When I started making my list, I discovered I have a lot of little goals. I've tried to organize them into groups.
LIVING MORE HEALTHFULLY
1. Cut the soda habit.
2. Take lunch to work instead of buying cheesesteaks downtown.
3. Cook dinner more at home, at least on the weekdays (with leftovers for my long weekend days). Try at least two new recipes per month.
4. Grow basil at home.
5. Eat fruit every day.
6. Stretch every day.
CONNECT WITH HORSE PEOPLE
7. Submit pictures of Philadelphia percherons to Jean-Leo's blog, percheron-international.blogspot.com.
8. Look into joining professional organizations like CONA or the CAA.
9. Reconnect with my vaulting group and / or find a place to take horseback riding lessons.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
10. Continue to be involved in the Association of Philadelphia Tourguides. Run for office, design a logo, build our website.
11. Design and order some rockin' business cards from Zazzle.com.
12. Learn one thing about Philadelphia everyday.
13. Go some place new in Philly or surroundings each week.
14. Look into getting a killer historic frock coat by summer season.
CREATIVITY
15. Clean off art table so I can actually use it. Create something at least once a week.
16. Try to finish either Nano2007 or Nano2008 by October.
17. Further work on my website, thedrafthorse.com and thedrafthorse blog. One breed entry per week on my draft horse breed reference, and three blog entries per week on drafthorse.blogspot.com.
18. Learn Macromedia Freehand to create more designs for my cafepress shop.
19. Limit TV to "bare minimum": sports, Mythbusters, the occasional PBS thingie.
LIFE AT HOME
20. Declutter. Once shelf or drawer per week (or more often).
21. Seriously sort through books again. Half.com and ebay are my friends.
22. Mindfully clean house once a week. Our apartment does not have to be perfect, but it deserves my respect as my home.
23. No filing for a tax extension this year (at least not until we see how much we owe!).
24. Sit down with husband and make a budget to repay some debt.
Right now I'm on vacation, so I'll start on my goals on January 13th!
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10. The bare bones skeleton of a website for the Association of Philadelphia Tourguides, www.phillyguides.org, is now up! Now I've just got to fill in some actual content! (Hopefully I can have enough up that I can publicize it to the membership by early next week, and earn some brownie points in my quest to be elected an officer.)
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14. Well, I wasn't really looking, per se, and it's not a frock coat, but I did find a really awesome long black velvet coat today at an antique store. It's perfect for driving my carriage, and could even be gussied up to be somewhat historic if I wanted. Cool hats help with that!
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I thought of another goal, probaby best numbered 15a.
15a. In the process of creating something every week over the course of the year, do a portrait (any medium) of each of my equine friends. (That's 20 horses we currently own, plus one retired and three departed for 24 total.)
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Jan 12, 2009 - 20 17
Well, I'm home now, so tomorrow is the big day for ditching the soda and getting started with a lot of the goals.
Thinking about decluttering actually spurred me and my husband to clean out the trunk of our car today when we were packing, something we had been putting off but wanting to do for, oh, say, a year or two! So yay!
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Jan 13, 2009 - 17 59
1. January 13th passed with no soda.
----------3. Dinner was at home tonight, and was quite tasty.
4. I bought a basil plant and a cilantro plant.
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Jan 14, 2009 - 17 04
January 14th. I had a Coke. Just one. At lunch. From a fountain. Day by day. And one soda is better than 4 or 5 or 6 sodas, no?
I was good, though, and had organic steel-cut oatmeal and an orange for breakfast.
Also, I learned all kinds of things about Philadelphia today! So that's progress on goal #12. And I learned all those things in a place I'd never been before, the Cincinnati Room of the Physick House, so progress on goal #13.
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Jan 17, 2009 - 08 27
1. I've had a couple of days without coke, and a couple of days with only one. So it's an improvement.
3. I cooked some fabulous jambalaya last night. Which means we have awesome jambalaya for dinner tonight, too.
4. I'll see if I can keep the basil alive. (I kill plants.)
5. I could eat all the clementines in Spain. I've only got a small box, though.
7. I have the pictures prepared... I just need to attach them to an email.
8. I've looked into the CAA, as well as the Brandywine Valley Driving Club. I should send some emails.
10. I am the newly elected secretary of the Association of Philadelphia Tourguides. Wee!
I have the day off because of the weather, so I'll see if I can get some of the house cleaned up.
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