Goals for the new year

2018 was a not a great year for many reasons, personally I had a not terribly great mental health year and the last quarter was marred by a number of set backs, such as getting replaced at a new job after two days because they found someone else they liked more, additionally I got sick and my car broke down over Christmas break, so that was tons of fun, we start the year in a precarious financial situation, plus I need to go to the dentist and as always I am seriously overweight and at a point in my life where that is going to be a major problem soon.

But.

I feel like everyone can say something similar, very few among us aren't in a precarious financial situation, and almost all of us have at least one physical or mental health issue
(or both) that they have been putting off addressing so I don't want you to think I am making this post looking for help. I can accept help if it is offered, but this post isn't a request for it, this is a description of where I am at right now, as well as what I am going to do about it, my plans are open to change if someone else comes up with a better way, but as far as I can tell the best way to change is a pile of money that no one actually has right now so we'll go with my plan.

I have a job again! It is part time with a group called Coding With Kids, as you might guess from the name it involves teaching kids to code, basic stuff and I am more than capable of it, it won't pay all the bills so I will need to pick up another job and keep searching for a full time gig, but it does keep me practicing my basics, looks okay on a resume, and allows me free time to work on my own projects.

Speaking of, I do have projects as well, I am building a text based RPG in C#(for some reason) using a set of rules I created for a pen and paper RPG a year or so ago and running the same adventure that I ran to test it out, once I have something to work with it will be playable on my website, shouldn't take super long once I figure out the basic structure of the code, but there will be a shitload of writing involved.

Looking back on the year, I think I felt better when I was writing more, so starting today I will be blogging every day again, I get to have on day off a week if I need it, and I can't promise much  this week as I have friends coming into town and staying with me, but otherwise no excuses. On a related note I need to keep myself on a proper diurnal schedule with the rest of society so I am setting about a million alarms on my phone and have a bedtime that is almost reasonable for once, I actually started that schedule in November and it worked pretty well but went out the window when winter break hit.
The schedule does include times for exercise and reminders to drink water, both things I have been neglecting of late.

I am also gonna work on my portion control more, I think I don't really need to change what I eat all that much, but how much of it should be a priority for me in the next, well, rest of my life.

I think they are realistic, achievable goals, and they are things I can control, with any luck the thing I cant control in 2019 won't fuck me over too hard.