Note: I post this more as a reminder to staple over my own head than as reading material. File under "Reference."
I just got an email from Chris Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo, encouraging all 2006 participants to do something wacko - in public - in 2007, i.e., set a goal of something fun and fearsome to do and then do it, in public where applicable. This was my list:
1. Learn Spanish.
2. Get back into Pilates, so that the scariest things about my 30th birthday will be my raging pythons and ass of steel.
3. Put together another children's photography show at my friends' cafe.
4. Get published, anywhere, anyhow.
5. Update blog.
6. Buy a bicycle. Ride it.
7. Play bass and/or guitar and/or sing in public.
Notice that none of these things involve any housework. Also note that the housework list does, in fact, exist, and is considered separate, as not all of these things will prove to qualify as "fun":
1. Finish painting the laundry room (a prerequisite of which would be clearing the laundry room of its laundry, a goal I have been pursuing for at least the last six months, a long, hard battle yet to be won).
2. Fireplace! Okay, "fun."
3. Begin work on upstairs.
4. Organize my closet.
5. Organize my desk/file 2006 stuff.
6. Organize photos.