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Rachel's regular journal

THE LIST
    For my spirit:
  1. Read through the Bible.
  2. Attend a Christian ladies' retreat.
  3. Read the Bible every day.*
  4. Have private devotions every day.*


    5. For my body:
  5. Achieve and maintain a weight between 140 and 150.
  6. Spend half an hour at least five times a week in some kind of exercise.*
  7. Eat enough fiber.*
  8. Eat enough fresh vegetables.*
  9. Drink half a gallon of water every day.*
  10. See a doctor about the tachycardia thing.
  11. See my GYN about my weird periods.
  12. Make junk food an occasional treat instead of a regular dietary occurrence.*


    13. For my mind:
  13. Begin taking academic college classes.
  14. Read chronologically through the works of Dickens.
  15. Practice the piano at least four days a week.*
  16. Practice the flute at least four days a week.*
  17. Read one book every two weeks which I'd never read before.*
  18. Empty my never-been-read shelf.
  19. Read through this list of books.
  20. Beat my husband at chess.


    21. For my family (and friends):
  21. Teach my children to read music and to play the piano.
  22. Learn to use the chainsaw so it's not all up to T and my dad every time we cut wood.
  23. Stop yelling. Ever.*
  24. Establish a cupboard of rain toys while my kids are small enough to enjoy it.
  25. On days divisible by 3, don't watch videos; instead, do things from our copy of 501 TV-Free Activities for Kids.*
  26. Visit T's mother and half-siblings in Washington.
  27. Read a biography onto tapes for my dad.
  28. Read a series of books onto tapes for my dad.
  29. Read out loud to the kids most nights.*
  30. Send at least an e-card, preferably a paper card, to the people whose birthdays are in our family calendar.*
  31. Establish a cozy reading corner in the school room.

    32. For others:
  32. Get my iron levels up so that I can again give blood.
  33. Give platelets.
  34. Register as a bone-marrow donor.
  35. Write regular letters, with the kids, to our three sponsored Compassion children.

    36. For myself:
  36. Own a dress in which I look stunning, and wear it.
  37. Get a haircut that flatters me.
  38. Get contact lenses.
  39. Give myself a makeover day.
  40. Watch a movie in the theater by myself.


    41. For fun:
  41. Have a bonfire, complete with hot dogs and marshmallows.
  42. Take a trip where at least half the time I am looking at scenery I have never seen before.
  43. Travel to a foreign country.
  44. Get a bigger Christmas tree.
  45. Have another family (aside from extended family) over for a meal every two months.*
  46. See the Nutcracker in San Francisco.
  47. Buy a good digital camera and learn to take good pictures with it.
  48. Transfer the last two years' camcorder cassettes of family movies to VHS. Watch them while we're doing it.
  49. Look at the lights of our town from the mountain that overlooks it.
  50. Climb the "mountain" near my parents' with T and the kids.
  51. See my friend Susan and her family in person.
  52. Stomp in rain puddles with the kids. Don't just let them do it.
  53. Get a tan on my legs. (one year out of my life won't kill me.)
  54. Take the same trip we did on our honeymoon, except stay to the coast rather than driving through LA on I-5.
  55. Do an overnight hike/campout.
  56. Visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  57. Renew our zoo membership.
  58. Go to Storyland -- with T this time, who's never been there.
  59. Take the kids on BART (LT's wanted to do this for years).
  60. Find a hedge maze and go through it.
  61. Have a spring picnic in Yosemite Valley.
  62. Do family portraits ourselves, outdoors in a place that we love.
  63. Go camping in a place we've never been.


    64. For my home:
  64. Rid my house of things we don't use and figure out storage for the things we keep.
  65. Frame the prints we've had sitting around rolled up for six years.
  66. Get some kind of enclosed storage (even if it means enclosing the built-in shelves they're already on) for our videos and DVDs.
  67. Decorate the walls in this house, or in whatever house in which we're living.
  68. Get decent living-room furniture.
  69. Burn the atrocious couch to cinders, and dance ceremoniously around the ashes.
  70. Get decent dining-room furniture.
  71. Make shelves in our bedroom, to hold books.
  72. Replace our low dresser with two upright ones.
  73. Make a door for the cupboard over the fridge.
  74. Paint our bedroom.
  75. Perform my chore list every day.*
  76. Establish a chore chart for my children and use it.*
  77. Raise vegetables in the summer.
  78. Fix up our backyard so that it's a pleasant area for playing, relaxing, or entertaining.
  79. Grow my own cooking herbs.
  80. Build the kids' play fort.
  81. Renovate LT's room.
  82. Realize that the landlord is never going to finish painting our house, and get him to let us do it ourselves.

    83. Crafty things:
    (darn, there goes the "For" theme)
  83. Transform my box of unused yarn into completed crochet projects.
  84. Crochet a doily every month.*
  85. Make a lace tablecloth.
  86. Make a tablecloth for family gatherings where each person signs his/her name on the cloth at the end of the meal, and I embroider the signatures for each gathering in a given color.
  87. Have a booth at the Christmas craft fair in our town.
  88. Make the sandbag gun rests T has been wanting me to make for months.
  89. Make a double-bed-sized double Irish chain quilt out of my scrap fabric (yes, I have enough to do this).
  90. Make pajamas for the kids every fall.
  91. Make T, LT, my nephews, and my dad matching Western shirts for the fair.
  92. Make Claire and myself matching Christmas dresses.
  93. Make matching springtime dresses for my best friend's three daughters.
  94. Finish the 1 Corinthians 13 cross-stitch I started, um, six years ago.


    95. Together with DH:
  95. Make our wills.
  96. Exercise our marital privilege ;-) at least three times a week.*
  97. Restore our biweekly home date nights.*
  98. Declutter the outside of our house.
  99. Establish a savings account to cover medical copayments.
  100. Establish a savings account for normal use.
  101. Plan menus and shop from those, rather than running to the store at 2 every afternoon to figure out what to make for dinner.*

*Routines to establish (crossed off list after 30 days or two repetitions of accomplishment, whichever is longer; un-crossed if I lapse) Italics indicate that an item is in progress.
day 60
2005-03-07, 12:10 p.m.

#10: Done.

#11: Done, and I'll be having surgery later this spring.

#38: I tried. I got as far as the "trial pair" stage, and found that the optometrist was certainly correct when she said that I'd never be able to get vision as good from contacts as I could from glasses, due to the severity of my astigmatism. Apparently I'm doomed to having smudged glasses fall down my nose my entire life. sigh.

#47: I have the camera (yay!) and I'm working on the learning part. I'm actually thinking about taking a class. Maybe.

#49: Did this last night, here's a picture:



#65: I did one of them, but I'm not crossing it out until all three are done.

#69: Dad burned it. I wasn't there. But I danced around the ashes later.

I am slacking a bit on the crocheting (#83). The thing is that I HATE joining. And I didn't do a doily this past month, so #84 is out of italics. Sigh.

As far as upcoming projects -- well, we're in the prime season for #50, and I'm running out of time on #52 for this year, ack. :)






day 38
2005-02-14, 4:41 p.m.

#10: I'm in the process of doing this. There's some information a few entries back in my regular journal.

#17: I've read about eight new books so far this year; that averages around one a week.

#32 is related to #10.

And the big-ticket item for today, ladies (and gentlemen?) is NUMBER SIXTY-EIGHT. YES!!

I've been slacking a bit on the crocheting. I'd originally hoped to have the daisy blanket done by the end of January but I've only done about a row and a half in the past month. Whoops. I've been reading a lot.

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