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 +