• ✔ go to Grand Canyon NP
• ✔ go REAL camping
• ✔ hide a geocache
• ✔ get to 200 geocache finds
• ✔ see 30 new birds: Muscovy Duck, Western Grebe, Clark's Grebe, Brandt's Cormorant, American White Pelican, Black-bellied Plover, Marbled Godwit, Black-necked Stilt, American Avocet, Western Sandpiper, Eurasian Collared Dove, Allen's Hummingbird, Great-horned Owl, Barn Owl, Osprey, Greater Roadrunner, Common Poorwill, Common Nighthawk, Cassin's Kingbird, Woodhouse's Scrub Jay, Lesser Goldfinch, Lark Sparrow, Black-throated Sparrow, Brewer's Blackbird, Wilson's Warbler, Townsend's Warbler, Hermit Thrush, Bushtit, Phainopepla, American Pipit & MORE
• ✔ explore a haunted house
• ✔ go to Joshua Tree NP
• ✔ seek salvation at Salvation Mountain
• ✔ bird at the Salton Sea
• ✔ rescue a cat from a tree
• ✔ work a 60 hour week (+ survive)
• ✔ see a 3D movie with glasses
• go to the wild bird sanctuary
• ✔ make that big pending decision
• ✔ try a new instrument: banjo
• ✔ try some new recipes: potato leek soup, french onion soup, custard
• ✔ go on a date: & got offered a bag of my kryptonite, avocados
• ✔ get paid to walk a dog: ANNIE!
• ✔ read 10 books for the first time
• ✔ get better: clean bill of health in may 2016
• ✔ donate plasma for money
• ✔ use a real power tool: jackhammer
• ✔ not lose my glasses

confession: a lot of these were formulated near the end of the year, as a sort of last ditch effort to still have a list for this year. despite not having a lot of guidance in the form of goals for this year, it ended up being pretty stellar, and it was also the happiest I've been on my actual birthday in a long long time.