At the beginning of November, 2011, I sat down and wrote up my life list. Since then, I have been able to tick a few items off, have started work on others, and added some more. (I have also signed up for Go Mighty, as a way of helping visualize my goals.)

Let's see where how things stand:

• Own my own home
• Take voice lessons
• Swim at a beach with warm, crystal clear ocean water
• Take a train trip coast to coast (and back?)
• Own a dog (or two?)
• Revisit NYC
• Visit San Francisco
• Visit Seattle
• Visit New Orleans
• Visit Savannah
• Pass the Madison Parks and Beaches swim test and get out to the diving platform at B.B. Clarke Beach
• Go canoe camping on the Wisconsin River
• Get belay certified
• Throw an event/party for at least 100 people
     (Having gotten engaged this past November, I am now in the process of planning a wedding. Not sure how many people it will include, but it may be the thing that knocks this off the list.)
• Have my art for sale in a brick and mortar business
• Take part in (and finish) a bike ride of at least 100 miles
     (This past summer I did a ride that was around 30 miles. Still a ways to go, but getting ready.)
• Have an entire outfit that is tailor made for me
     (This is another one that might happen simply due to the wedding.)
• Learn how to go underwater without having to plug my nose
     (Working on it. This is still something I haven't gotten the hang of.)
• Take the car ferry across Lake Michigan
• Spend some time in Door County
• Spend some time in the Apostle Islands
• Learn to ballroom dance without tripping over my own feet
• Learn to contra dance without tripping over my own feet
• Healthy 125
• Learn to use a chef's knife like a pro
     (I've taken a one-hour class on knife skills, and would like to take more. In the meantime, practice, practice, practice.)
• Revisit Cape Breton
• Revisit Montreal
• Set foot in every continent (except Antarctica...no way)
• Go to a session and play at least 50% of the songs
• Busk
• Stay with friends at Camp Lake Resort (Fairyland!) for at least a long weekend
• Raise chickens
• Go to grad school
• Act in a play
• Get my CPR and First Aid re-certification
• Go to Comic-Con with my brother
• Take the Union sailing course
• Learn to whistle
     (I can do a couple of little whisting noises, but nothing too impressive. I can't reliably whistle a tune, nor can I whistle for attention.)
• Obtain a Hoofers keelboat rating (crew and/or skipper)
• Send a 5.10 route at the climbing gym
• Climb at Devils Lake
• Take my nephew to a water park
     (Planning it in the works for a winter trip to an indoor park.)
• Visit the Somerville Museum of Modern Renaissance