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Warning: Not a New Year’s Resolutions List…but a List all the same.

I don’t believe in making New Year’s Resolutions until Chinese New Year, which means I have until mid-February to solidify my resolutions for 2010: Year of the Tiger and finish up 2009: Year of the Ox.  That being said, last January I did publish The List, a lofty 25 things that I wanted to accomplish.  People, I have done most of them.  Isn’t that exciting!  Here is my progress, with links when appropriate:

The List:

1.  Learn to knit.

2.  Learn to make Thai food.

3.  Read 25 books.

4.  Sew myself a dress no dress, but I did make two shirts & a skirt.  I’m counting it.

5.  Organize The Loft. It needs it again though…still counting it.

6.  Start some kind of Emergency Prepardness storage, contribute each month.

7.  Clean off my desk and clean out my office…yikes!

8.  Make a piece of furniture, something easy, like a bookcase. Remaking two side-chairs totally counts here.  Right?  Right.

9.  Downsize my closet, organize, purge, etc.

10. Find a pair of truly fantastic jeans, purchase in multiples.

11. Make a quilt.

12. Learn Sudoku

13. Make a scarf, a snuggly one in a great color.

14. Learn how to ski.

15. Take a spontaneous road-trip. Two, actually!

16. Learn how to make gnocchi pasta.

17. Photograph, organize and label the rest of my shoes.

18. Makeover my sad, green couch, into something a little more, um, lively.

19. Wear orange successfully somewhere other than my feet. Scarf and sweater!

20. And purple.

21. Find or make a truly fantastic Halloween costume.

22. Try canning something like peaches or soup or something, hope for success.

23-25. Paint or refinish my dining table & 10 chairs…this is a BIG project.

Ok, so statistically speaking I perhaps didn’t do very well.  But, I still have more than a month to finish…and by my calculations here is what I definitely will be able to finish before Chinese New Year (Feb. 14, for any interested parties).

• Make a quilt (it will be small, but I’m getting terribly inspired by julochka)
• Learn to ski (I may not be any good, but I will go skiing before Valentines Day.)
• Learn to make gnocchi pasta

That leaves me with the following items that could possibly be accomplished before Valentine’s Day:

• Photograph, organize and label the rest of my shoes.
• Try canning something like peaches or soup or something, hope for success.

The only items left are the following:

• Makeover my sad, green couch, into something a little more, um, lively.
• Paint or refinish my dining table & 10 chairs…this is a BIG project.

I have officially lost all interest in revamping my “sad, green couch”.  At this point I am not home for enough hours a week to justify the effort to remake it.  I’ll probably end up purchasing a new sofa in the next year or two anyway and I don’t want to be bothered…so that one should be crossed off by default.

Also, there is no way the table refinish will happen before Valentine’s Day.  No. Way.  It is something I would like to do this summer, so let’s all hope that can happen because it really needs a new look.  My dining room is all mahagony/cherry stained wood and the table and chairs are light blonde wood that has been whitewashed.  Bleh.  And did I mention there are ten chairs!! I will most likely be slipcovering those because just the thought of sanding down all those tiny legs gives me finger cramps.

Overall, not too shabby!  I’m actually much more pleased than I thought I would be.  And I think I definitely can finish at least 4 of the remaining items before my cut-off deadline.  And then it will be time for a new list.  Squee!  I really love lists, I love making them almost as much as I love crossing things off….actually, that’s completely untrue.  I have thousands more listed items than crossed off items.  Most of the time I just like the list.

On second thought, perhaps that is part of my problem?  Hrm, don’t know.  (Also–don’t care.  Now, if you’ll hand me a proper notebook and pen, I have a list to make.)

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