Love Lists!

I absolutely LOVE making lists … (checking them off is another thing :)

2008 GOALS
As New Years day is my birthday, it’s always a good day to set goals

• Create group discussion, art around Angeles Arrian’s “The Second Half”
• “Soul Art"
• Art Quilts: 4 Generations; Neighborhoods of Color
• Develop proposal for sabbatical
• Walk regularly
• Develop OD course for online delivery
• Buy a new mattress
• Babysit Sydney once a month (sleepovers)
• Eat more vegetarian
• Small dinner parties
• Financially prepare for retirement
• Travel to Spain or Alaska and Philly and Idyllwild and ???
• Be open to new experiences

Things I LOVE:

• Early morning, coffee, fireplace, journal
• Yellow roses on Christmas day
  
• Walking in the park
• A glass of wine with dinner
• Seeing students “shine”
• Sydney’s face – all her expressions



• Books lying around, ready to be read

Getting in bed at night
Naps in the afternoon

• A new journal
• Art days
  
• Stay at home in PJs days
  
• Making soup
• Coming home to a freshly cleaned house
• Velvet
• Red
• Putting paint/color on paper
• Mimi’s restaurant
• Experimenting with art
• Designing/creating a new class/course
• Teaching (except for grading papers)
• The smell of a new car
• Reading blogs
• Going to museums
• Traveling – pretty much anywhere
• 4 day weekends with no papers to grade and no plans
• 10 weeks of summer
• My work schedule (except when I have to go to meetings and grade papers)
• Reading cookbooks
• Watching General Hospital
• Yellow
• A new piece of jewelry
• Reading personal journals
• My bookgroup discussions (most of the time)
• Planning a new art project
• Touching art or touchable art or art that invites touching
• Magazines that I can tear up
• Reading excellent student papers
• Inspiring movies
• Good soup
• Movie dates with Matt
• Snuggling with George
• Filling a page with a list

So … what are your hopes for 2008? What do you love?