This year's to-do this

[siercia]

I mentioned last week sometime that I was going to try and post a list of all the things I would like to have finished or accomplished by the end of this year. It's a rather daunting list, when I think about it. Here we are, group by type of activity, and ordered roughly by priority within each category.

Crafting

• Finish Elaine and Brian's wedding sampler (I'd say I'm 1/4-1/3 finished now)
• Finish Widget's last year ornament, and find and complete this year's
• Finish Le Printemps (barely started)
• Complete at least one more knitting project - either scarf or chunky hat for myself (unstarted)
• Another stitching retreat weekend

Around the house

• Paint the outside of the house (this really needs doing - the paint is peeling badly. At least we only have to do the front)
• Paint the living and dining rooms (I'm real sick of sea foam green)
• Put in patio and planters by the back deck, for grilling and flowers
• Paint and decorate Widget's room

Gardening/Landscaping

• Really plan out and fully plant the border bed at the front of the house (requires, well, planning and purchasing more plants, and getting them planted)
• Have a vegetable garden of at least the same size as this year, perhaps larger
• Start some of the plants for the vegetable garden from seed (really not likely to happen)
• Plan out a way to have the vegetable garden be a three season garden instead of a high-summer garden (requires researching seasonality of varieties, probable willingness to start from seeds as pre-started early and late season plants are somewhat uncommon around here, and carving out more garden space, since my plot is currently so small)
• Get the front lawn reseeded and made nice

Random

• Read at least 50 books (so far, I'm on book three)
• Figure out if I'm ever going to be able to go to grad school and how (hahahaha)
• Get out to visit Kate in New Mexico
• Secret ninja project for our anniversary

Heh. That's just what I can think of now. I'm sure there's more that will come to me later. And of course, there's the working full time, mothing a two year old and trying to be a good enough wife that all has to come before the rest of it. Given the time and money constraints I'm under, and the impossibility of getting the other people I need to motivate in a proper state of mind, I'll put good money down on less than half of it actually getting done.