This list is going to evolve and grow, and I hope to enjoy every minute of it.
Try something new once a month (a restaurant, a food, a recipe, a place, an event, ANYTHING NEW)
Take myself on a road trip
Treat myself to a nice dinner
Take myself to a movie Saw Black Swan and True Grit while the Feller was out of town 01/2011
Pay off my:
—credit cards
—undergrad loans
—grad school loans
Learn how to ride a motorcycle
Send one piece of real mail once a week Started 02/2010, and fell off the wagon
Buy a house
Have a baby
Plan the wedding that makes ME happy
Be shamelessly narcissistic: take self portrait every day for a year
Get on a Roller Derby team
Travel to Greece
Travel out of the country once a year for five years (Mexico doesn’t count)
Get my Master’s degree
Take a spur of the moment vacation, just get on a plane and go
Leave a waitress a redonkulously large tip
Pay the toll for the car behind me
Go to the zoo
Buy a new car
Plant a garden
Exercise once a week (hopefully more!)
Run a 5k
Learn how to belly dance
Put up a Christmas tree
Take my mom on a nice vacation
Work because I WANT to, at a job I enjoy
Lead an impromptu sing along
Dance in the rain like a crazy person
Surprise a friend with cupcakes
Bake my own bread
Buy a really expensive pair of jeans
Buy a really expensive pair of shoes
Go to Disneyland
Read all the books I own
Weed out my book collection: get rid of the ones I’ve never read & the ones I won’t read again Done, mostly, when I moved in with the Feller 11/2010
Make a quilt out of my college t-shirts
Have my bikini line professionally waxed
Get my nipple pierced (…maybe)
Become proficient at spinning, both with a drop spindle & a wheel
Become SCUBA certified OO! Done 09/2010!
[…] Anyway, two of the authors of my Top 5 Books of 2009 are going to be doing readings/signings/speakings in the Bay Area in the next couple of weeks. Yay! I’m actually totally stoked about this because the authors are Carrie Ryan and Malinda Lo, who wrote my ABSOLUTE two favorite books that I read in 2009. I’m SO EXCITED. AND!!! Carrie Ryan’s sequel to The Forest of Hands and Teeth comes out next Tuesday! So I can have a matching set of signed books by her! Which is totally cool, because I LOVED Forest of Hands and Teeth, and because the only other signed book I own is a crappy fantasy by Michael Stackpole, and I didn’t even get to meet him (nor did I read the book, but I guess I will someday because reading all the books I own is on my To-Do List). […]