- Make 2010 my year
- Go on a real vacation, even if it is just for a day or two. No visiting Ithaca or friends or family
- Be able to by Christmas presents AND celebrate Brian's birthday and Valentines day. (AKA Budget gift money better.)
- Make some of the ornaments for my tree next year. (Maybe try cinnamon dough?)
- See Fred perform
- Don't let anything get in my way of becoming a sexologist. If I work hard I know I can do it.
- Try to get people to like me, but don't obsess if they don't.
- Have a perfect day. No fights, no mishaps, no stress
- Buy some picture frames for our wedding prints and put them up
- Find a way to be closer to Brian's mother.
- Do another lupus walk or possibly join a group
- Have as many houseguests as I can, but not back-to-back again
- Get back in touch with someone I lost contact with
- Develop a better after work routine
- Help Fred get out
- Feel like me again
- Play more board games
- Be more motivated
- Buy some neutral color (silver?) earrings, that are still fun
- Surprise someone
- Get trained as a OWL educator
- Send the family cookies for more holidays
- Go see the fireworks/ Boston pops show
- Go to an amusement park
- Try and get to the bottom of my waking-up-screaming-death dreams
- Be more willing to try new things
- Have a kick-ass time at the AIDS ACTION Dance Party
- Find some way to get Brian new glasses
- Get angry less
- Watch a classic movie or read a classic book I saw or read when I was a kid and hated and see if I like it now
- Come up with a master list of things we need VS things we want and try to work on both logically
- Cope with moving better
- Watch the movie Kinsey again
- Go parasailing
- Take more pictures
- Use my slow cooker
- Find a great chicken parm recipe
- Make new friends
- Join some clubs in grad school
- Throw a party
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- Find more excuses to dress up/wear makeup
- Take more walks for fun, not just necessity
- Start some new family traditions
- Bake every week
- Blog more regularly, perhaps for the NSRC
- Rent all the movies I wanted to see this year, but couldn't.
- Read more creative nonfiction
- Successfully bake bread from scratch
- Have a holiday where I get both sides together
- Take more time to appreciate Brian
- Get at least one new (or used, new to us) piece of furniture once we start grad school
- Shift the focus of sex off the orgasm and on the whole experience (but still have plenty of orgasms, of course!)
- Let go
- Learn more about the political issues that are important to me
- Listen to more whole albums
- Break out of 'what I did today' journal entries.
- Listen to all of Fred's radio shows.
- Remember the little things
- Pray more
- Actively watch TV, don't just let the next show come on.
- Get date night back
- Brush my teeth twice a day
- Save as much of our tax refund as we can, after splurging on one or two little gifts
- Learn how to really play chess
- Burn myself less
- Call Lisa as often as I can
- Read more sex research, books etc
- Become more comfortable with discussing my career plans. I am going to be a sexologist
- Write more
- Let Mr. Big run in his ball at least once a week
- Don't let anyone or anything mess up holidays and birthdays this year.
- Travel to a state I've never been to (probably Delaware or North Carolina.)
- Make some sort of crafty thing to hold all my greeting cards
- Rediscover my "summer spirit."
- Convince people to elope
- Have another Fred/Anne visit
- Talk to Brian's family at least every other time he calls them.
- Read a classic
- Visit Ithaca, maybe for Lisa's graduation.
- Explore more of Boston before I have to leave
- Go to the movies at least once this year
- Masturbate more
- Celebrate my first wedding anniversary
- Find a way to really put the Taryn/PCM fiasco behind me
- Try one new recipe a month, more if money allows
- Get cats, once I have pet-friendly apartment
- Move to an apartment that allows pets. (Washer and dryer in unit would be a plus.)
- Work on my video-gaming skills
- Write random things on old friends' walls.
- Talk to Oliver at least once a week
- Achieve peace with Mom and help her improve her situation
- Get back in the habit of having a paper calendar... and using it
- Continue building a relationship with my dad
- Volunteer for Planned Parenthood
- Be able to afford health insurance
- Take a trip to Pittsburgh, hopefully for the AASECT conference in June
- Get all of Sex and the City on DVD
- Work on better depression-control. (Journal instead of Facebook stalk, etc.)
- Read more Margaret Atwood
- Apply to graduate school
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