I’m taking Ryan’s challenge to write a list of 100 lifetime goals and dreams. To quote Ryan: “These are by no means exhaustive, but are they are things I’d like to do/be/buy/give/see”.
Oh, and at least 10 of the things on the list are to be completed in 2009.
I thought it would be much easier than it is turning out to be. I keep second guessing myself on what my dreams and goals are. I’ve had thoughts like, “wow, that’s selfish” and “I could never do that, so why bother?” and “Do I really want others to know this about me?” Talk about psychotic!
Here we go. Please don’t judge me.
- Snow ski *
- Lose weight*
- Go on a beach vacation
- Horseback ride – all day
- Increase blog readership
- Increase blog commenters!
- Stay at Pioneer Woman’s ranch – in The Lodge
- Read through the New Testament at least once in 2009*
- Buy nothing new (again) for at least a month in 2009*
- Pay off house
- Redo kitchen floors
- Own a fish-eye lens for camera
- Read a chapter of Proverbs each day in 2009 *
- Have a huge garage party (with dancing) in 2009*
- Get a ping pong table for garage
- Walk at least 3 times a week in 2009*
- Read at least 20 books in 2009
- Get a Wii and Wii fit – and use it!
- Clean out jewelry box in 2009*
- Get caught speaking well of someone in 2009*
- Go on intentional dates with Kirk in 2009*
- Take dance lessons in 2009*
- Blog more
- Teach someone something that I know how to do
- Improve writing skills
- Learn to use camera confidently in multiple situations
- Learn more about PhotoShop and how to use it
- Learn how to organize photos in PhotoShop
- Acquire Photoshop CS3
- Increase the size of our garden – and give away produce
- Go to a beach and walk the shore
- Ride in a Limo
- Go back to the Berwood Hill Inn B&B for 2 nights
- Take a bike ride in Lanesboro with Kirk
- Start a coffee/internet meeting place at Crosswinds
- Put a patio by front door
- Be a marriage mentor
- Become more content
- Take better pictures
- Be on time with cards and gifts to family & friends
- Plant a pumpkin patch
- Host a harvest party and free pumpkin giveaway in 2009*
- Own a new gas stove
- Own a new refrigerator
- Paint our bedroom. again.
- Eat healthier
- Get a job that I LOVE
- Use my re-useable shopping bags more
- Own a tandem bicycle
- Join or start a cooking club/group
- Make a eat-at counter in kitchen
- Learn Yoga
- Take vitamins
- Be a role model and mentor
- Explore the Twin Cities
- Walk around Pill Hill
- Lift weights, do strength training
- Bring at least 2 new people to Crosswinds in 2009*
- Geo-cache with Kirk
- Become a grandmother (mother-in-law first though)
- Own a horse
- Own pygmy goats
- Have a clean, organized garage
- Entertain more often in 2009*
- Make creme brulee. again.
- Cook more
- Have nieces and nephews here for a week for cousin’s week
- Own a good belgium waffle maker
- Get a facial
- Christmas shopping done by December 1 in 2009*
- Be a better wife
- Ring Salvation Army bell in 2009
- Do less careless spending
- Teach a blog class through Community Ed *
- Share my faith at every opportunity
- Invite neighbors over
- Be more real/authentic
- Enlarge chicken coop/pen
- Clean coat closets
- Take more photos of my kids
- Go canoeing
- Give the gift of farm animals through World Vision
- Be a better friend, sister
- Organize photos and memorbilia
- Finish photo scrapbooks
- Make digital scrapbooks
- Try at least one new recipe a week
- Meet a need for someone
- Do more random acts of kindness (pay it forward)
- Watch the movie Pay-It-Forward
- Purchase the movie Mama Mia
- Stop worrying about what others think of me
- All more time in my life to “be still” and listen for God
- Pray continually
- Love unconditionally
- Have a “girls weekend” here
- Vacation in the Adirondacks in 2009*
- Visit childhood memory locations – homes, vacations, schools
- Go to the North Shore, again.
- Move Cara to Rochester within 3 years
- Start a blogging community in Rochester
- Use hot tub more
- Be more generous
- Throw away and give away all the things that don’t make me happy
- Choose to be happy
- Learn Algebra. Again.
- Organize recipes
- Frame my favorite photos
- Get a massage
- Get a massage on a beach
- Give away more eggs
- Drink more water
- Go sledding
- Make “stupid coffee”
- Make a prime rib dinner
- Teach kids how to make turnovers
- Get a new car with seat warmers!
- Shop for groceries on line more often
- Build an outdoor fireplace
- …and an outdoor “kitchen”
- Host a brunch
- Host a wine tasting party
- Own a shallow depth of field lens (??)
- Stay at a beach house on Lake Michigan
- Attend Mars Hill Church and hear Rob Bell speak
Make me feel better — share at least 10 of yours!