The start of a new year

Well, OK, it started almost a week ago, but I’m still getting up to speed. As I said before, I took New Year’s Day off and even made it a long weekend; though I did spend some time on Sunday going through my daily planner cleaning out the old stuff and putting in new pages for the next few months because I did need to get ready to start the year.

That’s when I found a card that showed that an appointment that I thought I had for Monday is actually on the 15^th. This was a good thing because on Friday I got a reminder call for an appointment for Monday that I had thought was on the 15^th. So it all works out. That meant that I only had one appointment on Monday, not two. But I did start out the first full week of the new year with a doctor appointment.

What a surprise.

My wife had one today. Between the two of us, my wife and I already have 11 appointments this month and my wife will need more physical therapy appointments and I need to schedule at least one more doctor appointment for myself. I think we’ll probably end up with 17, not counting non-doctor disability related appointments. We just don’t know when to quit, do we?

I am trying to make a good thing out of this, though. I am aiming to be more organized and I want to start with keeping track of all of this and working other things in with them. One of my problems is that there get to be so many things to get done they start to slip through the cracks. I want to set up a schedule so that I can keep track of things, plan my next steps and generally make orderly progress in the year ahead.

That sounds a lot like a resolution, but it’s more of a goal. I’m not looking to accomplish one singular thing, I am trying to use whatever strategies I can to achieve a goal. So, scheduling and organizing. With a month like I have ahead of me that will be a neat trick and I am not counting on it happening. I’ll be happy if January is just the Monday of this year – that time period when I get things started so that the rest of the year can run more smoothly.

We’ll see how that works out.