resolute

i was at a friend's house and saw her list of resolutions tacked on the wall.  what i thought cool about them were that they were divided into different categories (financial, social, personal, spiritual) and that they were half-yearly.  it seems common to set what we'd like to do, then figure we'll just be doing it by september.  if you've got until july, that's an easier time frame to get going.

thinking about what i want to do better, i wondered, "why wait until january?"

some of mine:

• attend and/or give gifts to the weddings to which i am invited (i'm off to a good start!)
  
• practice the heck out of my accordion and piano
  
• travel somewhere big (china, turkey, sweden, antarctica, mongolia, chichen itza)
  
• buy an atv
  
• read like i wanted to this year (one book a month; i finished my 88-page january book in august)
  
• learn photoshop (iphoto's nice and all, but i was meant for bigger things)
  
• start an internet rumor
  
• take other adult education classes: car maintenance, sewing
  
• direct a commercial or movie
  
• learn investing
  
• become first aid certifide
  
• learn to ride a horse
  
• do a triathlon with my sister and/or brother-in-law
  
• learn a little about html
  

if i can do that, it should be a pretty good year...