creating space: hello, 2013!

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

hello, 2013!

I used to think New Year's was such an arbitrary time to make resolutions; that if you want to change something in your life; waiting till the start of a calendar year was pointless. Two years ago I made my first list of goals and things I wanted to happen in 2011. I didn't check off all of them, but I did cross a few things off the list, like running a 10 k (and even my first half--which was not on the list!). That was also the year I decided to eat less pre-made junk, and here I am two years later making most of my food and eating less and less Costco frozen stuff (canned veggies and dried pasta are different).

A few weeks ago I started a list of things I wanted to do, so here I present my 2013 goals, to-do's, resolutions--whatever you want to call them. Some of them are one-time things (cook a steamed fish), some are vague and undefined (better honesty & trust), others are year-long habits I hope to form. I also added a couple more general life-ones because I wanted to round out the list to an even twenty...

Here goes 2013!
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goals

Run another half marathon
Read a book every month
Upload & share all photos taken in the past five-ish years (specifically friends and family photos on my Canon)
Get fully funded by August
By the end of the ear, give regularly to overseas [incarnational] ministry

hobbies

Save for & buy a new camera body
Write five more public blogs [IV National, IV AAm Ministries, other?]
Learn to play the harmonica (just for kicks)
Cook a steamed fresh fish
Cook & bake new things (suggestions: blueberry coffee cake, pound cake...I got loaf pans for Christmas!)

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