Monday, July 2, 2012


So I thought it might be useful to group my 50 things into 'categories' to help me prioritize what I work on next, here's my stab at sorting, and I've picked one item from each list to 'prioritize' (ie try first). If I picked more than one that means that either one's fine as my first 'action'.


Health
2. Get down to a size 8 and keep it
3. Learn how to bellydance
4. Try out some kind of martial arts
5. Get "Michelle Obama" arms 
15. Fit into my skinny black dress
17. Go biking with DH & DD
18. Go hiking 
19. Try rock climbing
21. Take some kind of dance class (jazz/ tap/ etc)
34. Snorkel or scuba dive
42. Learn reiki


Travel - no priority right now
6. Visit Puerto Rico and EXPLORE
9. Visit Spain 
25. Visit the Redwoods in California
26. Go to Montreal/ Quebec
27. Return to Bonaire


Craft
8. Knit sweaters for DH and for DD
33. Try watercolor painting


Music/creative
7. Learn to play "Claire de Lune"
11. Learn to play/sing 12 new songs on my guitar
22. Make stained glass
40. Make photo albums of DD's pictures - or photobooks?
50. Write a story or a song


Home stuff
12. Redecorate my whole house
16. Complete house declutter
44. Create an herb garden - something pretty and functional
45. Learn how to trim blueberry bushes


Food
23. Cook Beef Wellington. From scratch.
28. Cook Armenian foods
29. Make Cuban black bean soup from scratch
30. Organize my recipes
31. Gather recipes to create a 'go to' list
32. Create a weekly/ monthly recipe plan
46. Find the bestest blueberry muffin recipe
47. Create or find recipes of puertorican vegetarian food
48. Make puertorican pasteles from scratch
49. Make Baklava from scratch


Language/learning
13. Learn to speak and read Portuguese
14. Learn some French or Italian
24. Become a storyteller.


Just for fun
1. Get a pair of HOT HOT pumps - perhaps a pair of expensive HOT pumps?
35. Play in a casino. With real money.
36. Learn to play poker
37. Private goal #1 (not for family viewing... eeck!)
38. Private goal #2 (ditto!!!)


Connections
10. Go help in a Soup Kitchen
20. Reconnect with at least 5 old friends
39. Develop tradition with DD around exploring new places together (DH can tag along too)
41. Take a good hard look at my career/ goals/ persponal development
43. Learn to read Tarot cards - *really* read them, not just read from the booklet