25 Years, 25 Wishes (and a giveaway!)

This year, I turned 25.  There was that awkward moment when I thought I'd turned 24 (again), but no.  I am a quarter of a century old.  I'm fairly indifferent toward this milestone, because getting older seems like an adventure and maybe by the time I'm 30, I'll finally look like I'm 20, and I'll stop feeling like a criminal every time I go to buy alcohol and the shop clerk looks at my ID and says, "There's no way this is real." (It happens quite frequently).  So there's that to look forward to.

I decided though, in the spirit of making goals, that I ought to make a list of things I want to accomplish this year, because I like goals and I like lists.  Basically, it seemed like the thing to do.  So... here we go!

♥ Finish my first writing class
♥ Finish my first novel
♥ Read 50 books
♥ Get tenured
♥ Drink more water
♥ Walk away from the computer more
♥ See more of this sexy island
♥ Visit Indiana again
♥ Work on my pool game
♥ Play all the songs in my classical piano book
♥ Work on my photography
♥ Grow my blog
♥ Exercise 3-4 times a week
♥ Get deeper in my yoga poses
♥ Go to the beach more
♥ Connect with my family more often
♥ Do things that scare me
♥ Work toward buying a house
♥ Figure out how to make macarons
♥ Be a better teacher
♥ Give more
♥ Complain less
♥ Finish Assassin's Creed: Liberation (lol)
♥ Make more; buy less
♥ Get to know myself better

And there we have it.  Some are sillier than others, some are more realistic than others, but nonetheless, I hope they help me grow.  What kinds of goals do you have for yourself this year?

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