2016 Bucket List

Lyssa’s 2016 Bucket List:

1. Completed: Learn yoyo tricks
2. Completed: Try on wedding dresses
3. Completed: Try botox to see how it feels
4. FAILED: Fly in a helicopter
5. Completed: Fly first class
6. Completed: Go to the Land of Oz
7. FAILED: Walk through Embassy row in DC
8. Completed: Greet people more instead of looking down or away
9. Completed: Go to Iowa/Minnesota/mid-West state fair
10. FAILED: Learn how to become a metro driver
11. Completed: Go to Baltimore kinetic sculpture race
12. Completed: Attend DC Pride
13. Completed: Eat a meatball sub
14. Completed: Eat at Ollie’s Trolley
15. Completed: Eat cheese fondue
16. Completed: Learn how to skateboard
17. Completed: Eat at a Hooters restaurant
18. Completed: Go to a drive-in movie theater
19. Completed: Volunteer for Make-a-Wish Foundation
20. Completing: Incorporate meditation into my life
21. Completing: Find an activity to do during my commute (or get paid while driving)
22. Completed: Go to a palm reader
23. Completed: Go to the Manassas rest station
24. Completed: Get fake nails for the first time
25. Completed: Reduce waste, continue to clean our street, basically help the environment
26. Completed: Buy all things online (do not go into stores, except grocery and drug stores)
27. FAILED: Skydive with my dad if he adds it to his bucket list
28. Completed: Go to Nellie’s in DC
29. Completed: Read and execute every position in the Kama Sutra book
30. Completed: Go to a networking event and force myself to mingle and engage in wretched small talk
31. Completed: Go to RFK’s old house in Mclean
32. Completed: Crush grapes with my feet
33. Completed: Learn how to start a fire and/or basic survival skills
34. Completed: Do meal prep for the week on Sundays
35. FAILED: Attend an Indian wedding
36. Completed: Paint our hallway
37. Completed: Take a segway tour in DC
38. Completed: Spend more time with my sister – do lunches or coffee by ourselves
39. Completed: Go to the Judy Garland museum (carried over since 2013)

Goals for Kris:

1. Do not watch football one Sunday
2. Completed: Be more flexible with plans

Kris’ 2016 Bucket List:

1. Completed: Learn How to Fence
2. Completed: Get in an ice/cold tub
3. Completed: Take tap dancing lessons
4. Completed: Use DC’s bike share
5. Completed: Take a test to see what my ancestry is
6. Completed: Go to a drive-in movie theater
7. Completed: Go to a wrestling super signing
8. Completed: Travel first class on a plane
9. Eat a different type of chip every month
10. Completed: Wear an Ascot tie with an outfit
11. Completed: Watch the first season of Queer as Folk
12. Take a Duck Tour of DC
13. Completed: Make my own rap song
14. Completed: Have a song on iTunes
15. Completed: Make music
16. Completed: Dye my facial hair
17. Failed: Become a Civil War reenactor
18. Completed: See a show at The Birchmere
19. Stay a couple of days in a house in Green Bay
20. Failed: Undergo a surgery I’ve wanted to get for a while (more info to come)
21. Completed: Complete a juice cleanse for a day
22. Completed: Attend a Mini Cooper gathering
23. Completed: Take a sample Wonderlic test
24. Failed: “race” every month
25. Completed: Kayfabe only for a week
26. Completed: Attend Wrestlemania
27. Completed: Meet The Rock
28. Completed: Give Seinfeld a Shot
29. Be an even more supportive husband
30. Visit The Christmas Story house
31. Go to the Pro football HOF
32. Completed: Visit the D-Day memorial in Virginia
33. Completed: See an endocrinologist
34. Completed: Find a hobby
35. Go one month with buying groceries. Only can buy fresh fruits and veggies.
36. Completed: Try Courvoisier and Hennessy
37. Move out of our house
38. Completed: Open my own checking account
39. Failed: Get hair on my head laser removed
40. Completing: Take cooking classes
41. Failed: Go out to lunch with just my sister and brother four times a year. No spouses, no kids.
42. Go out to eat twice a year with both sets of parents and not pay because that shit is always expensive
43. Get MINI repainted

Goals for Lyssa:

1. Failed: Skydive
2. Half completed: Let me pick her hair color and hair cut twice this year