Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

10 New Year's Resolutions

I prefer to think of these as "Opportunities for Improvement".

1. Do one thing each month that is outside my comfort zone. (Although, with a teenage driver in the house, this happens on an almost daily basis!)
2. Complete two non-knitted craft items each month.
3. Learn to crochet. (I love my knitting, but then I saw this!)
4. Add one more "teenie weenie greenie" to my routines each month.
5. Spend one afternoon each week with my mother. (Without the kids around!)
6. Spend more activity-based time with my kids. (Baking cookies, building something, biking.)
7. Paint the outside of my house. (It's currently a shade of Spam with baby blue shutters - a previous owners choice, not mine!)
8. Work toward being more helpful and less critical of my family. (If I can just 'bite my tongue' at least once a day and smile instead...)
9. Finish scraping the (probably asbestos laden) linoleum off my bedroom floor. (Again, a previous owners choice, not mine!)
10. Declutter, declutter, declutter - in the house, in my computer, in my head.

10 Things I've Been Putting Off

 

1. Sending the insurance information to the doctors from when my son broke his arm at school.
2. Cleaning out garage.
3. Exercising regularly.
4. Calling my dad's cousin in New York.
5. Cleaning out the outside fridge.
6. Reorganizing the kitchen cupboards.
7. Meeting with my daughter's guidance counselor.
8. Repotting some plants.
9. Replacing the patio furniture.
10. Cleaning up behind the workshop.

10 Things I'd Save in a Fire

1. My pictures - The boxes: full, the computer: full, the albums: the few that are full, the framed ones that cannot be replaced.
2. My dog, though in an emergency, she'd probably be the first one out!
3. The mold of my hand holding my son's hand when he was an infant.
4. The cheese sculpture that my daughter made for me.
5. My current knitting project.
6. The quilt my mother made for my son.
7. My daughter's favorite stuffed animal. His name is Bob.
8. My jewelry - the real stuff only.
9. A framed painting that came from my grandmother's house.
10. A piece of published sheet music that belonged to my maternal grandmother - the story is that the song was written for her by a beau in the late 1800's.

Of course, all this goes without saying that my family is already out.

This is a great prompt - it really made me mentally go through the house room by room and think about what was replaceable and what absolutely wasn't.

10 Favorite Movies from My Childhood

    

1. Born Free - Just thinking about this movie has that damn song stuck in my head.
2. Run Wild, Run Free - Little girls love horses. My mom took me to see this the day after I got my first puppy; I was 5. I remember that when my dad came to pick us up at the movie theater, he brought the dog with him, but by the time he got to the theater, she had thrown up in the car. Boy was he pissed off!
3. Planet of the Apes - The first "Owl Show" (a very late movie), I was ever allowed to go to!
4. Wizard of Oz - Those stupid monkeys still scare me.
5. Star Wars - Who didn't want to be Princess Leia? I still have little Yodas on my desk! “Do or do not... there is no try.”
6. The Black Stallion - Another horse flick. Walter Farley was my favorite author and I still have the letter he wrote back to me when I was 10.
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail - "They turned me into a newt, but I got better!" and many more quotes that have infiltrated our society.
8. Sleuth - What acting! I couldn't believe there were only two actors when I saw it the first time.
9. Black Beauty - Yet another horse flick.
10. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot- I saw this movie with my parents and really the only thing I remember is my mother throwing her hands over my eyes when the naked woman came to the window. It's a childhood memory more so than a favorite movie.