"All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts." - James Allen

ac·com·plish/əˈkämpliSH/

Verb:	Achieve or complete successfully.
Synonyms:	achieve - fulfil - perform - execute - fulfill

What did you accomplish in the last year?


I'm not gonna lie, I'm having trouble answering this question.  This is the current question for the blog challengers.


It's not that I haven't accomplished anything this year, I know I have.  It just feels like all those accomplishments are baby accomplishments.


So how about what I have accomplished yesterday:
1. dishes
2. making 'shampoo' [from baking soda and water], as well as 'conditioner' [from vinegar and water].  [this also serves as a warning to anyone who is going to stay with me in the next few weeks, if the bottles are liquidy, they are not what they are labeled!]... [perhaps I should just label them... ]... [but what would I label them without looking weird?]... [maybe I'll just add "ish" to the end of conditioner and shampoo :)].
3. tennis playing with the husband

4. making an ipad pillow

5. sweating

6. laundry [although I probably shouldn't count this since I haven't folded it up and put it away yet].

It's interesting, I'm a list girl, I like to have a to-do list to check off, and a life list of goals to accomplish.  But I feel like I look back on this year, and ya, I did some kick ass stuff, but I don't really feel like it's an accomplishment.  It's an accomplishment to, quit smoking, or to refinish a kitchen table.  The things I have accomplished seem small.  Maybe it's also that I want to do the big accomplishment things.

So I'll keep working on figuring out what I've accomplished this last year [feel free to help a sister out].

But I'll end with things I want to accomplish in, hmm, the next 5 years or so:

1. hike/camp/do a part of the AT

2. buy a house

3. go to Europe with the husband

4. travel the California coast

5. make more art

6. go to more museums [hello, Chicago is a train ride away, why do I not do that more often?!]

7. build a head board

8. grow a garden [I tried this year, but it's pathetic, only the tomato plant and the green beans are up]

9. photograph a wedding in a different country

10. learn German better/more legitimately

*maike rinaye*

*****Wait!**** 

I came up with a few

1. gone more green, eating, and just day to day life [thank you awesome farmers market, awesome blog world, etc].

2. Ronald and I have paid off a LOT of debt. We're still working, but this past year we paid off 4 different credit cards, that's bad ass, and an accomplishment!

3. traveled to/photographed 3 out of state weddings... also bad ass

4. became a full time photographer [woah].

Also, here is the ipad pillow, it's for when you are laying down in bed, but need it propped up :).... and it's so way cuter than those black cases, right?