Goals 2012 (and 2011)

Rather than make a separate page for all this nonsense 2012, I’ll just add to the page that’s already in place. Vive la effort! Or something!

From life list:

• Um, gettin’ married. (Done! 4/21/12)
• Learn how to knit cables (goshdarnit!)
• Storming the National Parks: Acadia?
• Make that photo book

Smaller year goals:

Continue monthly charitable donations
Organize an event for PP
Visit Storm King
Camp someplace new – done 3/17-18
Go on 3 solo hikes (Long Path doesn’t count!)
Create a better stuff-storage solutions in the apartment
Condense things in storage unit so I can…get rid of it?
Christmas in California
Knit a sweater

Here is what I wrote for 2011:

From life list:

• Storming the National Parks: Yosemite
• Learn how to knit cables – This is just not going to happen in 2011. But I did learn intarsia!
• Make a book of photos I have taken

2011:

• Hike the Gorge Trail in Watkins Glen
• Finish knitting a shawl – two half-shawls probably don’t count.
• Show up (two weddings in July (7/9, 7/17),  see at least one friend’s play. (8/22)) – Done!
• Thanksgiving in California with family
• At least 1 overnight backpacking trip per month (until it’s too cold.) – This didn’t happen, life intervened. No trips in September, October or November.
• Finish one medium-length piece of fiction – oh, failure.
• Write at least one personal letter/postcard/something with a stamp per month
  June: 8 postcards, penpal swap with niece.
  July: 2 postcards, birthday card
  August: 1 postcard, penpal swap with niece
  September: 1 letter
  October: 1 notecard
  November: 1 notecard, 2 thank yous
  December: penpal swap with niece (holiday themed!)
• Mail birthday presents one week before birthdays happen
• Donate at least $[only I need to know this number] per month to highly-rated charities or specific causes – SUCCESS!
• Visit Storm King art center – unfortunate failure.
• Bake 6 (different) pies: peach crumb, strawberry peach raspberry, apple, pumpkin and mixed berry at Thanksgiving, cranberry walnut scheduled for 12/31. – success?
• Read 25 books  – SUCCESS! 28, even!:
  1. A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin (7/7)
  2. 7 Steps to Midnight by Richard Matheson (7/10)
  3. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick (7/14)
  4. Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz (7/20)
  5. Wallflower at the Orgy by Nora Ephron (7/22)
  6. Bonk by Mary Roach (7/27)
  7. The Dangerous World of Butterflies by Peter Laufer (8/2)
  8. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (8/7)
  9. Cod by Mark Kurlansky (8/9)
  10. My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor (8/12)
  11. A Journey Long and Strange by Tony Horwitz (8/24)
  12. She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana by Haven Kimmel (8/27)
  13. The Geographer’s Library by Jon Fasman (9/5)
  14. Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson (9/8)
  15. You Better Not Cry by Augusten Burroughs (9/9)
  16. Distraction by Bruce Sterling (9/15)
  17. Charlatan: American’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock (9/26)
  18. The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones (9/29)
  19. The Race for Timbuktu: In Search of Africa’s City of Gold by Frank T. Kryza (10/9)
  20. Glory in a Camel’s Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara by Jeffrey Tayler (10/17)
  21. Scribbling the Cat: Travels With an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller (10/20)
  22. The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (10/31)
      (abandoned: February House by Sherrill Tippins)
  23. Maphead by Ken Jennings (11/8)
  24. The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson (11/17)
  25. The Girls of Slender Means by Muriel Spark (11/19)
  26. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (12/3)
  27. Science Fiction: The Best of 2003 edited by Haber and Strahan (12/15)
  28. His Excellency, George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis (12/29)