Happy New Year

Hello!

My resolution (besides the ones that always pop up--save money, lose weight) is to simplify my life. Less scheduling. No double booking. One event a week, one event each day on the weekend (we were up to 3 things in a day sometimes). Paper plates once in awhile.

I went back to the list I made last year about 101 Things do Do is 1,001 Days. I put a (*) by the ones I've done in a year. Not too shabby, I think.

1. Travel to Washington, D.C. (*)
2. Run a 10K
3. Make a quilt for my bed (*not for my bed but have made quite a few baby quilts so I think it counts, kinda)
4. Learn Needlepoint
5. Play Scrabble (I never have!)
6. Take a ballet class
7. Visit Stokes in Oregon
8. Visit Seattle
9. Visit Vancouver
10. Pay off the Pilot
11. Put photos in an album (*)
12. Go skiing
13. Read Wuthering Heights (I never have)
14. Drink Leinenkugals (*)
15. File everything in the big, white, filebox in the office (*)
16. Organize the hall closet (*)
17. Paint the bathrooms (*started, not completed)
18. Buy new shoes (it's been at least a year since I've had any new shoes) (*)
19. Watch my Too Cool for School DVD collection (Ferris, Pretty in Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful) (*)
20. Read a biography
21. Go to Disney World
22. Hike
23. Ride a horse
24. Go to Big Bend State Park
25. Cook prime rib
26. Get a pedicure (*)
27. Quit biting my nails
28. Write a novel
29. Drink more water
30. Keep an herb garden alive and use it!
31. Go to the Children's Museum (*)
32. Take Rick and Miss F to a cabin in N. Minnesota or WI for a few days
33. Call my friends (*)
34. Laugh more
35. Is this where I do the line about wearing purple dresses and red hats?!?
36. Visit a synogogue
37. Use my YMCA membership (* Actually, I cancelled it and have been walking)
38. Go to Moody Gardens (*)
39. Eat Korean food
40. Get some sleep (ha!)
41. See a show at the Alley Theatre (* Have season tickets!)
42. Find Bayou Bend (the Ima Hogg house)
43. Eat vegetables (*)
44. Utilize the Farmers Market more
45. Work on Miss F's baby book--it's pretty bare
#46--Be nice for the right reasons
#47--Don't worry what others think of me
#48--Go to China
#49--Adopt from China (**Will never happen but has been a wish of mine since childhood) (***Actually doing this!!)
#50--Eat Dim Sum once a month
#51--Read Non-Fiction
#52--learn to can (preferably pickled green tomatoes but jam, peaches, whatever)
#53--Get a babysitter once a month for date night (* sorta, with season tickets it's close)
#54--Eat at Fogo de Chao
#55--Do Sudoku
#56--Lift weights 2 days a week, at least
#57--Do 100 sit ups a night
#58--Smile more (*)
#59--Make a new purse (the Poison purse, she is a'dyin')
#60--Go to Germany
61. Eat protein at breakfast (*)
62. Pack healthy snacks for work (remember Little Debbie Nutty Bars and living off them in high school, well, I work at a high school so guess what's in the vending machines?!?!)
63. Quit visiting the "Land of What Ifs...."
64. Try to minimize overanalyzing everything
65. Take a golf lesson (*)
66. Visit Glacier National Park
67. See the 'Ben Franklin' exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science
68. See the French Impressionist exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts (*)
69. Use my 'Entertainment Book' more often (the grocery coupons alone pay for the book but still--there's tons of buy one get one free--including admission to the above museums!)
70. Be grateful
71. Organize Miss F's closet (*)
72. Visit Yellowstone Park
73. Go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
74. Get a bluetooth or other handsfree cell phone device
75. Save money
76. Go skiing
77. Commune with nature (but not too much, maybe an Arboretum or something)
78. Know that a job is just a job, not my life
79. Be forgiving
80. Try not to be so sensitive
81. Delete the 1,000+ emails in my work inbox (*)
82. Relax
83. See "Miss Potter" (it's in my Blockbuster queue, does that count?)
84. Wear sunscreen (*)
85. Change the draw pulls/knobs on all our cabinetry (* started, not completed)
86. Watch 'Gilmore Girl' (* Alas, it is no more)
87. Finishing staining the dining room chairs
88. Say 'no' now and then
89. Write Thank You notes more timely (delegate to Mr. B more on these, too)
90. Quit saying I'm going to do things and just DO them, already
91. Learn to fold the blasted fitted (bottom) sheet
92. Get a motorized gate across the driveway (*)
93. Floss regularly (*)
94. Take piano lessons
95. Do a puzzle (*)
96. Organize the garage
97. Turn the add-on to the garage into a guest/craft/rec room
98. Clip my toe nails (Ok, so I do that quite often but I'm running out of ideas here)(*)
99. Join an organic food co-op
100. Wait 3 years to do 101 goals again
101. Laugh (*)