Travel/places to visit

• Visit France
• Take a spontaneous one week road trip with close friends
• Travel around the North and South Island of New Zealand
• See and play in snow
• Go back to Cairns and revisit all my haunts from when I was a little kid
• Visit my friends in America and Canada
• Go on a cruise with friends
• Take solitary day trips once a month to places I've never been before (when I get my license)
• Go to the park or beach at least once a month and relax with a good book
• Find my granddad's grave and leave him flowers. Find out the date of my other Granddad's death and go down the sounds and leave flowers in the ocean.
• Go down the sounds at least once a year
• Take the South Island train as far as it goes.

Self Improvement

• Accept that my hair is never going to be extremely long
• See the positive in every bad situation
• Smile at one stranger everyday
• Walk with my head held high
• Learn to look people in the eyes
• Stop drinking soft drinks
• Go see a chiropractor
• See a skin specialist about my acne
• Bleach my teeth once a fortnight
• Stop saying “yeah” instead of “yes” also stop saying "cool" when there is nothing else to say
• Stop spending all day in my room on the laptop
• Read meaningful books, not just fiction
• Stop being so negative about my body and either accept it or do something about it
• Take interest in the world and read newspapers/watch the news
• Learn a new word everyweek and use it (dictionary.com here I come)
• Stop saying "I can't" to every situation and start thinking "I can try"
• Stop meeting guys on the internet, it's creepy and wrong
• ✔ Socialise more with people in the real world
• Stop wearing so much black and invest in colours
• Get my (NZ) driver's license and stop putting it off

Finances/boring sensible stuff

• Save 2/4 of my pay each week
• Get a second job - a night job (bartending?)
• Have two savings accounts, holidays/trips and house deposit
• Write up a will
• Rent the house out to help pay off mortgage
• Try not to get a credit card again unless to build up credit rating

Health and Fitness

• Learn how to salsa
• Walk a 1 1/2 hour walk 3 times a week every week
• Go on trail walks around the Marlborough area at least once a month
• Learn to ski
• Start doing exercises to tone up my body
• Stop eating so much junk food, start focusing on vegetables
• If offered a new dish (that isn't meat) try it
• Learn pilates or yoga
• Become an early riser. Be out of bed by 7.30 every morning (Go to sleep before 11 pm)
• Drink 2 litres of water a day and Green Tea drinks
• Become fit enough to walk the Queen Charlotte Trail
• Eat a banana once a week (I'm a fruit hater, so challenge!)

Courses/Culture/Movies

• Learn French
• Rent one new release dvd a week
• ✔ Join the local Library
• Learn Italian once I've learned French
• Watch 100 films from IMBD's top 250 films
• Cook one new meal a week for a year
• See a movie once a month at the Cinemas
• Take a bartending/barista course

Reading

• Re-read all of the Harry Potter books
• Re-read Diana Gabaldon's series, "Outlander"
• ✔ Re-read the "Twilight" series by Stephanie Meyer
• Read 10 Non-fiction books
• Read 100 fiction novels (choice of more than 100)
• Read a book in French
• Read Jane Austens' books
• Read books on finance e.g. saving, mortgages etc.

Creativity

• Learn how to use all functions on my Camera
• Take a photography course
• Paint at least one picture every 6 months
• Turn photography into postcards and send to friends
• Put photography of trips into Scrapbook
• Write a short story and finish it
• Become proficient in Photoshop
• Make a photobook of my photography on Lulu

Home

• Buy a new wardrobe of clothes eg. staple items
• ✔ Move into a bigger room in the house
• Go to auction/bargain/second hand shops and kit out my room
• Get a pet fish, a siamese fighting fish
• Get some inspiring artwork from (Red Bubble)[www.redbubble.com]
• Regularly go through my things and donate unused things to Charity

Family & Friends

• ✔ Make new friends in New Zealand
• Plan big 21st bash for Australia
• Send friends cards for their birthdays
• Send all friends and family in Australia a monthly update email
• Make more effort to keep in touch with friends and family

Randomness

• ✔ Get a completely different hair cut/style/colour
• Write one blog a week on myspace about anything
• Go swimming in the ocean (it's been years)
• Once a week when I'm home alone play loud music and dance like no one is watching
• Have a child
• Sponsor a child through World Vision
• Get a small, personal tattoo
• ✔ Find a partner who is all that I need and want
• Move into my own place
• Be a flight hostess for a few years
• Have my palm read
• Get my hearing tested again
• Visit my Nana once a fortnight
• Chill out with a book at a cafe with an Iced Coffee once a fortnight
• Cook a treat once a month eg. lolly cake or afghans.
• Watch youtube videos of comedians once a fortnight