Happy Birthday, Karen

1. Make dinner 2 nights per week
2. Finish James’s baby book finished as much as possible
3. Own a pair of comfortable dress boots
4. Read 25 books
5. Take a week of vacation in the summer and visit my family
6. Try a new ingredient once a month (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
7. Organize my recipe collection
8. Develop a more efficient workspace at my office My new desk is WAY more organized/organizable.
9. Own investment jeans Not Happening
10. Go to 3 local museums
11. Organize a group camping trip We had 2 of them!
12. Learn how to run In progress!
13. See a concert
14. Try out four new restaurants (Jan 21) (March 18)
15. Acknowledge the birthdays of every person on my list Epic fail
16. Make something for James using some of his old clothes
17. Watch James take his first steps/say his first real words
18. Put pictures in all the frames in our apartment
19. Buy a cake from a local bakery
20. Go to a band concert at UMD
21. Exercise more Y Membership
22. See my sister graduate college I'm counting this as accomplished; I didn't watch her walk, but we had dinner with her that night.
23. Cut back on sweets My new job has actually helped with this; less boredom/stress = less snacking!
24. Get rid of cable 1/3/2011
25. Finish our wedding scrapbook project
26. Start purchasing Christmas gifts in March at the latest HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
27. Create a weekly menu, and stick to it! See above: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
28. Meet someone in real life that I’ve only known on the internet
29. Get my hair cut and style it more often this last part is ongoing
30. Host a party
31. Go to church at least once per month, and make a donation each time
32. Send thank-you notes for all gifts
33. Make ice cream
34. Encourage Ryan to get his first Cisco certification
35. Try a new food I'm counting brussel sprouts.
36. Hang out with Alyson for an entire weekend
37. Make more of an effort to dress up for work No longer necessary; this is more of a nice jeans and sweater kind of place.
38. Make a lunch (not frozen) 2 days per week. I've been packing a peanut butter sandwich and carrots. I consider this an achievement.
39. Take a community ed class Swimming w/the boys
40. Make something in our dutch oven that requires using it in the oven
41. Go to bed before eleven more often
42. Go to a Farmer’s Market and buy something 3 times this summer Another failure. Although we did buy some local honey from a friend!
43. Call my parents and sisters every other week just to check in I think I'm doing WORSE at this than last year
44. Make: caramel rolls from scratch (get the recipe from my grandma)
45. Bring James on his first trip to Canada
46. Learn to drive a stick
47. Print out photos from our wedding and put them in an album
48. Make breakfast more often on the weekends
49. Keep the apartment cleaner than past years
50. Buy a good area rug for the living room
51. Make a general doctor’s appointment to get my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc., checked out 1/11/11
52. Take more pictures and put some in albums
53. Clean the basement and organize all our stuff down there All bins labeled as of 3/13/11. This is as much organizing as is going to happen before we move
54. Organize my jewelry
55. Buy more bins for storage and put seasonal clothes away
56. Donate all unused clothing/toys to Goodwill/Salvation Army