Things To Do: New and Different

[cjsmith]

Ideas of things to try. Brainstorm "grow mode". Feel free to share your ideas, too -- I'll crib from anywhere, and gratefully, too! 8-)

Craftsy/artistic:
Work with beads - seed beads? make a small necklace? earrings?
Small quilt projects
Make a flower-press and use it
Bake bread
Decorate eggs
Make decadent chocolate truffles
Decorate a T-shirt
Check out The Artists Way

Learning:
Gaelic (Scottish)
German (brush up, re-learn)
Arabic
How to play the dulcimer
A new piano piece
Write a story... and edit it, and re-edit it
Go target shooting (gah, do I even remember how?)

Wild and crazy:
Sew (or otherwise create) an outrageous outfit
Dye my hair green
Weave my hair into a hat
Cover self in temporary tattoos
Take a snowboarding lesson
Take a belly dance lesson
Put seasonal decorations on the car
Go to a nude beach (er, ok, wait for warmer weather)
Draw a picture of something I detest, and rip it up with lots of hollering
Take a vow of silence for a day
Use no electricity for a day (yes, no phones, no thermostats...)
Read/write no printed matter for a day (no computers, no books, no labels on food, no trail maps, no numbers on phones or clocks or money)

More serious:
Hike? backpack? the Grand Canyon
Hike Sea-to-Skyline
Run Bay-to-Breakers
Meditate (this is an assignment, actually)
Volunteer at animal shelter
Volunteer at library
OK, OK: write a lot of C4 square dance sequences
Get, or make, sofa slipcovers
Read War and Peace
Study basic economics
Study developmental or abnormal psych