Pursuit of Happiness: Mental Well-Being

I am responsible for my own happiness. It falls to me to provide myself with comfort and entertainment.

For entertainment, this year I will get out of the house more:

• There's a gaming group that meets at least monthly, a half hour drive away. (Thank you Meetup.com.) Cost: nominal.
  
• The aquarium society also meets monthly and is also within a half hour drive. Cost: $20/year.
  
• There's a ski club that will be making bus trips to go skiing practically every weekend this winter. Cost: $65 a trip; not sure about equipment rental.
  
• There's another Meetup group offering free cultural outings in the bustling megalopolis where I work. Cost: only gas & parking.

For comfort, this year I will make an extra effort to keep a clean apartment:

• No more leaving dirty dishes in the sink for days at a time. I'll do at least a little dishwashing every evening that there is some to be done, even if I don't wash them all.
  
• I will go through my mail as I get it and file anything that needs filing as I get it.
  
• I will rid myself of accumulations of "useful items" such as glass jars, corrugated cardboard boxes, plastic containers from food and dry cleaners' wire hangers at least bi-monthly.
  
• I will rip out the useful pages from my magazine, file them in a binder according to topic, and throw out the magazine once I'm done reading it.
  
• I will spend at least half an hour every weekend picking up clutter.

That's a start. Let's see how that goes for a few weeks.