Walking With God - {in progress/finished!}
- Start and faithfully keep a prayer journal - at least one entry a week
- Keep daily quiet times with God, even if it's just 10 minutes
- Become a monthly donor for my undergrad IV staff workers
- Pray regularly for my friends and who are not believers
- Memorize 10 Bible verses
- Read through the entire Bible
- Pray BIG with the expectation that God will answer in His time
Family, Friends & Relationships
- Faithfully write a letter to my grandma once every month
- Visit a friend who doesn't live in my city once a month
- Call a friend who doesn't live close enough to visit once a month
- Find a date for my sister's wedding! - August 6, 2011
- Spend some quality time with my brother
- Take Ebby for a walk every time I go home
- Get together and spend quality time with friends even after they're married
- See how far back I can trace my family history and document it!
- Host a dinner party
- Have a sleepover!
- Have a Chicago day with Amanda
- Do a Cedarburg day with my mom
- Remember to send each of my close friends a birthday card during the week of their birthday!
- Have a wine & cheese party with Emily!
School & Career
- Finish grad school!
- Pay off half of my student loans
- Start an Etsy business
- Find a job as a children's or YA librarian
- Get my own apartment
- Join WLA
- Donate to World Vision for Haiti relief efforts
- Organize my inbox
- Create a business plan for my Etsy shop
- Get my mom to start an Etsy shop for her digital scrapbooks!
- Alphabetize my books
- Start and stick to a budget
- Update my resume and have it critiqued
Entertainment & Travel
- Go back to Florence
- Go on a road trip
- See an outdoor movie
- Go ice-skating (at Tenney Park in Feb!)
- Get my nose pierced (maybe)
- Get a dog
- Try 10 new recipes
- Visit Olbrich Gardens
- Only go out for coffee once a week (make it at home!) for three months straight
- Get an espresso maker and learn how to use it!
- Laugh so hard my stomach hurts!
- Go on a date with a Christian guy I'm genuinely attracted to
- See a concert or show at the PAC
- Do a farmer's market photo shoot
- Sort through every single item of clothing I own and donate what I don't wear to Goodwill
- Take an Irish dancing class
- Join a church choir
- Go camping & roast marshmallows
- Finish the Lord of the Rings series
- Take a photography trip with my mom
- Go to the beach
- Go to an art museum
- Do the Pride & Prejudice tour of England
- Catch up on podcasts
- Go hear some live music
- Go dress shopping with my sister
- Finish a NY Times crossword puzzle
- Get a french manicure
- Buy rainboots
- Invest in an Anthropologie dress
- Subscribe to a magazine
- Go to NYC with my sister
- Get a wii and have a wii party!
- Read Persuasion by Jane Austen
- Host a movie night
- Visit the Redwood forest in California
- Actually practice playing guitar
- Have a bonfire on a beach
- Go to a Brewers game
- Tour a vineyard
- Stay up all night and watch the sunrise
- Build a snowman
- Keep a plant alive for more than a month
- Do a cartwheel!
- Visit the zoo and bring my camera along
- Invest in some long underwear
- Find a set of teacups
- Go to a flea market
- Go on a bike ride
- Fix my Amy Butler bag
Crafty-ness
- Write and illustrate a children's book
- Finish the 3 knitting projects that I have going now!
- Learn to oil paint
- Take one photo a day for two consecutive months and make a book out of my favorites
- Learn Adobe Photoshop
- Learn Adobe Illustrator
- Create wedding gifts for Katie & EJ (May 1, 2010), Amanda & David (November 20, 2010), and Emilie & Luke (August 6, 2011)
- Make at least one project from each craft book I've bought
- Finish my Italy scrapbook
- Start a new scrapbook!
- Keep up my sketchbook - one new drawing every month (Feb. & March done!)
- Get a sewing machine!
- Get my own room for all this crafty-ness
- Go to a craft show
- Bake something from scratch (banana chocolate chip bread! and it turned out pretty darn good if I say so myself!)
- Mat and frame my prints
- Experiment with printmaking again