Monday, June 23, 2014

Okay so here it is... what is it you ask?  It is what has been on my mind the last couple of months!
This is my new LIST.  Yes I am a list person (you that love me know this is true).  Only this time you are going to be my witnesses.  So I will state them here and you will help me keep track throughout this next year... Yes I am starting in June...why?  Because I am me and it just seems right!

This year I will:
Break a bad habit... okay I will break the bad habit of not moving enough...it is very hard when you sit at a desk most of the day and then are very tired when you get home...you know, a vicious cycle, but I will try to move more!
Learn a new skill...oh I know!  Beekeeping!, or how about falconry!  Well I DO want to learn those things, but I think I will try really hard to get better at quilting.  I just kind of do it whichever way I can think of but maybe I will even take a couple of classes and even learn the MATH (ick!) part of it!
Do a good deed...  Well that will just have to be a spur of the moment thing I can tell right now, hopefully I will remember to blog about it so I don't look like someone with a short attention/persistence span!
Visit a new place... well I'm going to count our recent family reunion location : Santa Rosa, NM (not CA Steven).  We have driven through, stopped and got gas (sorry about that Nick) but never really took the time to check out this cute, little I-40 exit.  I believe it is having a resurgence of earlier glory days and hope it well.  Oh! and Long Live The Blue Hole!
Read a difficult book... I have just started reading (again for the third time) Jesus the Christ by Talmadge.
It is hard AND long but worth every minute.  I could just never decide whether to read each page and then the footnotes, or read the chapter then all of the footnotes.  So now I'm reading it on an e-book and I think it is the whole chapter and then the footnotes...but don't quote me on that!
Write something important... Okay so in my church I have a calling with the 8-12 year old girls called Activity Days.  We (and I mean me too even though I am well over that age) are going to be setting up a journal/personal history this summer and I'm counting this as important NOT because what I write is important but the fact that I am obeying a commandment is important.
Try a new food... Okay I'd say every time I walk in the kitchen with a recipe in my hand my sweet husband can check that off his list!  But I think it means a single ingredient food so I will definitely search one out and try it (but I can tell you squirrel will not be it)!
Do something good for someone who can not thank you... I'm going to show my true side here when I say this could possibly be just keeping someone alive by not strangling them from my road rage!  Oh hey!  that could be a bad habit to break too...wait! I have way too many bad habits to break!  See I'm already getting distracted sigh...this one will also have to be a spur of the moment or maybe a good contemplation session to plan it out!
Take an important risk...Okay I can check this one off also!  Going to a job interview is never an easy thing to do.  I recently did this and like find a morbid sense of obligation to do this once in awhile, just to push my personal strength envelope.  I could be worse, I could feel the need to rob a bank once in awhile, but no I risk my personal psyche this way.

Wow! Totally didn't mean to ramble on but I definitely have my work cut out for me and now we'll see how I do in the coming year!  Whether or not I succeed I will be a better person by just trying...I think?