twenty for 2012

selected 2011 leftovers:
1. make my brother and his fiancé a quilt for their wedding
2. make something with the fabric swap fabric
3. learn to cook fish

plus:
4. climb mt fuji with my parents
5. travel somewhere (ANYWHERE) by plane
6. restart selling on etsy (goal of 36 sold items over the year)
7. learn to make something other than soup/chili in the crock pot
8. organize recipes from online into a notebook or file of sorts
9. buy and actually use a real (and functional) address book
10. transfer my music from my old computer to my new one (but clean out beforehand!)
11. reread letters to a young poet and 6 other books
12. throw away papers and other "things" i no longer need (be ruthless!)
13. clean out my clothes (be as ruthless as possible)
14. do (make?) something for my mom's 60th birthday
15. do fourth of july (aka picnic party)
16. go to the beach (and do it before obon, when the jellyfish come out)
17. do halloween (aka pumpkin carving party)
18. do thanksgiving
19. send out new year's cards (on time, if possible)
20. call/facetime my parents on a regular basis and always tell them i love them.


basically, setting my goals much much lower this year, in the hopes that i will actually complete all of them. or, you know, even just the majority of them, since i can't say that about my 2011 list.