2015: the year

I am a very goal oriented person. I thrive on deadlines. Like most people, I may procrastinate from time to time, but I really love the process of checking things off of a list. This probably explains why I love New Years. The feeling of leaving one year and entering the next is soooo good. It's like an automatic fresh start! To quote Anne of Green Gables, "Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it." I love that.

I was thinking of things I would like to accomplish in the upcoming year. Not necessarily even goals, but things I would like to do. I decided to narrow the mental list down to just 30 things---some just fun activities, and others, personal goals. Here is what I have come up with:

1. Exercise more

2. Plant a tree

3. Volunteer somewhere new

4. Invite a stranger to dinner

5. Send snail mail

6. Paint a self portrait

7. Study another language

8. Give generously

9. Knit a sweater

10. Go on a picnic

11. Write a short story

12. Read (at least) one book per month

13. Make donuts 

14. Save money

15. Take a road trip

16. Go camping 

17. Visit a new state

18. Don't buy any new clothes (for the entire year)

19. Maintain the current in one-out one policy for everything in the home

20. Host a dinner party

21. Have a lemonade stand with the kids

22. Build a snow fort

23. Memorize scripture

24. Grow more produce

25. Bring a neighbor cookies

26. Take a community ed class

27. Swim in a lake

28. Conquer an old fear

29. Forgive people

30. Read the bible every day

Seems doable, right? Guess we will have to find out. Yay, 2015! And p.s. 2014, you haven't been so bad.