Hang a prism

They remind me of my grandmother.  I miss her so!

Transfer info to a new address book

I dont use it nearly as much as I should!

Number 24: Throughly clean and detail my truck interior

I cleaned it myself at the beginning of summer, then I hired some JH kids to do it back in November.  The truck has been cleaned and detailed twice this year, but it is, of course, still dirty.  Such is life!

Number 1: Lose 30 pounds

226 in June to 196 in December.  

Number 4: Update my resume

I learned that it's hard to write an updated resume when you dont know what job you're applying for or where you are going to live.  I also have a whole portfolio to update.  I updated what I could, but was not really feeling it since I am so far out from actually applying for a new job.

Number 30: Teach Ryder a new trick

Crawl.

Finish the rip rugs

I started this rug back in November as a Christmas gift for my friend Sadie.  It quickly became a tedious project and I abandoned it.  So I've had this box full of strips of cloth hanging around my bedroom for months.  Today, I got sick of looking at it and decided to finish it once and for all.  Ta-da!

Write a letter of resignation

Wow!  That was the most difficult letter I've ever written.  I dont know if I should feel daunted or excited that this was the first thing I crossed off my new birthday list.  Maybe both?

35 things to do before I turn 36

This year I'm gaining some inspiration from my friend, Erin, who started a birthday list last year.  Her list includes a long list of things to accomplish with the goal of hitting a certain number of them, rather than writing a certain number of goals and trying to accomplish them all.  So, there are 70 items on this list and my goal is the accomplish 35 of them before I turn 36.  The first nine are rollovers from last years list.

Volunteer for Librivox
Complete 12 sections in my Bible study workbook
Publish my book
Yoga class/yoga in the park
Day hike
Go skiing/sledding/play in snow
Read When Kids Cant Read
Sew myself a wearable garment
Read 5 more book off this list or this list
Finish the rip rugs
Play Zelda
Read Game of Thrones
Harvest, preserve, and eat wild mushrooms
Make butter or cheese
Try 3 new spices
Quilt
Play frisbee golf in Anchorage or Indiana
Host a multiple course dinner party
Kentucky Derby party
Make soap with Erin
Get Baptized
Advent calendar Christmas boxes
Attend a movie at the new Bethel theatre
Attend a service at the Russian Orthodox Church
Make colored ice balls for winter
Ride roller coasters at Great America
Write a letter of resignation
Take a class
Visit the Indiana Sand Dunes
Run a 5K
Have my truck waxed and detailed
Hang out with Avery
Start a new tradition
Get under 175 pounds
Go roller skating
Find a new church home
Join a bible study group
Find a farmers market/organic farm
Community garden
Fourth of July with Kassia
Read the paper
Set up a real live Christmas tree
Go to a haunted house
Read Mitchner's Poland
Recycle
Bikini wax
Segway tour
Adler Planetarium
Sleep under the redwoods
Drive the coast highway
Float in the Great Salt Lake
Visit Crater Lake
Eye exam
Check my credit report
Pay off my house or sell it
Alphabet picture gifts
Bake a rhubarb pie from scratch
Fast for three days
Make a time capsule
Write thank you notes just because
Get past 20 push ups
River tour in Chicago
Hang a prism
Go to a horse race
Tour a brewery
Make a Bethel appreciation list
Make a 2014 photo album
Transfer my info to a new address book
Move out of my storage unit
Get ObamaCare

Modern Library and Readers Lists

1. ULYSSES
2. by James Joyce
3. THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
5. LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
6. BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley
7. THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
8. CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
9. DARKNESS AT NOONby Arthur Koestler
10. SONS AND LOVERSby D.H. Lawrence
11. THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck
12. UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
13. THE WAY OF ALL FLESHby Samuel Butler
14. 1984by George Orwell
15. I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
16. TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
17. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDYby Theodore Dreiser
18. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
19. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut
20. INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
21. NATIVE SONby Richard Wright
22. HENDERSON THE RAIN KINGby Saul Bellow
23. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara
24. U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos
25. WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson
26. A PASSAGE TO INDIAby E.M. Forster
27. THE WINGS OF THE DOVEby Henry James
28. THE AMBASSADORSby Henry James
29. TENDER IS THE NIGHTby F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGYby James T. Farrell
31. THE GOOD SOLDIERby Ford Madox Ford
32. ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
33. THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James
34. SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser
35. A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh
36. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
37. ALL THE KING’S MENby Robert Penn Warren
38. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REYby Thornton Wilder
39. HOWARDS ENDby E.M. Forster
40. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINby James Baldwin
41. THE HEART OF THE MATTERby Graham Greene
42. LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding
43. DELIVERANCEby James Dickey
44. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell
45. POINT COUNTER POINTby Aldous Huxley
46. THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
47. THE SECRET AGENTby Joseph Conrad
48. NOSTROMOby Joseph Conrad
49. THE RAINBOWby D.H. Lawrence
50. WOMEN IN LOVEby D.H. Lawrence
51. TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
52. THE NAKED AND THE DEADby Norman Mailer
53. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINTby Philip Roth
54. PALE FIREby Vladimir Nabokov
55. LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner
56. ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
57. THE MALTESE FALCONby Dashiell Hammett
58. PARADE’S ENDby Ford Madox Ford
59. THE AGE OF INNOCENCEby Edith Wharton
60. ZULEIKA DOBSONby Max Beerbohm
61. THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
62. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOPby Willa Cather
63. FROM HERE TO ETERNITYby James Jones
64. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLESby John Cheever
65. THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger
66. A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
67. OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
68. HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
69. MAIN STREETby Sinclair Lewis
70. THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton
71. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durell
72. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes
73. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul
74. THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West
75. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
76. SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh
77. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark
78. FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce
79. KIMby Rudyard Kipling
80. A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster
81. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
82. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow
83. ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner
84. A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul
85. THE DEATH OF THE HEARTby Elizabeth Bowen
86. LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad
87. RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow
88. THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett
89. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
90. LOVINGby Henry Green
91. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDRENby Salman Rushdie
92. TOBACCO ROADby Erskine Caldwell
93. IRONWEEDby William Kennedy
94. THE MAGUSby John Fowles
95. WIDE SARGASSO SEAby Jean Rhys
96. UNDER THE NETby Iris Murdoch
97. SOPHIE’S CHOICEby William Styron
98. THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
99. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICEby James M. Cain
100. THE GINGER MANby J.P. Donleavy
101. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONSby Booth Tarkington

1. ATLAS SHRUGGEDby Ayn Rand
2. THE FOUNTAINHEADby Ayn Rand
3. BATTLEFIELD EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
4. THE LORD OF THE RINGSby J.R.R. Tolkien
5. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDby Harper Lee
6. 1984by George Orwell
7. ANTHEMby Ayn Rand
8. WE THE LIVINGby Ayn Rand
9. MISSION EARTHby L. Ron Hubbard
10. FEARby L. Ron Hubbard
11. ULYSSESby James Joyce
12. CATCH-22by Joseph Heller
13. THE GREAT GATSBYby F. Scott Fitzgerald
14. DUNEby Frank Herbert
15. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESSby Robert Heinlein
16. STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDby Robert Heinlein
17. A TOWN LIKE ALICEby Nevil Shute
18. BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley
19. THE CATCHER IN THE RYEby J.D. Salinger
20. ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
21. GRAVITY’S RAINBOWby Thomas Pynchon
22. THE GRAPES OF WRATHby John Steinbeck
23. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVEby Kurt Vonnegut
24. GONE WITH THE WINDby Margaret Mitchell
25. LORD OF THE FLIESby William Golding
26. SHANEby Jack Schaefer
27. TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOMby Nevil Shute
28. A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANYby John Irving
29. THE STANDby Stephen King
30. THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMANby John Fowles
31. BELOVEDby Toni Morrison
32. THE WORM OUROBOROSby E.R. Eddison
33. THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
34. LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
35. MOONHEARTby Charles de Lint
36. ABSALOM, ABSALOM!by William Faulkner
37. OF HUMAN BONDAGEby W. Somerset Maugham
38. WISE BLOODby Flannery O’Connor
39. UNDER THE VOLCANOby Malcolm Lowry
40. FIFTH BUSINESSby Robertson Davies
41. SOMEPLACE TO BE FLYINGby Charles de Lint
42. ON THE ROADby Jack Kerouac
43. HEART OF DARKNESSby Joseph Conrad
44. YARROWby Charles de Lint
45. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESSby H.P. Lovecraft
46. ONE LONELY NIGHTby Mickey Spillane
47. MEMORY AND DREAMby Charles de Lint
48. TO THE LIGHTHOUSEby Virginia Woolf
49. THE MOVIEGOERby Walker Percy
50. TRADERby Charles de Lint
51. THE HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXYby Douglas Adams
52. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTERby Carson McCullers
53. THE HANDMAID’S TALEby Margaret Atwood
54. BLOOD MERIDIANby Cormac McCarthy
55. A CLOCKWORK ORANGEby Anthony Burgess
56. ON THE BEACHby Nevil Shute
57. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MANby James Joyce
58. GREENMANTLEby Charles de Lint
59. ENDER’S GAMEby Orson Scott Card
60. THE LITTLE COUNTRYby Charles de Lint
61. THE RECOGNITIONSby William Gaddis
62. STARSHIP TROOPERSby Robert Heinlein
63. THE SUN ALSO RISESby Ernest Hemingway
64. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARPby John Irving
65. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMESby Ray Bradbury
66. THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEby Shirley Jackson
67. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
68. TROPIC OF CANCERby Henry Miller
69. INVISIBLE MANby Ralph Ellison
70. THE WOOD WIFEby Terri Windling
71. THE MAGUSby John Fowles
72. THE DOOR INTO SUMMERby Robert Heinlein
73. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCEby Robert Pirsig
74. I, CLAUDIUSby Robert Graves
75. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
76. AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDSby Flann O’Brien
77. FARENHEIT 451by Ray Bradbury
78. ARROWSMITHby Sinclair Lewis
79. WATERSHIP DOWNby Richard Adams
80. NAKED LUNCHby William S. Burroughs
81. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBERby Tom Clancy
82. GUILTY PLEASURESby Laurell K. Hamilton
83. THE PUPPET MASTERSby Robert Heinlein
84. ITby Stephen King
85. V.by Thomas Pynchon
86. DOUBLE STARby Robert Heinlein
87. CITIZEN OF THE GALAXYby Robert Heinlein
88. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
89. LIGHT IN AUGUSTby William Faulkner
90. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NESTby Ken Kesey
91. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
92. THE SHELTERING SKYby Paul Bowles
93. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTIONby Ken Kesey
94. MY ANTONIAby Willa Cather
95. MULENGROby Charles de Lint
96. SUTTREEby Cormac McCarthy
97. MYTHAGO WOODby Robert Holdstock
98. ILLUSIONSby Richard Bach
99. THE CUNNING MANby Robertson Davies
100. THE SATANIC VERSESby Salman Rushdie

Number 3: Read 5 more books off this list

I've been reading off this BBC 100 best books list since 2010.  Hard to believe I only have read 39, some of them only in part. I think I will continue to read occasionally off this list, but I'm also ready to move on to some more modern reading lists.  So many books to read and so little time.  Here are the 5 I read this year...

Little Women- Louisa May Alcott
The Great Gatsby- F Scott Fitzgerald
The Woman in White- Wilky Collins
Sense and Sensibility- Jane Austin
Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens