
After reflecting over our 2012 memorable moments, we shared our goals with each other for the first time last night. Here they are!
Lyssa’s Goals:
- Finish writing the book I’ve had in mind
- Go to a storage auction
- Go to work one day without makeup
- Take one picture a day
- Go to one of the museums that feature All-American Girls Professional Baseball League artifacts
- Enter a food eating contest
- Volunteer for Hands-On DC, but with Kris
- Take a pottery class
- Serve as an escort for nearby women’s clinic
- Visit the following nearby locations:
- Lincoln’s cottage
- Capital pillars
- Top of monument (carried over from 2011 and 2012)
- Visit Marvin Gaye’s DC house (if this exists)
- West Wing tour (carried over from 2011 and 2012)
- Go to the National Museum of Dentistry
- Hike Bull Run mountain
- Go to New York City during Easter (and participate in the Easter parade)
- Take a CSS class
- Travel somewhere that requires me to use my passport
- Go to the Judy Garland museum
- Travel on the entire DC metro rail system in one day
- Re-finish the other bathroom floor
- Take BMX lessons
- Paintball with Kris
- Take a wine tasting course (carried over from 2012)
- Try a house cleaning service (carried over from 2012)
- Travel to volunteer (carried over from 2011, 2012)
- Volunteer at hospital [military or otherwise] (carried over from 2012)
- Swim with dolphins (carried over from 2009, 2010, and 2011)
Lyssa’s Goals for Kris:
- Take a painting class
- Read the first Harry potter book
- Take harmonica classes
Kris’ Goals:
- Work on getting Stonewall Jackson High School renamed
- Teach myself how to play the piano
- Purchase smelling salts
- Read one book a month
- Be in a wrestling ring
- Go to WWE headquarters
- Get a pedicure or manicure once a month
- Volunteer for a gay rights organization
- Never eat after 11 p.m.
- Go to Maury or Jerry Springer show taping
- Take a DJ training/class/course or teach myself
- Drink alone in a bar one night
- Learn how to tie a bowtie
- Try Pho
- Master photography
- Successfully fly a kite with the Washington Monument in the background
- Visit Atlanta (carried over from 2012)
- Be a subject for an artists – sculpture, painting, etc.
- Run 200 miles in total for the year
- Get black or white color contacts
- Meet President Obama
- Move (carried over from 2012)
- Get a job working for the NFL or NFLPA job
- Tryout for a play
- Find out the name of the random black guy who sings a line in “Down on Skid Row” from Little Shop of Horrors and see if he has other music
- Write a poem once a month
- Keep up-to-date with tracking my memorable moments
- Sing in a choir
- Go to Wrestlemania
- Visit the grave of every president featured on Mount Rushmore
- March or protest something in DC
- Go to Las Vegas
- Go to Big John Studd’s burial ground
- Go to Teddy Pendergrass’ burial ground
Kris’ Goals For Lyssa
- Run a 5K
- Don’t wear any makeup for a whole work week