35…

Happy birthday to me. 35 came very quickly! This hasn’t been my favorite birthday but I’m happy to have another year with those I love.

Yikes this year has been intense! I’m not really adding to my list this year. I’m just going to check a few things off.

The point isn’t to accomplish everything on a list… the point is to live, to have goals, to explore, and to keep dreaming. I don’t just want to survive…. I want to enrich my life by challenging myself… intellectually and emotionally. I started this list in high school and have expanded it every year since.

My Life Mission Statement: SEEK. SAIL. SOAR.

Constantly Seek my faith, my creator, the love of my life.

Sail onto new lands, visit foreign soil, and open my mind to life unlike my own. Understand others cultures through immersion. Don’t stay comfortable. I learn the most about myself when I am outside of the walls of comfort.

Soar above what I believe I am capable. Make the best of who I am. Challenge myself. Each day try not to be better than anyone other than me. Do not be petty. Try to live a life worthy of the calling I have been given. Be Humble. Be Gentle. Be Patient. Create Peace.

• _: Need to be accomplished.
• X: Been accomplished.

_ Publish a book

X Teach someone to read

_ Swim with turtles

X Graduate high school

X Try Sushi

X Go to at least one dance

X Learn to play an instrument

X Take an advanced course

_ Watch a play in NYC

X Dance at a Powwow

_ Go horseback riding on the beach

X Climb a mountain

_ Skydive

X Ride a Harley

X Watch a thunderstorm in the south

_ See the northern lights

_ Spend a night trying to count the stars

X Learn how to use a gun

X Take a Self Defense course

X Spend the night in a castle

_ Go rock climbing

X Learn to swing dance

X Learn to play the drums

_ Learn to play the piano

_ Learn to play the guitar

X Learn to play the native flute

X Play a bamboo flute

X Learn to paint

X Get the lead in a play

X Direct a play

X Write a play

X Learn how to sketch

X Go on a mission trip

X Sing a solo in front of a crowd

X See the cougars at the zoo

X Pet a tiger

X Go to college

X Graduate college

X Go to graduate school

X Get my masters

X Get Married somewhere beautiful

X Have My Dream wedding

_ Fly a plane

X Shake hands with the president of a country

X Ride a train

X Get a tattoo

X Learn to drive

X Get my drivers License

_ Read a Tale of Two Cities

X Give an inspirational speech

_ Change someones life for the better

_ Hold a baby in a third world country

_ See a giraffe outside the zoo

X Get 7 piercings

X Send 100 letters to people I have never met

_ See the Red Sox play in Fenway

X Eat a dodger dog in Dodger Stadium

X Hold an office

X Plant a tree

_ Develop my own film

_ Learn Spanish

_ Learn Korean

_ Learn Japanese

_ Learn Potawatomi

_ Learn Sign Language

X Learn to cook

X Live in Portland, OR for a little while

X Live in Los Angeles For a while

_ See all 50 States

_Roadtrip across the states

X Visit San Francisco

X Visit Seattle

_ Visit Boston, MA

X Visit Hollywood, CA

X Visit Colorado Springs, CO

X Visit Potawatomi Reservation

X Visit Reno, NV

X Visit Las Vegas, NV

X Visit Mexico

X Visit Canada

_ Visit Venice

_ Visit Zurich

_ Visit Rome

_ Visit Sydney

X Visit London

_ Visit Manila

_ Visit Japan

_ Visit Korea

_ See the Great Wall

_ Visit Ethiopia

_ Visit Peru

_ Visit Prague

_ Visit Cairo

_ See the Museum of Cairo

X Visit Lochness and look for Nessie

X See where C.S. Lewis lived

_ Visit Brazil

X Go Sailing

X Go on a roadtrip

X Sing Karaoke at least once

X See the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland

X Start a drama group

X See a palm-tree in California

X See Yellowstone

X See Yosemite

X See the Redwoods

X See the Sequoias

X See Red Rock

X See the ocean

X Go Snowboarding

X Go Puddle Jumping

X Go Long boarding

_ Windsurf

_ Have a candle light dinner under the stars

X Swim in the ocean (not just wade)

X Go Backpacking

X Experience Love

X Do an independent research project

_ Go Surfing

X Go white water rafting

X Call my FP’s

_ Ride an elephant

_Ride a Camel in the desert

_ Take horseback riding lessons

_ Own a horse

X Color my hair

X Go to at least one reunion

X Take a million photographs

X Meet someone famous

_ Learn to read music

X See more than 50 concerts

X See my mother again before she dies

X See an Opera

_ See a ballet (Live)

X See a Broadway show

X Dance in the rain

X Write a song

_ Do one thing that scares me everyday

X Drive a Jeep

X Own a Business

X Be my own boss

_Apply to a doctoral program

_ Get into a doctoral program

_ Get a doctorate

_ Learn to Sail

_ Own A Sailboat

_Throw a mega party, invite everyone I know, and not care if anyone shows up

_Swim with dolphins

_Fold 1000 origami cranes and give them to random strangers

_Visit a Volcano

_Go on a Disney cruise

X Go to disneyland

X Go to grinchmas

_ Tell someone my life story to a complete stranger without being afraid to spare the details

_Have a food fight at a restaurant

_Go Whale Watching

X Go to at least one major sporting event

_Milk a Cow

_Go Scuba Diving somewhere tropical

_Visit a concentration camp and never forget

X Be the member of an audience on a tv show

X Eat Green Eggs and Ham

_Tango dance in Argentina

_Write a letter to my favorite author

_ Have my portrait painted

X Visit the place I was born

_Watch a lightening storm at sea

X Have a meal with a stranger

X Swim in a pool with all of my clothes on

X See Fireflies

_ Drink Chamomile tea at The Pink Door

_Have a pet goat

X Own a home

X Try Scallops

X Eat at one of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants

_ Spend a Christmas at Disneyland

_Ride in a horse drawn Sleigh in the snow

_Visit Disneyworld

_Have a HUGE family reunion

_Feed Some Sharks

_Make sure my children experience many cultures

X Adopt a Dog

XGet a Passport

X Buy a Car

X Take my kids to Disneyland

_ Get Mommy and Me Pedicures

_Take a Cooking class

x Write my will

_ Visit the White House

_See the skull of Phineas Gage

_Visit the Museum of Neuroanatomy in Buffalo

_ Visit the International Banana Museum in Mecca, CA

_ Spend a night at June Lake

_ Do Financial Peace University

_ Pay off my student loans

_ Buy a home and stay there until we retire

X See the Dodgers win the World Series

X Take family photos somewhere beautiful

_ Visit the San Diego Zoo

_Stay at Hotel Del Coronado

X Take the kids to an aquarium

_ Try a mint julep

X Color my hair something crazy

_ Try beef Wellington

_ Spend a Christmas in a wintery cabin

_ Spend an entire week on the beach with the kids

X Take the kids on an overseas adventure

X Stand at the southern most point of the USA

_ stand at the southern most point of the USA