My To Do List

My To Do List

1. Get out of my comfort zone and  go for some big risks. 
1. Applied Internationally for jobs and didn't take any.
2. Moved my kids to the East Coast - June 2018 Done



Goal #121 - Learn to Knit

2. Pay off my car (done  July 2016)
3. Pay off my student loans
4. Pay off all my credit cards
5. Get my phd (t12/22 EdS - Leadership from Concordia Portland)
6. Meet Ric O'Barry
7. Write a children's book
8. Teach a class for adults
9. Get my TEFL certificate (started in May 2011 - Completed October 25, 2011 100 hours completed via www.teflonline.net)
10. Go to Schoonhoven
11. Help save a whale or dolphin
12. Visit Pearl Harbor
13. Learn how to blow glass   Completed 1/6/13 Click to read the blog post.
14. Ride a horse on the beach
15. See in a New Year in Times Square,  NY
16. See a former student graduate from High School
17. Stop Drinking Soda  Completed For a year 
18. Chase a tornado
19.  Photograph a tornado
20. Drive across country and stop at the weird sites in each state
21. Own a house with a widows keep on Cape Cod.
22. Teach my dog 5 new tricks 5/5 (Taught Bella to show us her tummy, shake and to go to her spot on G's bed at bedtime, taught D'Agoe to hide his face behind my hands, Bella will hug if you ask her to.)
23. Take a drawing class
24. Read the Grapes of Wrath (completed 4/12 after 5 years of trying to read it - very sad and depressing story but that is a major part of my family history too)
25. Ride a rollercoaster that goes upside down = complete March 2015
26. See the Mona Lisa
27. Take a pottery class
28. Spend a night in a working lighthouse
29. Walk a Barefoot Mile with a Soldier (Completed 12/4/10) Click to read my blog post.
30. Go to India to see my mom's Sponsored Child.  The CFCA closed the office closest to my mom's sponsored child and she can no longer sponsor him. :( Very sad. We have been following him for 4 years.
31. See the Northern Lights
32. Watch Whales in Alaska
33. Go to Dutch Harbor 
34. Buy my mom a ticket to the East Coast at least once as a surprise
35. See my children graduate from college
36. Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel
37. Ghost Hunt at Mt. Washington
38. Ghost Hunt at the Spalding Inn (see a pattern here.. LOL)
39. Learn to Ski
40. Finish Scrapbooking my son's Karate album 1/12
41. Hop a plane last minute and head to Arizona and surprise Family at the holidays
42. Visit Australia Zoo and hold a Koala
43.  Do something HUGE for my 40th birthday (Vegas Bound....)
44. Take a trip spontaneously and with no planning ahead of time
45. Read all of Shakespeare's Sonnets (is it me or are they terrible? -  I have read all of them and I loath them. They are not beautiful like his plays! He clearly was on a tangent when he wrote them.)
46.  Program a Robot (Lego Mindstorm programming complete but the robot walks crooked and we clearly need a support group 2/11)
47. Visit the tower of London
48. Drink a Guinness at an Irish pub
49. Attend a cheese rolling in Glousteshire, UK (http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/index1.htm)
50. Honeymoon in Belize
51. Marry my ONE
52. Camp at the beach
53.  Visit each country in Europe
54. Ghost Hunt in the Tower of London
55. Visit the O'Dea Castle in County Claire Ireland
56. Drive a race car
57.  Find the ancestors for Stephen Thornberry - DONE July 2019
58.  Sell 25 of my handmade cards to strangers Goal Reached 4/19/12
59. Visit Verona Italy
60. Organize and give away/sell anything that hasn't been used in the last 18 months. Goal Reached 8/12 and again in 2018
61. Volunteer at an animal shelter
62. Go to Bali
63. See the Parthenon
64. Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
65. Feel the heat of a volcano
66. Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
67. View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
68. Go to the Valley of the Kings
69. Go to a luau
70. Drive on the Autoban in Germany
71. Crash a wedding
72. Try a bizarre food
73.  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
74. Take cheese making lessons in another country
75. Brew my own beer
76. Throw my son a surprise party
77.  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
78. Go on a Cruise
79. Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
80. Learn how to make soap 2019
81. Learn to ride a motorcycle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
82. Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
83. Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
84. Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
85. Visit Seattle
86. Ghost hunt Gettysburg
87. Try past life regression
88. Go to a  FIFA soccer match
89. Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
90. Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
91. Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
92. Roast marshmallows on the beach
93. Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
94. Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
95. Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
96. Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
97. Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
98. Feed a baby elephant  
99. Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
100. Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
101. Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
102. Go to Hogwarts in Fl
103. Get my conceal carry permit
104. Shoot an AK 47
105. Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
106. Tour the White House
107. Go to the civil rights museum in Memphis July 2021
108. Own a Jeep
109. Go to NY Comic Con

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