Well, I turned 50 yesterday
and I’ve been so busy that I haven’t written the contemplative post I thought I
might. I had a crazy busy day, Dr. M didn’t get home from school until 8:30 or
so, AND I got two huge zits on my chin, so my actual birthday wasn’t really all
that fabulous. Except for the cake & balloon & lamb my coworkers gave
me, and eleventy-billion birthday wishes on Facebook, and all the cards I got
in the mail. Hmm – come to think about it, except for the zits & a minor
skirmish with the IT department at work I had a great day! Ha!
Anyway, 15 months ago I
came up with this list. I have not
done everything I’d hoped I would, but the list definitely pushed me to do some
things that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. And I’m going to come up with a
new list to try to accomplish while I’m 50. We’ll see how that goes. If you’re
interested you can read on to see how I did. The ones in red font are the ones
I accomplished – 28 out of 50.
1.
Review this list every
Sunday & plan which items I can do that week. Yeah, I didn’t do this. Seriously – the easiest thing on the
list – ha!
6.
Make exercise as much of
a habit as brushing & flossing my teeth! (I have come up with some mini
goals to make this happen). I am working on
this one – my new bicycle is already motivating me! (Further update, I
hibernated this winter – can’t wait to get back on my bike once the snow
melts!)
7.
Corral my sweet tooth.
Your guess is as good as mine as to how I do it, but I’m going to start by
writing down everything I eat – especially since most people who lost weight
& kept it off used a food journal. I’ll reevaluate this goal in June 2013
to see how things are going. I never did figure
out how to do this. And talking about it the day after my birthday is no time
to be talking about it!
9.
Work a jigsaw puzzle in
my own home (this will require sacrificial use of the kitchen table). I have the puzzle, I just never have worked it. I think I’m
going to take it to work to do during lunch.
11.
Go see Les Misérables in
the theater.
12.
Go to a Cincinnati Reds
baseball game.
13.
Reduce our debt by
$10,000 (more would be better!). We had
to get a new car. We reduced the other debt by over $12,000, but the net result
of course is an increase. Sigh.
14.
Eat fast food no more than
twice per week.
15.
Reduce my use of frozen
dinners for lunch – no more than two per week (less would be better!). My new lunchbox has helped so much with this!
16.
Turn the computer off
& crochet more in the evenings (I’ll need an action plan for this one –
perhaps a buzzer that goes off at 8:00 so I have to get off of Facebook?). Wow I have NOT been doing this at all! Maybe I’ll try to do it
during Lent.
17.
Drink 36 ounces of actual
water a day (more would be better!).
18.
Do the jar of notes about good
things for 2013 (Note: Find a jar for the notes). I’m going to do a post about the notes at some point soon.
19.
Organize the spare room (I
might have to do this in stages).
20.
Get my hair trimmed at least
twice!
21.
Finally go see my Aunt
Mimi’s house & property.
24.
Find a pair of short
black boots suitable for work and snow. Darn it
– I could have used these this winter!
25.
Text my brother once per
week Um, I quit doing this a while back. We connect on Facebook now
sometimes. Does that count?
29.
Get rid of my stamping &
scrapbooking things (to make room for yarn – ha!)
30.
Try to grow lettuce.
32.
Meet K, J & S in the
mountains like we’ve planned for two years now.
33.
Stop drinking diet drinks. I go in spurts on this – I mainly just drink tea, but
occasionally get a craving & have a diet drink.
34.
Finally clean up all the clutter at the office (I know my boss would be
thrilled about this one).
35.
Make an appointment to
see a dermatologist just because.
36.
Finish reading the Mary Russell books.
37.
Cook something new once per month (yeah – I’m not aiming for the
moon here – ha!). I’m doing Weight Watchers again & I’ve actually been cooking
more because of that, but I won’t call this one accomplished yet.
38.
Go through my closet with a fierce and brutal eye.
39.
See Anne & Ken face to face again.
40.
Write my 1000th blog post.
41.
Take Dr. M to Trader Joe’s.
42.
Write down all the movies
we watch (so I can remember if I’ve watched the movie – sheesh!). Yeah –
totally forgot about this one!
43.
Go see Spam-A-Lot
44.
Go to a performance at the Schuster center.
45.
Visit Siebenthaler Fen once per season
46.
Go to the NC Outer Banks
47.
Write & post 40 poems no matter how bad they are. I wrote
11.
48.
Come up with two more things by the time I’m 50!
49.
Ride a bicycle!
50.
Buy a bicycle!
