2009 To Do List

1. Move all of my photos to an external hard drive
2. Pay off my Lowe's credit card before the interest free period is over
3. Write GOOD article for the Communique (I wrote the article.  I'm happy with it.)
4. Frame prints
5. Order prints of wedding pictures
6. Lose at least 25 lbs.
7. Hang art in house
8. Get bookshelves and organize books
9. Reduce levels of EBV so that the virus is no longer considered reactivated
10. Build Hello Stiletto chapter membership to at least 50
11. Get a family portrait taken
12. Pay off Chase credit card
13. Redesign Vegas In Heels
14. Put at least $100 per month into my ING account
    1. January - $100
    2. February – $100
    3. March – $50 (As of 3/08/09)
    4. April – Nothing
    5. May -  $250
    6. June – $200
15. Get insurance reimbursement nightmare straightened out (Getting it done and deciding it was no longer worth the effort and taking the tax deductions seemed like a fine way to deal with it.)
16. Read at least one educational, non-fiction book per month
    1.  January – Mononucelosis; The Yeast Connection Handbook; Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease; How to Complain for Fun and Profit
    2. February – The Yeast Connection and Women's Health; Organize Your Life:  Free Yourself from Clutter & Find More Personal Time; One Thing at a Time:  100 Simple Ways to Live Clutter-Free Every Day (meh).  Not Finished:  Crunch:  Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? – The first book that has ever been too liberal for even me.
    3. March – I know I read something in March, but I can't remember what it was.  Sorry. 
    4. April – Under the Banner of Heaven, The Concise Guide to Sounding Smart at Parties, Grammar Snobs Are Just Big Meanies.
    5. May – Excuse Me, but I Was Next:  How to handle the top 100 manners dilemmas; Plant Seed, Pull Weed
    6. June – Mortal Syntax, Don't Let Your Participles Dangle in Public
17. Use each cookbook in the house at least once
18. Organize recipes saved from magazines
19. Visit my family in NJ at least twice
20. Get pedicure where fish gnaw off feet
21. Complete three volunteer activities on behalf of the local bar association
    1. February - Goldilocks Presentation
    2. March – Goldilocks Presentation
22. Go to Valley of Fire to take photos
23. Win a prize from a radio station
24. Jump on a trampoline
25. Take a class on Photoshop
26. Go to a taping of Dancing with the Stars AND ACTUALLY GET IN
27. Take a hot air balloon ride
28. Go to the Boneyard again
29. See a live classical music performance
30. Get business cards made for Vegas in Heels
31. Find a new dentist
32. Get eyes checked to confirm that distance vision is shot
33. Finally get Mirena
34. Make photo albums of wedding pictures for family
35. Learn to knit

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