Somewhere, I read something about making small goals in the amont of years you were before your next birthday. (Goodness, what an awkward sentence!) I like that idea a lot more than than making silly New Year’s Resolutions. In fact, I like it so much that, in honor of my 45th birthday (How on earth did I get that old????) which is coming up way too soon, I am posting my List of 45 things. (Technically, I’m a bit short, that’s a lot of things to come up with. Do you have any brilliant ideas on what else I should include?). My goal is to have everything crossed off by February 14th, 2009. (and yes, I would love help completing them, thanks for asking!)
The List
- Go to the Ho Rain Forest
- Figure out how to use all the potential of my phone
- Design a web page
- Get my passport…and use it!
- Take a yoga class
- Lose ten pounds (a couple times!)
- Walk the entire pipeline
- Make an apron
- Try out one new recipe a week 3/52
- Volunteer somewhere I’m going to look for more opportunities though…
- Scan all my old pictures
- Take a glass blowing/fusing class
- Make a new friend
- Send a card or letter at least once a month
- Grow vegetables
- Teach Mimi how to drive
- Grow an herb garden
- Write down our family stories
- Write down stories from my parents/grandparents
- Create a rolodex of addresses
- Make a quilt (just a little one!)
- Find a geocache
- Donate blood
- Pick berries and make jam
- Get a physical 3/12
- Plant a herd of geraniums
- Organize my digital photos…and share with Live Photo Gallery
- Learn Elements
- Visit a ghost town
- Finish Shaun’s painting
- Scrapbook or find new home for supplies
- See a play
- Plant a tree
- Read “good for me” books (there’s a list around, anyone know where it is?)
- Go winery hopping again!
- Renew my wardrobe (there really is more to life than blue jeans!)
- Create a welcoming and workable studio
- Learn to put in a zipper WELL
- Take a class
- Sew something for me
- Do NaBloWriMo in Nov (or if I change my mind in the next year NaBloPoMo)
- Blog at least three times a week
- Get my moles checked
- Write a business plan
- Be true to myself…
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You’ve got a great list going. I’d add purging closets or something like that if you have stuff to get rid of. 45 things is a lofty goal!
Re No. 32 – we have been to the Issaquah Village Theater several times and have been favorably impressed by the quality of the sets and actors. Unfortunately, they show mostly musicals, which are not to our liking, but every once in a while they do something we do like. For instance, we have seen Steel Magnolias and How to Kill a Mockingbird. Also took the granddaughter to see Beauty and the Beast, which she was just fascinated with. Even though she is only 3, she sat through the whole show just mesmorized.