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So many problems:


Meaningless:
1) Watch “Brewsters Millions”
2) Scare someone really badly and get it on film
3) Throw a really fun party.
4) Have a margarita party on a Sunday afternoon.
5) Fashion photoshoot at clothing stores around town
6) Dress up in a DisneyLand style costume and hand out popsicles at the beach on a hot day.
7-9) TBD!

The heart smart category:
10) Interview my grandparents, blog about it, and scan photos.
11) Write one letter per month.
12) Make a family tree
13) Have a sleepover party with my brother and drink margaritas at Chili’s, then play Wii.
14) Leave a server a really big tip in proportion to the ticket
15) Volunteer somewhere
16-19) TBD!

The Healthy Category:
20) Go to Yoga twice a week.
21) Ride my bike to work 3 days a week for the entire year.
22) Join a women’s baseball team
23) Lose 10 pounds
24) Run the Cincinnati Flying Pig Half Marathon
25) Do the Danskin Chicagoland Womens Triathalon.
26) Get my wisdom teeth out
27-29) TBD!

Get Smart:
30) Learn Spanish.
31) Take a knife skills class with Amy
32-39) TBD


Food:
40) Bike to an Ethiopian restaurant with Riki
41) Bike to Veggie Bite on the south side with Amy
42) Bike to Hot Doug’s
43) Make 1 new vegan recipe per week
44) Plant a mini-herb garden.
45) Plant a mini back-deck vegetable garden
46) Vegan pizza party and movie night.
47) Host a fancy-pants dinner party
48) Make this
49) Something that is in the works, I want to see if it happens before I post about it

Financial:
50) Increase what I’m putting into my savings accound by 25% per month.
51) Pay off all of my consumer debt.
52) Invest in a Roth IRA
53) Do a full on written budget
54-59) TBD!

You tell me what to do:
60, Submitted by Minx) Sing karaoke in front of a bunch of people. :(
61-68) TBD
69, Submitted by Aaron D.) Record a hip-hop record (at least 4 songs) with Riki and make a myspace music page for it.

The Culture Vulture:
71) Visit the Museum of Surgical Science
72) Go to the Brooklyn Museum
73) Yankees Game
74) Ride on one of those Double Decker Red buses
75) Top of the Empire State Building
76) Walk the Brooklyn Bridge
77) Ferry ride to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
78) Visit the MoMA
79) Visit the NY Public Library

Travel:
80) Go to Ecuador
81) Go camping with Riki
82) Visit Katie in North Carolina
83) Go to Venezuela
84-89) TBD

Random:
90) Surprise Problem
91) Get new glasses
92) Go to a Cubs game and sit in the skybox
93) Find a place to live in New York
94-99) TBD… lots TBD…

What’s my Problem?

This past December, I regretfully declared to several co-workers that I would start a blog. My initial thoughts were that I would simply keep a journal type of blog, but Christina said “You need to have a goal before you start, otherwise you won’t keep it up.”

So I decided, because I frequently say I will do something but don’t follow through, this would be a perfect time to start a blog about my goals (which I am calling problems, more on that later). Having my goals for the year in writing not only holds me accountable for them, but acts as a perpetual to-do list.

The Rules:

Goals are divided into 10 categories, as follows:

- Meaningless: Exactly what it says. Goals that are meaningless, but fun. For me at least.

- The Heart Smart Category: Stuff that is good for other people, or fills my soul with a warm feeling. Or is good for me and other people, but still benefits me the most because I look like a better person in the end. These will be tear-jerkers.

- The Healthy Category: Goals that will help me not be so out of breath when I climb the flight of stairs up to my apartment.

- Get Smart: I’ll learn new skills and expand my horizons in this category.

- Food: It’s embarassing that I’m giving food a full category.

- Financial: I won’t go into specifics when I list these goals, because it’s NOYB. You’ll just have to trust that I’m doing them because it’s my blog and I can do what I want. I’ll tell you what they are, but I won’t give you numbers.

- You tell me what to do: I’ll do what you say, as long as it won’t hurt me, or hurt someone else, or get me fired.

- The Culture Vulture: This is where I force myself to go to museums and similar boring things.

- Travel: Places I want to go, obviously.

- Random: For everything else that does’t fit nicely into one of these groups.

Why am I calling my goals my “problems”?

For a few reasons.

1) I will probably procrastinate so badly while doing this, that they will end up being big problems.

2) For every goal I do not accomplish, I will donate $10 to Cornerstone Community Outreach. So thats like.. 900 bucks or something. And thats a problem… But, for every goal I do complete, they’ll get $5. At the very least, that is $500, plus the money from any goals I don’t accomplish.

3) Problem is cuter to say than goal is.

4) oh, and it was a Jay-Z song, and I stole it. What are you gonna do about it?

ok, time to get started….

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  • 1. your swedish problem  |  January 17th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    Problem does sound cuter than goal. And it also makes you sound more human. I don’t want to read a blogg about somebody who does 99 things and calls the experience ‘refreshing’. I want tears and hard work. And I think you will give it to me! Good luck!


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