Uh Oh.

It's 2015.

Back in high school, that date seemed so far away, so futuristic, so...impossible.

Yet, here we are.

We are not traveling around like the Jetsons just yet, but I will be the first to admit that I wouldn't have guessed that we would be texting, Skyping, tweeting, messaging, and the myriad of other "ings" we can now do with technology.

Usually at this time of year I get serious about New Year's Resolutions. I contemplate the typical resolutions (all of which need to happen) and brainstorm some new and original ones that I might want to focus on. I evaluate how much I can take on at this point in my life (yikes!) and how doable my choices might be.

Then it hit me.

I turn 40 this year.

Ouch.

I have been bravely hanging onto the 30's for years now.  And, honestly, I like the 30's.  A lot.

40?  I'm just not feelin' it.

I have friends who tell me the 40's are the best years.  We'll see about that.

As I was processing this little issue, I realized that I have bigger problems than simply choosing a New Year's Resolution. You see, back in 2010, I made this little list. It's called my "40 Before 40". At that time, I was working part-time. Now I work full-time, plus. I may have been a bit overzealous in my planning.

I revisited my 40 Before 40 to get a scope of what I have not yet accomplished.

Well....in order for me to achieve all 40, the first 6 months (my birthday is in June) of 2015 will need to look something like this:

• Read 1 classic per month.
• Landscape the front yard.
• Visit the Mall of America, Niagra Falls, the Grand Canyon, and go on a Missions trip.
• Exercise for about 2 hours a day to achieve that single-digit closet full of clothes.
• Write an adoption book for my son.
• Make a family recipe book.
• Relearn to play the piano well.
• Buy new living room furniture.
• Go water skiing.
• Try more foods that end with "ese"...Chinese, Japanese....
• Spend about 1,000 hours scrapbooking to try to catch up.
• Repaint all the walls in my house.
• Volunteer more.

No problem.

I'll just need to make a few adjustments...like quit my job, send the kids to live with grandma, and decrease my sleep to about 2 hours a night.

And possibly win the lottery to fund it all.

Happy 2015!