I started writing this list the week before my 26th birthday. I was feeling like I was getting lazy, starting to lack focus. I’d get home from work and wonder what to do with my evenings. I wish for a lot of things and have so many ideas but then I forget them the next minute or don’t take the risk or effort to see them realised. So I wrote a list of 26 things I need to do in this year before I turn 27 next April.
Now I’m already over two months in the year and not a lot crossed out yet (some in process). So I’m posting this is a reminder to myself that these things are important to me and that doing them will make me a happier and more fulfilled person. The years seem to be flashing by a lot more quickly these days and I don’t want to blink and miss them.
Some of these are big things that will take quite some effort to do, but I tried to make them all achievable. Some are a bit vague coz I wasn’t sure how to measure the result, but I guess I will just know if I have achieved it.
I’ll maybe keep you updated every now and then on how it’s going 🙂
- Exercise twice a week at least
- Learn how to make sushi
- Start painting/crafting again
- Buy a sewing machine and learn how to use it
- Successfully grow something we can eat (update: my wee chilli plants are getting stronger and taller despite the almost complete lack of sunshine they have to photosynthesise with…)
- Have a party at the beach
- Find armchairs for our flat
- Finally go to that American diner in Brussels
- Get some wedding photos printed
- Finish watching the Godfather trilogy
- Learn to be more naturally tidy at home
- Visit the Ardennes
- Drink champagne on “normal” days, just to celebrate being happy
- Make Flødeboller (marshmallow puff things)
- Finish reading one book a month (very nearly done with Wolf Hall but I’m nervous about how the ending will be so I am procrastinating finishing by starting reading The Piano Teacher)
- Make a patchwork quilt
- Travel to a new country
- Spend a day in a spa with a friend(s)
- Get good enough at Danish to have a proper adult conversation with Rasmus
- Make ice cream
- Start painting/crafting regularly again
- Organise my bookmarked/cut out recipes and cook them
- Write at least one hand written letter every week
- Keep getting to know the women at the asylum centre on our street
- Have a picnic at Villers Abbey
- Keep writing my blog regularly… (been doing ok for about a month!)
