So it's that wonderful time of year again. Where we turn a new leaf, post up another cat calender and start fresh. Usually I'm all blah about resolutions but let's be honest here - I need them this year. To help me out of this griefy funk and move forward. So Voila 365 things for me to do this year, obviously some of these can not be accomplished in just one day but some can at least add a little more purpose to my year ahead, granted some are small and absurd.

  1. Plan and take a real vacation as in a different area code, possibly another time zone.
  2. Learn a new crochet pattern.
  3. Start a book club
  4. Write a page a day for my own fiction projects
  5. Lose 15 pounds
  6. Start some sort of "healthier" living movement
  7. Clean out the closet and donate the unfitables to either Sissy or someone else
  8. Update the wardrobe
  9. Go to a movie by myself
  10. Go for walks
  11. Venture into the city and find one fun thing to do a month
  12. Go to a concert
  13. Re-connect with old friends
  14. Experiment with recipes
  15. Save a little more than last year
  16. Drink more water and less diet coke
  17. Work on painting more
  18. Stay up past 10 on Friday nights
  19. Write letters
  20. Go to a sporting event
  21. Play in the garden
  22. Blog a little more
  23. Update the resume
  24. Go camping
  25. Visit a new place
  26. Start getting rid of the things I don't need
  27. Make a family scrapbook
  28. Do something on whim
  29. Start and finish a home improvement project
  30. Re-read Jane Austen's books
  31. Go to the beach ie. conquer the bathing suit fear
  32. Try new foods
  33. See a sunset (and in the car doesn't count)
  34. See a sunrise (and in the car doesn't count)
  35. Take pictures
  36. Indulge in new shoes
  37. Get a pedicure (conquer the other people touching my feet cure)
  38. Send an unexpected package to someone
  39. Take some sort of class arts and crafts, cooking, dance
  40. Go to a cheesy festival
  41. Learn to drink coffee and not just choke it down.
  42. Learn which wines I can drink and taste ok without sending me to the hospital.
  43. Pick apples in an apple orchard
  44. Get lost in a corn maze
  45. Go to the Walker for 3 exhibits this year
  46. Practice sketching people instead of random doodles of lampshades
  47. Play in the snow
  48. Learn something about automobile maintenance - maybe how to change a tire...
  49. Go on a date
  50. Learn about cheesy landmarks
  51. Take time to be alone
  52. Eat fruit
  53. Shave my legs when they need it, even if I'm feeling lazy.
  54. Pay off the car so the apartment search can begin
  55. Have something fun planned for my birthday
  56. Do something with single friends for Valentines day
  57. Try green beer for st. Patrick's day
  58. Finish enough of the novel to search for publishing prospects
  59. Try to get into yoga again
  60. Go to the eye doctor since I've been procrastinating on this for 2 years...
  61. Join a gym and actually go
  62. Find new music
  63. Go to a dive bar that quite possibly has country line dancing and suck it up and enjoy it
  64. Go swimming
  65. Make an afghan
  66. Go to the zoo
  67. Find new coffee places to hang out in after work
  68. Update my makeup
  69. Keep up on laundry
  70. Clean out my trunk
  71. Call friends
  72. Update my bedroom from pink and girly to something more grown up
  73. Read the paper
  74. Find hole in the wall places to eat, drink and be merry
  75. Visit grandma
  76. Plan a picnic
  77. Go to an artsy fartsy indie film
  78. Go to a flea market
  79. Get lost and not freak out
  80. Help someone
  81. Look into Grad schools
  82. Learn a new card game
  83. Grow cucumbers and make homemade pickles
  84. Bake more
  85. Go to the art museum
  86. Break the addiction to scramble
  87. Hug more
  88. Cry when needed
  89. Laugh more
  90. Make a Kristen soundtrack to bring me out of a bad mood
  91. Share a recipe
  92. Welcome change
  93. Be brave enough to try new things
  94. Read a book that is not my typical reading genre
  95. Offer to babysit my friends kids
  96. Try my hand at writing a children's book
  97. Hang my laundry up instead of living out of laundry baskets
  98. Plan an after work social event for the girls at work
  99. Try a new pizza topping
  100. Share my writings with friends
  101. Be open to criticism
  102. Make plans for every weekend.
  103. Try birdwatching
  104. Start a game night once a month with friends
  105. Go fishing
  106. Celebrate all the wacky holidays that don't make it on the traditional calender
  107. Learn a new word a day
  108. Get over my fear of mice and bats
  109. Get over my fear of commitment
  110. Visit cemeteries where family members are buried
  111. Try writing a screenplay
  112. try to make a collection of quick and easy healthy food recipes
  113. Play the piano once a month
  114. Encourage my brother to go back to school
  115. Help my sister find a job
  116. Floss more
  117. Make the switch from cookies to rice cakes
  118. Try listening to a new radio station
  119. Listen to an audio book
  120. Make-out like a teenager
  121. take bubble baths
  122. go for a bike ride
  123. buy flowers for myself
  124. get a carwash - fear of carwashes
  125. quit procrastinating
  126. forgive
  127. continue to grow the hair out - do not give in to cutting temptations
  128. be happy when i go to work, be happy when i come home
  129. play matchmaker or attempt to do so
  130. read some non-fiction
  131. try sushi
  132. play a video game and work on hand eye coordination haha
  133. wear a ridiculous hat or other accessory just for fun
  134. try crocheting a sweater
  135. be nice to bible bangers
  136. get some ridiculously sex underwear
  137. stop spending weekends in sweatpants
  138. stop and take time to appreciate small things
  139. dress up once at least for fun
  140. re-learn to walk in heels
  141. get a tan this summer
  142. spend more time outside
  143. take my vitamins
  144. write a poem
  145. save room for dessert
  146. rent some old black and white movies
  147. pack a lunch for work instead of going out to eat
  148. make waffles - and not Eggo's.
  149. stop picking at my owwies
  150. make an effort to look pretty even if i don't feel pretty
  151. get my pants hemmed to fit properly
  152. make a family tree
  153. try a new beer
  154. try to eat yogurt
  155. go antiquing
  156. go people watching
  157. make new friends
  158. try recycling
  159. read my horoscope and laugh
  160. read a fortune cookie and laugh
  161. set long term goals
  162. accomplish short term goals
  163. go to a comedy club
  164. go to a planetarium
  165. make an out of the way trip to have a good story
  166. make memorable moments with my family
  167. plan a sister weekend to get out of town with my sister
  168. plan an all girls weekend to get together with the girls
  169. send birthday cards
  170. send christmas cards
  171. find the birthday gift for everyone
  172. read Emily Post's book on etiquette
  173. be more ladylike
  174. try to obey "the rules"
  175. go bowling
  176. try golfing or at least mini golfing
  177. sing karaoke
  178. get a ridiculous crush
  179. send a valentine
  180. look for cheesy magnets to put on the fridge
  181. spend quality time with my brother and sister
  182. work on the family cookbook with my mom
  183. make a snow man/ angel/ ball
  184. make a birthday cake for someone at work
  185. make mini adventures
  186. try to tiptoe each day
  187. work on not getting road rage
  188. build a sandcastle
  189. write a love letter
  190. write a i hate your guts letter
  191. compliment someone
  192. accept compliments
  193. donate food to a food shelf
  194. do a random act of kindness
  195. dance naked, fear of dancing and fear of nakedness
  196. sleep naked
  197. watch a sci fi movie and not complain about it
  198. stop complaining
  199. get promoted
  200. do things out of the ordinary
  201. be nice to a stranger
  202. buy stamps in bulk and use them up before they change the postage again.
  203. keep up to date on news and current events
  204. sleep in once in awhile
  205. stay up all night
  206. learn to make a thanksgiving meal
  207. learn the best way to remove stains from clothes.
  208. go to some thing that i don't really want to go to and make the best of it
  209. fly somewhere
  210. take the amtrack and not complain about it being delayed. haha
  211. plant seedlings inside so i can have more flowers for summer
  212. enjoy nature
  213. wear sunblock
  214. paint my toe nails
  215. create a budget
  216. ok i'm out of ideas but i might come back to add more...

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