Bucket List

This is not complete, but it's a start.

Bucket List

1. Learn Sign Language
2. Learn to play the piano
3. Work in a coffee shop
4. Sell some of my photographs
5. Learn something for fun/take a class (baking, photography, interior design)
6. Live in a decent sized city
7. Live overseas
8. Get married
9. Become a foster parent
10. Adopt a child
11. Write and teach my own curriculum
12. Lead a small group
13. Memorize a book of the Bible
14. See more of Europe
15. Take a river cruise in Europe
16. Visit each of the Hawaiian Islands
17. Travel to and/or take a mission trip to:
1. Africa
2. Australia
3. Mainland Asia
4. Middle East/Mediterranean
5. Europe (again)
18. Get out of debt (and stay out!)
19. Learn calligraphy
20. Host a foreign exchange student
21. Get published

25 in 25 Update

Well, tomorrow is Oct 1st. So here's my update on my 25 in 25. I have 5 months till my birthday to accomplish what I can on my list.

1. Grow Closer to God
2. Learn sign language (Bought The Joy of Signing)
3. Find a full time job
4. Read a non-fiction book a month

1. August: Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman (Done)
2. September: 48 Days to the Work You Love (Done)
3. October: Ordering Your Private World
4. November: Boundaries
5. December:
6. January:
7. February:

1. Write some devotionals
2. Lead a small group
3. Visit a castle
4. Go on a mission trip
5. Go on a date
6. Pay off one of my loans
7. Get on track with a budget
8. Get my first apartment
9. Buy a car
10. Get health insurance
11. Finish my “Legacy Drawer” (Want to do in Oct)
12. Finish Philippines Journal (want to Finish in Oct)
13. Get recipes in order (want to do by the end of December)
14. Write devotionals
15. Work on OT Curriculum
16. Work on NT Curriculum
17. Put Scripture together with my photos (Have started, but need to find more verses for specific photos)
18. Make at least three collage frames with the Scripture/verses
19. Finish reading all of Tracie Peterson’s books (have read almost a dozen so far. Many more to go...)
20. Put together a dream book of things I want to do (aka Bucket List) (See a post coming soon!)
21. Make a list of habits I want to start and make a plan to start them (working on this now)

1. Monday Meaderings, 25 in 25, spiritual growth, etc

9/27/10 Monday Meanderings

Bible Study: Beth Moore’s 90 Day Study on Jesus.

Memory Verse: James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

Family Encouragement:

Wednesday Ppt for Dad (Done for Tues practice and run on Wed night)

Clean up some of the kitchen/bathroom for mom

Help plan Menu

Personal Goals:

Make my room livable

Read September’s book, 48 Days To The Work You Love (Finished 9/30)

New Habit of the Month:

Begin to blog, starting with Monday Meanderings

October’s habit: Keep a daily to do list

Must Do:

Apt with Lisa

Bring Screwtape Letters to Katie

Pick out October’s book (Ordering Your Private World)

Zone:

Clean out in front of dresser

Begin working on my closet

Menu: TBA

Fun things:

1. Going to Saratoga with Jeff
2. Library
3. C2

3 Things I’m Thankful For:

1. Friendships
2. Rest
3. My parents

25 in 25

1. Grow Closer to God
2. Learn sign language
3. Find a full time job
4. Read a non-fiction book a month
1. August: Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman
2. September: 48 Days to the Work You Love
5. Write some devotionals
6. Lead a small group
7. Visit a castle
8. Go on a mission trip
9. Go on a date
10. Pay off one of my loans
11. Get on track with a budget
12. Get my first apartment
13. Buy a car
14. Get health insurance
15. Finish my “Legacy Drawer”
16. Finish Philippines Journal
17. Get recipes in order
18. Write devotionals
19. Work on OT Curriculum
20. Work on NT Curriculum
21. Put Scripture together with my photos
22. Make at least three collage frames with the Scripture/verses
23. Finish reading all of Tracie Peterson’s books
24. Put together a dream book of things I want to do (aka Bucket List)
25. Make a list of habits I want to start and make a plan to start them
1. Monday Meaderings, 25 in 25, spiritual growth, etc

Now as a disclaimer, I started this a few weeks ago, nearly halfway through my 25th year of life. So, since I don't have the full 12 months, I don't expect to get everything done. However, I would consider this to be a success if I accomplished at least 10 things on this list before my birthday. :-) Here's to making dreams become a reality.

Life has changed!

Well, as you can see, I haven’t blogged in nearly two years. My life has changed a lot since then. My last blog two years ago was my support letter for Ireland. Well, I didn’t and I’m not currently planning on going to Ireland as a missionary. I’m not sure where I will be going in terms of missions. Maybe this week will hold some answers as I talk with Lisa from GEM. But I would like to revive this blog and try to keep up with it more. My first goal is to put up my Monday Meanderings (thanks Holly!). Since the death of several friends about a month ago, I have tried to be a bit more proactive about my life. I don’t want to wake up several years from now wondering where my life went and how I got to where I am. I want to be able to look back and see definite things that I have done and learned. I want to be able to follow the thread of my life and know exactly where all those years went. So to do that, I have been inspired by a few friends to write out goals for my life. Some things will go on a “bucket list”, other things will be things that I want to do that year (like my 25 in 25 list - 25 things I want to try to accomplish while I’m 25, then 26 things next year, etc.) Other things will be part of my weekly goals; hence, the Monday Meanderings. So here’s to the start of reaching some of my goals.

-cll

Monday Meanderings

Monday Meanderings

Bible Study:

Beth Moore’s 90 Day Study on Jesus. I started this back when I went to Israel, and only got through about a week. So I’d like to pick it up again and work through it.

Memory Verse:

Proverbs 31:26

Family Encouragement:

Wednesday Ppt for Dad

Clean up some of the kitchen/bathroom for mom

Personal Goals:

Work on my 25 in 25 list. Try to mark off one thing by the end of the week.

Philippines Journal

Read September’s book, 48 Days To The Work You Love

New Habit of the Month:

Begin to blog, starting with Monday Meanderings

Must Do:

Call Dan on Wednesday

Talk with Lisa on Thursday

Set up a Phone date with Rebecca T.

Zone:

Bedroom - unpack from my summer working at camp

Menu:

In our family, we don’t always plan what meal is going to be what day. Instead we simply a list of meals that we can make in a given week. There are usually 4-5 meals and the rest of the time we eat leftovers.

Pizza

Chicken, broccoli and stuffing casserole

Spagetti

Ravioli

Orange Chicken with rice

Other things this week:

Zucchini bread

Dump cake

Fun things:

1. New books to read
2. Edit some photos

3 Things I’m Thankful For:

1. Going to Beth Moore Simulcast with Elaine over the weekend
2. Time to relax at home (including fun reading)
3. C2 group