January, 2018 at Urban Home Blog

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Here are our plans for setting up our urban home for the new year:

• Pick up annual pizza and bottle of wine from The Palermo to ring in the New Year with The Thin Man marathon on TCM.
• Take long new year's weekend to thoroughly clean house. Burn sage to clear out stale or accumulated energy.
• Set up home office for 2018:
• Create new files (finance including taxes, medical); move 2017 files; archive 2012
• Inventory office supplies to replace and replenish during start-of-year sales
• Made medical, dental, and car appointments for the year. Put in 2018 calendar with reminders.
• Take down holiday decorations and send to storage.
• Invest in health-conscious cookbooks for a year of healthier eating.
• Schedule appointments with nutritionist, personal trainer, and Ayurveda practitioner.
• Go through clothes and linen closets to identify items that need replacement. Donate usable clothing to Housing Works, and usable bedding to pet shelter.
• Rotate the mattress. Buy new mattress cover and pillows.
• Build a shoe platform.
• Spend birthday weekend in Solvang. Have birthday dinner at The Hitching Post. Visit Sides, Foxen, Loring, and Gainey.
• Schedule birthday spa day.
• Catch up on the last of the Oscars watch list in anticipation of February's Academy Awards nominations.

Reading List: Call Me By Your Name, Andre Aciman; Journals, Allen Ginsberg; Eating Clean, Amie Valpone

Listening List: Ken, Destroyer; In Mind, Real Estate; Original soundtrack, Call Me By Your Name

January, 2017: Organizing the Home Office, Urban Bar
January, 2016: American Table
January, 2014: Grandma's Kitchen, Homekeeper's Bookshelf, Urban Bar
January, 2013: Birthdays, Home Electronics, Winter Gardens, Urban Bar
January, 2012: Urban Bar, American Table, Cooking for One, New Year
January, 2011: Weeknight Dinner, Field Trip, Birthdays, Home Movies
January, 2010: Weeknight Dinner, Homekeeper's Library, New Yearx