Well, we have survived yet another appocolypse ~ it was a close one this time!
Since we're still here, I guess I better start setting my goals for the coming year. I've never been a fan of New Year's resolutions since they're really more a to do list for the first week of January. By the second week you feel like you're falling behind and by the end of the month you feel like a complete failure. So to continue my own tradition of making plans instead of resolutions I've decided to make a list of things to accomplish this year. I'm taking a page from my friend's blog Kat's On Fire (If you haven't read her blog you definitely should! She's hilarious!) and making an epic list of 100 things I want to do this year.
100 things for 2013
(in no paticular order)
1. Visit a Mayan ruin
2. Send a message in a homemade bottle
3. Go to a live concert
4. See a sea horse in the wild
5. Go spelunking
6. Participate in a 5k
7. Drink something more sophisticated than beer but less snooty than wine
8. Go to the gym at least twice a week
9. Finally finish Don Quiote
10. Walk 4 miles at least 5 times a week
11. Make a Kiva loan
12. Build a bird house
13. Go to a play
14. See a pro football or baseball game
15. Organize the kitchen cabinets
16. Write a weekly to-do list ~ and accomplish everything on it!
17. Go kayaking in at least 2 countries
18. Take a road trip
19. Spend more time outside
20. Participate in at least 2 craft shows
21. Make a higher sales goal ~ and meet it!
22. Finish the trim in the bathroom that was remodeled 3 years ago
23. Kiss behind a waterfall
24. Take a hot shop class
25. Find a new doctor
26. Finally decide what to do with Mom's ashes
27. Get a tattoo
28. Stick to a weekly cleaning schedule
29. Wear real pants more often
30. Spend more time outside
31. Swim with whale sharks
32. Wear a bikini ~ even I don't look perfect
33. Organize my glass
34. Swim in the ocean
35. Paint my lawn furniture
36, Have a big yard sale/Goodwill trip and seriously downsize my "stuff"
37. Do more off mandrel work
38. Find one new venue to sell beads regularly
39. Spend one weekend doing "touristy" stuff in my town
49. Have something published in a magazine
50. Take a photography class
51. Get a great haircut
52. See a sea turtle in the wild
53. Pay off credit card
54. Put in a sidewalk from the driveway to the back door
55. Plant a big garden
56. Blog every week
57. Use the fireplace at least once, just for romance
58. Fly a kite
59. Take a dance class
60. Own at least one complete outfit that is currently in style
61. Spend more time outside
62. Go hiking at least once a week in the summer
63. Take my "someday I want to" goal and make a detailed plan to reach it
64. Be more frugal
65. Clean my studio
66. Take an overnight kayak trip
67. Do one thing that scares me
68. Go snorkeling at night
69. Give my decor a carribean makeover
70. Learn a new recipe every month
71. Host a real dinner party
72. Buy accounting software and use it
73. Go somewhere I've never been before
74. Keep a journal
75. Advertise in a magazine
76. Donate to Circle of Hope
77. Raise $300 for Relay for Life
78, Build a front porch
79. Renew my passport
80. Do sit-ups every day
81. Keep an indoor plant alive for longer than a month
82. Eat more vegetables
83. Practice an "attitude of gratitude"
84. Practice random acts of kindness
85. Sleep in a hammock
86. Go skinny dipping
86. Hang pictures in the hallway
87. Meditate every day
88. Develop a bead style that is uniquely me
89. Never stack anything on the treadmill
90. Pick an inspiration quote to focus on every week
91. Use the "big" torch more often
92. Streamline my promotion efforts
93. Go kiteboarding
94. Go out on a sailboat
95. Watch more sunsets
96. Attend a festival in a foreign country
97. Make homemade ice cream
98. Go geocaching
99. Ride a train
100. Make a video tutorial
Whew! That's ambitious! But I really think I can accomplish it all this year.
I want to start the year with one of my favorite quotes ~ one that is on the wall of my studio as a daily reminder.
Go make 2013 EPIC!!
