Lyssa’s 2017 bucket list:
- Completed: Participate in a polar bear plunge
- Failed: Attend a music festival
- Completed: Visit Chincoteague and see the wild ponies
- Completed: Stay at The Watergate Hotel
- Completed: Eat a McDonald’s apple pie for the first time
- Completed: Go roller skating with Kris
- Completed: Attend a Rodeo
- Completed: Become involved in local government
- Completed: Visit Susan B. Anthony’s grave
- Completed: Eat a soft shell crab for the first time
- Completed in 2018: Sleep in a notoriously-haunted place
- Failed: Find a job/gig on Craigslist
- Failed: Go to an infomercial taping
- Completed: Try chewing tobacco
- Will carry over to 2018: Attend a yoga retreat in Yogaville
- Failed: See a shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center
- Completed: Go jet skiing
- Completed: Mow a lawn
- Failed: Go to Santa’s Pub in Nashville
- Completed: Visit Woodrow Wilson’s house in DC
- Completed: Eat at Four Sisters Vietnamese Restaurant
- Completed: Visit Sleepy Hollow in October
- Completed: Go to Franciscan Monastery in DC
- Failed: Memorialize Aunt Missy’s nightgowns in some way
- Completed: Watch 2 Girls 1 Cup
- Completed: Work out in the front row of group classes instead of the back
- Completed: Eat at Tandoori Village
- Completed: Ride a mechanical bull
- Completed: Attend a sleepover at the National Archives
- Completed: Get a limo and eat a pizza in the back of it like Kevin McCallister
- Completed: Organize finances
- Completed: Create an emergency preparedness plan
- Completed: Listen to compliments instead of dismissing them
- Completed: Go to a Chiropractor
- Failed: Go visit church that Jackie Taylor aka Anne Gillespie from 90210 preaches at
- Completed: Play music in house
- Completed: Live with this in mind: “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today”(MS related)
- Completing: Will myself to not get overheated and flushed
- Completing: Stand tall
- Completing: Moisturize hands more
- Failed: Carried over from 2016: fly in a helicopter
- Completed: Carried over from 2016: walk through Embassy Row
Lyssa’s goal for Kris:
- Completed: Go to Chuck-E-Cheese
- Completed: Go to hot yoga class
- Completed: Watch a Madea movie in the theater
- Failed: Instruct a class at the gym
Kris’ 2017 bucket list:
- Failed: Go to Disney World
- Failed:Provide more blog content
- Failed: Learn to burp
- Failed: See a Medium
- Completed: Try Dom Perignon or Ace of Spades Champagne
- Completed: Learn a card trick
- Completed: Try a fish filet sandwich from McDonald’s
- Completed: Visit CIA headquarters in Langley, VA
- Completed: Visit the Big Chair Chess Club house in DC
- Failed: Learn Jaime Foxx “Don’t Need it Dance” and teach my parents
- Failed: Buy a t-shirt screen press and make my own shirts
- Completed: Meet CT Fletcher
- Completed: Attend the Arnold Classic
- Completed: Attempt to drink a full bottle of alcohol with Lyssa during the span of one day (see how far we can get)
- Completing: Incorporate Yoga and Pilates more in my workout regime
- Failed: Spin a basketball on my finger
- Completed: Become a Make-a-Wish wish granter
- Failed: Attend a storage auction
- Failed: Visit the Outer Banks
- Completed: Go to the LBJ Memorial Grove in DC
- Completed: Watch ET
- Completed: Watch a show or a game at Madison Square Garden
- Completed: Be more decisive and transparent
- Completed: Visit Georgetown University
- Completed: Visit a state I’ve never been
- Completed: Try cryotherapy treatment
- Completed: Participate in the 100 push-up challenge
- Completed: Try a different local restaurant every month
- Failed: Visit a legal weed shop
- Completed: Buy a pair of Jordans
- Failed: Make a sports bet in Las Vegas
- Completed: Drink a gallon of water a day for a week
- Failed: Perform at the Hylton Performing Arts Center
- Completed: Stay at The Watergate Hotel
- Completed: Buy a cool set of contacts
- Completed: Play in a rec league, any sport
- Failed: Make my moms greens and Mac and Cheese
- Completed: Give oatmeal a chance
- Completed: See an ear, nose, and throat specialist
- Completed: Do DDP yoga
- Completed: Transform from muscular to lean and flexible
- Completed: Go to Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken
- Failed: Hike Sharp Top Trail
- Completed: Donate to a different charity once a month
- Failed: Learn about social media jobs
- Completed: Carried Over 2016: Visit Pro Football Hall of Fame
- Completed: Carried Over 2016: Visit The Christmas Story house
Kris’ goals for Lyssa:
- Failed: Thank service staff
- Completed: Complete 20 push-ups in a row
- Failed: Smoke weed with her parents
- Failed: Get the Virginia tattoo she wants
- Failed: Thoroughly cleans her car once a month