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This list started: March 5, 2008.

Last update:

1. See Yosemite in the snow
2. See the Grand Canyon in the snow
3. See cherry blossoms in … ? in the spring
4. See the California poppy fields in bloom
5. See the autumn leaves in New England
6. Finish a quilt that’s just for me. There were plenty I made for other people.
7. Learn reflexology
8. Get a reiki treatment
9. Plan my garden for the summer with fresh herbs and flowers to draw
10. Find a good panang recipe
11. Make obsessively ornately decorated Christmas cookies
12. Start my Christmas cards early enough to do whatever by hand I really want to
13. Sort through my photos and organize them
14. Get into Jan’s music collection to add his beat to my running mix
15. Find a running group and train for another 5K
16. Get Jan to yoga
17. Keep my resume absolutely up-to-date
18. Collect written recommendations so I can apply for a full-time teaching position
19. Take a good painting class. Or two.
20. Look at what it takes to be a creativity coach.
21. Bind more books
22. Have my course materials organized
23. Get clothes for my closet that I really don’t have to stand in front of for so long, wondering what to wear, every day
24. Frame the art that I’ve gotten from friends and relatives
25. Find someone ready, willing and able to take over teaching my course. Just in case. You never know …
26. Brush up on my rendering skills (markers, digital)
27. Get a dog. A nice, big, warm sturdy dog
28. See the museums in DC at a respectfully leisurely pace
29. See the Hoover Dam
30. Get published
31. Plan out and execute my website
32. Finish the Blurb book of Jan taking photographs / Adventures of a Roaming Bear
33. Stop procrastinating. Oh, I think I’ll tackle that tomorrow.
34. Sew more
35. Figure out a way to do stretch twin-needle hems on knits nicely on my own sewing machine
36. Move to a place with a yard, with no shared common walls, a porch and ....
37. Frame my art and get it up on the walls here at home