84% success rate from fall

Wow it's been a busy month and with Dec 21 being tomorrow and the official start of winter I have to look at my checklist from fall and see how much I really did (uh-oh).

✓ 1. in the spirit of going back to school, I'm going to learn something

✓ 2. close my eyes and breathe in the fall air in the morning

✓ 3. always carry tissues- because it's that season

✓ 4. Sunday = baking day

5. go to the farmer's market before they are gone for the season

✓ 6. watch purple violets and wish I was Selma Blair

✓ 7. exercise everyday... in some way or another

✓ 8. continue to learn the guitar

9. buy a bike

10. attend many concerts

✓ 11. make an apple pie from scratch

✓ 12. also make pecan pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie & cherry pie... not the last two but I did make lots of pies

✓ 13. make soups!

✓ 14. have afternoon tea

✓ 15. look for an internship... but no luck

16. actually learn a new language

✓ 17. buy/wear/love tights, scarves, hats & boots

✓ 18. go to the movies

19. go bowling

20. fly a kite

✓ 21. make/drink cider, hot milled cider

✓ 22. watch scary movies on halloween

✓ 23. put candy corn on my teeth like a vampire

✓ 24. listen to more music- new & old

✓ 25. get addicted to a new television show

✓ 26. apply to grad schools

✓ 27. cure my fear of commitment... on anything... making progress

✓ 28. watch the sun rise and set on the same day

29. buy/chew clove gum

✓ 30. read while completely enveloped in blankets

✓ 31. go to the Little Farmer or Apple Holler... Awe's Orchard.

✓ 32. pick apples and/or pumpkins

✓ 33. eat more fresh foods

✓ 34. attend BK's wedding

✓ 35. take photographs of autumn- because for 4 years I never really experienced fall and last year I never truly appreciated it

✓ 36. go out and be a doer

✓ 37. enjoy the outdoors before winter comes

38. travel to Washington D.C. and experience that feeling of being "home"

✓ 39. bundle up and open the windows at night to experience a crisp fall morning in bed... did it once and will never do it again. It's too cold.

✓ 40. finish sorting family genealogy... made progress (so much to go through)

✓ 41. journal/sketch more

✓ 42. learn a new hobby... I've been more "crafty"

✓ 43. make more lists

✓ 44. purge things I don't need

✓ 45. loose weight... okay only a couple but still.

✓ 46. buy new office supplies

✓ 47. frame photos of mine

✓ 48. re-imagine my life and set life goals

✓ 49. get out of neutral... I'm moving forward finally.

✓ 50. let go and let flow

Alright... 42 out of 50 is AWESOME! Better than I expected although some of these are only half completed but at least I'm on my way. And now it's on to winter and of course Christmas is this week!