forty for forty

Oops! I made out my resolution list several weeks ago and then completely forgot to post it. I've never made birthday resolutions before, but hitting a milestone birthday has inspired me to take stock of where I am and where I want to go. So here goes!

1. Keep up with gratitude journal somedays
   
2. Complete adoption application, home study, and dossier still trying to come up with application fee
   
3. Yoga occasionally
   
4. Physical therapy exercises at least 5 days per week ummm...
   
5. Volunteer for Barack Obama (GOTV effort) nope--migraines kept me in bed
   
6. Begin spiritual direction done
   
7. Paint living room, hallway next spring
   
8. Send in grad school application for Master's in Theology Program by December 1 make that December 30
   
9. Find financial aid for grad school
10. Celebrate 40th birthday in style done!!!
    
11. Lose Prednisone weight by Christmas almost
    
12. Apply for spiritual direction certificate program changed to pastoral ministry certificate program
    
13. Cardio at least 5 days per week
14. Strength training, 2 days per week
15. Get mammogram done
    
16. Organize photos
17. Organize mom and grandma's letters
18. Obedience lessons for Fiona
19. Eat at least 5 fruits and vegetables daily HA!!
    
20. Check into infertility support group found online adoption support group
    
21. Check into fibromyalgia support group
    
22. Organize study
23. Do The Artist's Way
24. Date night with George once a week
25. Work on improving my Spanish, especially conversational maybe French, instead
    
26. Send birthday cards ON TIME not even close :(
    
27. Update blog more often better
    
28. Journal every day, even if for only a few minutes somdays
    
29. Organize mom's things, finally
30. Explore ways to finance adoption looking at foster-adoption now
    
31. Send five things for publication
32. Read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Catcher in the Rye, Anna Karenina, and The House of Spirits
33. Learn to knit
34. Knit prayer shawl
35. Become commissioned Eucharistic Minister
36. Check into Basilica Befriender ministry yes
    
37. Reconnect with college friends doing
    
38. Keep to a regular sleep schedule getting much better
    
39. Organize week using The Life Organizer by Jennifer Louden will probably never do
    
40. Watch more comedies too many Law & Order reruns, still