Saturday, July 23, 2011

Betting Against the Mayans: 2012 Goals



There will probably be a special and severe form of punishment in store for me, for having the audacity to make plans for the year that the Mayans have so clearly marked as the end of life as we know it, but here are my 31/31 goals:
What's that you say? I'm not even halfway done with the 30/30 goals? No worries, I'm still working on those. All in good time...

1. Go to Shipshewana (as I am the last person on earth who hasn't been there)
2. Take the trip you planned last year
3. Read all of ______'s books (I haven't decided who yet...)
4. Take Brade to Frankenchicken for Christmas
5. Try cross-country skiing
6. Go see a play
7. Go on a wine tour in Traverse City
8. Take Brady camping
9. Replace the silverware (I have the same plastic-handled silverware I bought from Target in college. It's classy.)
10. Expand the gardening venture (a. they have to be moved to the sunny area. b. I need another one!)
11. Host a fondue party
12. Scan all of the loose family photographs and put them in an album (thinking about the amount of work involved in this gives me heartburn)
13. Try snowshoeing
14. Cut down my own Christmas tree with baby lumberjack Brady (who will be dressed in a plaid shirt for the occasion)
15. Take a swimming class. (Me, not Brade.)
16. Learn to cook a turkey (roast? whatever), and salmon
17. Go vegetarian for one month
18. Take another college class
19. See all of ______'s films (a director, but I'm not sure which. I hate both Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarrantino, so maybe one of those two. As my own personal form of torture)
20. Learn to sew. Well. (a carry over from this year's list. Let's be serious: I'm not going to have the time to do this one before Jan 1)
21. Compost
22. Go fishing
23. Go to the Waterfront Film Festival (I say that I'll do this EVERY YEAR, and then I never go)
24. Learn to play chess. (Just a basic knowledge...)
25. Try paintball
26. Start a Sunday night dinner tradition (I've been talking about this forever- making a nice dinner every Sunday (or every other), then letting Brade decide who our dinner guests will be! Okay, maybe I'll decide for a while... but eventually..)
27. Build Brady a clubhouse in the backyard (You're laughing now, but just you wait and see the toddler condo I cook up...)
28. "Revamp" the sun porch. (Revamp means I can't afford to actually redo it, so I'll add some chairs and a table and get rid of the crapocity that's back there right now)
29. Dig out the backyard (Rebecca's suggestion- it basically translates to "Woah. This place is weed-tastic. We need to get rid of everything and start from scratch.")
30. Attend a murder mystery dinner
31. Host a party in my back yard

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