I've been working on two main lists to help me see what I can make of 2012. One is a list of 52 habits I'd like to work on during the year - the emphasis being on making progress, not end goal achievement. The other is a list of 52 things I'd like to do during the year. The goal is to cross off as many things as I can happily manage, so no penalties for not completing it. It's all rather prosaic stuff, really, so I won't bore you with the whole list. Some of it's fun stuff; some challenging; a decent chunk is health-related stuff that I've been putting off through fear or lack of money or both.
We managed to turn a particularly challenging day while my mother was visiting into a bit of fun and simultaneously crossed the first item off my list early. Doot was quite ill with a stomach bug (the same one I had had a few days earlier) and my mother needed us to drive her to the city urgently to have a chronic ear problem looked at, so while she was waiting around at the hospital, the children and I headed off to the museum to see the sights and cross number 50 off the list. Excuse the dodgy photo (I left my camera's memory card at home and had to use Doot's rather ancient -in mobile phone terms- iPhone), but my view is, if there isn't a heavily altered mobile phone photo as evidence, it didn't happen.
We also bought these beautiful slices of agate at the museum. There was one for each of us (Grandma took hers home with her) and an extra, the light blue one, because it looked like a misty winter sunset and I just couldn't help myself.
I'll be catching up on my blog reading over the next little while. Did I miss anything monumental? Did you have a happy Christmas?
Congrats on breaking your 2008 record! It has been a good year :)
ReplyDeleteI can definitely relate to your feelings at the year's end. It was a challenging, sometimes beautiful and sometimes painful year for us, and I'm so very happy to move onward to the things I trust this year to offer. We shall see.
I love the idea of your lists. I'm a pro and talking about all the things I'd like to do and never doing one of them. Perhaps if I wrote it down!
I hope you're recovering from the visitors now and enjoying the first days of the new year.
Had a wonderful Xmas and boxing day was even better. Just catching up with family.
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather was a gem stone collector, and used to facet his own jewelry, we kept all his stones and machines for cutting and polishing etc. We hope to use it all one day. When I hear the word Agate it reminds me of being a child reading all his specimens in glass cabinets.
They are beautiful the ones you have bought, and look lovely sitting on your window sill.
We have been to the Sydney and Melbourne museum and it is such a wonderful place to take children.