2007 RESOLUTIONS: Perhaps I shouldn't call these resolutions, since I'm hoping to have fun with a number of the items listed below, and the word 'resolution' implies drudgery, pain, and denial. I gave up on the whole 'eat right/work out more/drop a dress size' thing now because well, you're automatically set up for failure. For example--I'm getting tired of writing as a resolution--'speak spanish'. Now I'm putting down: 'sign up and complete spanish immersion course'. The idea being if I don't start speaking even some sort of pidgen form of spanish after that class, well then I'm just a lost lingual cause. So here we go: 1. Go see the NYMEX trading floor--just b/c it's there, and I've heard so much about it. 2. Start a Vegetarian Dinner club--and meet at least six times this year. I figure this may be a better way of saying 'eat more vegetables'. First one is Jan 27th--and I think this may count towards the whole 'have a successful dinner party item on my Life List. 3. Read 'The Prize'. I've already started it, and this will not be a hardship--the book is incredibly entertaining. It's just so damn big! 4. Visit one place in the Middle East--I'm leaning towards Egypt and Jordan. 5. Sign up and complete at least one Spanish immersion course. I've already looked it up--UofH has an excellent program--two weekends back-to-back. 6. Apply to the Rice MLS program. 7. Start & finish a sweater for myself. I have my eye on a cute little metallic thing.--Lots of holes. 8. Health resolution-about my asthma: using my peak flow meter, exhale 400 L/Min. Right now I am at 250--well below normal. This I have to do. 9. Become proficient at tennis 10. Give blood at least twice this year. Not so easy--I keep passing out. 11. Be able to do sit in the lotus position--at least be able to sit cross-legged, for 5 minutes. B is going to give me a private yoga lesson as my birthday present, so we'll work on what I need to do. 12. Have good sex more than once this year--ideally with the same person. 13. begin voluteering at PPH 14. Write 12 blog entries..er, 11 blog entries. 15. Be proud of myself financially: start using CD's, stick to my budget, and no impulse buying. No retail therapy either! 16. Pay off the car by the end of the year. 17. Wear that red cocktail dress out in public at least once (this is a round-about way of saying eat right and work out). 18. Get past chapter 4 in that Nat Gas book! 19. Learn to salsa--and then go out salsa dancing! 20. write one macro or program in VBA 21. participate in the 2008 presidential campaign (on life list). 22. See the balloon festival in Albuqurque (on life list). 23. Ride in a hotair balloon (on life list) 24. Grow my hair to my nipples 25. Grow something from a seedling and don't kill it! 26. Go see friends in Alaska this summer 27. Learn to touch-type. http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/ 28. Drive on I-10 during rush hour w/o getting hostile and tail-gating--or w/o that being the norm. 29. Join Houston Bicycle Club and start biking again. 30. Be able to run 3 times around Memorial park. 31. Kiss an astronaut--a single one, that is. I mean my god--I live in Houston, that shouldn't be hard. 32. Celebrate New Years outside the US. 33. Have a really stellar studio portrait photograph taken of me--something I'm really proud of, something that doesn't make me wince! Wish me luck!! | 
