2011 Goal Check List

My to do list and what I have accomplished so far this year:


Get Organized:

• Finish typing or copy/pasting recipes.
• Print out and organize recipe pages into my binder.
• De-clutter my house!
• Go through clothes, toys, games, old beddings, videos, DVD's, books, electronics, etc.
• Donate things to DI.
• Organize craft supplies.
•  Get new beddings, sheets, pillow cases, pillows, etc for kids and us.
• Organize my activity day leader book.
• Update their goals, which they have passed off recently.
• Add incoming girls and their birthdays to my book.
• Plan four months worth of activity day ideas.
• Type and print out a calendar of the next few months of activities.
• Plan and prepare for my youngest daughter's 8th birthday party!
• Do a very cheap butterfly theme.
• Make home-made birthday invitations.
• Buy a cheap flower or butterfly piñata and buy candy at dollar store.
• Make flowers and butterflies garland.
• Make a Happy Birthday banner.
• Make butterfly cupcakes.
• Make the game pieces for stick the spot on a butterfly.
• Make a CD for musical chairs game.
• Use leftover butterfly party supplies from oldest daughter.
• Collect recyclables (toilet paper rolls and egg cartons) and buy missing craft supplies for butterfly and caterpillar crafts.
• Make the toilet roll butterfly and caterpillar crafts as decoration and examples for the birthday party.
• Make caterpillar hair-clips.

Spiritual Goals:

• Improve on personal prayers and scripture study!
• Improve on church attendance and tithing/fast offerings.
• Have Family Home Evening every week.
• Go to temple with Husband.
• Write in gratitude journal.
• Read conference talks from the Ensign.
• Go to Enrichment night! (Yay, I went to the Relief Society Birthday Dinner)!
• Family prayers and scripture study.

Health and Fitness:

• Work out 5 times a week mixing up the workout routine (weights, running, Turbo Jam (kick-boxing), P90X, etc.  The more different activities that I do, more than likely it will confuse my body to lose weight.
• Slowly purge sugar out of my diet!  Try eating South Beach Diet for a couple weeks to notice any changes in metabolism.
• Get a six month recreation pass to the gym.  Use the elliptical, treadmill, stationary bike, weights, and take a zumba class.
• Make a new iTunes workout mixture of up beat music for my iPod nano.

Meal Plans:

• Buy Our Best Bites Cookbook.
• Try a new recipe each week from my recipe book project or from Our Best Bites Cookbook.

Educational Goals:

• Apply to Salt Lake Community College.
• Apply for financial aid.
• Obtain College transcripts and hand deliver them to SLCC.
• Do new student orientation and meet with an advisor.
• Apply to nursing program May 12-25, 2011.
• Register for classes in the fall 2011.  Sign up for the following classes: nutrition, math 1025 pharmacology, a fun fitness class, and some time in the future pathophysiology (as soon as I find out when I will start my nursing program).

Look for a job in health care:

• Get food handler's permit
• Get CPR certified
• Apply for jobs on crag's list,newspaper classifieds, Job Workforce Services, etc.

Reading:

• Read Nights in Rodanthe, A Walk to Remember, The Lucky One, At First Sight, True Believer, A Bend in a Road, The Rescue, The Wedding, The Guardian,and Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks.
• Read The Hunger Games Trilogy Box Set by Suzanne Collins.

Scrapping:

• Install Adobe Photoshop Elements on my new desktop computer.
• Call Customer Service about registering the license since there was a problem.  Thankfully they allowed me to register the software on my new computer since the old desktop died.
• Scrap 2-5 layouts per week.

Financial:

• Print out on-line coupons and cut coupons out of newspaper or mail advertisements.
• Read Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczn and Dave Ramsey's following book: The Total Money Makeover.

Developing Talents: 

• Do a craft at least once a month.
• Cut out 4"X4" wooden blocks. Come up with a design using scrapbook paper and stencil lettering our last name FREE on the blocks.
• Do something creative for my visiting teaching sisters.

Self Reliance:

• Strawberries will be in season soon, which means the cost of buying them should go down!  I better start learning how to make some freezer jams and strawberry sauces.