Summer goals

coming to you from Pullman

you might feel like spring has just started and are thinking that my summer goal making is a little premature - but i am still a student, and as such measure the seasons by when my breaks are.  my last semester of lectures...in veterinary medicine... at WSU (...because who knows where my life will take me and i love school so much i will undoubtedly go back [somewhere] listening to more lectures [about something] eventually) is over in a week and although i do not actually get a summer break this year (or ever again in my life unless i really switch things up and become a K-12 teacher) i will still measure the beginning of summer as starting the minute my last final is over. 

so!  making goals.  i have some for this summer.  because summer and break have always been an inseparable idea in my head, i am having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that i will not have extra time to get stuff done (that stuff that i usually put off..."i'll have time to do that in the summer...").  nevertheless, i'm going to make some summer goals with the intent of having a little extra time, and maybe just having the sun out will make me more productive.  some things about goals that i have been told: write them down (i'm doing that now and in a very public manner, which equals more accountability - even though these are sort of silly goals i expect you to hold me to them), they should be attainable, specific, measurable, realistic, and there should be a deadline. 

Deadline: August 27, 2012

Goals:

• find a one piece swimsuit that looks good on me...like these

poka dots; stripes and bow; black

• stop twirling my hair (seriously, i'm practically an adult.)
• start a joy jar (i have a joy journal, but the thought of reading random cool things at the end of the year sounds fun, and i would be more likely to make a "deposit" every day)

sorry, uploaded by user on pinterest so i don't know where this idea came from

or should i make this instead...?

unique calendar seen here

• finish my quilt: it's much further along than when i took this picture, but i still have a lot of work

look how cute ellie is!

• see a dermatologist: before my good insurance expires!  Dr. Travis Stork told me today that i shouldn't ignore things about my health - doctor's orders!!
• go through all of my clothes and decide if it stays or goes - sex in the city style.  maybe i'll decide that it all stays (i doubt it) but i at least need to remind myself what i own. 
• plan a trip to go skydiving: like actually book an instructor because just planning it in my head and saving some money didn't do the trick - but i guess i'm half way there.  i just have to convince someone else to go with me - a few months ago, i realized that skydiving is something that i imagine i will do in my lifetime...you know how when people find out they are going to die they have to do certain things...like skydiving...and i just decided i don't want to wait until i'm dying to live. 
• make something like this...anything really.  just be a little crafty at least one time. 

  

  "A"; marriage is...; what a perfectly stupid time we would have; i love you...; maps

• go to Glenn and Yasmin's wedding: obviously i'm already doing this, but i wanted to add something to the list that i know i will for sure be able to cross off :)

i guess we have a while to see if i'm successful. 

m.