Lyssa’s Goals:
- Completed: If Americans can get knighted, look into getting knighted
- Completed: Take either BMX lessons (carried over from 2013) or unicycling lessons
- Completed: Research possibility of acquiring British citizenship given that my Grandfather was born in England
- Completed: Go sailing
- Completed: Travel to Salem, Massachusetts in October
- Completed: Be in a NOH8 photo shoot
- Failed: Drive father-in-law’s vintage bug in local Christmas Parade
- Completed: Go to a female strip club
- Completed: Donate blood
- Completed: Work with a personal trainer
- Completed: Kayak in the Potomac
- Completed: Eat Korean BBQ
- Completed: Eat at a diner in the middle of night
- Completed: Save a certain amount of money by EOY
- Meh, not sure: Be more conscientious when buying stuff. Where is it coming from? Stay local.
- Completed: Make a will
- Completed: Use our Nikon camera more to document completed goals, instead of phone camera
- Completed: Eat caviar
- Completed: Get makeup professionally done – specifically apply contouring makeup
- Completed: Go to the top of the Washington monument (carried over from 2011-2013)
- Failed: West Wing tour (carried over from 2011-2013)
- Completed: Swim with dolphins (carried over from 2009-2013)
- Failed: Go to the Judy Garland museum (carried over from 2013)
- Failed: Paintball with Kris (carried over from 2013)
Lyssa’s goals for Kris:
- Completed: No meat for a week (only eggs allowed)
- Completed: Take a craft class of Lyssa’s choosing
- Failed: Go to a networking event once a quarter
Kris’ Goals:
- Completed: Watch “Bullitt”
- Completed: Watch “Brian’s song”
- Speak in a British accent so I sound authentically British
- Learn all areas of D.C. and Northern Virginia — remembering road names
- Completed: Visit the outside of the Mormon church off of I95
- Completed: Visit the United States Air Force Memorial
- Completed: Learn about nutrition of foods and herbal remedies
- Completed: Take a paddle boat to Thomas Jefferson memorial
- Failed: Listen to 20 mins of church every Sunday
- Completed: Understand Buddhism
- Completed: Find out our family secrets
- Completed: Eat Chinese food out of a box
- Completed: Read in a cemetery
- Completed: Go to Hamlet, North Carolina
- Failed: Write a book about my life
- Completed: Make my own mixes and music (carried over from 2012 DJ-ing goal)
- Failed: Go to Wrestlemania
- Completed: Go to the Statue of Liberty
- Completed: Go to Ellis island
- Completed: Ride in bumper cars
- Completed: Do one puzzle
- Completed: Try fish tacos
- Completed: Go to a Sonic and eat
- Learn how to play “Anytime” on the piano
- Completed: Learn to read music again
- Completed: Go to Gerry Bertier’s gravesite in Alexandria
- Completed: Make great cookies
- Completed: Have a signature dish
- Completed: Go to Vince Lombardi’s grave
- Failed: Learn to swim
- Learn to knit
- Completed: Participate in a sleep study
- Completed: Get a physical
- Completed: Ride on a roller coaster
- Completed: See a game at Duke’s Cameron Indoor
- Failed: Go to pro football hall of fame in Canton
- Failed: Do 50 push ups or sit ups every day.
- Failed: Visit Trudy Spurlock’s grave
- Kind of: Be able to photoshop like Lyssa
Kris’ Goals for Lyssa
- Completed: Learn to twerk
- Completed: Watch Redzone with Kris for full seven hours
- Completed: Start a feminist blog/organization
- Failed: Watch Sleeper Cell
- 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.
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