So for the first time in a long time my evenings will now belong to me (at least the ones when I am not at work… still have to figure out how to be independently wealthy). I am tingling with anticipation when considering all I will be able to accomplish between the hours of 5:00pm and 10:30pm – and then the weekends! What joy! My mind is swimming with everything that I am sure I will be able to accomplish in those five and a half hours (never mind about dinner and laundry and annoying details like that). Seriously, I am trying to be realistic about everything I will actually be able to complete, but in an effort to maintain my excitement I have made a list. I refuse to call them New Year’s resolutions, as I will not feel guilty for dropping a few if my priorities reassemble themselves, so I will call them my goals for the post-graduate life:
- Spend more time with hubby
- Knit more
- Finish hats and scarves for my stepson, my brother and his girlfriend
- Knit socks for my hubby
- Knit more for charity
- Make backpack for my niece, which was originally going to be finished for Christmas (hah!). Maybe I will aim for her birthday in June.
- Finish quilt for Project Linus
- Make the lap quilt which we bought the kit for in November
- Make a quilt for my stepson and fiance. Maybe I can actually finish it by the wedding this fall?
- Eventually make a quilt for our bed. Actually make something for us? Surely you jest.
- Cook more. I got my brother a "Mr. Bento" for Christmas and while searching for reviews, I came across this flickr group: www.flickr.com/groups/mrbento. Seeing all those delicious, well-packed meals just makes me want to spend the time in the morning to bring my own lunch to work, as opposed to the frozen food I tend to live on. So I have purchased one for myself. Let's see how long I can keep up with making my own lunches?
- Learn InDesign (take a class)
- Read more. I would like to actually pick up a book for enjoyment, instead of for research.
- Finish Lord of the Rings cloak for my mother - it has been sitting on the loom for almost two years now. I fear the the yarn which is sitting there exposed will be several shades lighter than the rest of the roll.
- Re-learn Spanish - yes, after seven years of taking classes from eighth grade through my sophomore year of college, I still have the speaking ability approximately equivalent to that of a five year old. Shameful, really.
- Paint my future office, so that someday I may move my desk and assorted computer apparatus out of the living room - what an amazing concept.
- Exercise more. Yes, everyone always states this as a goal; I hope to actually follow through with it.
- Take more photographs. I still occasionally surprise myself, and I keep thinking that I should do something more with this.
- Submit photos (and get accepted) to contribute to iStockphoto.
- Purchase a new video camera
- Learn Final Cut Pro.
- Post videos to iStockvideo.
- Make things for zazzle and etsy.
- Write more. I actually wrote a one page fictional passage last month. I haven't written anything (not counting papers and assignments) since high school. I think seeing the light at the end of the tunnel jumpstarted my creativity.
- Make an outline for a book (you gotta aim high).
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