I just wanted to create a post that would be dedicated only to our plans and dreams. What kind of things do you dream of doing in the coming months or even years as you gain your new sense of self? What are your goals? They can be physical, material, emotional, spiritual, whatever. But use this space to talk about these positive things.
I'll start:
1. Summer teaching face to face (haven't done that in a long time) and new online course teaching 2. Research and write my book in summer and fall (hopefullly my sabbatical is approved, fingers crossed) 3. Garden: get my large vegetable garden cleaned up and put mulch paths down to limit the size to what I can handle alone 4. Garden: clean up all the beds that have gone to ruin 5. Yard: buy a storage shed that's "cute". LOL. I always loved storage sheds that were like little houses. I'd like one in my yard to sit in during nice times of the year to read or write or stitch, and then landscape around it 6. Needlework: get back into my passion SERIOUSLY again 7. Read about 200 books 8. See my family more often 9. Visit my friend in Greensboro, NC 10. Meet more cool people to hang out with in my area 11. Do some painting in my house and whatever else to make it even more different than it was when I was married
That's all for now, but I think we should all write and add to our goals and dreams as needed!
M45 Bomb 6/09; EA 6/10; Divorced 1/11 Proud single mom of 7 little feline girls and one little feline boy "Fall down 53 times. Get up 54." -- Zen saying
My goals include getting my business back into shape and making some money! lol
Also to kick this last 10 pounds off of me!
I got more, but thats all I have for now
Kissak
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." Psalms 56:3 M-37 H-37 S-10, D-15 M- 1993 First bomb- 12/23/06 Came and went too MANY times! Gone again 10-25-10
1. Buy a lake house and a boat 2. Lose 30 pounds 3. Develop gardens and patio in my backyard 4. Take golf lessons 5. Play in a tennis league 6. Work out in the mornings before work 7. Keep up pilates class 8. Cook at home more frequently 9. Dave Ramsey it up:) 10. Find more fun opportunities for me and my kids
M-48/XH-48 M=25/T=28 years Ds-24,22/S-18 D - 3/11 A Day at a Time
Lose the weight I gained during the past year - I am on that one already, and lost 5 lbs. Like you, read a ton of books Work on my new business venture which is exciting Meet more new people - doing pretty well on this one, but want to go on expanding it. Continue my spiritual journey, and continue to know, like and trust myself without outside validation Listen to more music
Avoid bad hair days: this one is important!!
I have already bought a wreck of a house to renovate Crazy, but fun, and I can do it as and when. My kids all love it. It has its own fig tree!!
Get out from under this house with enough money to buy a house all 'my own' Continue to advance in my job to a point of earning a decent living without worrying about petty things like utility bills Continue to grow and live to my utmost. Be the best Grandma & Mom I can be.
* Get back on track financially, get up to date on everything. * Lose the last 28 lbs. * Clean, organize and redesign my basement in prep for next winter. * Paint all the bedrooms. * Clean out the backyard wasteland. * Do another LIVE LF. * Set up my craft space and start scrapbooking again. * Do more interesting stuff with the kiddos. * Try geocaching again when the weather warms up. * Continue to do the work and find ME. * Continue to pay it forward.
Well ... that's a start!!!
Cheers! PEI
Holding onto anger to punish someone else, is like lighting yourself on fire to get smoke in their eyes ~ 25yearsmlc
* Exercise, exercise, exercise.....again! * Eat Healthy - not diet, and lose the weight for good! * Get that stained glass project out and FINISH it! * Start making jewelry again. * Get the carpeting I need. * Remodel MY bedroom. * Learn who I am. * Learn how to go out and have fun! * Get my garage cleaned out so I can park in it (spring project). * Continue to process and GET what THIS is all about. * Keep adding goals to keep me moving forward.
"Do not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber
* prioritize better career / personal life * get better organized so I don't feel like a chicken running around with my head chopped off all of the time. * "play" with my girls more * remember to take "me" time * keep hiking and exercising * read more * take a vacation this summer * hire someone to fix the little things that need to be fixed in my house so I can put it on the market this spring * Clean house to downsize into a duplex * keep going out with my friends and enjoying my life * look for new job that pays more and has bennies (this is not what I WANT to do, but I should to better stand on my own) * do a better job training my dumb dog * take more bubble baths * buy clothes that actually FIT my new slimmer body
TAMF m:41 xh:41 T: 20 M: 15 D: 16 D: 14 Bomb dropped: 7/3/10 separated: 7/15/10 H moved in to new apt. with OW: 7/1/11 divorced: 8/26/12
