Resolved

I’ve been mulling over my 100 list for the past few weeks, thinking about what I want to try and tackle this year. My new year’s resolutions, sort of.

I consider all concert goals as open action items. As in, if the person or group goes on tour, I will make my schedule open and take immediate action to buy tickets! From the rest, I wanted to choose about 5 things I can focus on. Right now, here’s where I’m at:

1. Play an instrument. A year ago Wonder Boy gifted me a banjo. My plan was to sign up for lessons after some house renovations were done. Little did I know that the renovations that were scheduled to take 6 weeks would take about 9 months! For Christmas this year, Wonder Boy got me a banjo lesson. I have no excuses!
2. Learn to sew. I found a really cool online course set that teaches sewing and helps you make things that are actually really cool.
3. Learn to ride the city bus. I am embarrassed by the fact that I live within a mile of downtown and about three houses down from a bus stop but have no idea at all for how to use the bus system.
4. Make pasta from scratch. I have given this several tries and always failed, with the exception of making spaetzle, which is so easy it barely counts. I have all of the necessary tools. I can succeed at this.
5. Watch all of the movies in the AFI 100 Movies list. I’m a little intimidated by the amount of movies on this list I haven’t seen (84!), but I think it would be a good task. There are so many pop and cultural references I miss out on because I haven’t seen some of the films. The big dilemma here is that it would mean watching Star Wars. Do I have it in me?
6. Because watching 84 movies in a year is a little daunting and would, I think, have a direct correlation with the growth of my behind, I have a back up goal of Meditation. I could use a little zen in my life.