• But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
  • So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
  • When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple
  • From "Warning" by Jenny Joseph

    This year I am 40 and I'm tired of waiting for someday in order to do the things that I want to do this year I'm going to do things that I've been putting off

    I'm living my dreams. Join me!

    Tell me about your Celebration of Life (the email is in contact us).

    THE LIST

    • Learn to Autocross Did 2 races in June
    • Ride the Carousel in Carson Cty, Co
    • Go to the CATS Stitching Festival Springtime in Vegas
    • Enter a quilting Contest
    • Go to the Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, UT
    • Go to a movie in Park City at the Sundance Film Festival
    • Attend the Frontsight, NV 4th of July Celebration and rode a zip line!
    • Publish a cross-stitch design Check with Jo at Dinky Dye
    • Write something other than my blog and look for an agent or publisher
    • Wear real fur to the Opera May 2006
    • Take a photographic trip with my kids
    • Volunteer at This is the Place Heritage Park
    • Support my husband better in launching his business
    • Enter something I've made in the State Fair
    • Climb to the Glacier on Mt. Timpanogoos (maybe even with the kids)
    • Audition for a play, movie, or TV show
    • Take a belly dancing class Monday nights
    • Participate in the MS 150 bike ride
    • Get to the weight I was when I married (with luck, I'll be able to fit into my dress again).
    • Create an artistic canvas piece worth hanging in the house
    • Learn to shoot a bow and arrow
    • Go Ice Fishing
    • Learn to snowshoe or cross-country ski
    • Start on a master's degree This interupts a lot of the other things
    • Start reading the series of Great Books that the Encyclopedia Britannica salesman told us we would need when our daughter was born.
    • Move my daughter up to college and she loves it
    • Look for a black opal I want to own
    • Decorate my house seasonally
    • Have dinner at the Crab Cooker in Newport Beach, CA
    • HAve a dinner with all the Broad Squad together
    • See if other people will join me in getting out of a rut and having fun!

    This is my year.