creative check in {tally-up-week-one}

last saturday, i made a commitment to myself
to come to the plate every saturday

and do a little creative check up on myself...

just to see where my time had been going,

just to see where my focus was...

i thought i would start with ideas borrowed from
here and here
so, to start me off
here is my list of
37 things i accomplished in 2007:

1. renovated my kitchen to pretty green and brown.
2. added another year of successful happy marriage.
3. got my driver's license!
4. changed my job...twice...
5. became the mother of kid in junior high
6. got my new camera
7. survived caring for the brood of children that was nearly my downfall
8. tried asparagus
9. revived friendship with best friend M, much beyond emails
10. made gravy successfully
11. got a laptop
12. volunteered for fund raising committee for band parent group.
13. blogged for another full year.
14. changed template on blog myself.
15. learned how to burn my own music cds
16. put gas in a car
17. put air in a tire
18. took kids to the drive in by myself, even with misadventures along the way
19. attempted skydiving, was not my choice that we couldn't jump (too windy)
20. planted a garden
21. read 6 books {only six??? this astounded me}
22. did the artist's way book
23. did the simple abundance book
24. started my photograph a graveyard manifesto
25. bought cute shoes
26. learned how to do the basics in simply accounting
27. planned out text for a website
28. applied for new jobs
29. passed 2 tests that i wrote
30. backed into a ditch and got back out again...BY MYSELF...
31. knit a pair of socks (pink and white)
32. made a sock monkey
33. made my own christmas cards
34. made plans to open a bed and breakfast {still on backburner}
35. fell in love with victoria-by-the-sea
36. took a crochet class
37. joined the self portrait challenge, after 3 years of blogging...

i have been doodling a lot this past week, right up until i got sick
{which is why this is being posted tuesday and not saturday...}