I have a confession to make. It may revoke any chance I have at a true "geek" card. But I feel like this may be the safest place to share this. I've never actually watched five of the six episodes of Star Wars. I've seen bits of pieces. I think I know the highlights. Darth Vader is Luke's father. I got that much. I remember seeing Episode III in theaters with Jenn and her family in San Diego. Otherwise I'm not sure I've actually seen a full Star Wars movie. But with all the hype going into Star Wars: The Force Awakens I had to drag Jenn to see what all the fuss was about.

Last year was the first year that I've published my personal goals/resolutions on my blog. Most years I will jot down some ideas on my phone or a notepad and then forget about it. The hope of posting it here is that it will hold me more accountable to actually achieving these goals for myself. This year I'm making a slight change to what I did last year. Most of my goals in 2015 didn't have actual targets, instead more lofty ideals. So this year for the majority of my goals I have quantifiable targets that I hope to achieve. So here we go 2016 lets make this happen. 

I began writing these year-in-review posts in 2007. It's the longest running tradition on my blog and remains one of my favorite posts to write each year. It's an opportunity for me to sit down and reflect on the year that was. It's also an opportunity to go back and read about previous years and compare. Before writing this post I read all of my year-end posts and I can tell you that each year has its fair share of peaks of valleys. And yet what I found even more interesting was not those moments but the days, weeks and months following those peaks and valleys. 

And welcome to the 5th annual "Our Favorite Things" post. That's right Jenn and I have been collaborating on this yearly post now for five years. Curious what our favorite things were from 2011, we have it (and from 2012, 2013, and 2014). So without any further ado here are our favorite things from 2015. 

Growing up I was always a movie guy. I spent much of my summers at the movies seeing as many films as I possibly could. As I've gotten older I've migrated more to television. As you hear a lot now this is the golden era of television and judging by the list of shows we watched this year that's absolutely the case. There wasn't one bad show we watched this year (well maybe UnREAL) because if there was there were ten other shows we could watch. So without further ado here is my personal rank of the 17 full seasons of television we watched. 

I've seen a lot of stats thrown around about people and their new years resolutions. I think most consistently you hear that 80-90% of resolutions fail. In an effort to hold myself accountable and push myself even further in 2016 I wanted to take some time and look back on the goals I set out for myself in 2015 (written a year ago) and see how I did.