So, I had some trouble completing all of the tasks on my 2013 list. So instead of making a list of 100 things I want to do, I think I'm going to create a 7-item per month checklist for each month in 2013. And maybe an additional 10-item list of things I can complete anytime in that year, and a 6-item list of goals to accomplish over the entire year or monthly. Specificity is my friend, and yours. I think that for 2012, I tried to include too many "this amount of things per month" as one item, and "this goal over the entire year" and "if I get around to it now and then" vague goals.
So here's the preliminary planning. Some items will be repeated from last year cause I think they were cool ideas :D Also, some items are conditional, like snow-tubing and skiing require it to snow, kinda. So I'll list a backup plan for those conditional ones. Money-conditional ones I will put into the 10-item random list.
UPDATE: I haven't touched this since, like, early March. So I have some catching up to do, but as of now, this is what I've done so far...
January 2013
_x_ Have a dinner party with friends!
_x_ Start planning the gypsy caravan flags to hang at camp.
_x_ Kiss in the falling snow.
_x_ Make a collage!
_x_ Make a homemade Thai meal to warm up. :)
_x_ Buy a hoop for next month's hooping challenge!!
_ Find a new dentist. Set up an appointment, even if it's not in January.
February 2013
_ Make some cheese.
_x_ Take up hooping!
_x_ Make a sexy, spicy Argentinian homemade meal for Valentines Day! By candlelight!
_x_ Go shoot some pics somewhere.
_ Take inventory of your wardrobe.
_x_ Plant some seeds to start a little herb garden :D
_ Go skiing or snow tubing.
March 2013
_ Paint with watercolour.
_ Choose a Goddess, and make a mini altar somewhere to her.
_ Make a homemade Sicilian meal to celebrate the Mediterranean spring.
_x_ Tour the Troegs brewery.
_x_ Become a total carnivore for a week to see how it feels.
_x_ Go visit Celtic Myth and Moonlight.
_x_ Renew/pay off this year's Four Quarters membership.
April 2013
_ Make a homemade Turkish meal.
_ Take a pole-dancing class.
_ Plant a tree.
_ Brew yourself some mead to celebrate the dawn of spring!
_ Make a dreamcatcher.
_x_ Frolic in a field!
_ Go for a Spring hike.
May 2013
_ Get a haircut, after Beltaine.
_x_ Organize a picnic potluck dealio with some friends.
_x_ Mix a perfume out of pure essential oils for summer; maybe even put it in a lotion.
_ Go to NYC for a daytrip. Maybe see a musical.
_ Make a homemade Scottish meal to honor your heritage.
_ Go walk down by the museum stream.
_ Go boating, kayaking, tubing or canoeing.
June 2013
_ Go on that ziplining course again.
_ Climb a tree.
_ Make a homemade Finnish meal to celebrate the Midnight Sun.
_x_ Skinny dip.
_ Have a sunday picnic!
_ If it rains sometime, go for a walk in the rain! No rain gear allowed.
_ Make a crystal grid!
July 2013
_ Go on a hike, collect some stones, and make a pretty sculpture with them.
_ Pick a former US president and become an expert on him.
_ Go to the library
_ Find the most awesomest playground ever and go monkey around on it til sunset.
_ Cool off with a Moroccan meal, since the spices will help regulate body temperature.
_ Go to the beach for a day.
_x_ Hold a wine and cheese party. (Wasn't specifically wine and cheese but there were both!)
August 2013
_ Go raspberry picking! :)
_ Cook a Lebanese meal and streeeetch out in the sun.
_ Go fishing.
_ Take the most luxurious, ridiculous bubble bath you can think of!
_ Stargaze.
_ Get a manicure.
_ Have a girl's night out.
September 2013
_ Go out on a super high-class date with Tim, tux and dress and all.
_x_ Dance in the moonlight.
_ Knit a scarf.
_ Make melted crayon art.
_ Make a homemade South African meal.
_x_ Eat some kind of exotic animal meat (kangaroo, etc)
_ Start testing recipes for a perfect paleo cupcake for Xmas.
October 2013
_ Cook yourself a good 'ol American meal with burgers and pumpkin pie!
_ Go to Shocktoberfest or something to that effect.
_ Get a massage. Maybe a couples massage??
_ Volunteer for something.
_x_ Check out a local independent store (like on Penn Ave) and buy something awesome and preferably handmade
_ Have a Halloween party, even if it's small!
_ Dress Jasper up as Batman for Halloween! :)
November 2013
_ This entire month, watch for a dare or a risk presented to you. Take it.
_ Make your own body cream! The air is starting to dry out. Scent it with the perfume you made!
_ Make a traditional Russian meal.
_ Some weekend this month, take a drive. Go as far as you can, stay all weekend, without a hotel, and just be spontaneous.
_ Make rose petal jam. Maybe rose petal strawberry or blackberry jam.
_ Buy lingerie. Splurge on something really nice that makes me feel awesome and sexy!
_ Take another Bellydance class.
December 2013
_ Send Christmas cards to friends and family
_ Take Mom to Christmas Village.
_ Does Australia have cuisine? Find out and make some food!
_ Start writing 100 things 2014 ;)
_ Hand-make 5 gifts for people.
_ Roll some sushi. Mmmmm.
_ Go on an island vacation! Iceland, Ireland, Turks and Caicos, who knows yet?! :)
Extra 10 for any time:
_x_ Travel to a major city, near or far, for a day or weekend trip
_ Hit up Cedar Point sometime this summer.
_ Write more to your penpals!
_ Go to a concert.
_ Try to teach the dog a new trick
_ Ride in a hot air balloon.
_ Fingerpaint with my toes.
_ Ride a horse.
_ Cultivate meditation. Cultivate quiet. Cultivate mindfulness.
_ Go to a yoga, spiritual or meditation workshop. (Four Quarters events are a given and don't count for this.)
Extra 6 for over the year or weekly/monthly:
_ Draw an Oracle card weekly.
_ Lose those last 20-25 lbs.
_ Read a lot! Keep a tally of how many you read :)
_ Start exfoliating weekly.
_ Go out on a date more regularly.
_ Gradually increase my yoga practice.
