2014 Goals

Lyssa’s Goals:

1. Completed: If Americans can get knighted, look into getting knighted
2. Completed: Take either BMX lessons (carried over from 2013) or unicycling lessons
3. Completed: Research possibility of acquiring British citizenship given that my Grandfather was born in England
4. Completed: Go sailing
5. Completed: Travel to Salem, Massachusetts in October
6. Completed: Be in a NOH8 photo shoot
7. Failed: Drive father-in-law’s vintage bug in local Christmas Parade
8. Completed: Go to a female strip club
9. Completed: Donate blood
10. Completed: Work with a personal trainer
11. Completed: Kayak in the Potomac
12. Completed: Eat Korean BBQ
13. Completed: Eat at a diner in the middle of night
14. Completed: Save a certain amount of money by EOY
15. Meh, not sure: Be more conscientious when buying stuff. Where is it coming from? Stay local.
16. Completed: Make a will
17. Completed: Use our Nikon camera more to document completed goals, instead of phone camera
18. Completed: Eat caviar
19. Completed: Get makeup professionally done – specifically apply contouring makeup
20. Completed: Go to the top of the Washington monument (carried over from 2011-2013)
21. Failed: West Wing tour (carried over from 2011-2013)
22. Completed: Swim with dolphins (carried over from 2009-2013)
23. Failed: Go to the Judy Garland museum (carried over from 2013)
24. Failed: Paintball with Kris (carried over from 2013)

Lyssa’s goals for Kris:

1. Completed: No meat for a week (only eggs allowed)
2. Completed: Take a craft class of Lyssa’s choosing
3. Failed: Go to a networking event once a quarter

Kris’ Goals:

1. Completed: Watch “Bullitt”
2. Completed:  Watch “Brian’s song”
3. Speak in a British accent so I sound authentically British
4. Learn all areas of D.C. and Northern Virginia — remembering road names
5. Completed: Visit the outside of the Mormon church off of I95
6. Completed: Visit the United States Air Force Memorial
7. Completed: Learn about nutrition of foods and herbal remedies
8. Completed: Take a paddle boat to Thomas Jefferson memorial
9. Failed: Listen to 20 mins of church every Sunday
10. Completed: Understand Buddhism
11. Completed: Find out our family secrets
12. Completed: Eat Chinese food out of a box
13. Completed: Read in a cemetery
14. Completed: Go to Hamlet, North Carolina
15. Failed: Write a book about my life
16. Completed: Make my own mixes and music (carried over from 2012 DJ-ing goal)
17. Failed: Go to Wrestlemania
18. Completed: Go to the Statue of Liberty
19. Completed: Go to Ellis island
20. Completed: Ride in bumper cars
21. Completed: Do one puzzle
22. Completed: Try fish tacos
23. Completed: Go to a Sonic and eat
24. Learn how to play “Anytime” on the piano
25. Completed: Learn to read music again
26. Completed: Go to Gerry Bertier’s gravesite in Alexandria
27. Completed: Make great cookies
28. Completed: Have a signature dish
29. Completed: Go to Vince Lombardi’s grave
30. Failed: Learn to swim
31. Learn to knit
32. Completed: Participate in a sleep study
33. Completed: Get a physical
34. Completed: Ride on a roller coaster
35. Completed: See a game at Duke’s Cameron Indoor
36. Failed: Go to pro football hall of fame in Canton
37. Failed: Do 50 push ups or sit ups every day.
38. Failed: Visit Trudy Spurlock’s grave
39. Kind of: Be able to photoshop like Lyssa

Kris’ Goals for Lyssa

1. Completed: Learn to twerk
2. Completed: Watch Redzone with Kris for full seven hours
3. Completed: Start a feminist blog/organization
4. Failed: Watch Sleeper Cell
5. Failed: Work out 5 in morning 36 times

*This year, we’ve given ourselves a week to edit our bucket list. We can add to or delete any goals we’re second-guessing before midnight on 1/7/14.