fitness

  • Complete C25K. Next: W5D3
  • Complete a 5K.
  • Run a ten-minute mile.
  • Run a 35-minute 5K.
  • Be able to do high school cross-country drills.
  • Complete 30 miles in 30 days challenge.
  • Take a class at UCSD Rec.
  • Complete a 30x30 challenge. (30 min activity for 30 days.)
  • Complete 30DS.
  • Complete Insanity.
  • Complete P90X.
  • 100 pushups challenge.
  • 200 hundred sit-up challenge.
  • 200 hundred squat challenge.
  • Get into lifting heavy weights.
  • Get into kettlebells.
  • Become one of those people that don't use elevators.
  • Hike for more than four hours.
  • Hike the Grand Canyon.
  • Find a geocache.
  • Complete a Walk to Mordor challenge. (1779 mi in 20 wk; 3 mi every other day.)
  • Do the 10,000 step challenge.
  • Hike horizontally across California.
  • Hike vertically across California.
  • Fly a kite by myself.
  • Get into hooping.
  • Learn to cartwheel.
  • Learn to do a headstand.
  • Lean pole-dancing.
  • Learn to burlesque dance and join a burlesque dancing troupe.
  • Pose nude for a figure drawing class.
  • Take sexy pictures.
  • Tan naked.
  • Go skinny dipping.
  • Learn to do aerial silks.
  • Learn parkour and join a parkour club.
  • Go to Lindy in the Park.
  • Learn to dance.
    • The Charleston.
    • Foxtrot.
    • Lindy Hop.
    • Jitterbug.
  • Buy a bicycle.
  • Learn to rollerblade again.
  • Learn to stop with rollerblades on.
  • Learn roller derby and join a roller derby team.
  • Learn to scooter.
  • Drive confidently.
  • Travel the US in a VW van.

water

  • Swim every day for a month.
  • Swim in the rain.
  • Get into swimming freestyle again.
  • Complete 0 to 1650 .
  • Swim a 500.
  • Buy a kickboard.
  • Buy a pull-buoy.
  • Tread water for five minutes.
  • Tread water for thirty minutes.
  • Go kayaking.
  • Learn to surf.
  • Get good at windsurfing, even if I hated it way back when.
  • Learn to sail a small sailboat by myself.

Jake

  • Take Jake to Legoland.
  • Give Jake the opportunity to pet a red panda.
  • Give Jake the opportunity to drive a really nice car really really fast.
  • See bioluminescence during the red tide.
  • Watch the annual Perseid meteor shower up in the mountains all night again.
  • Kiss under mistletoe.
  • Horseback riding.
  • Glassblowing.
  • Archery.
  • Go to a British-style tea shop, with pastries and shit.
  • Ride a Ferris wheel.
  • Stargaze on top of a car.
  • Go feed the ducks with Jake.
  • Make out in the library.

adventures

  • Fill a public bathroom with balloons.
  • Stay out a full 24 hours.
  • Use candles for light every night for a week.
  • Order some kind of food delivery.
  • Pet a pig.
  • Pet a cow.
  • Milk an animal.
  • See fireflies.
  • Tap a maple tree.
  • Walk through a corn maze.
  • Walk through hedge maze.
  • Go on a hay ride.
  • Go to a lot of pumpkin patches to pick out pumpkins.
  • Go to a lot of Christmas tree lots.
  • Attend a murder mystery.
  • Take a beginner's lesson at a shooting range.
  • Ride a mechanical bull.
  • Do dirty things in an airplane.
  • Visit a ghost town.
  • Go tubing down a river.
  • Go on a low-key tropical vacation where I do nothing except lie in the sun, go stroll about wildlife wearing a giant hat, stay in a beautiful hotel, and eat all the local food.
  • Attend a music festival.
  • See an opera.
  • See an play.
  • Blow bubbles at the park.
  • Slip-and-slide for the first time.
  • Build my own bonfire.
  • Sleep under the stars.
  • Pretend to be someone else all day.
  • Have a bonfire on the beach at night.
  • Have a picnic, i.e. sit on a blanket in the grass in the sun with an entire packed meal.
  • Have a nighttime picnic.
  • Eat somewhere that I actually have to dress up for.
  • Host a fancy afternoon tea.
  • Host a board games night.
  • Sing karaoke at a bar.
  • Sing karaoke with friends.
  • Play dominos.
  • Play Monopoly.
  • Play Settlers of Catan.
  • Go laser-tagging.
  • Meet someone from online.
  • Become a trucker for at least several weeks.
  • Queue to meet an artist after a show.
  • Smoke.

food to try

  • Dip french fries in a milkshake.
  • Eat spaghetti-os cold and warm.
  • Eat a Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme.
  • Drink a Taco Bell Baja Blast.
  • Eat Velveeta Shells and Cheese.
  • Eat Annie's White Cheddar & Shells.
  • Eat Chef Boyardee Raviolis straight out of the can.
  • Eat French onion dip made with greek yogurt.
  • Finish a bottle of wine myself (obviously not at once).
  • Finish a bottle of rum myself (obviously not at once).
  • Finish a bottle of vodka myself (obviously not at once).
  • Eat mini cocktail sausages from a can.
  • Eat fresh cheese curds (squeaky cheese).
  • Eat fried green tomatoes.
  • Go to an all-you-can-eat sushi place so we can try all the sushi.
  • Have Moroccan food.
  • Have Eritrean food.
  • Have Cambodian food.
  • Go to a legit Buddhist temple to have their food again.
  • Go to a frozen yogurt place, the kind where you can pick your toppings and stuff.

beauty

  • Learn to French-braid all the way up my head.
  • Grow my hair past my nipples.
  • Grow my hair to the small of my back.
  • Get a Brazilian wax at a really good salon.
  • Buy a cute set of lingerie.
  • Dress up for Halloween.
  • Get a wig and wear it out just 'cause regularly.
  • Try an ACV shampoo rinse (1/3 cup ACV : 1 qt. DI H2O).
  • Try a lemon juice mask.
  • Try a Vitamin C mask.
  • Try a Vitamin E oil mask.
  • Try a jojoba oil mask.
  • Try the oil cleansing method with castor oil (and another oil, of course).
  • Try rag curls.

projects

  • Do the 365 Gratitude Project (write down one thing every day that you're grateful for).
  • Finish NaNoWriMo some month, even if it's not November.
  • Write a novel.
  • Finish a crochet project from a Ravelry pattern.
  • Finish a coloring book.
  • Do an en plein air watercolor.
  • Do more en plein air drawings.
  • Make coasters out of my felt.
  • Finish a 200+ piece puzzle (then donate it in a ziploc bag, so pieces don't get separated).
  • Finish a Sudoku book.
  • Do a full scale figure drawing session in charcoal.
  • Knit something.
  • Sew a quilt.
  • Make a lightbulb bud vase.
  • Make a pinhole camera.
  • Make shrinky-dinks.
  • Cover an entire window in peel-off window art.
  • Make a mobile.
  • Build a gingerbread house.
  • Tie dye something that I would use on a regular basis, like curtains, a rug, or a pillowcase.
  • Cover at least half an arm in a temporary tattoo sleeve.
  • Make a stop-action film, at least two minutes long.

skills

  • Learn to pick a lock.
  • Take a gun safety class.
  • Learn to change oil in a car.
  • Learn to put antifreeze in a car.
  • Learn to change a tire in a car.
  • Learn to hotwire a car.
  • Speak and read a second language fluently.
  • See a financial adviser to set up a will and/or trust.
  • Take household inventory with pictures for insurance purposes.
  • Consult genetic counselor before as well as during having kids.
  • Learn how to tie the four common tie knots on myself.
  • Learn how to tie the four common tie knots on somebody else.
  • Learn to speak Spanish fluently.
  • Sell my hair online when it gets as long as possible.
  • Learn to drive a manual.
  • Learn to extreme-coupon.

crafts

  • Learn to knit.
  • Learn to juggle.
  • Learn to play guitar.
  • Learn to play the ukelele.
  • Learn to solve a Rubik's cube.
  • Learn to make a dream catcher.
  • Lean to saber off a champagne bottle.
  • Get into musicals.
  • Get into plays.
  • Get a library card at my local public library.
  • Do glassblowing. Even better if you make a neon sculpture.
  • Learn to sing.
  • Start donating blood every quarter again.

wishlist

  • Get invisalign (and wear retainers this time).
  • Have a giant treehouse like the pictures on tumblr.
  • Get a fancy camera.
  • Take a photography course to learn to use said camera.
  • Become A Photographer in my spare time.
  • Commission a piece of art.
  • Pay for a stranger’s meal.
  • Don't complain.

unsorted

  • Make friends with a person from every country you get to visit
  • build a gingerbread house
  • Go to a midnight premiere
  • Cook 30 times from a recipe
  • have my fortune told
jan 14 2012 ∞
nov 20 2016 +