Goals Check-In: Week 2.57 of 17 (Summer/Autumn)

[elainegrey]

I miss checking in against my plans and my care of myself, but i have not taken the time to set up those patterns for this energetic third of the year. From the summer solstice (and i'll take 1 July) through the cross quarter day of Samhain, Halloween, All Hallows, i've observed in the past i'm most productive. Some of this is due to seasonal affective disorder, some of it to the pattern of a work year in my companies and where the end of fiscal year lands in the summer. Some of it is due to "the holidays."

But here i am.

I count 17 weeks for this season, which, bound to weeks and months, i choose to begin to observe as the first Monday in July. Next Monday only is only the end of Week 3 of the 17, so i've still the season stretching out ahead of me.

0. Time

I've work travel scheduled for the end of August (and a very quick weekend with my parents), and expect work travel at the end of September. I'm planning to tie a trip with Christine to NC to that September/October travel: we will see family. She will not have been east in almost a year.

My time off resources: 11 vacation days†, the Q2 & Q3 personal days, and Labor Day.

* Spent 1 V and the Q2 PD on July 15-16.
* Take two around 12 & 13 August
* The Friday travel day Aug 20 should be a work day, so no vacation days currently associated with the August travel. I should expect to set aside one for sanity (even though i return on a weekend).
* Sep 6 is Labor Day; take a vacation day as well
* Set aside five days for the Sept/Oct travel.

* 1 vacation day and Q3 PD are unallocated
* 14 days for 85 workdays ⇒ every sixth day off; every ninth day not counting the 5 day vacation.

† leaving the ten day reserve for emergencies

Other goal areas, from the beginning of the year [Need to review Beltane's goals, too]:

1. SELF
* incorporate more movement into my life

2. F&F
* plan gifts during Beltane & execute over the summer
* call Grandmama once a month at least
* post things to Granddad once a month

3. COM
* **FM.Lib continue to focus on completing the review of donations, cataloging new books, establishing process
* **FM.over continue coordinate committees. Next fall shift to something else?
* S*CWC news gathering every month
* COM.*LGBTQC need a good deal of tending particularly around retreats
* May: review ballot initiatives
* Oct: review ballot initiatives

4. WORK
* write one story about my work history each month, good or bad, unresolved, proud moment. 12 months, twelve years.
* [as time? 03, 07, 08?] books picked out by the reading group in the home office
* performance appraisals on time damnit

5. CRT
* plan gifts in beltane; execute in summer-autumn
* painting the 4x4 meditation painting?

6. HOME
* CD shelves to carpet cleaning to new shelves and new order