However, what I have decided on is the format.
Yup. Aren'tcha proud of me?
So, without further ado, here it is!
"This year, I would like to do ..."
Here is the list that I have so far:
1. This year I would like to finish 6 quilts. I would especially like to finish some UFOs, but what the heck, if I finish any 6 quilts I will be elated.
2. This year I would like to finish my Christmas shopping list in September, have all my shopping done by the end of October and have the whole pile mailed by the middle of November. How hard could that be? It really just involves getting the list DONE instead of just started in September. And getting it wrapped and packaged early in November.
Of course this does have a little addendum...
3. This year I would like to make some of my Christmas gifts, and I need to have one finished each month from January to October. This is not an impossibility either. However, it does mean that I need to get the shopping list STARTED before September - but I'm good with that. (As long as the list is finished in September!)
4. This year I would like to finish organizing the Guest bedroom. Specifically this means going through the old dresser and getting it organized and then going through the closet. I suppose I should be re-doing the filing cabinet, as I didn't throw out things that I wasn't sure about, I just organized it and got rid of whole sections that didn't pertain. Meh, I'll see how I feel after I do the dresser and the closet.
5. This year I would like to establish good dental habits. (I always brush) and we have a new dentist. So I'm trying to floss every night...
6. This year I would like to walk some distance at least 6 days each week, all year long. During 2013 I walked 1865 km, recording my daily distance on the virtual Trans Canada Trail and writing a little comment about it on facebook everyday. My ultimate goal (besides the walking itself, which is a goal on its own) is to be able to walk the 22 km to see the Burgess Shale (a fossil site in British Columbia). It is 11 km in and 11 km out - and I want to do that before I die. In 2013, the longest walk I did in one day was 12 km. (After a rest, I'm sure I could have gone farther.) Eventually, I would like to have walked a half marathon.
7. This year I would like to make a New York Beauty quilt. I have taken a Craftsy class called Quick Strip Paper Piecing, and have made 4 of the 16 blocks of the quilt. I would like to make the other 12 blocks and put the quilt together. I have a beautiful wooden quilt hanger and I want to hang that quilt on it. :-)
8. This year I would like to spend some time working on crafts other than quilting. I have some very pretty counted cross stitch wall hangings and a needle point wall hanging. I'm not saying I want to FINISH them in 2014, but I would like to work on them a bit! :-) I also have a cute little rug hooking kit that would be nice to get doing on!
9. This year I would like to get back into the habit of dusting on a regular basis. Don't know why I find it so hard to do (too much junk would be my guess) but I would like to get the habit back. It doesn't have to be perfect - it just has to be good enough! :-)
Okay. I'm not finished, I have more to say on this topic - but I guess I need to think about it a bit more... Here are 9 ideas. I need 12 and would like to have a few more... I think I know where I can get some more great ideas though!!! Be back soon!
Continued:
10. This year I would like to try at least 24 new recipes. This means two a month. If they are good I need to add them to my 'Idea' List. (I only shop once a month, so I make a menu once a month and make the shopping list from that. Because I would be perfectly willing to eat the same thing many days in a row, this saves Barry from a bad case of terminal boredom. However, on the day I make the menu, I seem to draw a blank for what we should have for supper on Tuesday evening, the 14th... so I have a list of the things that we like to eat. This year past, I tried many new recipes and some of them made it onto the 'Idea' List - along with a code for the cookbook and the page it was on.) This can also include dessert recipes - it doesn't have to be main meals.
11. This year I would like to try out my new canoe carrier [Barry and I sold our Jeep and bought a pick up truck - so I designed and we built a canoe carrier for the bed of the truck. It is ready to go, but we built it too late in the fall to try it out.] I would like to take the canoe out to a small lake near home (MacElmon Pond Provincial Park comes to mind - although I'm not sure about a "put in" point...) I don't want to travel too far away and I don't want to go to a lake that is too big. I tore my rotator cuff in my left shoulder a year ago in November and it is just starting to feel normal again now... I don't want to hurt it again - it took far too long to heal! But I want to get the canoe out of the garage and into water again!!! :-)
12. This year I would like to make a plan for the organization of the Quilt Studio. I hate the thought, frankly. But realistically I have to make better use of the space I have. I have lots of shelves and some built in cupboards and I'm not using them very efficiently. I have a whole bookcase for magazines (along with some boxes to hold same) and books, and I don't have those very well organized. I need to get it set up better AND I need to put things away as I use them and when I'm done with them...
13. This year I would like to make a cuddle quilt for my quilt guild's charity quilts that uses a pattern I have never tried before. :-)
14. This year I would like to tidy up my bedroom. I went a long way towards doing that when I organized the closet and both of my chests of drawers. The tops of the chests of drawers could use some work, and the shelf beside my bed needs SOMETHING. So I would like to get a handle on that this year.
I think that that is enough for now. This gives me one big thing each month (or in some cases, a small thing to do each month). I could easily add to the Jar if I think of something else that really should be in there. But it gives me enough stuff to get started with! :-)
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