In the Year 35

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Inspired by this lovely gal at Making it Lovely, I have created my 35 in the year 35 list.

Nicole at Making it Lovely just turned thirty and she gave herself 6 months to complete 30 things before thirty. Amazingly, in addition to running her online business/website, expecting her second child, being a top blogger, and keeping an amazing home, she completed nearly all of her 30 items. (Her site is amazing, you should check it out!)

I have to be a little more realistic. I'm kinda lazy compared to her. I have a lot of things I'd like to do, but need more time to complete them. I'm turning thirty-five in October, so I thought I would try and come up with 35 things I could try and accomplish in the my 35th year. I'm having a bit of a mid-thirties crisis. It seems like a big number to me for some reason. I feel like I need to accomplish something concrete; move my (our) life forward. I think this list will help...If nothing else it will get a lot of things done around the house.

So with no further ado:

35 in the year 35

1.       Finish painting the trim in living room and hallway

2.       Paint bedroom

3.       Get two new dressers for our bedroom (Give back antique dresser to Mom)

4.       Paint afore mentioned dressers to match bedroom (green)

5.       Clean and organize craft closet

6.       Clean and organize hall closet

7.       Paint and cover hall closet doors

8.       Finish sewing curtains in bedrooms

9.       Find linings for living room curtains and finish sewing them too

10.   Replace air conditioner in living room

11.   Install air conditioner in Olive’s room

12.   Install ceiling fan in dining room

13.   Install ceiling fan in Olive’s room

14.   Paint bathrooms

15.   New mirrors, light fixtures, towel racks in bathrooms

16.   Replace all four doors in condo

17.   Price and save money for new toilets, sinks, and flooring in bathrooms

18.   Purge storage unit of all unused stuff

19.   Start using my aerogarden again

20.   Be a vendor in the Christmas Meet Your Maker with new product

21.   Finish up surplus craft projects

22.   Start embroidery pattern business

23.   Make my Blog bigger and better

24.   Spend a long weekend in a house on the beach

25.   Take a romantic overnight trip with my husband and WITHOUT the baby

26.   Get grocery spending down to $50/week

27.   Pay off credit card

28.   Start saving again

29.   Carve Pumpkins

30.   Decorate for Christmas

31.   Make all Christmas gifts with stuff I already have (or with very minimal purchase)

32.   Solve CD/record storage problem

33.   FINALLY get fish for vintage blender fish bowls I made 4 years ago

34.   Get sewing machine fixed

35.   Be ready to work on kitchen in the year 36

Bonus Tracks:

Curb my addiction to lattes (iced or hot)

Write a children’s book

Start exercising regularly again

I'll keep you posted on how I'm doing.

:) Cheers

Is it May already?

Jeeze, where does the time go? All of a sudden it is May and I don't know what happened with all the things I wanted to do last month, let alone all the things I want to do in the months ahead. I'm not a bad time manager, but I always seem to have more things to do than time to do them in.

Anyway, I apologize for not fulfilling my April resolutions. I looked back and actually only posted 9 posts this last month, when I intended to post at least once a day. I took lots of pictures, but not all of them ended up on Flickr. I didn't write any stories either.

I did get some crafting done. A couple of commissions for friends.



We also started painting our condo. Took us a little while to figure out the colors, but finally got started this weekend. At the speed we are going it will be awhile before we finish the whole place, but at least we got started.

So, I'm left trying to figure out what I actually do with my time that prevents me from getting more crafts, blogging and writing done.
Well, I work 40 hours a week.
I come home from work and cook dinner every night (well, almost every night).
I clean.
I do errands, shopping, etc. for the house on my lunch break, after work, and on the weekends.
I try to excersize every Saturday and Sunday.
I go to the farmer's market every Saturday.
I play with my kitties.
I spend time with my husband (we like to go out a little too much I think).
I watch tv and movies (always try to do some crafting while watching the boob tube).

I guess regular life takes up more time than I realized....

I need some new resolutions for May. Better to try and achieve some goals than have none at all, right?