Okay, this is not everything I plan to work on, or towards, or do, or whatever, but it’s a fairly big chunk of mostly-little things that I would like to do this year.
- Complete 365 Days Project on Flickr
- Try 52 new fruits
- Write one novel
- Keep my blog updated
- Write one short story a month
- Lose 50 lbs.
- Get a tattoo
- Write one screenplay
- Float the Illinois River
- Hike part of the Appalachian Trail
- Start a weekly podcast
- Participate in the 5K Alien Fun Run in Roswell, New Mexico
- Make mozzarella
- Make bread
- Make beer
- Make chocolate-covered bacon
- Visit Kansas City, MO
- Visit St. Louis, MO
- Set aside time to write daily
- Join or start a writing group
- Go camping at least 6 times
- Make time to read
- Try a new wine every week
- Make a great costume for Halloween
- Stop using so many damn plastic eating utensils
- Do a better job of getting Christmas stuff together
- Make a living will
- Make pizza from scratch
- Learn a second language
- Make a pound cake
- Be more positive
- Nest at work/Create a positive working environment for myself
- Take Cindy to an elephant sanctuary
- Visit my cousin in Durant, OK
- Refinish a piece of furniture
- Go to a crawfish festival, preferably one in LA
- Save for a pick-up truck
- Take more naps
- Get more sleep/Go to bed at a reasonable time
- Create a small side business
- Hack a Magic 8 Ball
- Make a Millennium Falcon birdhouse
- Participate in Script Frenzy
- Participate in Nanowrimo
- Put quality before quantity/Fewer things, but better things
- Carry a notebook everywhere I go, and remember to use it
- Start an Emergency Fund
- Start saving more
- Contribute regularly to our Edward Jones accounts
- Do 30 minutes of cardio each day
- Complete the P90 workout program
- Do crossword and logic puzzles
- Give to charity each month
- Plant a small garden
- Start a compost bin
- Save stuff that I use at work that can be recycled and recycle it
- Visit Tiffany, Tom, and Allison in Lake Charles, LA
- Get the watch my dad didn’t wear for 30 years fixed
- Organize my finances
- Rebuild my Ghostbusters proton pack
- Ride my scooter in the Ghouls Gone Wild parade, or spend Halloween in New Orleans, LA
- Make soap
- Update my resume
- Get rid of a lot of stuff I don’t really love, use, or need
- Organize our storage unit
- Have a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving dinner with friends
- Get a membership to Art Museum
- Renew our Zoo Friends membership
- Buy our Flaming Lips Freakout tickets early
- See some roller girls in action
- Put a sports rack on the car
- Put a trailer hitch on the car
- Have turducken
- Create a vegetarian version of Thai soup
- Make som tum tacos and hot dogs
- Cook blue crab
- Make a crawfish bowl and have king cake for Mardi Gras
- Go bowling
- Increase readership of my blog
- Do something with each domain that I own
- Visit the Ruckers
- Have movie nights and dinner
- Do two charity walks
- Cheer on marathon runners with Misti
- Get a group together to cheer on the Gay Pride parade
- Keep track of the books I read this year
- Get everyone’s contact information updated and into my address book and cellphone
- Fix that hole that Hooper tried to squeeze through
- Ride with one of the local scooter clubs on a day trip
- Visit that thrift store in Enid that we keep talking about
- Get an eBook reader – either a Kindle or Nook
- Dress better
- Make something artsy-crafty and sell it
- Always carry a book to read
- Always have music or audiobook to listen to
- Learn the metric system
- Fly a kite
- Spend a day at the horse races
- Learn 3 ways to make fire
- See 4 stage productions
- Contact friends I haven’t seen in a while
- Drink more water, and avoid bottled water
- Start a vehicle repair fund
- Set-up wifi at Cindy’s parents’ house
- Learn how to fillet a fish
- Learn to play chess (and then strip chess)
- Avoid the Rapture and stop it from happening again this year
- Make some beef jerky
- Stop complaining and stop making excuses
- Actually go somewhere for our anniversary
This is not the full list. Sure, there are some big things here, but most of the items are small, easy-to-do things that I’ve thought about doing, and put off year after after because they are small, easy-to-do things. I keep thinking I’ll do them later. Then, one day, you realize you’ve been meaning to “make beef jerky” for the past 15 years.
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Learn three ways to make fire…
I’m reading and reading and then I get to that.
Hum. Do tell. Why three? Why not four? And what will you do with this skill? And why?
Also you say “this is not the full list”
My head started spinning thinking about listing five things to do this year.
Well done Chris for 110.
It’s one of those skills that anybody who likes to camp or hike should have, for those just-in-case situations, you know.
Number 33 actually made tears prickle at the corners of my eyes. I love you.
I like #57!
Oddly…some of these are on mine!
I compost at the farmer’s market, but that boy and I were talking about building a bin. I will probably still just use the community compost. My landlords might not appreciate a bucket of waste on the patio.
Totally going to try to grow things this year. I killed my mint and rosemary, but I’m going to try again.
I was going to go camping 4 times, but now I’m totally going 6. Even if it’s by myself.
Let’s have a great, fun, productive, feel-good-about-it-all year!
I love this. Especially #7
this makes me want a better list for myself.
and I want to do some of your list with you.
you’re freakin awesome.
Thanks for all the comments, guys. Keep on me about this stuff. I’m pretty excited about this list, too.
@Cindy – I love you, too!
@Tom – We had so much fun hanging out with you guys, we would love to do it again. We want to twist Todd’s arm to get him and his family there from Orlando, FL.
@Chrome – If you’re ever here during camping season, you should go with us on a trip. We should at least do an overnight at Thunderbird or Arcadia.
@Katrina – I’ve got the design pick out and everything. I just need to get to a good weight first.
A notebook EVERYWHERE you go:
http://www.myaquanotes.com/
Awesome!
Are there really that many fruits in the world… wait a minute… what am I saying?