I'm 25 today! In the new year I had the desire for goals. It seems like last year I didn't have a single personal goal since we were mostly just focused on getting a job, and while a lot of things got done, I wanted to have goals for this year. Turning 25 jump started me on writing my goals down, so for The Year of 25 Things, the list is below. Some things like have the baby, and go swimming, are givens on what will happen in year-25, which doesn't really make them goals, so I didn't put them on here. When I accomplish any of them, I'll post about doing them. For my birthday I received the Porter Rockwell book from my sister-in-law, Kim, so I'm starting that today!
**Updated 4/15/11
1 - Try fondant again
2 - Make petit fours June 28th
3 - Run a race (doesn't matter how long, i just like running in them) Thanksgiving!
4 - Begin & finish my booklist (of 25 books) in the process
5 - Work on a book working on it
6 - Learn how to take better pictures learning
7 - Start painting/sketching again
8 - Go rock climbing at least 5 times (once must be outside) this is not going to happen
9 - Throw on the wheel again (pottery wheel) CHECK
10 - Re-uphostler something in the house
11 - Make some kind of silhouette something (pillows, cards, framed pictures...)
12 - Teach p all of the lessons in the nursery manual at home
13 - Sing at an open-mic-night
14 - Read the sunday school lesson every week (whether i'm going to be there or not)
15 - Work on my knowledge of the spanish language & use it in some way every day put spanish words on all objects in house
16 - Know more about the world (read the international news, etc)
17 - Get SAT word flash cards and increase my vocabulary
18 - Hide a vegetable in at least 3 meals a week (squash in mac & cheese)
19 - Read one lesson a week in Teaching: No Greater Call
20 - Do something with dancing (I know that's ambiguous, but I don't really know what to do--I love it, but don't have access to a dance class right now, so SOMETHING is the best I can do at this point in time...)
21 - Set apart a specific time of the day/week to dedicate myself more to the quilt shop I do tech stuff for don't do this anymore, so check.
22 - Learn to surf this isn't going to happen
23 - Write in one of the following journals every week: mine, p's, or e's. yep
24 - When e's born (or now), start taking a picture a day of each p & e in the same spot (really just up against a white wall) she wouldn't do it, so I just try to take pictures often
25 - Have a post on the blog very often. eh...
Bonus: Watch more documentaries
Books
1 - New Porter Rockwell Book 2/22/11 - 3/2/11
2 - President Monsons's biography
3 - Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
4 - The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Bartlett
5 - The Emperor's Code by Michael Smith
6 - All N.E. Bode's books (they're kid's books)
7 - Piggy-back Rides & Slippery Slides by Lynnae Allred
8 - The Private Lives of Impressionsts by Sue Roe
9 - The Magical Year of Thinking by Joan Didion
10 - Fordlandia by Greg Grandin
11 - The Mortal Messiah by Bruce R. McConkie
12 - The Child Thief by Brom
13 - The Awesome Power of Married Love by Truman G. Madsen
14 - Evil Plans by Hugh MacLeod
15 - The Eternal Christ by Truman G. Madsen
16 - The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer 5/10/11 - 5/14/11
17 - The Enoch Letters by Neal A. Maxwell
18 - The Gateway We Call Death by Russell M. Nelson
19 - Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
20 - The Holy Temple by Boyd K. Packer (don't judge me that I haven't read this yet)
21 - The Nicholas Flamel Series by Michael Scott 3/23/11 - 4/3/11
22 - Salt: A World History 8/28/11-9/4/11
23 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett 9/22/11-9/25/11
24 - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 8/12/11 - 8/17/11
25 - Lectures on Faith by Joseph Smith Jr.
Bonus: Re-read Jesus The Christ by James E. Talmage
Understanding Isaiah by Donald W. Parry 4/24/11 -
Finish To Draw Closer to God by Henry B. Eyring
