I'm not one for resolutions, but in the spirit of personal progress I make an Uberlist every year. The Uberlist is Nikol's idea, and I've been creating one for about four years. The idea is to create a list of things you want to accomplish, ranging in scope and importance, increasing by one digit each year. This year it's 106 Things in 2006. Since yes, I am THAT ANAL RETENTIVE, I've broken everything down by category. The goal isn't to accomplish every single item, or to judge myself by the amount I am able to accomplish (admirably noted by my complete failure to do much of anything last year), rather to remind myself that there are small things I can do on a regular basis nourish my spirit and soul (or just get shit done). I hope that posting the list and keeping regular track of my progress incites me to do more this year.

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Alaska: Buy and Frame Alaska map from Map Store
Alaska: Organize going away dinner with friends at Double Musky or Bear Tooth Grill
Alaska: Get out of state in one piece
Rhode Island: Visit every town once - have tea
Rhode Island: Er, find a good tea shop
Rhode Island: Find an apartment
Rhode Island: Find a great bar - work there
Rhode Island: Explore the state with photos
Automobile: Switch insurance
Automobile: Double payments for at least 4 months
Automobile: Fix that part you broke off of the middle thingy
Automobile: Get vent fixed
Automobile: Get front fog light fixed
Automobile: Wax twice
Crafts: Knit Rowan Zara sweater
Crafts: Felted bag for granny
Crafts: Lightening color canvases for new bathroom
Crafts: Make new bookmark set
Crafts: Organize beads, yarn and fabric
Crafts: Consider glass door/window sculpture for new place if applicable
Crafts: Try to make a book with coptic binding
Crafts: Make something for three friends
Crafts: Make a lap quilt
Family: Make something for Shyanne
Family: Get boxes at Granny's house out of storage
Family: Visit granny once a month
Family: Have lunch with Mom, ask The Questions
Family: Contact Shyler
Family: Create family tree
Family: Finish granny interview
Family: Take photos every visit, print Flickr book for Giftmas presents
Financial: Put actual money into savings account
Financial: Set up auto-deduction from paycheck to UNFCU
Friends: Visit NYC minimum 4 times
Friends: Create a birthday list in January, remember to LOOK AT IT once a month
Friends: Create one friends photo album
Friends: Make something for meriko
Friends: Make something for Adrienne
Friends: One blogger get together
Friends: Send pirate photo to Jen
Friends: One girly weekend with Sandra
Health: VITAMINS
Health: Find therapist in Rhode Island
Health: Keep working exercise book
Health: Annual exam
Health: Read SugarBusters, decrease sugar intake
Health: Learn 3 new crockpot recipes
Health: Read Abs Diet
Health: Teeth whitening
Health: More fruit and vegetables
Health: Yoga routine - find a good instructor
Health: *secret*
Home: Buy new silverware
Home: Buy new dishes (white ones mentioned on S&S?)
Home: Buy a new couch
Home: Buy at least two of the Mingus and Cab Calloway posters you wanted; frame and hang
Home: New down comforter
Home: Mail center with regular weekly shredding
Home: Make two of the lamps from that DIY book
Home: Focus more on coziness, not utility
Learn: Italian
Learn: Sign Language
Learn: Fair Isle knitting
Learn: How to cook at home more
Learn: How to FULLY operate my camera
Love: See two live music shows together
Love: *secret*
Love: *secret*
Love: Weekend at Porches
Love: *secret*
Reading: "A Million Little Pieces"
Reading: Rumi
Reading: Angela Davis - biography?
Reading: Find 3 exciting bloggers
Reading: Keep a reading journal
Reading: Focus - Carson McCullers
Reading: Read "People's History of the United States"
Social Concious: Donate to Planned Parenthood
Social Concious: Big Brothers Big Sisters in Rhode Island
Social Concious: Volunteer at least three weekends to a local cause
Travel: One trip to San Francisco
Travel: Visit Anjy in England
Travel: Two road trips to different states
Travel: Visit Christopher in Montana
Travel: Take kid sister on a weekend journey
Travel: Cinque Terre
Whimsy: Organize old photo and letter suitcase
Whimsy: Buy new, cushy bathrobe
Whimsy: Get backpiece tattoo reworked with new design
Whimsy: Get Tales From Fish Camp ISBN tattoo
Whimsy: Find new pair of black high heeled boots
Whimsy: Surprise Seth with something amazingly unexpected
Whimsy: One collaborative craft project
Whimsy: Buy Cranium, host a game night
Whimsy: Frame Gemma's Golden Gate photo
Whimsy: Try Netflix
Whimsy: Frame Dan Bern poster and Tim's front page jazz debut from Boston Phoenix circa 1995
Whimsy: Buy an iBook
Whimsy: Buy an iPod
Whimsy: Shadow box license plates
Whimsy: Shadow box Tales From Fish Camp stuff - first print, blue book, author photo
Whimsy: Do something drastic to appearance - haircut? Ear piercing? Permanent Gene Simmons face tattoo?
Whimsy: New luggage
Writing: Try something new
Writing: *secret*
Writing: Journal regularly
Writing: Find freelance options in RI
Writing: At least one letter to a friend or family per month