1. Be creative every day!
2. Finish painting my house.
3. Have a peacefully decluttered home.
4. Create a beautiful garden that brings beauty and nourishment that will sustain us with summer goodness all through the winter.
5. Have a website.
6. Sew a pretty skirt.
7. Teach the kids to sew a pillow case.
8. Find a hair style I love and is easy to manage.
9. Knit/crochet neat things. (We didn’t really talk about this one much. I know it needs to be more specific.)
10. Learn the lyrics to 5 Christmas songs: Away in the Manger, Joy to the World, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Blue Christmas, Chestnuts roasting.. (I don’t know the official title.)
11. Go ice skating with my kids when I am 50 lbs. lighter in March ’09.
12. Have 4 children who are able to read and are lovin’ it.
13. Go down water tubes at SPLASH.
14. Take a ballet class.
15. Volunteer at St. Barnabus or a nursing home with my kids.
16. Try no shampoo for 30 days.
17. Make Candles.
18. Make soap.
19. Be joyful.
20. Get passports for the family.
21. Donate blood.
22. Play ultimate Frisbee.
23. Create a scrapbook for Dusty, Sage, and Ireland.
24. Work on my weight loss scrapbook.
25. Read Les. Miserables.
26. Go rock climbing.
27. Go snowboarding.
28. Have a successful photography business!
Yeah..so it isn’t 35 anymore since some of them got moved. Many of these are contingent me losing weight. Some of them are not. My first assignment in accomplishing these goals is to choose 5 strong women of God to share my list with and ask to keep me accountable. I don’t know what that will look like at all. I have chosen the 5. It took me a couple of days. Now I just need to print them up and talk to each one. I feel so foolish. Who does this, anyway?
Progress:
Weight: I’m down a bit more than a pound since Saturday. So, I’ve lost about 7.6 lbs since July 30 and I haven’t even tried. This evening I sat down with a huge bowl of popcorn and lost interest in it. Usually I would have finished it off. I did, however, have a spoonful of chocolate frosting from the container earlier today.
Daily Creativity: I got up, showered, and put on my make-up. I don’t often do make-up. I did it even though I knew I was only going to the feed store and gas station. I knew I wouldn’t even look at myself in the mirror today, but it made me feel better about my looks. I consider it painting. Painting is artistic. Being artistic is being creative.
Decluttered Home: I worked in arranging more things in my bedroom. I had moved a big table and set a bookshelf upon it to hold much of my scrapbooking/cardmaking/beadwork/soap and candle making supplies. I need my that area to get organized so I can effectively sit down to work; whether that be photo editing or something more personal.
Photography: I received money for a job I did in June. I tried organizing my photo library a bit better, but I haven’t figured out a good system yet. I will begin working on my photo sessions in earnest. I have 2 appointments to make and reference to follow up on. I looked around SmugMug to see if it is something I can do right now to help me in the business. At the urging of a friend, I contacted Zoe. Go look at her work. It’s amazing. She took the time to write back. I think I may have just made a new friend.
