Accomplishing things I didn't even remember I wanted

I posted this almost two years ago...I did it and to be honest forgot about it...tonight while laying in bed, reading some old posts and reminiscing I stumbled upon it. I can't believe that I have actually done some of the things I listed. I had intended for it to be a way to chronicle important moments in my life just like the blog and yet it was forgotten. So here's an update.

Bold means it done

Live in a different country

Learn to drive

Open my own bookstore

Spend more time on my photography

Learn to play the piano

Move on - I think any readers that are still around from when the blog started will remember the day I posted about this...it was a great moment to realize that I could be happy again.

Complete my x365

Learn proper French, not the crap I know

Start embellishing my own clothes

Create my own embroidery patterns

Spend a night under the stars

Take my mother to Egypt

Take a road trip across the US

Visit Cuba with my family

Fall in love with someone who can't live without me - Oh Scott :-)

Volunteer at an animal habitat

Play in the snow, like for real not the 1/2 an inch I played in - I've never been one to be childish and uninhibited...in NY this February I couldn't help it.

Sell my nonsense on Etsy - I'm in the process of creating my store and getting stuff out there and I couldn't be more excited even if I don't sell a damn thing.

Marry a nerdy, funny and adorable boy

Spend at least a month on my honeymoon

Start a family

Give said family (boys and girls) mini-hawks

Foster stray dogs

Love up a koala bear in Australia

Learn to ski

Read the complete works of William Shakespeare

Memorize sonnets

See Elton John in concert

Finish college

Kiss in the rain - Scott made this happen for me on my first visit to Montgomery. It was coming down, we were in his backyard listening to the crickets and I was wearing nothing but one of his old shirts. It was spectacular.

Wake up when the alarm clock goes off - I still can't believe I did this.

Go on safari in Africa

Do one thing just because it feels good, even if its not the right thing - I still can't believe I did this either.

Ski in Switzerland

Have a garden

Skinny dip

Live in the moment

Show up to works 10 minutes early - Rare, but it's happened a few times in the last year. The look of shock on my bosses face is priceless.

Practice random acts of kindness

Visit my grandmother more often

Finally take a spin in my super awesome roller skates

Volunteer at a retirement home

Send out holiday cards to all my friends and family - I wanted to make this happen 2 years in a row but I guess doing it once still counts for something

Hold a lizard in my hand, most likely a tiny, tiny, tiny baby

Try Yoga - And I love it.

Jump in puddles

Have better posture

Have someone ask me to dance when there is no music playing - Scott really is too good to me.

Live one winter in a cold, snowy place

Write a song

Learn to ride a horse

Go on a picnic at least once a month

Paint for the sake of painting

Watch every Audrey Hepburn movie made

Spend a month in India

Go on a vacation with close friends and don't worry about my regularly scheduled life while there - I've been lucky enough to do this twice now. And I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Swim in open ocean without wrapping myself around someone's neck (I know I'm ridiculous, damn Jaws!) - I still wouldn't put my back to open ocean but being able to be a grown up in the ocean was pretty awesome.

Learn to cook one dish from every country in the world

Document my life in photos

Stop drinking soda full stop

Give up cheese for one month, just to say that I can do it

Make the ultimate mixtape

Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

Read every X-men comic ever written

Take Pin-Up photos

Start reviewing books

Move somewhere that I actually like

Volunteer at a food bank for Thanksgiving

Take a spur of the moment trip

Don't over think everything

Watch all 6 Star Wars movies in chronological order over 2 days

Read the entire LOTR series

Find that perfect house

Become a librarian

Take a trip with my sister to somewhere amazing

Write something for myself, just because I want to

Read one book a week for one year

Adopt a dog

Go camping in the backyard

Get a tattoo - I've gotten two and the third is on the horizon. I love that I've been able to find another way to express myself.