up spending my New Year’s Eve in my jammies, and I worked on getting my January calendar spread done. It’s not amazing and I know that the “let it snow” quote box is crooked, but it’s heads and tails above what I’ve done before. I also have this<\/a>, this<\/a>, this<\/a>, and this<\/a> on order!<\/p>\n <\/a>— 3 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To lower the volume on my parenting.<\/strong> Daniel is having a hard time expressing anger without hitting and screaming, so I am trying to model good behavior for him. When he was asking for a new tablet, he would scream “I WANT” and that was not making me happy. I decided to try whispering to see if he would copy me… and he did! In the last three weeks, I have managed to train him to whisper his tablet requests to me, and I am trying to lower the volume on how I talk to him in general in hopes that it might stop some of the screaming.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 4 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Pray in an intentional way daily.<\/strong> I was commenting to our parish webmaster that the only prayer I remember to say on a daily basis is grace before meals<\/a>, so I decided to add that to my intentions for the year. I now have this<\/a> on my phone, and I’ll try to remember to take my iPod out of the car on Sundays so I can download the week’s Pray as you Go<\/a> podcasts on it.<\/p>\n <\/a>— 5 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To find opportunities to move more.<\/strong> I’m really bad at finding opportunities to get up and move, so I appreciate that my Fitbit<\/a> buzzes every so often to remind me. Still, I’ll be parking across campus from where I have to be so I intentionally get a walk in every day that way (which isn’t hard given that there is a serious shortage of parking on the west side of campus), and I will be taking walks on days when I don’t have work. <\/p>\n <\/a>— 6 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n To clean up my diet.<\/strong> I have been wanting to try the Mediterranean Diet for a while now, so I just got this cookbook<\/a> and this cookbook<\/a>. I’m a perfectionist, but I know that it takes a few weeks to set a habit, so I am trying not to kick myself too much .<\/p>\n <\/a>— 7 —<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Read more.<\/strong> I tend to either stare at my laptop or phone while I eat, so I’m trying to read while I eat instead. I have both the Kindle and Nook apps on my phone, and the Kindle app is on my Nook. I restarted Good Omens<\/u> and I am trying to get one book read per month.<\/p>\n For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at This Ain’t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since Quick Takes are happening just a few days after the start of 2020, I figured that I would share my intentions for this year. Several of these intentions are getting a bit of a boost from one of my … Continue reading
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