Hi friends, welcome back and Happy New Year! Usually when the New Year starts, I’m ready to go with my year mapped out, but 2024 got off to an unexpected start so I’m starting fresh this week. The last few years have been extremely busy while we tried to make up for lost time, but now we’re ready to relax and settle down. Our only concrete travel plan this year is for a wedding in San Francisco, but we’ve got Portugal on our radar and will probably go somewhere in New England for the Fourth of July. While it may be a “go with the flow” type year (as “go with the flow as I can be), I still have some goals I’d like to achieve.
The building by us lit up fun colors to ring in the New Year 🙂
My stack to start 2024!
Goals for 2024
- Read 30 books
- Cleanup the 30,000 pictures on my computer
- Reorganize the kitchen cabinets (Santa brought quite a few new cooking supplies for Chef Jon)
- Go outside for fresh air more
- Spend time in the kitchen as Jon’s Sus Chef
- See a Broadway show or two
- We have tickets to see Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli that we’re excited about
- Restaurants I’d like to dine at: I Sodi, Torrisi, Rubibosa, Au Cheval, and L’Industrie Pizzeria
- Visit Kykuit, The Rockefeller Estate in the Hudson Valley
- Visit more museums like the Morgan Library, Guggenheim, and Whitney
What are you all looking forward to in 2024 or hoping to achieve?
I have trips already planned until mid-July, all within Europe. Nothing else particularly planned, I’ll go with the flow.
Sounds like a fabulous first half of the year! I look forward to reading all about them.
I’m sincerely hoping it will be Lyssy
This is such a nice list of goals for 2024. Looking forward to hearing more about your travels 🙂..happy new year
Thank you! Happy New Year 🙂
We anticipate seven or eight trips this year (blog fodder!) – a wedding, a cruise, a birthday celebration, the final chapter of our move out of Colorado, etc. I’m always amazed so many travel commitments materialize on our calendar before the New Year even begins, let alone the ones we don’t even see coming. No complaints, just adventures 🙂
Sounds like a busy, but fun year! Although finishing a cross country move sound challenging. It is crazy how fast a schedule can fill up. I have some friends that have massive friend groups and their years are always filled with weddings and all the related festivities.
I usually set myself a target to read more books at the beginning of a new year, too because sometimes the simple resolutions are the best. Just reading one more book than last year is all I look for to achieve my resolution, but I always end up reading much more. I find that one of the biggest obstacles to reading more is getting stuck on a book that you simply don’t enjoy. To overcome this bump in the literary road, don’t be afraid to just ditch the book and start a new one. If you aren’t enjoying it then you won’t be losing out on anything.
I agree that simple resolutions are the best. I try to make my reading list attainable so I don’t feel like I’m forcing myself to read. It is hard getting stuck on a book, I am bad about not finishing bad books. You are absolutely right to just let a bad book go, there are SO many books out there!
Going with the flow sounds a good plan and the trip to San Fransisco in March should be lovely (that’s when we visited in 2023). I’ve got numerous trips planned both in the U.K. and overseas between now and Easter as I’m the sort of person who always needs something to look forward to which is a bit strange as I love my home too!
Good to know, hopefully we will have good weather for our trip. Sounds like a great start to the year, I always love having trips to plan and look forward to. I know what you mean, I always miss my couch and bed by the end of a trip, and my ice maker 🙂
Go with the Flow sounds like the best plan for 2024 🙂 I’ve been busy with planning trips and my big goal this year is to get the promotion I really want. My boss is retiring this year and if I get it I will head up my office so I have my fingers crossed for interviews soon. And then if I don’t get it….well I’ve got UAE, Japan, Montenegro and Austria planned for trips to cheer me up hehe! xx
You’ve got an incredible year ahead!! I know 2024 will be your year 🙂 I’m crossing all my fingers and toes and appreciate all your support!
What a lovely list –
I never really made new years plans in January. Because we were both in the teaching business, our new year always began in September – so I’d start the academic year full of expectation and determination. I’d sign up for the usual night classes and fitness sessions, promise to cook more healthy meals and keep on top of the housework, visit my parents more often and not fall behind with paperwork. By the end of Sept , after a day with up to 34 4 – 5 year old boys demanding attention, I’d arrive home like a corpse, slump on the couch and pray for something in the fridge that could cook itself!!
But 2024! I am this minute packing for South Africa for tomorrow!!! That’s January sorted but nothing planned beyond that for now apart from a few weddings here at home- like the rest of you, it’ll be ‘go with the flow’….
So Lissy – happy reading, cooking, traveling and museum visiting – I know you’ll tick everything off that list!
That makes sense, you feel refreshed from summer vacation and motivated to start the academic year off strong. I imagine those boys really drained you by the end of the day. I babysat a terrible 4 year old boy and just that was enough, so I can’t imagine a whole room full of them.
South Africa sounds amazing!!! I hope you have the most incredible time and I can’t wait to read all about it!
Happy New Year! Have a great 2024!
Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New Year, and it looks like you have great goals set up for it as well! I am looking forward to reading more of your blogs this year in 2024!
Thank you! Happy New Year to you too!
Happy New year Lyssy , hoping smash your goals
Thank you, Happy New Year Dee!
Sometimes, it’s good to go with the flow; you might end up pleasantly surprised! Hope you get to the books and restaurants you want this year. As for myself, I’m also keeping my itinerary open: I’m currently taking my first trip of the year, but I don’t have anything else booked, although I hope to visit more domestically in California and perhaps another international trip in the fall…we’ll have to see! Happy 2024 to you and your family, Lyssy!
I agree, it’s good to leave room for surprises! I am enjoying following along on your trip, you are starting 2024 off with a bang! I love all the possibilities at the start of the year. Hope you have an incredible 2024!
Happy New Year! Wishing you the best in 2024!
Happy New Year! Wishing you an incredible 2024 too 🙂
Happy New Year! We’re also going with the flow this year. It begins by following the best snow to try to have a great ski season, but so far it doesn’t look so good. Looking forward to hearing about Jon’s meals 🙂 Maggie
Happy New Year, Maggie! Hope you get some snow soon! We’ve been in a major snow drought here in NYC, I think 700 days without more than an inch. Jon got a lot of cookware for Christmas so it should be a delicious year 🙂
All the best for 2024! Great and ambitious goals. I really enjoyed my visit to Kykuit, just be warned that there are several types of tour on offer and unfortunately photos are not allowed inside. I look forward to reading your review.
Hope you have an incredible 2024! Ah yes I did see there were no pictures which is a bit of a bummer, but will help me pay attention more. I’ll have to go when the grounds are pretty.
Wishing you the best of luck with your goals!
Thank you! Happy New Year!
All the best for 2024 and for your plans. We sit in limbo here, unable to make our own plans. Hopefully, that will be sorted soon. Have a great Tuesday Lyssy. Allan
Thank you! Hope you have a great 2024 and get to spend lots of time with the littlest family member 🙂
I haven’t made big plans for 2024 yet. A trip with friends from college is in the works and a return to Thailand of course. That trip will give me a chance to be one of the first to fly Japan Airlines new A350-1000. I don’t know where you find the time, but keep up the great work in 2024.
Those sound like big plans to me 😁 thank you and Happy New Year!
Best of luck Lyssy with your plans and goals for 2024! We have not made any concrete travel plans yet, just discussing a few options. We are in the mood for a quiet year travel wise. Maybe 😉
Happy 2024 to you as well. Best of luck with all your goals!
Happy New Year, and all the best for 2024! I love your 2024 goals and they definitely seem to set you up for a fantastic year! I also have a goal of decluttering my thousands of pictures, both on my phone and laptop, and I am really dreading it! It’s nice to revisit memories from years ago, but I’ve always been horrible at deciding what to keep and what not!
30,000 pictures!