The (I-Refuse-to-Call-Them-Resolutions) List

Standing on ceremony, as usual, and simultaneously embracing the bromide that "it's not a goal unless it's written down," I'm noting down some things I want to do in my newly kicked off year. I get a three week dispensation on January 1 since my birthday is in January as well. OK, here goes:

House

1. Fix garage door
2. Organize spare guest room
• This implies at least two of the following: purchase sleeper sofa, find shelving solution for books, find solution for desk/office area clutter, get crap off the floor, hang more pictures or put them in the basement
  
3. Give the yard a bit more regular love

Reading

1. Make a quicker dent in the unread New Yorker pile (now at 8 months behind; but at least I'm smart enough to say I won't catch up this year)
2. More books than I've averaged lately

• Attend four book group meetings this year (I've already missed January and we don't meet in December, so I need to make 4 out of the remaining 10 months)
• Read at least three additional books from the stacks and stacks in the house

Food

1. Try more new recipes
2. Eat appropriate portion sizes

Miscellaneous self

1. Take glass-blowing lessons (i.e. cash in Groupon)
2. Either complete half-marathon or bike around Lake Washington (again, initially I had both but one would be a big accomplishment)
3. Blog more frequently *cough, cough*
   
4. Visit Dad

Eleven for 2011? Coincidental and not at all original. Seems like a big number now that I'm looking back across this, but several are certainly easily attained and only moderately more difficult to maintain. We'll see.

Perhaps I'll check back in here on my progress, which if successful would be killing two birds....Just a thought -- has anyone in the history of birds and stones killed two of the former with one of the latter? (Falling from the sky in Arkansas doesn't count.)