39 Goals for 2019

As I mentioned a few posts back in my 2018 Year in Review, I thought I might try to write out 39 Goals or Wishes to Complete for 2019. I’ll be 39 in July and so I thought I might write up a list of things I’d like to do this year instead of a random word that I seem to continue to forget sometime mid-way through the year.

I may not hit all of these but I do find when I see what I have listed that I tend to try to make things happen. At least that’s what I did when I had the 28 list, or when I write out my weekly to-do lists.

Here goes!

• Resubmit book proposals to publishers and find agents to submit to as well. Deadline: March/April 2019.
• Camp at one of the East Texas National Forests
• Three 1+ night backpacking trips
• Complete 5 pieces of art
• Paddle down Village Creek
• Go back to Enchanted Rock to camp

ohmygah-this-is-so-hard…trying to come up with realistic but also challenging myself type goals…

• Read 20 of the books on my bookshelf that I already have—that have been sitting there waiting for me to read them.
• Complete two more sections of the Lone Star Hiking Trail
• Master(-ish) the pistol squat
• Plan at least one more girl’s weekend trip with my friends Michelle and Stephanie
• Plan a second girl’s weekend with my mom and SIL
• Weekend trip to the Big Thicket—it’s been too long!
• Visit the Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve—same as above!
• Backpack on the Turkey Creek Trail in BTNP
• Host a plant/gardener swap for Houston gardeners
• Take Forest to the Congress Avenue bat bridge in Austin.
• See Attwater Prairie Chickens at the Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR
• Find the Bartonia texana (Texas screwstem)
• Take Forest to the San Bernard Oak
• Find 7 historical trees in our Famous Trees of Texas book.
• Hike at Lake Houston Wilderness Park
• Hike on the new sections of the Spring Creek Greenway in Harris County.
• See the whooping cranes at Aransas NWR
• Go for a spring wildflower drive and photo excursion
• Find a wild Southern Lady’s Slipper Orchid, Cypripedium kentuckiense
• Meditate consistently for 5 min a day
• Finally learn to use the SLR camera that was my grandfather’s and that I bought film for a few years ago
• Finally make mead with the kit Chris got me for Christmas a few years ago
• Learn to use my Instant Pot
• Visit the Sam Houston Statue (instead of driving by it on I-45!)
• Commit to morning pages 3xs a week
• One 6-10 mile rollerblade once a month to go with regular rollerblading and cardio that I do.
• Start a yard flora and fauna species list
• Update and revise our photography website — maybe actually do something with this?
• Brainstorm and outline a potential fiction book
• Practice my piano once a week for 30 minutes (I got a new keyboard a year and a half ago and haven’t really played on it much!)
• Make sourdough bread from scratch
• Figure out something to do with all of my grandmother’s crocheted doilies—framing, blanket, some kind of art???
• Write letters or cards regularly to my friends.

  Oh boy was the last 10-15 tough! I don’t know about doing this again next year—hah! I wanted to throw some easy stuff in there and then of course some cop out type items but I refrained and tried to do things I knew could be accomplished if I at least tried. We may not find a southern lady’s slipper or the Texas screwstem but it’s worth a try. Same as the other stuff. But, it’s a start!

  Alright, 2019—let’s do this!