2015 Goals

 It took me almost all of January to come up with a list of things I'd like to come true this year. Some goals are easy and some are just unreachable, at least for 2015, but i'm OK with it.:p

• Curb Find: The first goal I wrote on my list was to find  a piece of furniture on the streets of Paris that somebody tossed away and that I'd like to keep for my own. The other day I passed by a nice old looking side table that would have been nice to put my sewing machine on. By the time I got Greg to help me bring it home, it was already gone. I'm very hopeful about this goal because since I've lived in Paris, I've come by so many cool pieces of furniture right on our very street. A lot of people in Paris seem to love throwing away perfectly good things.

•     More Cooking: Add 20 new recipes to my personnal cook book. In 2014 I added things like gougères(cheese puffs), chocolate chips cookies (I had never been succesful making cookies before) , pasta and many more... I'd also like to try more of my Julia Child's cookbook.

• Yoga and Drama Class: Well, I know I won't cross this one off my list any time soon. But it's nice to keep this here as a friendly reminder of what I should do one day. I took a drama class for 8 years from the age of 11 to 19. It was my reason to live. The best thing that ever happened to me. I don't miss it anymore but I know how good it was for me, my self confidence and my creativity. About yoga class, I don't know. I'm not sporty at all. But this is a sport I feel good about. 

• Craft fairs and Selling at Companies HQ: This year I hope I'll particpitate to a bunch of craft fairs. I've only done one, ever. That was so much fun and so thrilling to meet new people and customers eye to eye. I've also come up with a plan of selling my jewelry at companies' offices but I don't think I'll be able to do it. You need some kind of a permit here in France so I can't. Getting the permit will probably be on next year's list :p

• Taking a Greyhound Bus: We're planning to go to Portland, Oregon, in september and we realized it was way cheaper to take the plane from Paris to Seattle rather than Paris to Portland. So we thought of taking the bus. It would be so cool to travel by this mythic bus. But in the end, I don't think we'll do it. (Obviously I like listing things I won't be able to do) Greg wants to visit Seattle, and not just for a few days. He wants Seattle to be next year's destination for a month. He says it would be too frustrationg to just spend a few days there. I don't agree :p But I understand his point. So we'll see.

• Making Music with Greg: Greg is a musician. He plays the bass guitar and upright bass. Ever sice we got together we thought it would be awesome to make music together. He would play the bass, I would sing. More than two years later we still haven't done anything and it's all my fault. I feel too shy to do this. He's been a professionnal musician and it's very intimidating. I asked him to record a bass line so I can find lyrics. Will 2015 will be the year we start a musical project?

• Project 365: I started taking a photo a day exactly 7 days ago. I decided to use my film camera to make it more special. :p Honestly I don't really like to read 365 project blog articles. But I couldn't resist doing it myself. And I love the idea of using my film camera EVERY SINGLE DAY. :) I guess it won't be very interesting but I like the idea of keeping track of a little thing every day.

• Try more wines: 2014 has been a great year for wine tasting. :p I tried a lot of different ones and I was happy to try American wines as well when I was in Chicago. I'd like to take pictures of every single label of every single bottle I try. To keep it as a record of what I like and don't like. I do that from time to time on Instagram. I love wine. :)

This is my tiny list of things I'd like to get done in 2015, even though I'm very aware a lot of these goals won't happen. At least I can keep track of what I want and check if next year I still want the same thing.