Not-goals for 2022

I have ideas for 2022. Sometimes I write them up, print them out, then put the document in a drawer and forget about it. This year, I'll write them up, put them on this seldom-used blog, and then forget about the list.

Most of my ideas are craft ideas that do eventually get completed (if they are quilts. If they are not quilts, then they exist in limbo for a long time, maybe forever).

This year: 

LONDON (I know, it's not a craft. But it is a big to do on my list for 2022. Plane tickets have been purchased (tickets that allow us the option to change if the continuing pandemic continues to mess with everything) I am going to LONDON. I want to see Stonehenge, castles, the inspiration for the Monty Python foot, Scotland, just...you know, EVERYTHING. Might take a Secret Food of London tour. Might go to Soho and look for the noses. Might go to the Eye. Jim wants to make various Beatles pilgrimages, which of course we will take time to do.

Finish Emma's quilt. 

I'm getting there. I am liking it more and more the longer I look at the squares that are sewn together.

Garden again, but this time DON'T PUT SO MANY FREAKING TOMATOES IN. They get big and take over! More broccoli, especially the purple kind. FEWER CUKES. Dang, many rotted on the vine. Also, FYI, Japanese beetles love the green beans. Learn to live with it. Also they love basil. 

We're all done with the MN state parks passport club, BUT we still want to continue our park visits. Go to the north shore, go to Afton, Frontenac, Whitewater. Camp--because I have that free one night of camping certificate from finishing the passport club. 

Cross-stitch some things. I bought a pdf of miniature art paintings to cross-stitch. I can always turn them into Christmas tree ornaments. 

Sew a few items of clothing. I have a huge pile of fabric that needs to be used. 

Sew holiday napkins for Katie. 

Learn to use the freaking CRICUT that Jimmy James bought for us. One Cricut thing a month.

Finish my paint by numbers Christmas gift: 

It's a beach scene. It's really fiddly and I either have to use 2 pair of reading glasses (if I'm wearing my contacts) or I have to take off my glasses (if I'm not wearing contacts) and get up real close. I'm on color #2. Little bit at a time, a little every day. I'm doing this to make sure I don't have Parkinson's, which my mother has. 

Visit my mother once a month, possibly with grandchildren in tow. She's going to be 80 this year. And Jim's going to be 60. Dang. We old.