That’s a good one - we worked on that a while ago, and now we’ve left it again since the sound quality was so terrible. That could be part of tidying up the basement - getting the cartons of vinyl out of there.
Lose this last 30 pounds, making half my body weight gone. I was a lazy, lazy procrastinator about it this year, and just didn’t.
Continue going to law school, while killing no one. If I must kill someone, I will try very hard not to form the requisite intent first, so I get out of jail eventually. Anyway, New South Wales allows provocation, so…
Find some volunteer opportunities to help out with law things, like community legal centres.
Remember to sleep.
Keep working here, even if it’s driving me bats. Just remember the goal and the fact that I get great school-related benefits (study leave, paid tutition) that make the crap worth putting up with.
That’s about all I have time for!
I hope to find a new studio space and make a crapton of art, some of which will be sold and the rest of which will end up as presents. 
I’m going to lose the weight I need to lose in order to donate a kidney, and then donate a kidney. I’m also going to start taking online classes to finish my RN.
Just fun stuff…
I want to visit Lake Powell. It’s my understanding that the level has dropped significantly, and while this is not a Good Thing it uncovers a lot of interesting features that haven’t been accessible for many years. I’ve spent the fall and winter beefing up my boat’s old trailer with new brakes, bearings, lighting, and additional frame-welding to cover some weak spots. I’ve built* some racks that hang off the boat’s gunwale for holding campstove and propane**, and have setup a triple battery system to ensure I can use the CPAP machine w/o house current. I still need to install a remote search/spot light to make nighttime operations safer, and I need to acquire a small inflatable dinghy.
I figure even if I don’t go, it was good to upgrade everything anyway.
*w help from a welder friend.
**need to store all propane stuff outside the hull, for obvious reasons
I want to get back in good running shape again. Hoping to lose 20 pounds (I’ve already lost 16). I’ve got these long commutes going on, so I’m trying to learn conversational French via podcasts. I also want to get some money saved up, and either go back to school or teach internationally. I want to go on some sort of travel trip this year. And I also want to read more, maybe 2 books a month.
Lose two stone.
Put a bit less effort into work.
Put a bit more effort into life outside work.
Go pro with my amateur interest in soil, fertilizer, worms and gardening.
Do the whole NaNoWriMo thing.
Pay off one of our vehicles.
Get back into exercise.
Read at least 25 books.
Write two novels.
Submit at least one novel to an agent.
Attend monthly book club and writing club meetings without feeling guilty.
I have a list of 10 different locations that I want to photograph, all within an hour drive from home. I’m trying to improve my photography and enjoy getting out on photo missions! If I can knock off one per month…
This year, I really will catch and eat insects. I ate mealworms and crickets on New Year’s Eve, but this year, I’ll actually catch and cook some.
I want to attend a glassblowing course.
I actually have an extensive ‘to do’ list of ideas for inventions, projects and recipes that I’ll continue to work through, but it continues to grow faster than I can deal with it.
Thanks for asking, Cat Whisperer, and good fortune on finding your new charitry project.
I’ll be plodding along on last year’s project, among other more tangible things. And that’s trying to deepen a sense of calm and acceptance in my spirit. It’s a paradoxical sort of task as it’s not something that a person “works” at as much as it is some thing one allows to happen. Feels pretty passive.
The world around us changes so fast now and I want to grow old with some grace so it seems like an important thing to develop.
I’ll know I’m making progress when I’m out to lunch with someone and they take out their cell phone and I don’t get ticked!
This year I’d like to organize my storage spaces and throw out the stuff I do not want/need any longer. I’d also like to become current with my children’s scrapbooks. I have worked on my two daughters books, but haven’t even started one for my son who is 17 and will graduate first.
I’d also like to take a good, fun-filled family vacation since this is the last year that all of my children can be "forced"to go.
I want to have weight loss surgery. For the first time in my adult life, I have insurance that will cover it, a paycheck big enough to pay my portion, and a job with a company decent enough to allow me the time off.
It will require that I be super-organized, document everything, follow doctor’s orders to a T, get help from friends and relatives during recovery, and basically change everything about the way I interact with food. Let me tell you, as intimidating as that is, it’s by far the better alternative to developing diabetes and heart disease in the next five years and dying long before my time.
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Lose 40 lbs. and increase my strength, endurance, and aerobic capacity by the third week of May. That way, I’ll be ready for the physical work I do every summer.
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Set up my apartment (finally!), including unpacking stuff, rearranging my furniture, decorating, and getting the super to make some repairs.
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Cultivate a more vibrant social life, including doing something fun and non-work-related twice a month.
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Re-design my PhD research, so I’m doing something more enjoyable.
Lose 30 more pounds by April, survive my Master’s training and be inducted as a Master Instructor in July.
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Live and love…both of which took a back seat after my husband died. And I want to do this for me and not just my kids.
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Move out of this house. Although there is nothing wrong with the house, I think it is time for me and the kids to have a new beginning and find our home again.
I’m working on finishing up last year’s hopes: buying a house and getting knocked up.
If everything goes right, we should be closing on the house at the end of January.
Last night, I peed on 2 sticks and they both came up a faint positive. I’ll go to the doc this week and check for sure. Yay!
Run a 50K race before my 50th birthday
Get back down to my marathon weight (lose 20 lbs)
Complete my first triathlon
Take more three day weekends and short getaways
Write more blog entries
Finish updating the closets in my house, I’ve done one, only six more to go. Three of those are painted and ready to go, three need to get things out before I can rip everything out and paint. I really want to put nice wooded ones in three of my closets.
Take a few trips this year, especially on my new motorcycle. I have a plan to ride around the great lakes and in Canada for the first time.
If I can afford it I’d like to take my youngest daughter to California to see my grandmother and see Disneyland.
I want to swim more then I did last year. Not sure how much I’d like to swim, my best is 150 miles in one year. That might be kind of difficult, but I’ll see. I’d at least like to make 120 miles, which I was going for last year but a month off after eye surgery and two weeks off at another time kept me from making it.