List 40 things to do before I turn 40 and do 2 things towards them every week

I’m going to call this goal done on my birthday. I’m putting everything off the list that is a) still active and b) that I still care about on my 43things list.

Progress -

• Semi-watched and dumped the movie I said I’d watch.
• Still doing the push ups.
• Got the bidding directives out and am working with the new data for this month
• Have lost some weight.

I’m at 60% done. Check in time!

• Do 50 pushups – doable if I can stay with the program
• Read an unread book by Marguerite Duras or Alasdair Gray – probably can’t do both unless they’re considerable more breezy than I remember
• Have my job organized and running well – if I can publish the bidding reports this month and next month I’ll consider this done
• Read all of my comics – Doable if I don’t read the books. Hmm.

• Lose 15 Pounds – I can reasonably lose 5.
• Watch all my VHS tapes will watch the Beauty and the Beast Xmas on poker night. Will take one tape to Mary to burn and find out how hard it is.
• Take dance classes – will get to the gym and take at least 2 classes
• Organize my photos Will get the photos in the box into the albums
• Finish the dinner plates for a set of 8 – will do one

• Have nude photos of me taken
• Have a wardrobe that reflect who I am and makes me feel good – both of these are waiting on at least 10 pounds of weight loss. Which I am going to accomplish.
• The ee cummings garden paver project – will do this summer
• Have a will – a bit easier to do now that the estate is settled

• Paint and redo the bedroom – Let’s see how the economy shapes up, shall we? It would be nice to just paint it but it seems that this entails many things beyond our ability.
• Create a 5-year plan- I’m not sure this actually possible or actually worth it. Am deleting from the list.

I’ve marked as completed the whole streamline the house goal. It’s not perfect, it never will be of course, but so many improvements have been made I feel OK about calling it done. So much better than it was when the list was generated, that’s for sure.

I’m also marking complete learn to parallel park. I’ve done it successfully several times recently and though it’s never stress free or pretty, I can do it.

I’m dumping a couple more here to be replaced by a big old hunkin’ mega goal – so here we are.

I’m removing two of the outing goals:
Visit Angel Island, since I’ve kind of missed the season and it’s probably less exciting to visit right now after a large part of it caught fire
Visit the Whiskeytown Waterfall since I know really understand where Whiskeytown is and the distance both to it and off the track to and from Oregon makes it more difficult to get to. Later.

I don’t know what to do about the redo the bedroom goal. It’s totally not going to happen right now. But I’m reluctant to let it go.

But I’m adding lose 15 pounds. Because I really need to get past this kind of dieting kind of not place and get back to my lower pre-baby weight.

Oh, and I’m adding some of the things from the list to my main list so I remember them!

This week I completed the wildly important goal of Use up all the soap my Dad gave me for Christmas in 2003. Satisfying.

Try dance and movement classes
Got the schedule for the gym. Must. Overcome. Inertia.

Streamline my home, reduce clutter, get rid of everything I don’t love and make things more functional
Still purging. Many more things in the out pile.

I’ve marked off Touch 5 Snakes. 3 snakes came within me in a controlled situation and I touched them all. I am not stupid enough to chase after wild snakes to touch them. “Hey! Slither this way!” And now they’re about to go to sleep foe the winter. If any more snake opportunities arise, I will take them and mention it here.

Also deleted Try Capoeria as the place that taught it isn’t anymore.

Otherwise
Streamline my Home…
Some excellent purging underway. Some large items freecycled.

Learn to parallel park
Managed to do a left side one in a pretty good sized space on the first time. Still get a bit freaked out and go the wrong direction quite a bit.

Watch all my VHS tapes and get rid of them
Great culling has ensued as the tapes were ejected from their previous home. I dumped all homemade tapes I hadn’t watched. So I only have to watch the _Beauty and the Beast _ Christmas sequel. We got rid of a bunch of the Disney’s that we didn’t think will need to be viewed often (Dumbo, for example), a bunch of the workout tapes, and movies we don’t need to have on hand. Still some stuff to think about. Must find someone who can dub VHS to DVD.

Have my job organized well or give it up
Lots of working through data. Have somewhat handed over the bidding to someone else. Have somewhat handed over copywriting and additions to GG.

Either have my job organized and running like a top or give it up
Much progress made towards topness.

Have nude photos of me taken
Talked some to GG about this. We’ve agreed that 1) this is not a one shoot project and 2) we’ve not going glamour – more landscape. Weston inspired maybe?

Paint and redo the bedroom
Somehow this turned into redoing the living room… How did that happen?

This week I completed
Climb a rock climbing wall again

I knew there would be one at Graton day. It was one of the portable sort but they’re still plenty high and not exactly easy to ascend. The chum and I discussed it at length so we were both psyched to do it.

We each climbed twice. He got a good 8 feet up the second time. Go chum!

I made it to the top twice. Significantly less scary than the first time two years ago. Even when I looked down at the chum I didn’t freeze up, though I was shaking when I got down each time. The second time I thought I wouldn’t make it. I got all twisted around with all my weight on one foot that was crossed over my midsection and crappy handholds but I muscled through it and made it.

Super elated and sweaty at the end. Such a rush.

I’m starting to think some of these may not be accomplishable but don’t feel up to actually revising.

Either have my job organized and running like a top or give it up
Put in some good work towards catching up.

Create a 5 Year Plan
This may not actually be doable but I’ve been doing reading and reflecting towards this – I just haven’t posted about it here yet…

Streamline my Home…
Gearing up for the next round of Fall purging with GG.