The Requisite List

I always like New Year (so well, in fact, that I celebrate the New Year at least 3 times through the year: Jan. 1, June 21, and Oct. 31). Note that I've outgrown the stay-up-all-night drinking aspect of the New Years' celebrations. Now it's more about the new beginnings and the lists: two things I am inordinately fond of. I love a good list!


So, you saw it coming, my list for January 1, 2009. Not resolutions so much as things I want to do this year:

1. Have our baby! That's top of the list, for sure.
   
2. Find my calling (this one will have to be cryptic for now.)
   
3. Run the Canal Run. (This link only has last year's results; hopefully will have the dates for 2009 up soon.)
   
4. Buy a couple more mountain bikes and explore the Keweenaw trails with The Teen.
   
5. Start the karate club.
   
6. Get a canoe (or at least rent one several times this summer).
   
7. Take the boys fishing.
   
8. Visit friends...esp. the proposed Wisconsin Dells fishies reunion in August.
   
9. Sell our house! (let me know if you're interested...)
   
10. Pay off both our vehicles. I can't wait to not have a car payment.
    
11. Take more classes - yep, a glutton for punishment, that's me.
    
12. Spend lots of time with my boys - walking, fishing, biking, playing, enjoying.
    
13. Continue my volunteer work at the women's shelter.
    
14. Train Liesl to be a bird dog so Cayce and The Teen can take her out this fall.
    
15. Take a swing through SE lower MI to visit with family.
    
16. Improve my karmic balance.