Goals for 2009 and Happy HAPPY New Year

1. Get my site off of WordPress.com and back to self-hosting
2. Increase sales in the shop to 5-10 per day
3. Fall in Love
4. Buy a 4-Family home in Uptown Saint John, live in one unit and rent the other three out
5. Blog 7 to 15 times per month
6. Update Flickr 2 to 3 times per week
7. Finish paying off massive 11 year Student loan debt – I’m so close I can taste it!
8. Introduce Flat rate shipping into the shop
9. Introduce ready to hang Stretched Canvas prints and larger sized prints into the shop
10. Introduce new art (yes, I’ve been busy creating new pieces)
11. Get to four years sober off of GHB in August
12. Do not develop another addiction
13. Hire a housekeeper once per week once I’m in my new pad because as my art is created clean, neat and tidy and shipped out to you in the same way my housekeeping skills are not so
14. Do 2 small custom design jobs per month
15. Sell 1 large original artwork per month
16. Be featured in the local newspaper
17. Be featured in a National women’s magazine
18. Be featured on a huge blog
19. After Falling in love maybe make a baby
20. After massive student loan debt is paid off continue to live debt free except for paying the mortgage which will be paid off by tenants which will in turn, turn into my own financial security in 25 years when I retire
21. Maintain healthy weight of 130 to 135lbs
22. Take a 2 week long vacation
23. OLDisNEW vintage will be getting a massive update
24. Earn more than poverty level income in Canada for the first time in four years
25. Most of all I will continue to strive to be happy and believe in magic

I wish you all the best this year in 2009 and thank you for reading my blog and for the conversation during the ups and downs in 2008.

xo

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