twenty-fourteen

I have seen many people post about their resolutions for 2014. I am not going to say I am not a fan of resolutions, but I have a tendency to forget about them from time to time... okay, most of the time. Like after January 15, I am no longer holding up my end of the deal.

I was chatting with a friend the other day and she mentioned she was doing a word for the year. Something to strive towards each day to make herself better. She decided on the word "valued." I thought about this my whole drive home and thought this was a pretty good idea. But, thinking of a word for the year was much harder than I had considered. It took me a few days after the Jan. 1 deadline to come up with something, but I have finally settled on two words. Before I reveal my awesome words, I have also decided to make a list of things to accomplish. I felt like making a list of 60  things (hopefully five for each month) would be a more realistic goal for me being as this is my first year to try something of this nature.

My words for this year are ... wait for it... "SPREAD JOY!" I follow @carolinegshops on IG and she does some awesome things every day to make people happy around her, which contributed into the words I picked for the year. I have several thoughts in my head of how I am going to accomplish this, but nothing concrete as of this moment. More deets to come!

So, now onto my list-- in no particular order--

1. Donate my hair to Children With Hair Loss
2. Get an awesome job! {Fingers crossed!}
3. Read a book series
4. Go to the movie theatre alone
5. Go on a vacation
6. Be a vegetarian for a month (I have done this twice before, but one more time can't hurt.)
7. Print photos from my iPhone
8. Try gluten-free foods
9. Send handwritten cards to friends and family
10. Go fishing (I love to fish, but never get to go!)
11. Volunteer with the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma
12. Start growing my hair out to donate again
13. Delete my personal Facebook for a month
14. Dye my hair blonde again
15. Eat at a new eating estbalishment 
16. Run the Color Run
17. Create a Christmas jar
18. Take my little cousins for manicures
19. Buy something big that isn't on sale
20. Take a yoga class
21. Visit Lin in Indiana 
22. Go to a Red Hawks baseball game
23. Participate in a bible study
24. Eat dinner at a food truck
25. Go to an OSU wrestling match
26. Go to a craft show with my mom
27. Volunteer with Pets and People
28. Have a New Years Eve party
29. Knit a scarf
30. Buy a Shasta trailer
31. Drive down Rt. 66
32. Go to a pumpkin patch
33. Go ice skating
34. Take an Oklahoma day trip with friends
35. Bake a cake
36. See a musical
37. Build a snowman
38. Visit a cupcake shop
39. Donate necessity items to The Children's Center in Bethany, Okla.
40. Ride a ferris wheel
41. Go swimming
42. Visit a winery/vineyard
43. Tie-dye something for fun
44. Attend the Lavender Festival in Apache
45. Pay more each month on my car than my payments
46. Sell Frilly Farm Design items on ETSY
47. Go to a drive-in movie
48. Watch movies all day
49. Christmas in New York
50. Print and frame a photo I took for my house or office
51. Shop at Ikea
52. Have dinner with someone from high school
53. Throw someone a surprise party
54. Go on a train ride
55. Sew a skirt
56. Send out Christmas cards
57. Meet the Pioneer Women at a book signing
58. Own a Kate Spade purse
59. Visit a Christmas light display
60. Tweet 6,000 tweets

Well, that's it. There is my list. Don't worry ... you can be the first to find out when I accomplish these things by checking back here or follow me on IG or twitter {@brenna_davis} for a complete photo recap. 

Good Luck with your 2014 goals, resolutions, words and to-do list, blog friends.