tyb30 - final count
the year before 30 ends today! it's been a good year. i'm happy with where i am right now. and i didn't do too badly on the goals, either. :)
1: take 2900 photos. done, thanks to a couple of fabulous vacations! 3673 photos taken. i went through and chose my 29 favorites from the year. my guess is that if i looked at the all photos in a year, my favorites would change. but right now, here are the 29 i chose.
2: visit two places i've never been before. done! i was able to visit a lot of new places this year. i was in both pittsburgh and milwaukee twice for cubs games; michigan for a work event (i'd never been to michigan. seriously); i made it to south dakota twice to visit lynn; and the rockstar tour took me through wyoming, new mexico, oklahoma and arkansas on the way to yet another cubs game in cincinnati. my current where i've been map of the mainland looks like this now:
3: finish two quilts. three done! i made a quilt for alicia's birthday (left photo), finished up a quilt for holly & wayne (center photo) and used the scraps from alicia's to make a baby quilt (right photo) for a silent auction at work.
4: make/recycle/customize a table for the living room. done! i salvaged a table from the dumpster at work. i have more work to do on the table - but as it is, it's recycled.
5: avoid deep-fried vegetables. done! the french fry embargo officially started may 1. i've had potato chips a few times, but i'm comfortable with that. i'm almost nine months without deep-fried potatoes!
6: watch the entire 'friends' series. done! i'm actually on season nine for the third time in the last 9 months. go ahead; judge me. i don't mind. :)
7: send out Christmas cards. done! my Christmas cards were sent out in plenty of time.
8: tackle another month of 1000 photographs. done! accomplished in july - 1,029 photos. you can see them all here on my flickr account.
9: put together the fortune journal. done! and i'm quite pleased with the outcome.
10: surprise! done & i love it! i turned one of my living room walls into a huge piece of black/white photographic artwork. 166 of my photos, floor to ceiling, corner to corner. they start small on the left side of the wall (4.5" x 3") and get bigger with each column of photos (ending at 24" x 16"). i love this wall.
11: send a piece of real mail each month. done! i had hoped that sending real mail would generate real mail in return. i don't know if the relationship is true, but i did, indeed, send & receive real mail each month. i like real mail. you should keep sending it to me. :)
12: watch all of Alan Alda's movies available from netflix. i'm conceding defeat on this one and contemplating carrying it over to next year. although i will word it differently next year. i will watch the ones i haven't seen before, but i will NOT re-watch Purlie Victorious. his accent was horrible.
13: try a muffuletta from at least two restaurants other than three floyd's. done! this one was a last-minute victory, but a victory nonetheless. i had the muffuletta at bazbeaux (left photo) and at cafe lou lou (right photo). they were very different. bazbeaux's was much spicier. it had a spicy olive relish and pepperoni. it was kicky enough that it actually burned the roof of my mouth - not from temperature, but from spices. cafe lou lou's was much calmer with a mild green olive relish and no pepperoni. it had a fancier bread - some sort of herbed foccacia, i think - and that was quite tasty. overall, i liked the one at bazbeaux better. and i'd like to go back to bazbeaux & try their pizza. it looked delicious!
14: host a ladies' night at the new house. done! my ladies got together for a li'l halloween party.
15: get my own place. done!
16: plantumentary. done! my original idea was to show a good 4 or 5 months in the life of my plant ... but instead, you get 47 days. it's definitely better than nothing, right?
17: get my blog archives under control with yearly headers. done!
18: don't plug in my tv until goal #3 is accomplished. done! and now i've rearranged my living room so it doesn't look like a tv even belongs there, anymore.
19: try to grow some vegetables. done! it was a very small harvest, but the three tomatoes i ate were quite tasty. :)
20: read a book. done! i read'persepolis' and started catch 22, again. plus i'm reading life in heaven as it's being written. and laure & i are reading jesus wants to save christians together.
21: put up a Christmas tree. done! well, the little one is completely done. the big one could use some finishing touches - but it was up for Christmas. :)
22: get my nose pierced. done!
23: update my portfolio. done! yes, i'll continue to add to it and possibly make some tweaks ... but it's updated.
24: screen print a t-shirt. yeah, not so much. i have some ideas, but not the dedication to actually do it.
25: bike ten miles. i didn't ride my bike a single time this summer. sad, isn't it? i WALKED on the bike trail, but i didn't ride my bike on it.
26: create artwork for the office. i thought about trying to wiggle out of this one on a technicality ... but no matter how i word it, i never created artwork specifically for the office. i've worked on some ideas, but i can't decide what kind of feel i want the room to have. so creating artwork has been tricky. i'm actually tempted to paint it white. crazy, huh?
27: go two weeks without obvious processed sugars. done! january 5 through january 18. then, on january 19, i broke my sugar fast with a piece of chocolate birthday cake with chocolate ganache between the layers & chocolate buttercream on top. yumm-o. my current goal is to limit my sugar intake to very small amounts on an infrequent basis.
28: Christmas surprise. i could probably pretend this was alluding to one of the gifts that got made, but it wasn't. i was hoping to get something done that just didn't happen. maybe next year.
29: have breakfast at lynn's paradise cafe. done! another last-minute victory, but so worth it. i spent wednesday night with dan & malissa, and we had breakfast together thursday morning. it was fabulous. the food was excellent, as always, but the time with dan & malissa? that was the fabulous part. they're good people; yes, they are.
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'becca still has some question marks in her new list - any last-minute suggestions?
1: take 2900 photos. done, thanks to a couple of fabulous vacations! 3673 photos taken. i went through and chose my 29 favorites from the year. my guess is that if i looked at the all photos in a year, my favorites would change. but right now, here are the 29 i chose.
2: visit two places i've never been before. done! i was able to visit a lot of new places this year. i was in both pittsburgh and milwaukee twice for cubs games; michigan for a work event (i'd never been to michigan. seriously); i made it to south dakota twice to visit lynn; and the rockstar tour took me through wyoming, new mexico, oklahoma and arkansas on the way to yet another cubs game in cincinnati. my current where i've been map of the mainland looks like this now:
3: finish two quilts. three done! i made a quilt for alicia's birthday (left photo), finished up a quilt for holly & wayne (center photo) and used the scraps from alicia's to make a baby quilt (right photo) for a silent auction at work.
4: make/recycle/customize a table for the living room. done! i salvaged a table from the dumpster at work. i have more work to do on the table - but as it is, it's recycled.
5: avoid deep-fried vegetables. done! the french fry embargo officially started may 1. i've had potato chips a few times, but i'm comfortable with that. i'm almost nine months without deep-fried potatoes!
6: watch the entire 'friends' series. done! i'm actually on season nine for the third time in the last 9 months. go ahead; judge me. i don't mind. :)
7: send out Christmas cards. done! my Christmas cards were sent out in plenty of time.
8: tackle another month of 1000 photographs. done! accomplished in july - 1,029 photos. you can see them all here on my flickr account.
9: put together the fortune journal. done! and i'm quite pleased with the outcome.
10: surprise! done & i love it! i turned one of my living room walls into a huge piece of black/white photographic artwork. 166 of my photos, floor to ceiling, corner to corner. they start small on the left side of the wall (4.5" x 3") and get bigger with each column of photos (ending at 24" x 16"). i love this wall.
11: send a piece of real mail each month. done! i had hoped that sending real mail would generate real mail in return. i don't know if the relationship is true, but i did, indeed, send & receive real mail each month. i like real mail. you should keep sending it to me. :)
12: watch all of Alan Alda's movies available from netflix. i'm conceding defeat on this one and contemplating carrying it over to next year. although i will word it differently next year. i will watch the ones i haven't seen before, but i will NOT re-watch Purlie Victorious. his accent was horrible.
13: try a muffuletta from at least two restaurants other than three floyd's. done! this one was a last-minute victory, but a victory nonetheless. i had the muffuletta at bazbeaux (left photo) and at cafe lou lou (right photo). they were very different. bazbeaux's was much spicier. it had a spicy olive relish and pepperoni. it was kicky enough that it actually burned the roof of my mouth - not from temperature, but from spices. cafe lou lou's was much calmer with a mild green olive relish and no pepperoni. it had a fancier bread - some sort of herbed foccacia, i think - and that was quite tasty. overall, i liked the one at bazbeaux better. and i'd like to go back to bazbeaux & try their pizza. it looked delicious!
14: host a ladies' night at the new house. done! my ladies got together for a li'l halloween party.
15: get my own place. done!
16: plantumentary. done! my original idea was to show a good 4 or 5 months in the life of my plant ... but instead, you get 47 days. it's definitely better than nothing, right?
17: get my blog archives under control with yearly headers. done!
18: don't plug in my tv until goal #3 is accomplished. done! and now i've rearranged my living room so it doesn't look like a tv even belongs there, anymore.
19: try to grow some vegetables. done! it was a very small harvest, but the three tomatoes i ate were quite tasty. :)
20: read a book. done! i read'persepolis' and started catch 22, again. plus i'm reading life in heaven as it's being written. and laure & i are reading jesus wants to save christians together.
21: put up a Christmas tree. done! well, the little one is completely done. the big one could use some finishing touches - but it was up for Christmas. :)
22: get my nose pierced. done!
23: update my portfolio. done! yes, i'll continue to add to it and possibly make some tweaks ... but it's updated.
24: screen print a t-shirt. yeah, not so much. i have some ideas, but not the dedication to actually do it.
25: bike ten miles. i didn't ride my bike a single time this summer. sad, isn't it? i WALKED on the bike trail, but i didn't ride my bike on it.
26: create artwork for the office. i thought about trying to wiggle out of this one on a technicality ... but no matter how i word it, i never created artwork specifically for the office. i've worked on some ideas, but i can't decide what kind of feel i want the room to have. so creating artwork has been tricky. i'm actually tempted to paint it white. crazy, huh?
27: go two weeks without obvious processed sugars. done! january 5 through january 18. then, on january 19, i broke my sugar fast with a piece of chocolate birthday cake with chocolate ganache between the layers & chocolate buttercream on top. yumm-o. my current goal is to limit my sugar intake to very small amounts on an infrequent basis.
28: Christmas surprise. i could probably pretend this was alluding to one of the gifts that got made, but it wasn't. i was hoping to get something done that just didn't happen. maybe next year.
29: have breakfast at lynn's paradise cafe. done! another last-minute victory, but so worth it. i spent wednesday night with dan & malissa, and we had breakfast together thursday morning. it was fabulous. the food was excellent, as always, but the time with dan & malissa? that was the fabulous part. they're good people; yes, they are.
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'becca still has some question marks in her new list - any last-minute suggestions?
Labels: the year before 30
posted by 'becca at 1:50 AM
5 Comments:
Thanks for coming to visit!!! I'm so glad we got to spend some time together --- it had been way too long! I hope you have a great Birthday Weekend! Love you!
i LOVED the photo of the fence standing up, but falling down in the mirror. That was awesome.
Have you ever been to Casa Bonita? Because that would also be a good goal, while getting you into Colorado at the same time. :-)
Yea, thanks for the wrap up! I give you an A+ much better than I would have ever done! I can't wait to see the new list!
Ohh, and I LOVED so many of the photos!! Very nice! And I remembered a lot of them from the wall too...
Speaking of reading... do you realize that January is almost over? i'm thinking of barreling through another book for January so we can read ours at a pace that suits us better. :-) If we finish it next month, i'll call it February's book, and so on. Because i think we'll miss an awful lot of it if we try to finish it in the next week.
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