i am a planner and a list maker. i love setting goals, writing them down, and giving myself steps to follow. however, i’m typically not a follow-through-er. terrible, terrible attribute. if you read back in this blog, you know that i often make myself goals, but hardly ever reach them. mat has even accused me of never finishing what a start. ugh! what? me!? never... well. okay. maybe. mat’s example is always this painting that i started way back when we first starting spending more time together (but we weren’t even remotely dating yet) in 2010. he finished about two paintings, and i was still on measly number one. granted, he was painting simple stencil shapes, and i was trying to transfer a picture i took in italy to canvas. painting a realistic looking pictures is a heck of a lot harder than it looks! ah well. case in point, the unfinished painting is in one of our closets. and so the story goes...