For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

As with last year, and the year before, I’ve come up with a list of ‘indulgences’, as opposed to ‘resolutions’ for the new year. These aren’t things I think will necessarily make me a better person, but things that I enjoy and want to give myself permission to indulge in. Carve out a piece of time for and hope that in doing so, it makes me better.

What do you want to indulge in in 2008?

2008 Indulgences

- Take a portrait photography class
- Bake bread from scratch (at least once)
- Walk the dogs more (because we ALL enjoy it)
- Plan a once-in-a-lifetime vacation
- Setup an Etsy shop to sell photos and other trinkets
- Redo the flowerbeds in the backyard
- Take a sewing class
- Finish Ratchet & Clank 3
- Try geocaching
- Learn to knit & to deconstruct t-shirts
- Keep up the Almost Daily Photo
- Learn more Photoshop (take a class or just keep using it)

Leftover from 2007 and still relevant:
- Plant a vegetable garden
- Paint the living room

2007 Indulgences

DONE
- Make time to take a photography course
- Learn to shoot the Canon Rebel (closely tied to #1)
- Pay off credit card
- [Private]
- Depending on #3 (pay off credit card), consider buying a new car
- [Private]

Mostly Done:
- Take Lucy to the park more
- Step up the “almost daily photo” to an “every daily photo.”
- Breath

Not even close:
- Paint the living room
- Plant a vegetable garden