1. Write a book
2. Read more books than I did in 2013 (so, at least 29) (1. Rats Saw God 2. Edge of Never 3. The Best of Us 4. September Girls 5. The Song Remains the Same 6. The Thousand Dollar Tan Line 7. The Interestings 8. We Were Liars 9. If I Stay 10. The Art of Fielding 11. When You Were Mine 12. The Stone Diaries 13. Landline 14. The Rosie Project 15. The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant 16. A Discovery of Witches 17. Where She Went 18. Eternal Night 19. One Plus One 20. I'll Give You the Sun 21. The Sky is Everywhere 22. Tell the Wolves I'm Home 23. To All the Boys I've Loved Before 24. Amy & Roger's Epic Detour 25. How to Love 26. The Beginning of Everything 27. The Summer I Turned Pretty 28. It's Not Summer Without You 29. We'll Always Have Summer 30. To Kill A Mockingbird 31. Big Little Lies 32. Dreamland 33. On the Island 34. What Alice Forgot 35. This Lullaby 36. Jellicoe Road 37. Althea & Oliver 38. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry 39. My Life with the Walter Boys [audio] 40. The Truth About Alice 41. Before You 42. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac 43. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 44. Saving Francesca 45. Sway 46. Sweethearts 47. Before I Fall)
3. Send Christmas thank-you notes from Kyle
4. Leave the country (Belize and Canada)
5. Make 25 new cookbook recipes (1. Homemade Decadence's "Pear & Cranberry Crumble" 2. Seriously Delish's "Prosecco-Cider Punch" 3. Homemade Decadence's "Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars" 4. Homemade Decadence's "Melt-y Chocolate-Truffle Cookies" 5. Homemade Decadence's "Pumpkin Cranberry White Chocolate Chip Cookies" 6. Homemade Decadence's "Vanilla Sugar Doughnuts" 7. Homemade Decadence's "Cinnamon & Dark Chocolate Croissants" 8. Homemade Decadence's "Blueberry Pancake Muffins" 9. Homemade Decadence's "Dark Chocolate & Pistachio Cookies" 10. Homemade Decadence's "Peanut Butter Cream Pie" 11. Homemade with Love's "Clementine & Pistachio Crumb Muffins" 12. Homemade with Love's "Browned Butter Brussels Sprouts & Butternut Squash")
6. Finish Couch to 5K
7. Run a 5K
8. Pick out new couches
9. Buy a living room rug
10. Go snorkeling
11. Take violin lessons
12. Throw a July Fourth party
13. Earn a 50-class yoga bracelet at my local studio
14. Watch the Veronica Mars movie
15. Take my mom to Austin
16. Make a 2013 family yearbook
17. Look into a conversational Spanish class
18. Go horseback riding
19. Paint our front door
20. Bring cookies or a lasagna (or something delicious) to one of our neighbors
21. Take Kyle to his first day of Kindergarten
22. Buy a bed frame
23. Get my passport updated; get Kyle a passport
24. Hang our living room shelves
25. Run in Central Park
26. Go to the Perot Museum
27. Try an outdoor yoga class
28. Try Crossfit
29. See all the 2013 best picture nominees (1. Gravity 2. American Hustle 3. Nebraska 4. Captain Phillips 5. Philomena 6. Dallas Buyers Club 7. Her 8. 12 Years a Slave 9 The Wolf of Wall Street)
30. Figure out a shoe storage solution for my closet
31. Finish Elizabeth's best of 2012 books list & read her best of 2013 books list
32. Take a family photo shoot
33. Take Kyle to College Station
34. Visit the Henrietta apple orchard, near our home
35. Replace our kitchen counters (since we already own said new counters)
36. Write a poem
37. Go to my general doctor
38. Buy prescription sunglasses
39. Look into a creative writing class/workshop (picked one, will hopefully join in 2015!)
40. Look into joining a local marketing organization
41. Take Kyle to a MotoGP race
42. Finally go to our neighborhood water park
43. Bring cookies or treats to our local fire station
44. Run our town's Easter fun run
45. Try these restaurants: Komali, Ziyaafat, Tei-An, Pecan Lodge BBQ
46. Finish my nostalgia wall
47. Send at least three care packages to people I adore
48. Re-read To Kill A Mockingbird & Rats Saw God
49. Throw a champagne-inspired dinner party for my ladies
50. Make the canvas art I have in mind
51. Deliver meals for Meals on Wheels at least 4 times (just 1x)
52. Finally find a fantastic eye cream/face cleanser/moisturizer
53. Find a new favorite perfume
54. Re-do/organize Kyle's room
55. Make another vacation box
56. Make this cocktail
57. Dance with Mike on our seventh anniversary
58. Wear colored jeans
59. Clean out the upstairs office space
60. Frame Kyle's awesome soccer picture for our living room
61. Sign Kyle up for t-ball
62. Host an outdoor movie night
63. Make Boston cream cupcakes/cookies
64. Start Kyle on an allowance
65. Mimic one Pinterest outfit
66. Take a day trip all by my lonesome
67. Try acupuncture
68. Throw Kyle a fifth birthday party
69. Dye Easter eggs
70. Make brisket
71. Make Kyle's baby clothes quilt
72. No snacking after 9:30pm every night I'm at home
73. Make a 2010 photo book too
74. Send off some baby blankets I've been meaning to give to a friend
75. Be happier than 2013