A Better Me
- Finish building this list
- Accomplish half of it
- Spend a year fully exploring and practicing Buddhism
- Never stop dreaming
- Go a day complaint free
- Go a week complaint free
- Go a month complaint free
- Take a deep breath and have fun. Because if I’m not having fun, I’m doing it wrong.
Mentally Healthy
- Go a year mental health meds free
- Go 5 years mental health meds free
- Go 10 years mental health meds free
Career Me
- Have a career that involves business cards (October 31, 2012)
- Become a Notary Public (August 27, 2012)
- Figure out where my education is taking me
- Become a professor
Educate Me
- Earn My Bachelor’s in Applied Psychology
- Earn my Master’s in General Psychology
- Earn my PsyD
- Have at least a basic understanding of physics
- Learn common words in sign language
- Become conversational in Irish
- Be considered an expert in something
- By someone who has the right to call me such
- Learn how to knit
- Knit a blanket
- Learn how to crochet more than just a single rope
- Crochet a blanket
- Relearn how to sew
- Use the skill as an adult
- Learn how to quilt
- Quilt a blanket
- Become a better photographer
Family
- Snog a Great-Grandbaby
- Take my daughter prom dress shopping
- Help my daughter pick out her wedding dress
- Learn how to make tutus for Sammy or a grandbaby
- Own a porch swing
- Rock grandbabies to sleep on it
- Take Luke to build his own bear (January 21, 2012)
- Take Sammy to Build a Bear
- Take Thomas to the Lego store
- Take the kids to Lego Land
- Get a tattoo for my family
- Take Samantha to get her owl tattoo or something she holds dear to represent the strong women in her life
- Put Samantha’s hair in pig tails before she turns 2 (January 21, 2013)
- Learn how to French braid
- French braid Sammy’s hair before she turns 10
- Buy mom a designer purse
- Buy Sammy a full tool box for her 16th birthday
Love Life
- Renew my wedding vows
- In a creek
- Buy fancy new wedding bands (February 2013)
- Build a lasagna with Pat
- Take some form of dance lessons with Pat so he and I can perform when we renew vows
- Have sex in the rain
- Celebrate my 1st Anniversary (April 24, 2004)
- Celebrate my 5th Anniversary (April 24, 2008)
- Celebrate my 10th Anniversary (April 24, 2013)
Celebrate my 15th Anniversary (April 24, 2018)- Celebrate my 20th Anniversary (April 24, 2023)
- Celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary (April 24, 2053)
Finances
- Have a savings account with an actual balance that is maintained and added to weekly
- Complete the weekly savings challenge
- Complete the 5$ challenge
- Get off government assistance
- Have an investment portfolio
- Retire at a reasonable age with investments allowing me to take it easy
- Achieve good credit
- Buy a house
- Open a Swiss bank account in Switzerland
- Have an inheritance for my children
- Earn over 100,000 in one year
- Earn over 120,000 in one year
- Have a net worth of 1,000,000
Oh The Places You’ll Go
- Visit a foreign country that involves crossing the ocean
- Visit Gatlinburg Tennessee
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Visit the Hoover Dam
- Visit the Grand Canyon
- Take my kids to Disney
- Take my Grandkids to Disney
- Not on the same trip
- Go on a cruise
- See the Great Pyramid of Giza
- Visit all 50 states (Ohio, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Iowa, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, Illinois, Michigan)
- Visit all 7 continents
- See Alaska
- See the Hanging Garden of Babylon
- See the Statue of Zeus at Olympia
- See the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- See the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
- See the Colossus of Rhodes
- See the Lighthouse of Alexandria
- Walk the wall of China beginning to end.
- Visit Stonehenge
- Camp at Stonehenge
- See the Colosseum of Rome
- See the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- See the Taj Mahal
- See the Great Barrier Reef
- Take a snorkeling lesson while there
- Visit Victoria Falls
- Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
- Go on a road trip
- Tour an English castle
- Visit 6 major Cathedrals and Chapels around the world (National Cathedral)
- Ride a train from the West Coast to the East Coast
- Stay at a 5 Star hotel
- After a 5 star dinner
- Go on a ghost tour (Spring break 2002 – New Orleans)
- Ride a train across Europe
- Kiss the Blarney Stone
- Tour the landmarks of this nations birth and history
- See Washington DC as an adult
- Go to Rocky Horror
- Dress the Part
- Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
- Sleep in a castle
People To See
- Attend a Con
- Meet Dawnie
Meet Savi(May 2018)- Meet an author whose work I couldn’t put down (March 19, 2013)
- Meet an author who made my life better (March 19, 2013)
Adventure
- Skydive
- Climb a rock wall (August 13, 2012)
- Make it to the top of a climbing wall (December 17, 2012)
- Successfully climb something made by nature
- Rappel down the side of a skyscraper
- Go kayaking (October 2012)
- Become good at kayaking
- Zipline
- Go whitewater rafting
- Learn to fly a plane
- Experience Zero Gravity
- Go parasailing
- Learn to scuba dive
- Scuba dive in the Caribbean
- Ride in a hot air balloon
Critters
- Swim with dolphins
See polar bears up close(Summer 2014)- See panda bears
- Pet an otter
- Hug a penguin
- Rescue 30 animals from a dire fate
- Go horseback riding on the beach or into the sunset
- Ride a camel
- Ride an elephant
- Give an elephant a bath/shower
- Be crawled on and lovingly mauled by at least a half-dozen puppies at once
- Get licked by a giraffe
- Get chased by an ostrich
The Shape Of Me
- Learn to punch through a board
- Get down to 250 pounds
- Get down to 225 pounds
- Get down to 200 pounds
- Get down to 175 pounds
- Get down to 150 pounds
- Run a 5K
- Run a 10K
- Run a half marathon
- Run a marathon
- Take a Zumba Class
- Get decent at Zumba
- Take a Latin Dance class
- Get decent at Latin Dance
- Take a Yoga class
- Get decent at Yoga
- Take a Belly Dancing Class
- Get decent at belly dancing
- Do 100 push-ups
Entertainment to Experience
- See a show on Broadway
- Go to a concert
- Go to the Opera
- Go to the ballet (2007 – Sleeping Beauty, 2014 – Alice in Wonderland)
- See the Nutcracker
- See Swan Lake
See Wicked(August 2016)- See Hamilton
See Phantom of the Opera(March 2014)See The Book of Mormon(May 2014)- See Les Mis
- See a play in the globe theater
- Use a high power telescope to gaze into the heavens, cosmos and beyond
- See Halley’s Comet (July 28, 2061)
- See Van Gogh’s Starry Night in person
- Accomplish my Pop Culture Musts List
- Never stop adding to my Pop Culture Musts List
- See the Northern Lights
- Watch a spacecraft launch live and in person
Things To Read
- Read all the books on the BBC’s Top 100 Books list
- Read 1000 books as an adult
- Read 2000 books as an adult
- Read the Bible all the way through
- Read the Koran all the way through
- Read the Tao-Te-Ching all the way through
- Read the Torah all the way through
- Read The Book of Mormon all the way through
Things To Eat
- Learn how to bake (Summer and Fall of 2012)
- Learn how to bake from scratch (Fall and Winter 2012 into 2013)
- Master peanut butter cookies
- Buy and cook a live lobster
Cook raw chicken(Winter of 2014)
Parties To Crash
- Have a Pi Day Party (March 14, 2012)
- Make Pi Day parties an annual tradition
- Pick 3 more “holidays” to throw parties for – 1 for each season
- March 14 – Pi Day Pie Party
- May the 4th – Star Wars Party
- September 19 – International Talk Like A Pirate Day Party
- December – To be decided between November and January
Have a Pumpkin Carving Party(October 2014)- Attend New Year’s in Time Square
- Ring in the New Year in New Zealand – As close to the international date line as I care to get
- Learn to appreciate New Year’s first
- Wear a ball gown
- Paint the town red while in it
- After attending a ball
- Go to Burning Man
- Join the Red Hat Society once I’ve turned 50
Fame! I Want To Live Forever!
Publish a book(2015, 2016)- Publish a book with a publisher
- Improve the life of a stranger (February 13, 2013)
- Go viral, even with just a single post, just once
See my blog turn 10 (December 28, 2018)- Build a legacy
- Sell something out of my zazzle store, even if to myself (January 2013)
Earn enough in my zazzle store to be able to receive my profits(2018)- Take on a secret identity known only to a select few
- Have my blog mentioned on a radio show
- Be a guest on a radio show
- Have my blog mentioned on a TV show
- Be a guest on a TV show
- Have a bench, fountain, or tree dedicated in my name
- Before I pass so I can visit it
- Become a tree in death
Come out to my family- Legally change my name to Max
Joy And Giggles
- Photograph 1000 faces
- Photograph a wedding as the official photographer (October 2010)
- Photograph the wedding of someone I’m not related to
- Get a tattoo (November 10, 2012)
- Poop on a purple potty.
- Describe Pink Floyd laser shows to the blind
- Ride in a limousine (Summer 1995ish – OK, don’t remember exact year)
- Own a Mustang Convertible
- Pick strawberries
- Have a spa day – The works
- Go apple picking (Fall 2008)
- Go to a pumpkin patch and pick my own pumpkin (October 2005)
- Do or say something that makes a stranger laugh (January 2, 2013)
- Give a fake name for a coffee order
Get a professional Manicure(Summer 2013)
Buy Me
- Own purple suede shoes
- Own a pair of heels that cost at least 150$
- Buy a metal chicken for my yard large enough to piss off or embarrass the neighbors
- Convince the neighbors to buy a metal chicken for their own yards
- Own a pair of glasses for every day of the week
- Own a scarf for every day of the month
- Own a dress for every color in the rainbow
- Own an Orchid
- Keep it alive
- Without help
Survival Of The Fittest
- Survive the zombie apocalypse
- Survive a predicted apocalypse that I’m old enough to snicker about (Y2K)
- Survive 5 predicted apocalypses that I’m old enough to snicker about (Y2K, Rapture 2011, End of the Mayan Calendar 2012)