This might be cheating a little, since we have a lot of house items, but they really are things we want to accomplish in 2008!
1.Finish Kitchen Cabinets - still need some doors, but done in my book 2.Hang light in dining room 3. Finish Trim 4. Finish Living Room - mantle/beams/lighting/ceiling 5. Create upstairs bathroom 6. Finish guest bedroom 7. Paneling on the walls 8. Hang blinds 9. Build 2 chest of drawers 10. Build a coffee table - Liam LOVES it. 11. Sweep everyday (or shave the dogs) - not everyday, but close to it! 12. Storage in the basement... this might be on the 2009 list - 13. Light in the living room - we bought it, but just not hung 14. Buy a rug for the living room 15. Build railing for upstairs loft - working on this right now. 16. Be able to move the computer desk to the loft
Money
17. Create and stay on a budget - okay.. staying on it is a little give and take.. but we are getting there. 18. Stop wishing we had more money and learn to live on what we do have.- off and on we do this. better than we were. 19. Listen to Dave Ramsey 20. Buy one Christmas present for a family member every month - we were NOT good at this! 21. Stop buying things just because they are on sale - oh, i think I am even worse. 22. Pay attention to the 401K - with the stock market, it was better i didn't look at it. 23. Turn lights off when you leave the room - i got better, pol did not. 24. Start a toy box company - nope and with the new law of Feb 10th, probably won't do that at all. 25. Sell old bridesmaids dresses on ebay - still in a bag in the basement 26. Carpool - not at all. but luckily pol's work moved closer to home! 27. Be able to work part-time - Michelle's goal. ahh.. still a goal for 2009 28. Create cheap date night's list - sort of did this... we just didn't do many of the dates... haha. 29. Do our taxes before the night they are due -YAY!
Spirit, Mind, and Body
Spirit: 30. Read through the entire Bible - not so much. I really need to make it through the old testament sometime! 31. Pray first, worry never - okay... so I am bolding.. though I still worry before praying. But we have gotten so much better. Pol is really great about making us stop and pray about everything. 32. Join a community group 33. Do a community outreach - we didn't do great about this. I did do a few outreach type of things, but we really didn't get involved with a group. I am thinking we should do Habitat 2009!
Mind: 34. Watch less TV - only be hooked on 3 shows -well with no cable it's really not that hard. We turned off the TV a lot more. (does it count that we turned it off for the Wii?) 35. Read three classics - nope. i did read, but no classics 36. Paint one painting - we didn't even start one. 37. Make an educated vote in November 2008 38. Send more snail mail to friends and family - umm... i can't remember doing this. 39. Collect fun postcards to make art with 40. Pol would like to see how his computer game ends 41. Plan ahead 42. Collect old family photos 43. More pictures of Liam 44. Fill out Liam's scrapbook - half way through. 45. Re-learn to knit, knit a hat for Liam - did not pick up my needles! 46. Widdle something 47. Carve pumpkins- dang it... we didn't do this! 48. Go to the zoo - we loved doing this!! 49. Make more home videos - we love videos.
Body: 50. Drink less cider.. okay.. let's not be crazy here... 51. Drink more milk 52. Drink less Coffee and Coke 53. Go to the dentist 54. Do that ear wax candle thing 55. Stretch / be active everyday 56. Do not fall alseep on the couch before 10pm 57. Take a cooking class 58. Lose 10 lbs 59. Take vitamins daily 60. Drink 4 16oz of water daily 61. Create a weekly meal planner - YES! I do this and I LOVE it! 62. Eat more fruits and veggies
The Outdoors
63. Go camping - in a tent 64. Identify different trees (this is Pol, but he can teach me) 65. Take the girls to the dog park when the weather gets nicer 66. Have picnics at the park 67. Go to Movies in the Park 68. Go to Shakespeare In The Park 69. Go to Fall Creek Falls 70. Walk to The Sip 71. Enjoy two Sounds games this summer- hot as hades, but we were there 72. Float trip 73. Play golf - YAY! I found a few friends to play with! So fun!
The Yard
74. Veggie garden in the spring 75. Grow our own herbs 76. Railings on the deck stairs 77. Landscape the front 78. Throw out the toilet in the backyard 79. Get the brand new weed eater working 80. Begin building a fence 81. Install motion detector lights outside 82. Clean off the "mean green" carpet area 83. Get rid of the "crap" sitting in the backyard
Party On
84. Beer tasting (of course) party 85. "Haunted in the 'Hood" party 86. Wii party
Travel
We don't really have the money, but on a budget we would like to visit the following places:
87. Washington DC / Baltimore 88. Chattanooga for the weekend 89. The Biltmore 90. Downtown Asheville 91. Boone 92. Local Wineries 93. Haunted Tour of Franklin 94. The Beach.. I don't care what beach, I just want to go to the beach this summer! 95. Take mom and dad to a Braves game
Pol's Music Goals
96. Web-site updated 97. Finish Record 98. Finish one good song a month 99. Play 12 dates in 2008 100. Find out about publishing 101. Look into songwriting for a company