Highly specific 2010 resolutions. You knew they were coming. On the bright side, it's the longest list I'll post all year. Probably.
I'm hoping to make this year one of balance--to combine more homey adventures, circa 2008 (pickling cucumbers) with more out-and-about ones, circa 2009 (head to Paris for a month). Mostly, I want to enjoy, breathe deep, better notice and love who and what is right in front of my nose (beautiful seed pods, for example, above).
1. Go NYC places. Do NYC things.
2. Hone my photography skills. Consider a new camera.
3. Home: Plant things. Peruse cookbooks. Bake bread. Make jam.
4. Consider buying pants that are not jeans. Also, wearing them.
5. Read poems by poets other than T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
6. Write a poem a week.
7. Return to my breath.
8. Buy a fantastic pair of heels. Wear them even though.
9. Know when long weekends are going to be. Plan things for them.
10. Make things. Craft. It. Up.
11. Keep doing the things I'm doing well.
12. Make a financial plan. Avoid the term "budget" at all costs.
13. Wallpaper something.
14. Consider next steps. Those next steps on that sticky note I've been avoiding. Yes, that one.
15. Paint my toenails a luscious brown.
16. Write a letter a month.
17. Work on my French. (Carry flashcards.)
18. Try skinny jeans again. Just in case they aren't really that bad.
19. Visit a farm. Nuzzle chickens. Interact with cows. Learn more about bees.
20. Pick apples.
21. Visit Maine. Or the Catskills. Or Niagara Falls. Or all three.
22. Stick to a schedule.
23. Be tidier. Put things away where they *go.*
24. Sit up straight. Mostly.
25. Read out loud sometimes. Reading out loud is my favorite.
26. Make a rhubarb pie.
What are you doing this year?
{Photo, Me}
24 maids a-milking:
I'm attempting to perfect my French too :)
Ah, this is a very good list. Specific lists are best, I think - much better for checking things off.
Poetry-wise (this may sound silly) but I like compilations of things by smart people of poems they think everyone should know - like The Rattle Bag, for example. I find it is a good way to stumble across things in a serendipitous way.
I am working on no. 14 myself. It's a problematic one, but necessary.
i'm sitting up straight, because you reminded me. i loveub your list.
I love your list. Because you are so cute. You could put California on it too. You could.
OMG: Interacting w/ cows just appeared at the top of my list! Easily the best NYRez EVER!!! And if a little chicken nuzzling finds its way into the day, well so be it.
-Mee-SHEL foo-KOH
I don't like resolutions. I like other people's but not my own. I have aims, 6 big aims for the year and hopefully they will guide me through.
If I were to make resolutions they would include baking bread regularly, not killing my sourdough starter, trying skinny jeans, read books with pages, finish a room in my house. Have brunch with Amandah.
marc by marc "chrissie" skinnies, and loomstate's "revelation" skinnies. the former pop up around $80 every now and again, and are the very best jeans i've ever owned. the latter materialize at barneys warehouse sales for $17, if you're eagle-eyed.
have you read james dickey's "falling"? i love that poem.
Sounds excellent. I am so lazy that I haven't even gotten around to making a list. Maybe I'll skip it this year and just make it my resolution for next year.
mmm. yes. a most excellent list. and some excellent notes to be taken from these comments, ouci (note to self, order "the rattle bag" on amazon; hunt down the chrissie skinnies asap).
"pied beauty" is one of my most-most-most favorite poems by your man hopkins, btw.
@Lauren: I knew you'd have skinny-jean info.
@Rachel: How about "Open a kick-ass etsy shop"? Oh. Wait.
@Lily: Fun facts: first milk was almost "brinded cow." Glory be to god for dappled things.
i also have frank o'hara pinging around in my head. is it the weather that stirs up the [lana turner has collapsed!]?
this is fabulous. i would also like to make jam, work on my french and interact with cows.
ps. you should definitely make rhubarb pie. i did, last spring, and it was amazing.
i love this blog. all the way into the new year.
ooh, i love lists :) i'm just trying to be happier this year... and also, go skinny-dipping before i graduate college. i hear it's pretty necessary.
maybe if I didn't call it a budget either that would make it easier :/
in other news, I just bought my second pair of skinny jeans but I'm having trouble convincing myself that they're more flattering than my favorite saggy-ass pair. I dunno what to tell you.
5. If you are looking, Wendel Berry is 'Dumbeldore's' new favourite and he gave me a copy, you might enjoy him as well (for a little taste I just put one poem up, go see)
6. It is good to remember to write it keeps us from becoming dull.
18.I have struggled against skinny jeans, perhaps it isn't a battle worth winning?
19. re:chickens-mean things really, or perhaps they could smell my fear you may fare better.
A beautiful list.
Great list! Here's a few of my resolutions ...
http://ataleoftwobloggers.blogspot.com/2009/12/happy-new-year.html
I want to try to milk a cow, but no one seems to want to let me do that. Perhaps knocking on random farmers' doors and requesting access to their livestock is not the best way to go about that... hmmm.
Hm. Maybe I need to rewrite my list a little.
Or make a second one.
Well, your new boots NECESSITATE skinny jeans.
Happy New Year. <3
i love how specific your list is... i really need to get mine down in writing!
-angela
@Peonies: Lub you.
@Rebecca: Skinny-dipping is magic. It is one of the only things I'm really sure about.
4 - The wearing them is the difficult bit, I find. I have three pair, that I can think of, and I'm always resolving to wear them more often.
13 - I knew my life had changed when I got excited about this one.
16 - Wonderful.
And good luck with the sticky note. I imagine you just have to make yourself start.
Here's mine:
Start making some money again, while staying at home with Talia.
Go on dates with my husband.
Breastfeed Talia to nine months (but not to beat myself up about it if the recurring clogged ducts/mastitis continue, making it just plain silly to continue).
Spend more time looking at words on paper and less looking at words on a screen.
Enjoy what's happening, instead of stressing about what might.
18. I wear my skinny jeans (from Urban Outfitters) all the time because they have a little stretch in them, so they are almost like deggings and so comfy.
21. I ighly recommend visiting Mount Desert Island in Maine. And anywhere in the Catskills.
i have my very specific and long resolutions lists in my head still, need to write them down...
What a great resource!
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