Looking to 2014

This time last year, I decided I was going to try a year-long resolution: I wanted to try a new recipe or new cooking technique every week of 2013. There were some periods where I fell off, like during conference season, so I didn't manage 52 new recipes but I did learn quite a few new things. Since I don't have kids to satisfy, and my significant other can cook perfectly well on his own (and far better than I can), this once a week experiment wasn't too much of a burden for anyone involved. My cooking resolution also led to lots of conversations with my fellow blogger here, which may have contributed to this blog's birth.

So, now that I've got this great platform to document my progress, I've decided I'd like to continue Operation: New Week, New Dish! for 2014. I'm not going to promise a cooking post a week, but I'm going to try to adhere to that as well as I can.

And since the New Year is the traditional season for over-committing, here's a few other things I'd like to make an effort on:

1) Get back into yoga. I felt better when I did it, so let's try to practice at least once a week. That's doable, right?
2) Start studying for JLPT N4 now. If I pace myself well, I should be prepared for the December 2014 exam.
3) Roll my sleeves up and get serious about my garden again! What better to go with a year of cooking than a year of homegrown veggies as well?

So, there's three.... four things. Four hobbies that I already enjoy, and can become healthy habits, so long as I make an effort to stick with them. I know if I set a goal like "be able to run X miles in Y minutes!!!" (for large values of X and small values of Y) I'm going to set myself up for disaster. Just for fun, let's give the last three fancy names too:

1) Operation: Hey, Sun Salutation!
2) Operation: Exam Battle Ganbatte!
3) Operation: All Green Thumbs!

There we go, fancy names make everything more exciting, don't they? Let's see which operations are successful in the next twelve months.