Plan the Season With Me: Fall 2026

I realize we’re technically 6 days into the fall season (I also realize it is not actually, technically fall yet, don’t come at me plz!) and so I’m slightly late with my official planning for the season, but HEY. Better late than never, right?

Where to Start

Obviously, we start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start!) When we read we being with…oh, ok not quite that far at the beginning. Actually, we’ll start with my list of goals for the year, and break each category down into seasonal goals:

Work

• The year goal: get a job
  • The season goal: get a job 😉 Which is a task that will be accomplished by continuing to apply to 10 jobs per week, taking interviews, and of course…praying hard.
• The year goal: do a personal project that involves React and actual deployment
  • The season goal: continue working for an hour each day on my personal project, documenting my struggles and successes.

House Projects

• The year goal: clean up and organize the basement
  • The season goal: get to work! (I am, I actually am! Yesterday I worked for most of the day on organizing things and coming up with a strategy for containing everything.)

Family

• The year goal: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad trip
  • The season goal: Dealt with already, actually. I decided I want to take the kids on the Polar Express trip. The tickets go on sale on September 29th. If, for some reason, I get a job in the next three weeks, I’ll become a member of the CVSR, which gives me early access to the Polar Express tickets, and use the free tickets that come with it to go on a fall scenic trip. Boom. Decision made.
• The year goal: Farmer’s Market Saturdays
  • The season goal: actually I might have to let this one slide until Spring comes around. Our September weekends are exceedingly busy, so I’m not sure we’ll have many opportunities to hit up farmers markets. Maybe this is just me being lazy as usual though, we’ll never know…
• The year goal: visit a fall-themed farm/corn maze/whatever
  • The season goal: I’ve figured out where this is going to be. Just need to decide the right time, in October. So that will be my goal for the next few weeks.
• The year goal: get the kids in piano/swimming/strings
  • The season goal: I really just want to do one of these things. In the next few weeks I need to either decide to enroll the kids in the Hoffman online piano course, or email the kids’ school to figure out the music academy situation. Oh wait, also, I don’t have a job. So this goal will probably be put on hold for a bit until we’ve got more positive cashflow going on.

Health/Fitness:

• The year goal: keep going with CGX
  • The season goal: participate in Fuel! Starting tomorrow!
• The year goal: get down to 135 lbs one way or another
  • The season goal: get down to 145 lbs through consistent breakfasts and lunches.

Creativity:

• The year goal: start using DSLR exclusively for photos, get into rhythm of uploading
  • The season goal: take 10-20 pictures a day? I guess??
• The year goal:  listen to 100 albums (50 new/50 re-listens)
  • The season goal: listen to 30 albums
• The year goal: write a full novel
  • The season goal: Spend September creating a detailed outline of Le Novel
• The year goal: blog every day
  • The season goal: …blog every day

Adventures & Fun:

• The year goal: 6 mini-adventures
  • The season goal: 1-2 mini-adventures. (We’ve already ticked one off: we went to an escape room on Friday!)
• The year goal: 24 new geocaches
  • The season goal: 6 new geocaches

Habits/Rhythms/Routines:

• The year goal: 4 habits (1/quarter)
  • The season goal: 1 new habit: 10-15 minutes of lymphatic drainage movements each morning before coffee
• The year goal: seasonal meal plan rhythm
  • The season goal: Solidify a list of 20 meals worth repeating once each month of the fall quarter
• The year goal: weekly system planning
  • The season goal: complete 12 weeks from Ben Meer’s Year of Systems course (one each Sunday after church)

And that’s it! I’ve also got my reading list to continue, of course, and I’d like to try to go on a 2-mile walk each day, and/or walk 10 minutes after each meal. Now to transfer all of this into its official page!