My Musings & Lists

Saturday, May 2, 2026

In:

Board games
Riding bikes
High quality chocolate
Reading
Shelves
Oatmeal for breakfast
Making new friends or at least hanging out with new people while singing sea shanties or playing bar trivia
Stretching
Birthday cards
Continuing ed for tax

Out:

Number one. Memorizing quotes.

Number two. Baking cookies.

Number three. Reading.

Number four. Riding bikes with Sean or friends.

Number five. Traveling.

Number six. Going to museums.

Number seven. Organizing things, especially organizing fun.

Number eight. Sending birthday cards and happy mail.

Number nine. Knowledge, learned through reading, lectures, podcast, journaling, conversations, trivia.

Number 10. Otters, board games, cheese, Italian, movies, needle work,… I’m not sure what the last one is. It is the last one should just be lists.

I want to finish my Crosstitch projects.

I want to read 50 books a year.

I want you to be a person as memorized and can recall great quotes.

I want to drive. I tend to Los Angeles, seeing Austin, San Antonio, and Albuquerque and the Rembrandt in Los Angeles.

I want to sing in a group, like a choir, I guess.

I want to become decent and drawing houses and sketch peoples houses for gifts.

I want to go to Maine again and Halifax

I want to go to Italy and spend three weeks

Take me to my grandkids and live long enough for them to have memories of me. I want to write them in my children letters to read after my test.

I want to buy art.

I want to finish my scrapbook that I have done

I want my office to look like an office not a story. This means getting shelves in pretty baskets and getting rid of a lot of stuff.

I want to lose weight to a healthy weight and improve my medical numbers, extending my life and improving my quality of life

I want to write a book.

I want to go to England again in Scotland for the first time

I want to use up all my note cards and postcards sending happy mail to friends.

I want to weed down our games until they all fit in the cabinet with none on the floor. I want to have played all the games that we own.

Finally rearranging my office after 5 months (and a whole tax season). Much work to do, much to unpack but at least the pieces are in place
Getting a game plan for revocable trust -an again, much to do! But all good.
Sunset time with Sean, Luna, cheese, a lemon poppyseed muffin, and limoncello cream
Journaling 10 images
Finding 3 more pairs of scissors, 2 pieces of art to frame, and my backup prescription glasses while unpacking journals
Walking the dog with Sean at 7 am on a still morning
Getting my work schedule organized and communicated to the bosses and entered into my calendar