1. Get another tattoo
2. Go to Disneyworld
3. Have another baby
4. Knit something
5. Run a 10k
6. Run a 15k
7. Finish Graduate School
8. Buy a (nother) house
9. Sell our Oregon house
10. Visit Oregon
11. Go on a(nother) cruise
12. Meet all of my new nephews (Mason and the twins)
13. Learn to cook fish to perfection
14. Bake a cake from scratch (cupcakes & mini cake for Kinsey’s party with the help of Haley)
15. Start learning Chinese
16. Lose 10 pounds
17. Start a garden
18. Teach Kinsey to ride a bike
19. Go snowboarding (more often)
20. Live in the same place longer than 2 years
21. Finish writing my book
22. Go to a waterpark
23. Do not buy another dog
24. Learn to play more than 1 song on the guitar
25. Make a pie
26. Go to a NFL game
27. Attempt to put on contacts (eye phobia confronted)
28. Pick berries at a berry farm
29. Go on a family bike ride
30. Teach Kinsey how to swim






[…] I’ve made it pretty clear that I am not a baker. Though, I’m pretty certain that my friendship with Haley will yield a few successful baking projects, because she believes that I can be “taught” (and because I watch her bake, and she praises me and says that I helped). Maybe it is the rebel in me (that is definitely the reason), but baking requires too many steps and attention to detail, that I just don’t care to commit. My only real exception to that is baking a pie, because I dominated some pie crust a couple months ago for Chicken Pot Pie, and I plan to complete my ‘bake a pie from scratch’ mission, before I am 30. […]