My Goals.

"This is one dream I mean to cling to."
--Vianne Rocher, Chocolat

Things that are struck through are completed. Things in italics are works in progress.

-Leave everything a little better than I found it.
-Learn to understand football.
-Kiss underwater.
-Find a balance between the things I want to do and the things I need to do.
-Fill my passport.
-Sing every day.
-After moving into my own apartment, buy a cheap dining table and six mismatched chairs, and throw a small dinner party. With candles.
-Try absinthe.
-Have a kitchen garden and houseplants. Take good care of them.
-Get a fireproof box for my important documents.
-Do something dirty in an elevator and/or airplane bathroom.
-Learn to belly dance.
-Write by snail mail every so often.
-Get better at embroidery.
-Take a picture of something at least once a day.
-Volunteer at "Cowboy Dreams".
-Learn how to drive a stick shift.
-Get a tattoo.
-Go on a cruise.
-Be successful in the horse industry.
-If that fails, have a charming roadside bar with a bad-ass reputation.
-Finish reading everything on my list of "classic books to read" before I die.
-Renovate a house or at least get into some interior design.
-Find a message in a bottle. Send one.
-Take a roadtrip.
-Whiten my teeth.
-Revamp my room, empty it out, start over.
-Create my own website. Create a better one.
-Ride in a taxi.
-Cut my own hair.
-Have a bonfire on the beach.
-Sleep under the stars.
-Take a photography class.
-Play board games.
-Speak Spanish fluently.
-Dabble in other languages, like Russian, Japanese, Urdu, and German. Sign language, too.
-Learn to play the harmonica.
-Pracice my violin and my bass.
-Learn how to hotwire a car.
-Compile recipes from all my greatest friends and family.
-Give blood.
-Sew a quilt for my child.
-Coach a youth softball team.
-Adopt pets from a rescue or shelter.
-Bake better Christmas cookies.
-Take a first aid class.
-Rally, demonstrate, and protest. Stand up for what I believe in.
-Fall in love - ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't live without each other love.
-Vote.
-Buy a hypnotism CD.
-Own a jukebox and a record player. Use them.
-Ride a motorcycle or moped on my own.
-Learn to whistle with my fingers and with my hands cupped.
-Give things that I hate a chance.
-Design and build my own barn. Don't forget a hidden room.
-Support unsigned musicians.
-Dye my hair a crazy color.
-Get better at skipping the small talk.
-Build something functional out of wood. A bookcase, a small table.
-Take a martial arts class.
-Break a bone.
-Try surfing.
-Establish a bedtime routine.
-Hear a homeless person's life story. Again.
-Recognize at least ten constellations.
-Wear hats.
-Philosophize.
-Learn to skateboard.
-Own an economical car - hybrid, fuel cell, or ethanol.
-Relearn how to read palms.
-Discover all the branches on my family tree.
-Be a better employee.
-Apply for at least three scholarships each week.
-Stay in touch with my extended family. E-mail Aunt Dar.
-Research religions.
-Stretch every morning.
-Open a checking account.
-Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
-Take a ballroom dance class.
-Perfect my calligraphy.
-Fold a thousand paper cranes. (Maybe.)
-Live in a studio apartment with sparse furnishings and big windows.
-Bake home-made bread every Sunday, when I have my own family.
-Constantly expand, subtract, and perfect my DVD collection.
-Keep up with politics, foreign affairs, and other current events.
-Learn to knit.
-Bartend.
-Get back into cross-country skiing in the winter.
-Have a wrap-around porch and a porch swing or a rocking chair.
-Go to a strip club.
-Study abroad.
-Try a new recipe every month.
-See the aurora borealis.
-See the Cirque Du Soleil.
-Be a tourist in my own town.
-Have garage sales.
-Spend a month driving around the country and staying in dumpy motels, photographing everything.
-Go skinny dipping. In the Mediterranean Sea.
-Save someone's life. (Does giving blood count...? :3 Maybe I'll cross this off if I never save someone another way.)
-Get business cards.
-Get my allergies tested and figure out what's up with my ovaries.
-Handle my snake every day so she gets used to me. Before she gets big enough to bite off my hand.
-Go on a whale-watching boat. Actually see some whales.
-Return to Niagara Falls and D.C. Appreciate them more this time around.
-While I'm up in New England, take a ferry to Novia Scotia.
-Barrel race.
-Do cartwheels.
-Learn more about the Burning Man festival and possibly attend one day.
-Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
-Learn how to shoot a rifle.
-Play pool and darts well - the sports of the bar.
-Learn how to use a sewing machine.
-Learn how to rig a fishing pole. Always bait my own hook and unhook my own fish.
-Make an ofrenda every year for Day of the Dead - there's always someone's memory to honor.
-Dye my hair a funky color after graduation, to celebrate.
-Get a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt.
-Dye one of my pets a bright color - with non-toxic vegetable-based dye, of course.
-Write something in wet cement.
-Raise a child.
-Tie the stem of a cherry with my tongue - because maybe I can.
-Wear skirts more often.
-Go clubbing.
-Go paintballing.
-Build a treehouse.
-Go to at least two concerts over the summer.
-Light a candle for someone.
-Get a massage.
-Write a letter to the editor.
-Press flowers. Every spring.
-Find that place where it looks like, if you keep driving, you'll fall off the edge of the world.
-Swim in natural hot springs.
-Go waterskiing.
-Get a pedicure.
-Perfect a cookie recipe.
-Record Gramma D telling her life story. Finish it.
-Plant a tree.
-Fly a kite.
-Roast marshmallows in the back yard.
-Go apple-picking.
-Go to the drive-in as often as possible.
-Ride a bicycle built for two.
-Catch fireflies. Again.
-Build a snowman. Again.
-Go sailing.
-Have a birdfeeder.
-Actually listen to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream".
-See a bullfight.
-Roll my own sushi.
-Kiss on a ferris wheel at an old-fashioned carnival.
-Listen to classical music.
-Investigate falconry.
-Ride a mechanical bull.
-Get into UrbEx.
-Go downtown at least once a month.

p.s. spell something out with photos of things with letters on them.