Downtime

The good and bad thing about working part time for the YMCA is that I have a big part of off time in the midday. This can be goood- I can be productive. Today I met with my Dad for coffee and a chat. He is thinking about getting some chickens for his backyard. I love this ide :) Now I am home and going to get a real start on my first applique quilt for the baby. I have al my design cut out but am really just winging the process of putting it together. Fingers crossed :)

End of a short week! NYC really refreshed me and has motivated me to use my midday for good! I certainly had a tendency to use it for naps and t.v. earlier. I was so so tired for weeks! Feeling a lot better now. And I finally told my boss about baby! I'm not sure why I put it off so long...

Oh! And since it passed my birthday I am now officially on to my new To Do List of 26 Things to Do While 26! Here they are in no particular order;

• visit New York City :1/15/10-1/19/10 birthday weekend!
  
• have a healthy baby : 5/21/10 @ 1:01am 
• travel to a new destination
• go on a sister's weekend 
• lose all baby weight: November- 2 lbs under my starting weight!
• make a quilt: January 2010, a play quilt for baby 
• cycle a century (100 mile bike tour)
• scrapbook for my past lists of Things to Do While __
• go on a babymoon with Jonathan 
• attend Katie's graduation from Western Michigan University
• volunteer somewhere in Grand Rapids  8/28; bike aid station for Ronald McDonald House
• join a sport league  in Kentwood with a team I met on craigslist 
• complete monthly sewing projects: shirt, Mandy's baby quilt, knitting projects
• take guitar lessons
• go camping
• move to a nice apartment
• create a list of baby friendly places around the city : Grandville Library Babytime, Baby Beloved Mothers Support Group
• go on a girl friend vacation
• decorate the baby room : finished in May 
• complete a post baby race : 10/30 Alger Heights Halloween 5K; 30:08
• cut credit card debt in half : December: paid off 1 card and paid down 1/2 of another. Now 1.5 cards left
• take a dancing class
• take a college class (Spanish, art?)
• attend a concert 
• cycle to Lake Michigan 
• get a job : 10/26 ESL paraprofessional at National Heritage Academy, Ridge Park