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Indulgent Resolutions

Posted on by jsunrain

This exchange had me wondering, why are our resolutions all about self improvement? Why aren’t we more like Ina? I don’t think there is anything wrong exercising and eating right, but we are humans, it is good to live a little. Of course I long ago stopped making resolutions and made goals. Arguably the same thing but I wasn’t going to attach a must do agenda to feel guilty about later. This year it morphed into a bucket list which really doesn’t suggest guilt if something is not accomplished. It will go on next years list if I want it to.

I did put some indulgent things on my bucket list like making peach cobbler. I love eating it but I have never made it. Drawing faces on eggs has been on my goal lists for years. Until this morning I still hadn’t done it. What does it accomplish? Making me happy and connecting with my inner child. Doesn’t need to accomplish anything more than that.

Here are some ideas for you:

  • Have a manicure
  • Archery class
  • Trip somewhere you always wanted to go
  • Sleep in on the weekend
  • Better yet, spend the whole weekend in your PJs watching (or reading or listening to) your favorite guilty pleasures and eating junk food
  • Take yourself out to dinner somewhere nice
  • Have a dinner date with a friend
  • Take a class for something you always wanted to learn
  • Buy a nice piece of clothing
  • Eat that decadent dessert

This is is just a starter list. What would you add?

Bucket List 2022

Posted on by jsunrain

Resolutions and goals are so boring! I have a bucket list! What should I add?

  1. Cook a recipe every month from a community cookbook
  2. Weigh only once a month
  3. Put effort into blog and YouTube channel
  4. Learn to juggle
  5. Make paper mache antlers
  6. Enter a cooking contest if any are happening
  7. Use my Tagine
  8. Practice piano once or twice a week
  9. Publish a poem and/or article somewhere that isn’t my blog
  10. Get involved in something in the community
  11. Eat healthy and exercise more
  12. Start learning Spanish
  13. Four mile walk once a week
  14. Make home made cream of tomato soup
  15. Make a sculpture
  16. Take a pottery class, maybe make a bowl
  17. Maybe take some writing classes
  18. Take more photos of the world
  19. Wear earrings more frequently
  20. Learn chess
  21. Bake a cake from scratch
  22. Create a milk and honey cheesecake
  23. Go to a cooking class
  24. Make a cookbook zine
  25. Make a fictional map
  26. Draw funny faces on eggs in the fridge
  27. Sleep in a yurt
  28. Create my own stationery
  29. Make pasta from scratch
  30. Make peach cobbler

I never liked the word “resolutions”, but I have done a goals list off and on for years. Sometimes even making a practice of 100 goals inspired by others who do the same. I don’t really do 100 anymore, just what comes to mind as well as look at past lists and see if there is anything I want to keep. But I don’t like calling them goals. It is more a loose list of maybe would be fun and/or beneficial to do. My friend John was like “a bucket list”. I think that is perfect!

Have a great new year everyone!