Category: Lists

  • 30 Before Thirty

    30 Before Thirty

    I will turn thirty on September 22, 2010.

    That gives me a little more than six months to do all of the things on this list…

    1. Visit the Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago. (Done!)

    2. Dye my hair red. (Done!)

    3. Finish redesigning my Smart & Lovely portfolio.

    4. Launch my design service.

    5. Stop drinking soda. (Done!)

    6. Lose 20 pounds. (Not drinking soda should help.) (Done!)

    7. Repaint my office. (Done!)

    8. Sew a dress for Eleanor. (Done!)

    9. Clean out the basement. (It’s getting scary down there.) (Late, but done!)

    10. Donate some of our books to the library. (Done!)

    11. Cook Pad Thai from scratch.

    12. Organize the catch-all closet in my office. (Done!)

    13. Get good at applying liquid eyeliner. (Done!)

    14. Print the bajillion photos I have stored on my computer and put them in albums. (Done!)

    15. Alphabetize our CDs and finish putting them into sleeves. (Done!)

    16. Landscape the front of the house. (Done!)

    17. Make an origami paper crane. (Done!)

    18. Visit the Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe. (Done!)

    19. Learn how to use my camera in manual mode. (Done!)

    20. Find my perfect shade of lipstick. (Done!)

    21. Decide for good whether I want a tattoo or not. (Done!)

    22. Pay off my credit card. (Done!)

    23. Make a video montage of Eleanor’s first year. (Done!)

    24. Have a date night with Brandon at least twice a month. (Done!)

    25. Grow tomatoes. (Done!)

    26. Have an adorable family photo taken. (Done!)

    27. Sing along perfectly to “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”. (Done!)

    28. Take Eleanor to the Shedd Aquarium. (Done!)

    29. Reduce (or eliminate) my reliance on paper towels. (Done!)

    30. Paint all of the trim in our house.

    (I’m crossing them off the list as I complete them.)

  • The Wish List

    The Wish List

    Have you checked out the wish list page recently? There are lots of goodies over there.

    I keep going back and forth with the idea of upgrading the wish list section of the blog. It’s not really a wish list (I really don’t need all of those things)… it’s more of an “I like it” list. Would you like me to make full blog posts out of them? I feel like there are so many bloggers that just post pretty things, and you probably don’t need me adding to that. I considered starting a tumblr for this purpose, or perhaps starting a new subsection here that you could read and subscribe to separately. I just have so little time I haven’t been able to work on it! What do you think? Would you like to see the wish list items make it into their own posts, or do you like things as they are now?