Hey 2017, I have been waiting for you… waiting for a good reason to start lots of things again… all the usual suspects, like getting my eating and exercise on track, but also a brand new list.  I am really excited about this year and it’s list.  I am not really sure why, but it has a good feeling about it, which is enough for me to go with.

This year will be my 9th list… 9, can you believe it? That will take me to 900 things that I have ‘listed’ and attempted.  You can check out all the old lists by clicking the year they were attempted here: 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016.  This year’s list is once again full of little goals, 100 of them all up… Some big, some small, some fun, some serious, some new, some re-dos, some very deliberate and some very very random but all things that at some stage last year I decided I wanted/needed/should do this year.

I really love doing these lists each year and the last couple of years I have been lucky enough to have been on some overseas adventures, in fact last year we started the year in Venice and the year before we were in New Zealand, so I jam packed those lists with the things we would do while we were away.  But this year we are regrouping and staying home, which means the list looks a little more like the lists of old… all home grownish, localish fun which means if you live near me… or want to visit me, you too can join the listing fun.  Seriously let me know if you want to help me… crossing things off the list is always more fun with someone else.

I am also hoping (like every other year) that 2017 will be the year that I get more consistent with blogging it when it happens… so that I can remember them all, not just all the big ones… anyway, that’s enough rambling about the list… here it is:

1. Play some table tennis
2. Learn to make a paper crane
3. Do something special to celebrate my 30th
4. Go on a book blind date
5. Make Mrs Kaye’s cookies
6. Have High Tea
7. No more games in the morning… even if I am sick
8. Try again
9. Keep getting closer
10. Go back to park run
11. Go back to work
12. Go back to school
13. Paint something
14. Build something
15. Drink a bottle of water most days
16. Have a ‘no screen time’ day or hopefully a couple of them
17. Make some smores
18. Go on a picnic
19. Find out how floating lanterns work… how they are made etc.
20. Go to the drive in
21. Go Camping
22. Go on a  road trip
23. Swim in the ocean
24. See a musical
25. Do a fun run
26. Have a spa of some sort
27. Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
28. Help change something at home
29. Start learning guitar again
30. Get a haircut
31. Take a photo everyday
32. Exercise at least 3 times a week and make the most of my gym membership
33. Send 20 hand written cards
34. Eat/make paella
35. Bake a lemon meringue pie
36. Get a massage
37. Participate in a scavenger hunt
38. Do some trivia
39. Try those multi fill water bombs and have a water fight
40. Remember the important things: God, Dave, Health, Family and Communication
41. Get better at shopping for my body
42. Watch Hocus Pocus
43. Go on a bush walk
44. Use my new outdoor reading chair
45. Blow some bubbles
46. Play a board game
47. Play a video game… not on my phone
48. Go berry picking
49. Have 5 different milkshake dates
50. Try yoga again
51. Visit a museum/gallery
52. Blog regularly
53. Seriously… be on time
54. Get to work earlier and leave on time
55. Keep my photo storage up to date
56. Keep my computer up to date
57. Meet Baby Lewis
58. Try to make Turkish Delight… or just eat some real Turkish Delight
59. Read 16 books
60. Read at least 3 christian/devotional books
61. Bake/cook something from 6 different countries
62. Visit 3 different national parks
63. Create an outdoor cinema in the backyard
64. Go to a country town I have never been to before
65. Watch a sunrise
66. Get my car washed properly and then wash it least 5 times
67. Read the book of Joshua
68. Find some new blogs I like and read them regularly
69. Cross at least one thing off my list each month
70. Go to the fancy McDonald’s in Clifton Hill
71. Finish cleaning out the spare room
72. Three words… ‘home cooked meals’
73. Have a spend nothing day at least once a month
74. Get up at 7am on work days
75. Make a quiche
76. Have a non liquid breakfast at least twice a week
77. Finish Gilmore Girls
78. Check out Hungarofest
79. Stop using Eastlink… just leave earlier
80. Find out if our house has a legit hidden fireplace… or just get some proof of hope
81. Find out where our local swimming hole is and use it
82. Remember Joshua
83. Try the crochet thongs/uggs
84. Stay at the Langham
85. Try Danny’s Donuts
86. Finish sorting and storing the VHS tapes
87. Blog about being thankful at least once a month
88. Get my steps up again… ideally to >10,000 per day
89. Learn how to play a new game
90. Go interstate
91. Get both the Europe and New Zealand Photo books ready for print
92. Finish watching Star Trek Next Gen
93. Go on a romantic get away
94. Try 4 more local cafe’s in the search of our new local
95. Finish my sentence a day book
96. Improve my 5km time
97. Do some colouring
98. Go to bed earlier
99. Clean out the Kikki.K folders
100. Be deliberate about filling the house with good things like flowers and music

And there you have it… 2017 I am so glad you are here!