Lyssa:
Travel:
- Failed: Visit a beach when it snows
- Failed: Travel to Dollywood in Tennessee
- Failed: Visit the Lucille Ball statue in Celoron, NY
- Completed: Stay in the Wizard of Oz room at the Roxbury Motel in the Catskills
- Completed: Take the QVC studio tour in Philadelphia
- Failed: Drive on the old Route 66
- Completed: Travel to the Stanley Hotel aka The Shining’s Overlook Hotel in Colorado
- Completed: Go to Disney World with Kris
- Failed: Fly on a private jet
- Failed: Travel to Dubai
- Completed: Visit Brooklyn
Eats:
- Completed: Eat at Bentley’s Falls Church Diner
- Completed: Eat at a Red Lobster by myself
- Completed as much as I’m going to complete: Try the Autoimmune Protocol diet for a period of time
- Completed: Drink too much at restaurant, then Uber home
- Completed: Eat a tbone steak
- Completed: Eat steak and eggs
- Completed: Make a gas station milk shake
- Completed: Eat at a Michelin 3 star restaurant
Entertainment:
- Completed: See a movie at E Street Cinema
- Completed: Watch The Room
- Completed: Go to a live storytelling performance
- Completed: Go to a rock climbing gym
- Completed: Watch all of the Sopranos
- Completing: Watch all of Buffy
Aspirational:
- Failed: Be an extra on an episode of SVU
- Completed: Be silent for a weekend/day
- Half completed: Consolidate retirement and continue saving
More aspirational:
- Failed: Host a food festival in Northern Virginia
- Failed: Host a costume party at a historic site
Local Must Sees:
- Completed: Go to the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
- Failed: Go to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Completed: Attend the Cinco de mayo Chihuahua race
- Completed: Visit the “Florida embassy”
- Failed: Visit the Loving marker in Virginia
- Failed: Go to Devils Bathtub in Scott County, Virginia
Personal Enrichment:
- Partially completed: Be a better manager/take management classes
- Completed: Give a speech in toastmasters
Politics:
- Completing: Focus on: gerrymandering, ERA, DC Statehood, expanding voting rights example 1, example 2
Every Day Living:
- Completing: Not give a shit about pooping at work
- Completing: Walk as much as possible
- Completing: Be discerning
- Completing: Continue to be present
- Completing: Feel more comfortable in my own skin
- Completing: Be courageous
- Completing: Don’t feel rushed
- Completing: Don’t listen to every single thought
- Completing: Keep journaling
- Completing: Find comfort in not living like everyone else
- Completing: Don’t play by anyone else’s rules
- Completing: Cut out the assholes
- Completing: Be more focused
For Kris:
- Failed: Go to a podcast conference
Mid-Year Fuck it list:
- Go through a Brew Thru
Kris
Travel:
- Completed: Visit down south
- Completed: Go back to George Mason to visit
- Completed: Visit Poughkeepsie, New York
- Failed: Travel out of the country
- Completed: Visit Mary Washington college
- Completed: Go to the beach or a Caribbean resort and hang out at the beach with the Narcos theme song playing in the background
- Failed: Make my own cheesehead at the cheesehead factory in Milwaukee
Eats:
- Completing: Have fresh water with lemons and cucumbers around the house from time to time
- Completed: Make s’mores
- Completed: Try
caviarroe - Completed: Eat pizza with pineapples on it for the first time
- Completed: Have a banana split for the first time
- Failed (not for a lack of trying): Find a local pub to hang out in
- Completed: Go to Jimmy’s Famous Seafood restaurant in Baltimore
- Completed: Try a different sushi
- Completed?: In NYC, go to Little Cupcake Bake Shop, Magnolia Bakery, Sherry B Dessert Studio, Duchess Cookie
Entertainment
- Completed: Watch the first season of The Office (American)
- Completed: Watch The Dark Knight again
- Completed: See the Lion King for the first time
- Completed: Give Spongebob Square Pants a try
- Completed: Bet on sports, either in DC or at Charleston Races and Slots
Aspirational:
- Learn how to moonwalk
- Completed: Buy a nice scotch holder for the bar
- Completed: Play the Michigan fight song on some instrument
- Failed: Get headshots and pursue being an extra/actor
- Failed: Move out of our house
- Completed: Get an Apple Watch
Personal Enrichment:
- Completed: Subscribe to a newspaper
- Completed: Volunteer at another organization
- Completed: Listen to church on Sunday (podcast or on TV) at least once
- Completed: Be assertive about new opportunities
Health Fitness:
- Completed: Dedicate 12-20 weeks to be in the best shape of my life — to eventually have a Billy Brown stomach
- Completed: Run/walk 1000 miles this year
- Completed: Join a dedicated gym
- Completed: Use a netty pot
- Completed: Try SolidCore
Pro Black Shit:
- Completing: Support more black-owned businesses
- Completed: Eat skittles on Trayvon Martin’s birthday and the anniversary of his death
- Completed: Take a picture next to a Biggie mural
- Completed: Drink a 40 oz with orange juice
- Completed: Don’t hold tongue back for the sake of other people’s comfort
Philanthropic:
- Pay for someone’s layaway item
Lyssa:
- Failed: Complete a Rubik’s cube
- Failed: Eat zero carbs for a week
- Uncover your parents’ secrets
- Failed: Do a one-hand head stand
Mid-Year Fuck It List:
- Name all of the US states
- Name all of the US presidents in order
- Become a spin instructor