I was inspired by this post over on Princess Lasertron, and decided I wanted to take a crack at Radvent. It combines two of my favourite things, after all: the Christmas season, and radness.

The first day of Radvent was dedicated to Remembering, which I missed, but I’ll try to be mindful to make up for it. Today’s (well, yesterday’s by the time I’m posting this, because I forgot to hit publish before passing out last night) theme is Organizing! Goody, my favourite! …I can actually say that with no trace of sarcasm, for the record.

Since I’m a little late in the game, and didn’t come across Radvent until this evening, I’m counting list-making as an act of organization for the sake of participation. Today, as part of our departmental off-site (which included lunch and mani-pedis…don’t you wish you worked where I do?), we started on our lists of 101 Life Goals. It’s an exercise everyone in the company is supposed to do, with the idea of eventually sharing the list and, by virtue of putting them out there to the universe, starting the ball rolling on achieving them. So, I’m dual-purposing it and using that as my first act of Radvent.

The list itself is interesting – it appeals to the obsessive list-maker in me, obviously, but I never thought it would be so hard to come up with a hundred things I wanted to achieve in my life, at least in a concrete way I could write down. I guess I’m better at imagining themes for my future. Once the list is done, I think I’ll add another tab beneath my <30 list and put them all in there.

All in all, December’s off to a pretty good start. Work’s going smoothly, I’ve got a ton of days off this month and I’ve already popped out two days of my Lindt calendar. We decorated on the first, are decorating  my parents’ house and going to an annual Christmas party on Saturday and are hosting a cookie exchange next weekend…which, of course, I’ve yet to decide what I’m making for.

One thing, though: anyone have any ideas what I might want for Christmas? I’m being poked from all angles for a list, and have no ideas that don’t come from Etsy or involve extensive hunting through home stores. Ideas?

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