Wednesday, January 14, 2015

25 in 2015

Inspired by a cousin who actually accomplished her aggressive list of "30 before 30", I'm attempting my own for 2015.  This is mostly because I've finally realized how little I consciously push myself out of my comfort zone.  Not that I always need to, but I think 2015 could be a great adventure with interesting goals.  So, here it is (some have changed from the original list, mostly because of a perspective shift:)



  1. Drink the daily recommended dose of water for at least 30 days
  2. Learn more about playing the organ--enough to play it for the sacrament meeting songs
  3. Make and FINISH a quilt
  4. Run a 5k
  5. Learn the first cd of Chinese
  6. Read The Hunger Games (check)
  7. Attend a temple I've never visited before
  8. Serve at the Food and Care Coalition, or equivalent
  9. Refinish some kind of furniture
  10. Read The Pearl of Great Price
  11. Run/Walk Margo at least 104 times
  12. Make osso buco
  13. Invite someone to read The Book of Mormon
  14. Get a new website up and running for Solstice
  15. Learn and perform a new song for the recital
  16. Post at least 24 blog entries (... gonna really do it this time!)
  17. Take a family name to the temple
  18. Learn how to make frijoles charros
  19. Landscape picnic area in backyard
  20. Take a CE-type floral class
  21. Write letters to someone-- Snail mail
  22. No TV for a week
  23. Learn how to yodel
  24. Learn how to ballroom dance--Salsa!
  25. Learn how to cut the girls' hair

I was fortunate enough (ha!) to be sick the first week of January, so with all the downtime that came with that, I finished The Hunger Games.  It has been ages since I read a fictional book because I am not in the habit of leisurely reading in my "spare time" so I was pretty proud of that one.  (Although it was NOT made known to me that it was a book about children killing children.  I have issues with that... and with how much I loved the book.) I've already started walking Margo (my recovering lungs still can't handle a run with this cold air) and am trying to find a song to play for the recital.  It will be extremely tough getting this all in because I'm just plain lazy but I guess that's why I am doing this--to break some bad habits.  Hopefully I don't go craaaaaaaaazy.