2010

Part of our morning ritual is to watch some of the Today Show. Noah nestles into his bowl of oatmeal or other gourmet cereal du jour and I cradle my cup of coffee, now splashed with soymilk as I am trying, trying to be a vegan. If it doesn't kill me, Woody will. or Noah. Take your pick. Neither of them are thrilled about or even mildly interested in leading a healthier, more focused life. Seriously? Yes, seriously. I even played on Noah's soft heart towards animals (he gets upset over dead possums on the road people); sadly, he still practically hummmmmms when he is eating a Baconator from Wendy's. This, he decides, is what he wants as a reward for getting all A's on his report card for the semester. It nearly killed me to do it. The seedy looking teenager gentleman at the window had to practically pry my debit card from my fingers.

I digress. Back to the Today Show. Right during my daily mental note of HATING Ann Curry (...ok maybe not HATE, but seriously I cannot stand the woman. I don't know what it is about her but she totally grates on my nerves. I think maybe it's her dramatic way of getting all emotional at every possible opportunity and then expounding on her philosophies of life...very emotionally. and dramatically. It totally goes against how I was raised. My family didn't "do" emotion. Every fiber of my being wills Mat Lauer to reach over and slap some serious sense into her. I'm still waiting...And when it happens you can thank me.) I was contemplating the piece they were doing about a group of young guys that started their own bucket list and drive around in a van and help others accomplish something that they've wanted to do. One really touching act they performed was helping a man reconnect with his son after a lifetime. It has all culminated into a show on MTV for them called "The Buried Life".

So I started pondering about some of things that I wanted to accomplish...maybe not in my lifetime, but at least in 2010. Baby steps people. Baby steps.

So, I decided to make a list of things I want to accomplish in 2010.

1. Run a 5K
2. Take a photography class
3. Honor my dedication to God by going out in service more
4. Visit Europe with Woody and Noah
5. Drive in Europe
6. Reconnect with old friends in a deeper way than Facebook
7. Learn to surf
8. Learn to ski
9. Start a compost pile
10. Plant my own vegetable garden
11. Start back to college
12. Whiten my teeth
13. Unpack all boxes from our move (including those in the attic) eeks.
14. Do something unexpectedly nice for someone at least twice a month

Well, that's it. More to come if I get all this accomplished. But don't hold your breath. There's always 2011.