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"I&amp;#039;ve decided I need a pared-down version of a bucket list. It&amp;#039;s a little too grand for me to plan all the great adventures I&amp;#039;m going to have before I shuffle off my mortal coil, and I&amp;#039;m really more interested in the short-term at the moment. These are things I&amp;#039;d like to do in the next year or two, give or take. Not enough to fill a bucket, certainly, so I&amp;#039;ll call it my &amp;quot;Ziploc List&amp;quot;. Just like a baggie full of whatever, it&amp;#039;ll sit in the back of my mind and I&amp;#039;ll occasionally haul it out, open it up and see if anything&amp;#039;s gone rotten and needs to be removed. I feel like I&amp;#039;ve been just treading water since Peter moved out, waiting for my new life to happen. Well, I&amp;#039;m in it now, and I ought to be swimming for the shore, don&amp;#039;t you think? Item one: finalize my divorce. A no-brainer for sure, but it&amp;#039;s a goal. Item two: take a trip I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to take. The two current picks: a long weekend in London, or a few days in the Pacific Northwest somewhere. It&amp;#039;ll all depend on timing, money, airfares, money and money. In that order. Item three: clean and organize my basement. You&amp;#039;d have to see it to know what a mammoth task this is. It&amp;#039;s full of stuff, and a lot of it can go. Item four: learn to sew. I&amp;#039;ve always wanted to \u2013 not because I want to make my own clothes, though. Mostly, I&amp;#039;d like to make curtains or bedding sets. I&amp;#039;m tired of paying a fortune for that stuff. My fifth item is a bit more health-conscious. I want to learn yoga. I even have some DVD&amp;#039;s and a book on the subject, not to mention there are basic Yoga moves in the Wii Fit package I&amp;#039;ve got. It&amp;#039;s completely do-able, I just need to do it, for creep&amp;#039;s sake. When you lose your marriage, you lose part of yourself \u2013 at least the self you thought you were going to be. And that&amp;#039;s maybe not such a bad thing. How often do you get a do-over in life, after all? I may not feel like I can thank Peter for much, right now, but honestly, I&amp;#039;m glad I&amp;#039;ve got the opportunity to make some lasting, even occasionally drastic changes in my life. What&amp;#039;s on your Ziploc list? And do you think smaller, achievable goals help you focus in this process? I certainly do! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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