Fall 2019 bucket list update #2
Well, here we are two months into fall, which means it is time to check in on our fall bucket lists. Here’s what I’ve been up to. I hope you will share your fall goals and activities with us!
Health & fitness
1 – Complete the Orangetheory Fitness Transformation Challenge. Mission accomplished. You can read all about it here.
2 – Make pumpkin soup. Mission accomplished last month.
Joy
1 – Get a fall pedicure. Mission accomplished. I had the wonderful Red Hot Apple Toddy Pedi. You can read all about it here.
2 – Plant bulbs to enjoy next spring. I still haven’t planted the bulbs. If I don’t hurry, it’s going to be too late.
Learning & growth
1 – Get my Halloween puzzle back out. Mission technically accomplished, since the puzzle is out. Halloween has come and gone, but I continue to work on my puzzle. Here’s what it looks like today. If you want to see what progress I’ve made in the past month, you can see last month’s picture here.
2 – Read Everyting is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo and complete the Insight to Action Challenges. Mission accomplished last month. Here’s the most recent product of those efforts–my Happy Monday! vlog series.
Relationships
1 – Go to southern Utah with my husband and scout out locations for our future winter home. Mission accomplished last month. Since then, we have met with the builder and designer, signed a contract, and made our initial payment, so this is happening!
2 – Develop a new Christmas strategy based on giving experiences, rather than things. Mission accomplished last month. Now all that’s left to do is buy the gifts!
By my calculation, I have completed seven of eight items on my fall bucket list. I’ve got one more month to finish up that last one.
Your turn
- If you have a seasonal bucket list, please link up with us below.
- If you don’t have a formal bucket list, please share some ways you’ve been enjoying fall (or whichever season it is where you are) in the comments.
- Share anything else that’s on your mind today. I just love hearing from you!
Sounds like you did well on your list! I like the puzzle. Have you ever glued one and displayed it? Is it laying on a board with edges? Yay on your new winter home, CONGRATS!!
Thank you Dee. I have not glued a puzzle, but my mother has several glued, framed, and hanging up in her home. They are beautiful. I do have this one on a puzzle board with edges, and there is a felt sheet you can lay over the top to protect it when you are not working on it.
I imagine your mother’s puzzles are very pretty, some puzzles are just awesome! It’s kinda depressing to put all of that time and energy into a puzzle then throw it back into a box.
Yes, it does feel strange to take a puzzle apart after all that work. It helps if I pass it on to someone else to work. Have you heard of sand mandalas? Buddhist monks spend hours on a piece, dropping one grain of sand after another into intricate symbolic patterns. Pray over it, and then sweep it away. Puzzles aren’t quite like that, but that’s what it reminds me of.
Yes, don’t the mandalas represent that nothing is permanent?
That is my understanding Dee.
Wow, you did great! I love that you had a Me Day, and agree that it’s a wonderful idea! I usually have 2 a year, one on my birthday and one mid-way through the year. So much progress on the new house too! I’m hoping to get my puzzle out for December 🙂
Thanks Dani. The spa day was lovely, and we are very excited about the new house. Just waiting for the permits right now.
Terribly behind on my blog reading. So happy with all you accomplished on your fall activities. Hope you will share the experiences you are giving for Christmas. I have more or less instituted the same thing for the adults in our family. Going to try to stick to the 5 gifts idea for my grands.
You guys have just run with this winter home project. Lovely colors and textures you have selected. Do you have a time line for when it will be finished? By this time next year maybe?
Glad you enjoyed your pedicure. I am long overdue one myself.
Thanks Leslie. I can tell you some of the experience gifts we are giving. Two families asked for season passes to Lagoon (a local amusement park). One family is going to Hawaii, so we bought them tickets to a luau. One daughter asked for a lift pass to a local ski resort, and one grandson is taking guitar lessons. We are moving forward with the house; we’re waiting for the permits now. The house is expected to be complete this summer. We won’t be able to spend a lot of time there right away, but we will make some trips there, and allow our family to use it as well.
I still have lots of Fall “to dos,” but I have gotten my spring bulbs planted. Good thing, too. The ground is now frozen here.
Good for you Sheryl. I’m afraid I missed my window on this one. It’s snowing pretty hard today!