1. This blog needs an overhaul. Seriously. The platform behind this bad-boy is so old, there are dinosaurs in a room somewhere pushing rocks up a hill to power it. The guys at Bluehost weren’t even born yet. A redesign would be fun too. A new name? Hmmmm….
2. Join a gym. Or exercise. Something. SERIOUSLY. It’s bad. Gone is the heyday of Pilates classes and private training sessions (back when were were solidly double-income and blissfully vague about our spending). Gone are the nearly daily prenatal or mom-baby classes. Mom-toddler is a MUCH narrower exercise category. Actually I can’t say that for certain because I never tried those jog-stroller exercise classes. I even won a free week of one, once. With a lime green logo’d tank top and orange cap to boot. (Umm… thanks?) Today I toured the neighborhood Y, so that’s a possibility. Now, if I will just use that free-day coupon to see if I actually like it and want to go, gulp, regularly. (Hey Liz, they have Zumba — been thinking about it ever since reading your posts.)
3. Photography. On Sunday I took my first RAW class, my first photography class of any kind in MANY years. I used to be good, I tell people. I used to have a darkroom. Developed and printed my own pictures since I was a kid. Shot photos sort of professionally — a few author photos, a spread in a magazine… It was a good class. And hard. And intimidating. And the subheadings under this to-do item are many: take more pictures, organize the photo files you have, print some of those files, make a photo book or three, upgrade to CS4, get another hard drive for backing-up files, take a Photoshop class… I am signed up to take another digital photography workshop in the end of March.
4. Work. Oh my. Right now, I have two great amazing wonderful I love them clients who need me, at the same time, to write articles for their individual charity/nonprofit newsletters. I’m conducting about six interviews just tomorrow. Okay, four. And two more later in the week. Still… Once March 8 rolls around, it will be crickets until the next quarterly newsletter deadline. Need to update my business website. Need more clients, or a different gig? Train to become a web designer, a somatic therapist, get a job in a bookstore, or something. And need make decisions in conjunction with that as to how many hours I am willing to have Jonah be at preschool and/or can afford to have him there to do said work.
We pause this list for a To-done-do-ed-it announcement: JONAH DID NOT CRY WHEN I DROPPED HIM OFF AT PRESCHOOL TODAY!!!!!!!! He gave me a hug and that was it. Yay!
5. Curtains. The lack of window treatments in this house should be a punishable offense. I think I’ve found a company that makes organic curtains not treated with plasticizers or formaldehyde or silicone. Now I just have to freaking order them. I have commitment issues when it comes to big ticket purchases, decorating decisions, and anything that requires making holes in the walls.
6. Chickens. We’ve been thinking about another pet at some point. There’s Bambino the wondercat, and yesterday Jonah adopted a tiny snail from the garden — who seems to be happily chomping away at the sage stalk and wandering down into the jar for a sip of water at the bottom — a snail condo that we put together for him. Today the nanny texted that she has three chicks that need a home. She knows we’ve been thinking about it…
7. General yard work. The chickens might eat the weeds that have taken over our backyard, so that could be a win-win. Otherwise, this item expands out to weed cloth, mulch, fertilizing, herbs and flowers, soft bark for a play area… and possibly a fence to go with the chickens?
8. Stop feeling sorry for myself. My attitude needs an overhaul. There is so much to complain about. Really. But gratitude and a dash of optimism might be more effective in righting the myriad wrongs.
9. Get tested. 40-year-old mammogram and blood test for general health check-up both have not been attended to yet. Am sliding into 41 soon. Need to get these done. Also need to find those darned forms the doctor gave me to go get said tests…
10. CAULK!!!!!!! When will we ever get to the much needed scraping out and replacing of caulk? I bought some kind of kit around Christmas time.
What’s on your to-do list?
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Also re Montessori, my kid’s in 2nd grade @ a Montessori school and they definitely do group projects–it’s a big advantage of the multi-age classroom. So maybe it’s coming for Jonah down the road.
I have way to much on my to do list lately. I am preparing for the move by going through cupboards and closets, getting rid of things I don’t need, then going back later and doing it again when I have still kept more than I need.
Woohoo for Jonah!! So glad things are getting better.
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Hey there,
Zumba is great! Of course I haven’t gotten my butt there in a while, but when I did get there in the past I loved it. It helps that you don’t feel like you’re exercising, but rather just hanging out with some folks and dancing to great music.
uff…your to do list is intimidating. It made me think I should get one of those going for myself…but maybe not
My to-do list frightens me. Work has been pretty intense this last month. Everything else slid.
So I hear ya on the exercise or something.
The photography sounds awesome. And photo books, yes… been meaning to do something like that myself. I also have empty frames that need prints.
Hooray, Jonah!
And commitment issues to big purchases and decorating… I have those, too.
One thing I really want to do this year is make a bigger garden. More vegetables.
And I should probably get the rest of my to-do list out of my head and onto paper or screen. Even if the list is scary. Or something important will be forgotten.
Sigh…