well....

A lot has happened between the last post and this. Or, rather, a lot happened awhile ago, while we were all unsuspecting, and now we've heard about it, and the world is upside-down.
But I'd planned on writing 3 posts tonight (4-hour car rides are great for thinking) and this one was going to be about things I want to get done before the end of the year.
And it still is about that. And it feels important to write it all down; even more important than it felt before, when I was in the car.

Before January 1, 2008 I would like to:
-write a song and record myself singing it
-send thank-you cards to everyone I'm thankful to for things I haven't yet formally thanked them for.
-lose 10 pounds (I'd be happy with 5)
-do yoga and reiki almost every day
-finish the quilt I started last year
-finish at least one of the 5 scarves that I started last year
-finish at least SOMETHING goddamnit!
-read a book I haven't read before, about something besides mystery and crime
-give more people more hugs
-figure out the part of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata that I started learning about 8 years ago and still can't play on the piano - I want to grind away at it until I know it flat so I can play the whole thing through without stopping (goddamnit!) (I felt another bout of swearing was appropriate there, for emphasis.)
-So I can leave that and learn another piece.
-Before January 1, I would like to have my apartment look the way I want it, and be cleared out enough that it doesn't give me a headache every time I look around at all the stuff in it.
-I want to finish lining the jacket that I started lining about 6 months ago.
-I want to get more photographs up on my FLICKR account. Laura would like that.
-I want to spend more time focusing on what's in front of me.
(whatever that means)
-and tons of other things. I'll add them as they occur to me...
(additions:)
-hang new photos in my office at work

The word 'occur' always looks so naked to me with only one r. But I can't do much about that.