- Put the money that I was using to pay off debt into savings for a down payment on some sort of house, townhouse, or condo
- Learn about real estate and home buying through the Utah State Extension classes
- Stop buying non-essentials for myself for three months. (Non essentials are ready-made clothes, really expensive fabric, shoes)
- Buy that Eames desk chair. I’ll use the money I’ll be saving from not buying any non-essentials.
- Buy that damn garbage can already.
- Buy a living room chair–armless, small-ish, but comfy. This will help with seating to accomplish #22
- Sew new pillow covers for the living room. Brown velvet + tan cat = not so good.
- Buy a vacuum. Did I mention cat hair?
- Refresh my yoga skills and then…
- Start doing yoga twice a week
- Get recycling at the apartment. No, I haven’t had it for three years and I’m tired of feeling guilty every time I throw away some junk mail.
- Similarly, bring in some actual flatware for the breakroom at work to cut down on waste
- November-March, walk or ride to work at least twice a month. April-September, up it to four times a month.
- Eat at one new restaurant a month–any meal, but it has to be somewhere I haven’t been before.
- Eat at Red Iguana
- Go to Bonneville Speed Week
- Go to a roller derby game
- Stop biting my fingernails. I mean it this year.
- Wear more colors of lipstick than “pink” and “darker pink”
- Find a perfume I want to wear regularly. (I would say “signature scent” but then I would sound like a women’s magazine.)
- Stock and maintain a home bar and keep it stocked. No drinking it up and not replacing it.
- Have more people over to the apartment–not huge parties, but a few people for dinner, or drinks before a restaurant, etc.
- Learn more about wine
- Learn and retain the difference between whisk(e)y, bourbon, and scotch
- Learn and retain the difference between brandy and cognac
- Get my eyes checked again, update my prescription, and start wearing glasses in front of the computer.
- Find a dermatologist to look at a couple moles, if only so I can stop worrying about skin cancer.
- Learn how to can fruits, veggies, or jam.
- Get a better camera
- Go to Moab and/or Zion
I’ve learned from last year’s list–the last three I don’t have high expectations ,