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December 17, 2004

The List

I'm up to number 79 on the list. I had no idea how hard it would be come up with 100 items. Here's the list so far:

1. Scrap, sand, and paint the bathroom ceiling
2. Rip up and replace the bathroom floor
3. Rip out and replace the walls around the bathtub. (seems my bathroom needs lots of help!)
4. Spend more time with my folks
5. Organize my yarn stash
6. Submit 3 of my designs to magazines
7. Make my designs available to other knitters
8. Organize my books
9. Organize my family's books
10. Empty out the junk drawers (I have three)
11. Weed out the closet
12. Clean off the deck
13. Clean out the storage bin
14. Learn to take better care of my car
15. Teach my teenagers to drive
16. Teach them to take care of the car
17. Save more money
18. Visit my friend G1 in FLA
19. Write more letters
20. Go to New York City
21. Go to Boston
22. Re-tile the chimney floor
23. Hang my 2 sided mirror
24. Spend less time wondering “what if” and more time doing
25. Learn to spin
26. Learn to felt
27. Take a business class
28. Volunteer more at the school
29. Start a workout program and stick with it at least one month
30. Go to Canada
31. Get CPR certified again
32. Take Nathan to a baseball game
33. Go to Mardi Gras
34. Visit my cousin in South Carolina
35. Finish more projects
36. Frog what won’t get finished
37. Repair the screens on the front porch
38. Visit a dude ranch with Myla
39. Spend more time with friends
40. Make more desserts
41. Take the kids to see the National Christmas Tree
42. Learn ASL
43. Learn to drive a bucket of balls
44. Design and knit more mittens
45. Successfully design another adult sweater
46. Blog at least 3 times a week
47. Use up more of my stash
48. Visit and write reviews of more yarn shops
49. Fix the kitchen faucet
50. Kayak further
51. Attempt to leave a comment on blogs that I read
52. Be a better housekeeper
53. If 52 fails then be a better knitter
54. Stop binge shopping
55. Spend more time on my bicycle
56. Open my own bank account
57. Pay off my credit card
58. Buy a fleece
59. Re-write my Resume
60. Re-write my patterns
61. Organize my knitting diaries
62. Make a slip cover for the couch – that I like
63. Go on a date with my husband
64. Talk more with my neighbors not just the family
65. Launch my website
66. Take Nathan to all the Smithsonian Museums
67. Go horseback riding with Myla
68. Stop complaining for 3 weeks
69. Take a knitting class
70. Organize my magazines
71. Learn to understand the computer
72. Program the VCR (really)
73. Bake more cookies
74. Knit 45 hats for charity
75. Organize a family vacation – and then go on it
76. Repaint the hand rail
77. Build a new step
78. Call my SIL once a month
79. Learn Fencing
80. Read more books
81. Brick in the flower beds
82. Re-plant the flower beds to be more useful (herbs)
83. Find another part-time job
84. Keep a daily journal

I realise that some of these items seem trivial but they aren't to me. I mentioned the list to my DH and looked at me it was another of my wild ideas. We shall see. When making the list I have actually placed a sort of value on each of the items. This way when something is completed it will be more like having accomplished a real task.

Posted by Genia at December 17, 2004 01:31 PM

Comments

Posted by: Gina at December 17, 2004 04:07 PM

Posted by: Lola Lee at December 18, 2004 09:19 AM