- TTC Baby #2
- Weigh 125 lbs.
- ✔ Get teeth fixed
- and professionally cleaned
- ✔ Buy my son a banjo
- 02.17.2012: reserved and paid in full
- 02.22.2012: picked up
- Buy my son a mandolin
- ✔ Buy my son a blue guitar (or color of his choice)
- ✔ Own a pair of quality cowboy boots
- Travel to Scotland
- Travel to Ireland
- Travel to Australia
- Travel to Switzerland
- Travel to Alaska
- Visit Yosemite National Park
- Visit Yellowstone National Park
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Go camping in Arizona with my family
- See the Cherry Blossoms in Washington, D.C.
- Learn to knit
- Learn advanced crochet stitches
- Crochet a throw pillow case with flowers, like the ones Mom used to have.
- Make a throw pillow out of washclothes with yarn fringe - remember the orange one?
- Sew a patchwork quilt
- Make a family tree and heritage scrapbook
- Win a "Best of Show" ribbon for photography
- Pay off credit cards and keep them paid in full
- "Declutter" and "Spring Clean" my home
- Get organized!
- Have Christmas cards, gifts, decorations, etc. ready by the weekend after Thanksgiving
- Get all birthday and anniversary cards out "on time"
- Throw a birthday party for my son with punch fountain and chocolate fountain
- Learn to decorate cakes - especially making icing roses, leaves, basket weave, and "stars"
- Bake a cheesecake from "scratch"
- Find a good recipe for zucchini bars (remember the icing!)
- Get my mother-in-law's recipe for butterscotch pie
- Learn a few "red velvet" recipes
- Make Thanksgiving Dinner for my family
- ✔ Write a novel
- Get all important digital photos printed
- Back-up computer hard drive
- ✔ Start and keep a nature journal
- 03.20.2012: Started "country life" blog
- Still considering a more traditional nature journal (paper)
- Clean out garage
- Clean out mini-barn
- Clean out all buildings on Maryland farm
- Figure out what to do with Maryland farm
- Look into volunteering at hospital, school, or state park
- Teach my son about nature (telescope, nature journal, etc.)
- Learn to play the piano
- Get clarinet restored and get back to playing it
- Buy a nice, used trombone and practice playing it again
- Learn to play the guitar
- Learn to play the banjo
- Find my dad's biological family
- ✔ Have a varied flock of chickens, including Easter eggers, tetra tints, and bantams (egg-production only, no meat birds)
- 03.01.2012: Added 6 tetra tint chicks and 6 bantam chicks to current flock of 4 tetra tint hens and 1 tetra tint rooster.
- See diary entry for 03.02.2012 for a list of breeds to consider adding later.
- ✔ Have one rooster in the flock - love hearing them crow!
- Set up 10-gallon aquarium and fill it with glo fish for my son
- Set up nice aquarium and get a male betta
- Turn play room into home library, complete with bookcases, fireplace, wicker furniture, and blue living room set
- ✔ Get step-in shower drain fixed
- Fix up bicycle and start riding again
- Visit the Smithsonian again, tour D.C.
- Visit Gettysburg
- Clean up outdoor swings and set up BBQ/picnic area in the Spring
- Have Craig, Melissa, and their daughters over for a cook-out
- Let go of the past and move on with my life!
feb 2 2012 ∞
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