This makes me want to add another goal to 2012 to clean up my google reader and focus my reading time.

Get a job with my degree!

Do an unassisted pull up

Get a bikini tan this summer (who said goals had to be healthy?)

Go somewhere for spring break

Try rock climbing

Read one novel per month

Totally clean bedroom at least once a month

Come up with some kind of plan/budget to spend less

Make more friends

Run an organized race

Catch more fish

FAIL!

- Visit friends on the East coast in 2011

Sadly, also a fail, but Shannon and Mike did visit me here!

-Use my tent at least 3 times this summer.

I didn’t use my own tent in the Boundary Waters, but I did get in more than 3 nights of camping

- Apply to graduate school.

DONE!

-Write a personal note to every one of my students before the end of the school year.

Nope, but I am facebook friends with many of them now!

-Stay in my apartment for a more than 1 year.

Done!!!!

- Visit South Dakota twice (first trip planned in February).

Not quite, but I’m going next week!

-Visit Chicago

DONE! Twice even!

- Put away ALL the clothes in my bedroom and finish decorating it.

I put away all my clothes at least 3 times…. but they are not away right now

- Visit a new National Park

I’m going to count the Boundary Waters for this one.

- Visit Scott at College.

DONE! Dropped him off with Mom in August.

- Mail written cards to my grandparents.

Nope, but my grandpa did get an iPad and join Facebook!  Plus I’ve seen my Dad’s parents in person quite a bit.

-Do something goofy with Alexis.

I can’t remember what all we did before she moved, but I’m sure that it was goofy.

-Have Chelsea read my Tarrot cards.

Done!  We should do it again for the new year though.

- Try rock climbing

Nope  But I’m putting this on my list again for 2012!

- Do a supported head stand in yoga

Sort of, I still have to be near the wall or I’m too scared, but I’ve done it!

Other awesome things I did this year:

Strait As in grad school.  what what!!

Secured a sweet paid internship for next year

Did a pretty bang up job teaching 8th grade English

Ate healthfully and felt very positive about my body/health (most of the time)

Tried out a weight lifting routine last summer

Kept doing lots of yoga

Rented a Pedal Pub for my birthday!

Hosted a ton of close friends for 4th of July at the lake

Saw my parents at least once a month

Totally appreciated and took advantage of the prettiness and cool stuff in my neighborhood

Took lots of sweet iPhone pictures

Took my baby brother to a concert before he left for college

Bought a commuter bike and rode it to school (when it was warm and sunny)

Ran a 5k in my Dirndl

Flypaper’s 11 most popular posts of 2011.

via Flypaper’s 11 most popular posts of 2011.

via Learning from All the Relationships That Didn’t Work Out | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

The Bobcats on Friday – The Oatmeal.

via The Bobcats on Friday – The Oatmeal.

If only my cats were this smooth!!

The apostles of exceptionalism say we need more innovation. But our problem is not lack of innovation. Our problem is that we lack what the most successful countries have: coherent, well-designed state systems of education that would allow us to scale up our many pockets of innovation and deliver a high-quality education to all our students.

via Why Innovation Can’t Fix America’s Classrooms – Marc Tucker – National – The Atlantic.