Happy New Year!

It seems like everyone is all about resolutions this year. Money is sure to be on everyone's list, with the economy as it is, along with the usual adage of eating healthier and working out more. I'd like to set forth some resolutions for myself this year. It is a little late, but better late than never. By drafting my resolutions, I also started thinking about things that I'd like to do in my lifetime, not just this year. I'll start with the 2009 resolutions list (in no particular order):

1. Be more relaxed about life in general (we all know how it's going to end anyways)
2. Enjoy every day and try to live in the moment
3. Send more hand written notes and cards
4. Continue scrapbooking, but take more pictures to scrap with!
5. Read 25 books (2 down, 23 to go)
6. Let my loved ones know what they mean to me
7. GET A JOB!!!
8. Stop wasting time away on the internet
9. Continue a healthy eating plan (no sugar-low fat)
10. Work out at least 3 times a week
11. Take Duffie on more walks

That sums up my goals for the year. I overheard someone talking about a list of 101 things to do before I die. I'd love to try and finish all of them; however, if not I'll donate $5 to a charity for every task I don't complete.

1. Run a 5k
2. Speak conversational Italian
3. Travel to Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America
4. Learn to surf
5. Learn to ride a horse
6. Attend cooking school abroad
7. Get married to the love of my life
8. Teach my daughters how to dance
9. Volunteer on a regular basis
10. Compete in a triathlon
11. Learn the art of massage
12. Practice yoga
13. Read 10 classic novels
14. Attend a silent movie
15. Drink tequila in Mexico
16. Watch the sunset on the west coast
17. Make my own Christmas cards
18. Cook/Host Thanksgiving dinner for my family
19 Teach Ryan to ski
20. Donate to a charity for every class I don't complete
21. Scuba dive in the tropics
22. See all 7 wonders of the world
23. Visit the Trade Center Memorial
24. Travel to the Holy Lands
25. Take a vacation by myself
26. Take a vacation with girlfriends
27. Learn to hula
28. Reach 100 years of age
29. Go on a hot air balloon ride (again!)
30. Live in a place I love
31. Have the strength to leave a job I hate
32. Sing in public
33. Stand on the international date line
34. Skinny dip at midnight
35. Spend Christmas somewhere tropical
36. Turn my phone off for a week
37. Live with no TV in the bedroom
38. One month without dining out at restaurants
39. Bury a time capsule
40. Paint a self portrait
41. Get professional portraits of my husband and I every 5 years
42. Have a baby
43. Get professional portraits of myself while pregnant
44. Carve my name on a tree
45. Attend the symphony
46. Ice skate in Rockefeller Plaza
47. Make my own pasta
48. Share the starry sky with someone I love (bonus points for sleeping out there)
49. Go camping with a group of friends
50. Cook something I've grown
51. Catch a fish and cook it
52. Brew my own beer
53. Take belly dancing lessons
54. Give a homeless person my lunch
55. Go hiking
56. Create something that will outlast me
57. Get my fortune told
58. Become a regular helping at a food kitchen
59. Take the day off on my birthday
60. Write a letter to my grandchildren
61. Keep a diary (and really keep up!)
62. Write to an author
63. Give blood
64. Send a message in a bottle
65. Attend a wine class
66. Attend a beer class

That's all for now- I'll finish this list up later