Saturday, December 31, 2016

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
    • Volunteer at an animal shelter
    • Go to Bali
    • See the Parthenon
    • Buy a meal for a stranger Completed several times over
    • Feel the heat of a volcano
    • Take a month off of Facebook  STARTED 11.9.16
    • View the Cherry Blossoms in Japan
    • Go to the Valley of the Kings
    • Go to a luau
    • Drive on the Autoban in Germany
    • Crash a wedding
    • Try a bizarre food
    •  Send flowers to a friend for no reason Sent them to my forever friend Amy
    • Take cheese making lessons in another country
    • Brew my own beer
    • Throw my son a surprise party
    •  Create and Send 100 handmade cards to Operation Write Home  (completed 2/19/11)
    • Go on a Cruise
    • Watch a movie being filmed (or part of one)
    • Learn how to make soap 2019
    • Learn to ride a motorcycle (http://www.motorcycletraining.com/)
    • Volunteer at a wild animal rescue
    • Bet $100 on blackjack and not be afraid to lose
    • Take a road trip  on historic Route 66 from CA to Chicago
    • Visit Seattle
    • Ghost hunt Gettysburg
    • Try past life regression
    • Go to a  FIFA soccer match
    • Toss fish at the Pike Place Fish Market (http://www.pikeplacefish.com/)
    • Celebrate a Christmas at Disneyland
    • Go sledding with my mom (we used to have to much fun doing this)
    • Roast marshmallows on the beach
    • Drive to the beach in the middle of the night to see the sun rise 
    • Rent an RV for the summer and roam the US
    • Learn how to make a quilt and make one for both kids
    • Learn to knit  Completed 11/12
    • Take Gracie shopping in New York City for her 16th birthday
    • Feed a baby elephant  
    • Ride a roller coaster that goes upside down
    • Visit Middle Earth http://www.hobbitontours.com/
    • Learn how to shoot a gun (March 29th, 2015 www.shootersworld.com)
    • Go to Hogwarts in Fl
    • Get my conceal carry permit
    • Shoot an AK 47
    • Ride the coasters at Universal Studios
    • Tour the White House
    • Go to the civil rights museum in Memphis July 2021
    • Own a Jeep
    • Go to NY Comic Con

    Bold = In progress