Make home a haven
- Find a better place to live.
- Reduce book inventory by 10 percent (based on 1/1/08 holdings)
- Reduce CD inventory by 20 percent (based on 1/1/08 holdings)
- Frame and hang at least 10 of my photos
- Create a coherent wardrobe
- Reduce clothing for each season to a level that it can be packed in a single large suitcase (coats excluded)
- End the 1001 days with a home that has an actual table for meals, real bookshelves, and a guest bed.
- Get rid of all boxes of random stuff
- Upgrade cookware and knives
Photography related
- Hang photos in a juried show/contest
- Photo project: A Day in Grant Park
- Photograph the Scarecrow festival.
- Buy a DSLR
- Hang photos at art center.
- Sell a photo to someone I don’t know.
- Take a nature focused photography workshop.
- Join North American Nature Photography Association
- Become a field contributor to Nature Photographer magazine
- Participate in photo club show and tell at least 9 times.
Academic & Professional
- Submit first article for publication.
- Submit second article for publication.
- Submit third article for publication
- Submit grant proposal for student project.
- Design soc of religion course.
- Talk with CR about consulting opportunities
- Design community course.
- Attend the ASA meetings.
- Complete first draft of my tenure dossier
- Find and attend one conference related to administrative possibilities
- Find and attend one conference related to improving teaching
- Organize all lecture materials
- Run for a faculty senate office
- Read 12 books on professional development
- Attend summer institute in Bloomington or Ann Arbor
Sustainability and preparedness
- Become an active participant in the local foods movement as more than a consumer
- Buy a chest freezer.
- participate in the Eat Local Challenge
- Participate in Dark Days local eating challenge.
- Buy a bicycle.
- Start using a bike for as much travel as possible.
- Put together a first aid kit
- Put together a bug out bag
- Become certified for CERT
- Take a first aid and CPR class.
Naturalist
- Finalize data base for my life list.
- Increase my birding life list to 175.
- Keep a yard list for 2008
- Hike Trail 8 start to finish.
- Hike Trail 2 start to finish.
- Complete Master Naturalist process.
- Start a life list of dragonflies and damselflies
Relationships & Spirituality
- Spend a weekend making love.
- Find a spiritual home
- Celebrate at least 8 sabbats
- Follow up on at least 3 new friend possibilities
- Have a gathering at my home
- Attend a pagan gathering or spiritual retreat
- Send at least 25 cards and letters not during winter holiday season
- Send holiday cards
- Bake my sister a birthday cake
- Visit folks in Florida
- Attend a Friends meeting
Travel
- Travel to the desert Southwest.
- Use my passport for travel at least one more time.
- Travel to Canada.
- See Lake Superior
- Camp for at least 7 consecutive days.
- Visit the Wichita Wildlife Refuge
- Visit the Great Salt Plains
- See Yellowstone.
- Visit the Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Local Exploration
- Visit Shedd Aquarium
- Attend a live music event.
- Spend a weekend exploring Bloomington
- Go into Chicago on my own
- Drive into Chicago
- Visit the Chicago Botanical Gardens
Financial
- Pay off all store credit cards.(another 0 balance reached in May 2008 )
- Pay off Dell.
- Create a comprehensive home inventory
- Get my end of life affairs in order (will, etc.)
- Beginning 10/08, put money into savings every month that I receive salary (9 months a year)
Health
- See the dentist for annual check ups and 4 cleanings.
- Develop a work out routine and follow it 250 times.
Personal Development & Hobbies
- Attend HAI level one workshop.
- Attend a second personal development workshop or retreat
- See the admission counselor at Meadville about possibilities.
- Read 100 books
- Write 20 book reviews
- Watch 50 movies
- Spend a week unplugged
- Learn to build cubes
- Build miniature cabin or give it away
- Make my sister a lap quilt
- Work through The Artist’s Way
- Write and publish 100 entries to my non LJ blogs.
- Cook at least 25 new dishes.
- Create 5 fun outfits for gatherings and rituals
- Write 3 travel reviews
- Choose one area of focus each month and document progress in that area
