deadlines are not my strong suit.

• world traveling:
  • Slovakia (family places)
  • Ireland
  • Czech Republic (Prague, bone church)
  • Scotland
  • Amsterdam (on general principles)
  • England
  • Croatia
  • Australia (Melbourne, see a platypus)
  • Japan
  • India
  • Falkland Islands
  • Antarctica
  • Iceland
  • family in Germany, always
  • remaining US states: Alaska, Arizona (Grand Canyon), New Mexico (Four Corners), North Dakota, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, & Tennessee (which I may have been to, but forgot).
• local traveling:
  • tacoma history museum
  • every museum in seattle (burke)
  • northwest roadtrip (walla walla, hanford...)
  • use my giftcard at the baltic room
  • ride the elevator at smith tower
  • japanese garden at the arboretum
  • Oktoberfest in Fremont & Leavenworth
  • Christmas lights in Leavenworth
  • walk across I90 bridge
  • top of Columbia Center
  • mount rainier national park
  • drive the north cascade loop
  • nonthruhike the PCT
• ✔ either get my nose pierced, or definitively decide not to
• get my earlobes triple pierced and make them stay this time
• get platypus tattoo
• make/keep a posse
• volunteer for Washington Trails Association
• volunteer for Habitat for Humanity
• host a dinner party
• get over my fiction issues
• go a week without whining
• radically declutter my bedroom
• bake xmas cookies
• write in my journal more often
• find a friend for Garfunkel pig
• adopt a dog
• buy a house
• decide whether or not to have children, and if not, what else to do
• get married, but not for the wrong reasons
• ✔ dye my hair purple
• identify my great-great-grandfather's parents
• get some sort of post-grad education, whether or not it is "useful"
• general art/craft projects:
  • finish quilt/pillow top
  • make a quilt
  • learn to draw
  • cross-stitch a geeky sampler
  • finish my scrapbooks
• knitting:
  • finish sweater
  • ask for help on the clapotis
  • finish kiri or start over with another pattern
    • finish the camping shawl
  • finish knithulu
  • finish yoke vest
  • finish a pair of socks
  • cardigan
  • hat that doesn't suck
    • ✔ learn to love existing hat
    • ✔ lose hat :(
  • convertible mitten/gloves
  • blanket

learn to:

• code
• speak enough German to have a conversation
• not hate cooking/cook a few dishes
• spin yarn
• speak enough Slovak to get by
• play accordion
• make clothes, or make existing clothes fit