WEBVTT - 2026 Goals Extravaganza EP 439 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:09.720 Hi. 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:13.840 I'm Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.440 and speaker. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.120 And I'm Sarah hart Hunger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.280 and course creator. We are two working parents who love 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.000 our careers and our families. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:27.360 Welcome to best of both worlds. Here we talk about 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.360 how real women manage work, family, and time for fun, 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:33.360 from figuring out childcare to mapping out long. 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:34.200 Term career goals. 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.320 We want you to get the most out of life. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.680 Welcome to best of both worlds. This is Laura. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.879 This episode is airing at the very end of December 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.880 twenty twenty five. We are going to be looking forward 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.400 to twenty twenty six. Yes, this is our annual Goals episode. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:53.680 Sarah. 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.800 We've been doing this for a while, haven't we. We 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.320 have been doing this for a while. 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.680 It's become somewhat of a tradition to record these episodes, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.720 listen to them ourselves, and then comment on them a 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.640 year later. And in fact, I will just give my 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.280 traditional disclaimer that I've been given at least the past 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.959 couple of years, that I'm not entirely ready to commit 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:12.760 to my goals yet. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.720 Yeah, there's a little bit of a timing issue in 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:19.839 that these episodes air over the holiday break, which, regardless 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.440 of whether Sarah and I are working over the holiday break, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.920 the people who produce this podcast do not wish to 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:26.920 work over the holiday break, and so we need to 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:29.960 get in all our content at a time, And so 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.280 it is early December when we are recording this, and 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.360 so a lot of people do not necessarily set their 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.360 goals or resolutions in early December. We may be a 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:43.480 bit more oriented toward future planning getting into this sort 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.839 of thing than the average person. Even so I probably 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.160 would not be setting all my goals by early December. 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:50.680 I mean you might, Sarah. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.040 No, I mean I'm not totally ready, and I just 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.440 consider this episode my goals as they exist right now, 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.360 and probably the final list will be similar. But as 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.520 an example, we did this episode a year ago and 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.440 I made no mention of in visil line, but I 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.800 did end up setting that as a twenty twenty five 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:10.119 goal that I ended up following through on, by the way, which. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.160 We didn't even talk about in the year and review episode. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:12.920 By the way, but. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.880 It's because I had gotten my notes from our prior 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:16.799 episode and not from like actual real life. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.040 But that's an example of something. 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.760 There may be little tweaks, little additions, reframes, et cetera. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.880 And we're allowed to do that. But here are our goals. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.200 As they stand as of now in draft form. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.160 Yeah, I don't know if I ever have a don 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.200 for it. I mean, because you can always abandon a goal. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.760 So then I mean, is it like. 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.680 Totally like it's a working document. But I do consider 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.560 the done when I write them an ink somewhere on 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.600 a twenty twenty six volume of something, then they're just 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:42.840 then they're done. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.799 Okay, Well, all right, here we go. I mean, what 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.480 categories do you generally use? 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.760 Yeah, I generally use personal, some kind of relationship or 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.480 family category, and sometimes there's like a home category. This 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:01.360 year I went with personal relationships, family, home, and work. 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:02.400 What about you? 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.359 So I do that in the opposite order. And this 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.040 is just because that's how I always say it. Like 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:13.239 when I'm speaking, when I'm have my set order of things, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.200 I tell people to make your list of one hundred 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.520 dreams in the category of career relationships self, right, So, 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.520 and then when I talk in my you know about 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.799 making your priority list for the upcoming week. The order 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.000 I say it in is career relationship self, and so 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.800 hence when I am making goal lists, it is career 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.840 relationships self. And because I did the notes for our 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.360 year and review episode, we did it in the order 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.600 of career relationships self. But because Sarah did the notes 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:43.240 for this episode, we are going in a different order, right. 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.000 Sarah, Yes to me. 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.560 I rationalize it as, or envision it a sort of 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.880 widening circles, like your own self, and then the people 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.400 write around you, and then like the greater, larger world 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.640 and maybe your environment. Obviously, there's no one right way 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.880 to order your goals, and no one right way to 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.440 define your categories, so you can do categories that are 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.480 more specific than ours. Sometimes I've heard really whimsicals sound 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.320 in categories, and your choice of how to divide up 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:09.520 your goals is yours. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.240 But I do feel like having some. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:15.040 Sort of categorization sometimes makes it easier to generate than 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:16.760 having one big, long, lumpy list. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.960 Yeah, and certainly some people, yeah, have an I don't 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.120 know where I would put something like household goals. I mean, 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.919 I guess I might put it in relationships category unless 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.680 it was something for me personally financial goals. I tend 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.640 not to set those. But that might be either in career, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:35.920 like if it was for my earning goals, or I 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.880 guess if it were household maybe that would be part 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:38.640 of relationship. 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:39.480 I don't know. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:41.279 For me, that would be in family and home. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.080 Family and home, okay, yeah, but those are categories that 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.760 other people might certainly use. I mean I tend to 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.160 think of career, relationships and self as reasonably comprehensive because 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.360 you can kind of put everything in there, Like if 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.880 you have community goals, like that's sort of part of relationships, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.159 or if it's maybe more of a hobby goal but 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.120 that's part of a community, that could be the personal self, you. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.839 Know, yeah, or health goals and personal. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:04.800 Health goals not personal. Yeah. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:10.640 I would say self is like your own personal mental, spiritual, physical, 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.719 emotional health as anything in that category. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.799 But lots of different stuff. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.840 So okay, we're going to start with personal then, because 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:17.920 Sarah made the notes. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.839 Right, I did, all right, So for my personal goals, 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.120 the first one is going to be embrace hobbies. And 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.039 for examples of this, I want to learn all of 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.839 the Taylor Swift Life of a Showgirl songs confidently on 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.760 the piano. I want to try cross stitch by doing 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.400 at least one project. I want to play with fountain 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.599 pens and I might even dabble in some baking or something. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.080 Just go all in on hobbies. So that's my number one, 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:47.520 and that's them part because I recognized that the loss 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.600 of running in my life has been a little bit 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.680 more of a loss of a hobby and social connection 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.400 than it has been a fitness which has been a 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.599 bit surprising to me. But yeah, I'm looking to find 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.440 some great hobbies to fill Tho, those. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.080 Are all the hobbies. So how does that work with 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:04.840 that is still in the social hole. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.680 It doesn't fill the social hole, it fills the something 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.560 to like. It wasn't just social. It was like, let 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.960 me look up all the shoes and listen to the 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:15.480 running podcasts and I don't know, like read running blogs 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:16.159 and things like that. 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.760 So those all transition to the crafting world. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:20.159 It can be. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.560 Actually, my sister has demonstrated it can be kind of social. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.520 Although I don't really have plans to join like a 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.479 cross stitch circle or anything like that. But let's just 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:29.360 start with phase one. 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.120 Phase one to do one cross stitch project, enjoy, then 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:34.800 join the cross stitching story. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.760 They could actually see some day doing like School of 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.160 Rock with piano, so that could morph into a more 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.880 social goal. But I think step one for next year 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.360 is going to be like figuring out which one of 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.280 these I want to take a little bit deeper. 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.640 All right, Then you have fitness goals too. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.080 I have to have a fitness goal, like I just 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.640 feel complete with a fitness goal. Obviously I can't have 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.920 a running one, but I would like to try to 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:00.440 get to level two at Club Pilate's, which should doable. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.719 I think usually around one hundred classes is when you 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:07.600 can test into level two at my studio, and I'm 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:08.960 on track that by the end of the year I 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.320 should be past the one hundred class mark. There is 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.040 a level one point five as well, which is like 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.600 really level two. So the level two is kind of 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.800 more like level three, and I'm currently at that quote 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:22.240 level one point five, but interested in growing my pilate's practice. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:26.120 Your karate belts, yeah, oh, they should have like some 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.000 kind of marker that would be cool, like you walked 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.600 in there with your purple headband or purple headband. 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.840 I'm a purple headband, Okay. 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.480 I would like to always have presentable nails now, This 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.000 does not mean I always need a professional manicure, because 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:44.800 that's not realistic. But I have sometimes done manicures and 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.120 then just left the nail polish on to an embarrassing 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.440 degree and it's just not cool. So just always want 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.360 to have my nails look reasonably presentable. My invisil line 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.520 cured me of biting my nails, like I have not 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.840 bit my nails since March or whenever I had put on, 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.000 So that's great, But one step further would be just 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.360 getting them a little bit nicer. I'm going to continue 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:09.720 my wardrobe goal from last year, which I made some 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.400 progress on, but I want to work on my accessories 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.760 and jewelry. I want some date night outfits. I still 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:20.480 want a speaking outfit, and I have a specific goal 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.600 to get a couple of dresses I have altered that 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.520 don't like quite work, and to get two more colors 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.400 of scrubs. 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:27.680 Excellent. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.640 Well, while you're in Philadelphia, here, there's a Fig store here, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.920 so you could come visit it in downtown. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.679 True, I know that from the Frugal Girl, So maybe 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:36.760 I'll make a little outing. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:38.920 That'll be fun, the pilgrimage to the Fig store. That 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:39.559 could be fun. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.760 All right, So my personal goals self goals for twenty 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.880 twenty six, I want to do regular library visits. Currently, 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:49.800 this fits in my life in that I can stop 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:53.360 by the big library in our community sort of on 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.319 the way to get Henry from choir. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.199 Practice on Wednesdays. 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.800 That's worked out well as a time to happen in 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:01.880 my schedule. I feel like I've gone through a lot 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.679 of the books that I might want to get at 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.760 our local branch that is a three minute drive for 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:09.080 my house, so I do need to go to the 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.160 bigger library in order to have this be an appealing 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.599 thing to do. But there's a ton of stuff I 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.560 haven't found there. It's about browsing and seeing, oh that 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.200 looks interesting, and you know, I'll just grab six books 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.240 and bring them back three weeks later, and some of 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:22.839 them I will have read and some of them I won't. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.600 But it also is helpful for having coffee table type 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.960 books like I love looking at garden books or you know, 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.920 home decor books and things like that, and it would 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:35.240 be pointless to buy them because it would be clutter 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.480 and they're like fifty bucks apiece. But the library is 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.520 great for that so that I can page through it, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.240 enjoy it, move on. I want to wear my jewelry, 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.480 so regardless of whether I want new joy or not, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.200 I don't wear the stuff I have. And this currently is, 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.480 you know, working from home, like I don't necessarily get 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.240 all done up for anything. But when I do go 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.319 out in the world, I can put on my earrings. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.640 I can put on. An part of that is I 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:05.360 also will need to get my ring resized. I think 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.400 I need to just accept. 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:11.800 That I have not worn my wedding ring in about 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.000 a year. And I don't know if it's that I 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.800 way more than when I got married at age twenty five, 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.080 or my knuckle got bigger. I don't really know, but 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.240 it doesn't comfortably fit, and so I would like to 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:26.560 wear it again. I am still happily married. Not that 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.520 your ring means anything for that, but you know, I 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.360 need to go get that taken care of. And it 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.800 just acknowledged that my knuckle is unlikely to go down 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.880 in size, even if five loose weight. 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.439 I think it's really common. Actually they get like joint 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.839 swelling over time. Yeah, without any other real change in 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:43.520 body sign Yah. 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.760 So exactly in terms of my listening project, I am 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.440 ninety percent sure I'm going to do Mozart. However, I 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.880 have not constructed this calendar yet because I was hoping, 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.600 I had this vague hope that somebody else would have 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:03.400 made a motz Art calendar that I could borrow, much 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.120 as I had done the Beethoven calendar. This past year, 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.880 I constructed my own Bock calendar and it was fine. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:09.840 It was just a lot of work. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:12.880 So if it were a way to avoid that work 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:14.960 with Mozart, that would be exciting. 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.679 But I have not yet found anything. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.720 This is a great AI use case, and I hate AI, 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.360 but well, I don't hate A. I have complex relationship 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:23.840 with AI. But this would be like one of those 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.000 where the first draft could possibly come from One of those. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.120 Could come from Yeah, I mean, because it's a multi 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.680 part thing. It's both getting the complete catalog and putting 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.439 it in chunks of like thirty to forty minutes of 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.080 listening a day, which I think will cover it from 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.920 what I can sort of, because you have to figure 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.840 that out first, like how much music is there, and 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.520 then finding recordings of it, and then finding the best 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:52.560 recordings of it because nobody really wants to listen to 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:59.040 the middle school orchestra, the middle school orchestra doing the bait, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.520 you know, the Mozart to whatever. I declined and they 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.280 wouldn't do that. But anyway, you want to choose good stuff. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.440 So oh, we totally did that in my high school orchestra. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:07.280 So there you go. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.760 So I don't want that recording. I want a different recording. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.760 So yeah, it's a lot of work. So I guess 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.319 maybe I will have AI try to do the first. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.199 But if somebody's listening to this and like, hey, I 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.559 found a Mozart project that you can borrow, let me know, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.000 I would love it. In terms of reading, I had 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.200 thought about rereading Shakespeare's plays in their entirety, but then 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:27.880 I just had I don't want to read all of them, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.120 Like I don't want to read whatever John the second 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:32.520 or like Henry the fourth part one, I don't want 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:33.200 to read those again. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:34.880 Didn't you do this like a few years ago? 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:39.400 Yes, but I feel like I didn't get all of it. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.080 So what I'm going to do is a Shakespeare's Greatest 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.360 Hits project where I'm going to reread about twelve plays, 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:51.240 so one a month, with commentary, and so then I 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.920 can go through even slower and make sure I'm getting 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.640 like all the word play and stuff, and having already 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.480 read all of them. It's at least a second reading, 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.200 and for these the greatest hits, it's more like a 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.959 third or fourth reading, so I know what. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:06.319 Happened in the plot. 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.160 Now it's more about figuring out everything else that you 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.319 wouldn't necessarily see on earlier readings, and going through in 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.559 reading Shakespeare scholars on them as well. 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:16.280 Super cool. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:17.520 It's like getting a layer deeper. 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.440 I like that, Yeah, and then I have, yeah, just 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.560 two more. I'm going to do strengthen flexibility three times 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.080 a week. I'm going to up this to three, but 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:30.319 five ten minutes is fine. This is about frequency, not duration, 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.000 and I think I'm pretty much there already, so this 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.120 is just about holding myself accountable to it. I'm going 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.240 to eat produce for breakfast. That's a reup from last year. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.160 But what I'm going to add to that is roasting 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.920 veggies once a week when not traveling, so that's going 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.800 to be about like forty times this year. I will 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:53.400 do a giant sheet pan of vegetables, so broccoli, cauliflower, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.400 put them inn olive oil and salt, roast them for 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:58.439 twenty minutes. They're far more palatable that way. But that'll 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.240 just be a way to sort of increase produce consumption 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:01.960 in my life. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.280 Do you have a certain day of the week you 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:04.120 think you'll do that. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.760 I often wind up doing it on Sundays because then 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:10.480 we can eat it with Sunday dinner and then all 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.240 week and all week or at least to Monday and Tuesday, 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:14.920 and I usually get through the button. Yeah, all right, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.319 Well we're going to take a quick ad break and 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:29.520 then we'll be back with the other categories of our goals. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.480 So we are back. This is our annual goal episode. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.360 These are our goals for twenty six with the disclaimer 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.400 that we were recording this in early December, meaning that 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.680 things could change in the next month. So this is 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:47.360 not carved in stone, more written in pencil, but this 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:49.600 is at least what we intend to do over the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.000 course of the year. So, Sarah, your next category, relationships. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.000 What do you have here? 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.560 Yeah, so this is a repeat because I found like, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:58.880 I feel like I only got my footing on it 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.240 at the very end of twenty two, which is to 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.000 continue planning in two date nights per month and plan 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.920 the main when I do my monthly planning at the 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.600 beginning of the month. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.040 The second one is kind of funny. 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.480 I would like to help my husband manage his work 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.680 schedule better by inserting myself directly into the loop with 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.760 his office manager and requesting time off. He has said 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.320 it's fine for me to do this. I wouldn't have 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.520 inserted myself without consulting him first, but we've just run 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.240 into issues too many times where he's like, wow, I 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.920 should have requested that day off and I'm like, well, yeah, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.000 but you needed to do that a few months ago, 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.120 and it didn't happen. So instead of nagging him to 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.320 do it, I work at the same house system, so 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.520 I can just email the manager myself and see see 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.480 my husband and make sure that if there are days 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.640 our family wants to have off all together, to make 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.640 sure that is reserved in advance. Number three, I want 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:56.080 to wholeheartedly celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary, and we definitely 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.000 have this on the pipeline already. We have a weekend 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:00.760 away booked that I think it's going to be really 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:02.880 special and fun. And then we're also going to Hawaii 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.880 with the family, which is where we went on our honeymoon, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.160 So go big or go home. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:06.960 We're going to do it. 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.160 And I would like to complete the thirty six Questions activity, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.080 which is thirty six questions to fall in love that 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.960 I learned about from Elizabeth who blogs it optimist amusings 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.640 It's New York Times activity, and I think it'd be 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.320 really fun to do on a little weekend get away. 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.080 I would like to see my parents and sister at 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:25.640 least three times, and to be honest, I've already planned 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.480 in I think four times that I will see them, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.360 so that's hopefully. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:31.160 Going to work out well. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.560 I would like to call my family members more, especially 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.000 my parents. I talk to them sometimes. I feel like 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.560 they get a lot of life updates via my blog, 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.280 but I don't love that because then I'm not hearing 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.200 what they have going on, and I just would rather 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.960 have more back and forth. So I'm going to try 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.640 to do that more in my commute home or while 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.920 on walks, et cetera. All right, that's relationships, what about you? 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.720 Yeah, So this one is a re up from the 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.440 year is to go to three pro sports events, plus 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.240 I want to add one concert, which we did last 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.239 year too. I mean we went to George Strait and 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.120 that was a lot of fun as a date night. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.000 But to be on the lookout for concerts we might 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.800 go to. But it's just, you know, in general, makes 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.119 date nights more interesting. It's fine to go out to dinner, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:19.200 but if you have tickets to a sporting event, you're 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.399 probably gonna wind up doing it because you have to 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.600 do that ahead of time. And a concert as well. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.000 There's a lot of stuff that comes through Philadelphia. We've 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.720 got Lincoln Financial Field here where the Eagles play, and 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.920 so most of the major stadium tours do come through here, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.600 so there'll be stuff to choose from, so planning on 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:43.040 doing that. We are doing some family travel over Christmas 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:44.640 and New Year, so that will be on the trip 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.679 when this airs. As with all my family trips, I 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:52.160 want to have several enjoyable moments, and I think we will. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.840 But this is not necessarily a low stress trip. And 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.600 I'm sorry to be vague podcasting hair, but. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:02.400 You will definitely hear about it later. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.800 You will definitely hear about it later. But you know, 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.480 I want to go into it with a mindset of 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:12.160 adventure and enjoying ourselves and patients. For anything that does 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.320 not go entirely as planned. I am also having a 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.560 spring break trip with Sam, my sixteen year old that 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:20.960 I think will be a ton of fun just the 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.680 two of us, so I'm going to really enjoy that, 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.240 and then coming out of this, I also want to decide, 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:31.200 depending on how our Christmas trip goes, if we can 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:35.200 aim for a sort of really big family trip in 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.159 the summer of twenty twenty seven. 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.600