For today’s Style Me Bloggers link-up, we are reflecting on our 2015 Wishlist: What are we coveting?
I associate the word covet with the last of the Ten Commandments. So in thinking about this post, I first looked up the meaning of the word and found that Dictionary.com gives the following definitions:
1.
to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others:
2.
to wish for, especially eagerly:
3.
I haven’t watched a Miss America (or any other beauty pageant with the exception of Toddlers and Tiaras) for a very long time but when I watched as a little girl, there was a portion of the competition where final contestants were asked some silly questions.
Silly questions about what they would work for during their reign. The answers were always something like ‘world peace’ or a ‘cure for cancer’, or the ‘end of illiteracy’ or ‘eliminate world hunger’.
Went something like this:
It should probably go without saying that I, too, wish for world peace, an end to hunger and illiteracy, and a cure for cancer and many other diseases. With that being said, here is the rest of my 2015 Wishlist.
- Figure out this retirement gig. Settle into some kind of better routine so that I no longer wander like a lost soul through my days, my life. On days when I work as a substitute, then I can be more flexible but I like having a schedule. I can continue subbing or searching for something I enjoy more while making a little extra money. I wish that I can finally become more sure of myself in my retirement.
- Lose a little weight and get in better shape. This means tracking my Weight Watchers points and making exercise a part of my daily routine. Rather than trying to lose
ten poundsso that I am a certain (unnamed) weight, I just want to see an improvement in my overall shape/body. I wish that I will become more toned and that I will feel more comfortable in my clothes. - Tie up some lose ends. In an attempt to find myself during this first year of retirement, I started several projects. I took classes on making a mosaic and started work on a table top at the Grocery Gallery, I began work on establishing a cataloging database for the books in the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center, I took painting lessons at Hobby Lobby. I also taught art classes through the Young Rembrandts Program. And I have years of photographs that I want to scrap book. I wish that I can finish my mosaic table and my painting, and get into a regular schedule for scrap booking.
- Read more, Internet less. I love to read but I am a slow reader and have to take time to digest what I read which makes me even slower. This year I want to read more books. And I want to fiddle around on the Internet less. I wish that I can read a book a month and that I find a way to limit my online time to maybe an hour of surfing!
- Blog better. I want to take my blog away from an emphasis on the external and concentrate more on the internal me. I want to grow my blog but I want it to have some direction, some meaningfulness. I wish to become more spiritual and a kinder, gentler version of my current self through my blogging.
- Love more and better. I wish to love those I already love just a little better.
That’s a lot to wish for. But the beauty about all of these wishes is that they are pretty well attainable, wishes that can come true, if I work hard enough to make that happen.
Just for fun, check out Real Wishes Granted by clicking here.
Apparently, I can skip the hard work toward realizing my wishes. Instead I can just visit this webpage, type in my wishes, visit the page eight days in a row AND MY WISHES WILL COME TRUE.
Please stop by the blogs of my Style Me Blogger girl friends to see what’s on their 2015 Wishlists. And come back by soon to check on my wishes.
Shoes to Shiraz | Two Teens and their Mama | A Lovely Little Wardrobe | R Squared
Confessions of a Frumpy Mommy | Family Love Inspiration Education
Daily Style Finds | Sheila’s Potpourri | Puppies and Pretties | She thought She Could
Foxy’s Domestic Side | Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After | Sprinkled Just Right |
Sharon
Love you just the way you are friend. I wish/hope/pray that I get to see you in 2015. Glad you are back home and our phones are working.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Absolutely had fun in Phoenix but glad to be home. Thank you for loving me as I am. I count on that from you and my girls. We WILL WILL WILL see each other this year. Fo’ sho’!
Carrie
Love better – best goal ever, friend!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, sweets. I love hard but I don’t always give my best. Going to try to do better this year.
Katie
Awww Leslie, I love everything about your list!! You are off to a great start! I am trying to read more and internet less too!!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
My carpal tunnel(?) is partially behind my move to Internet less! Glad you are reading more this year, too. Be sure to share titles of books you like (and don’t) with me. Hugs, sweet one!
Valerie
Leslie, I love your goals. I hope that number 1 on my list will have the side effect of giving me more time to scrapbooking with your little, big sister.
1. Stay out of the stores and spend time enjoying life and not running around all weekend.
2. Attempt to get organized (for apporximately the 54th time on my list).
3. Eat more healthily and continue with boot camp.
4. Do my part to find the cure for cancer.
5. Don’t sweat the little stuff, just enjoy the family and kids at school.
6. Be a supportive mom not a sarcastic witch.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Thank you, baby sister, for coming by and sharing your wishes/goals with us. It would be wonder if a cure for cancer was found in our lifetimes. You sure are an A- number one cancer fighter. I, too, am trying not to sweat the small stuff as much. I hear a nice sweet evening glass of Moscato helps with that. We should pledge to scrap at least one time a month together. Love you.
Lana
Such a great list Leslie. It sounds like you are definitely finding your way in retirement! Love the scrapbooking part especially, since that is near and dear to my heart!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, I love that you scrapbook, Lana. I think Deena does, too. We should do a post link-up about our scrapbooking and maybe I can feature my sister, Valerie, who is a great scrapper.