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check list

Just some things I have done, am doing or want to do - in no particular order. If it’s bold it’s been accomplished & may now be clickable.

  • Have a teddy bear.
  • Travel! Especially to Australia, Italy, London, Paris, Austria, New York & Washington D.C.
  • Have my own website. You’re on it!
  • Ride in a hot air balloon.
  • Own an iPod Nano. Her name is Eve (after the character in the movie Wall-e :)).
  • Gallop a horse bareback on the beach…
  • Own a Canon DSLR.
  • Work at work I love.
  • Take a photograph of falling rain splashing on the ground. Like this, this or this.
  • Get married and have lots of little ones.
  • Own my own laptop! Update: own a MacBookPro.
  • Travel somewhere, anywhere, by train.
  • Live in a house on a hill.
  • Rip a phone book in half all by myself with my own hands.
  • Stand on top of a mountain.
  • Be in a choir. Done! Those were some epic times.
  • Drive up/down the coast from WA State to San Diego, California.
  • Have lots of siblings! Done - adopting rocks. :)
  • Own a banana seated bike:

  • Dance like this (starting @ 3:27).
  • Second shoot/assist a professional photographer.
  • Be a secretary.
  • Compose a song.
  • Have jelly shoes like the ones I had when I was a kid.
  • Play the violin. Played for five years & LOVED it.
  • Play a viola for fun. Update: Learn to play the viola.
  • Learn to sword-fight/fence.
  • Own a video camera. Meet my Flip.
  • Learn another language.
  • Learn to cross stitch.
  • Learn latte art.
  • Finish a big cross stitch project.
  • Coordinate a wedding.
  • Stand in the middle of Time’s Square, because of the Cricket who lives there.
  • Become organized, tidy and yet comfortably mussy (I wasn’t when I was little, hehe).
  • Earn enough money to buy people all the things I want to buy them whenever I want to.
  • Choose a Theme Song for myself. Done: Free To Be Me by Francesca Battistelli.
  • Own this dress (by Delia’s):

  • See a real, live play! Update: See a play on Broadway.
  • Run a children’s book store (yes, because of the movie You’ve Got Mail ;)).
  • Find the perfect pair of “wear ‘em all the time” earrings.
  • Eat Cotton Candy - not actually looking forward to that one, lol.
  • Fly an airplane!
  • Hear my name read on an airport sound system. :P
  • Live in Southern California for awhile (San Diego for the win!!).
  • Help make a movie.
  • Take care of my own awesomely big, awesomely slobbery, awesomely awesome dog.
  • Have my very own Glock.
  • Make soft pretzels & doughnuts.
  • Own white sunglasses. I’ve have had four or five pairs so far, woop!
  • Learn to swim and to actually LIKE it, haha.
  • Have dear friends and family to love & miss.
  • Learn to drive stick-shift.
  • Ride a ferris wheel:

  • Have my hair professionally done (curly, wind-blown, sorta up with white flowers - yes, please).
  • Take a speech class.
  • Be in a bridal party.
  • Drive a big truck. My brother had a F-150 I drove to work for two months. ;)
  • Learn something new every day. SO doing that!
  • Go to the circus. A friend took me to a Cavalia show on 11.25.11 for my birthday present - twas more incredible than I could have imagined!
  • Own & run a horse ranch.
  • Journal, write and blog consistently.
  • Publish a book with my photos in it.
  • Write a book.
  • Own TONS of books… basically, an epic library!
  • Keep my life full of music. Done, mmhmm!
  • Touch my toes without bending my knees.
  • Own a pair of Chuck Taylors.
  • Do the splits.
  • Have absolutely no fear whatsoever.
  • Own a cowboy hat & boots.
  • Be a real nanny for a while.
  • Learn to dance the Laendler.
  • See the Northern Lights.
  • Have a BFF. You know who you are and you rock my world!
  • Meet all of my close online friends. Done as of 6.28.11, YAY! It took four years to accomplish this one.
  • Live in a rambling, yellow house (that has a veranda, porch swing & garden) which is in a field that overlooks my river and has hills as a backdrop. And it needs tons of rooms so lots of dear people can come visit. Something like this:


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