Lyssa
Travel:
- COVID Nope: Sleep on an overnight train in a private room
- COVID Nope: Visit Irish Hunger Memorial in NYC
- COVID Nope: Go to Ugliest Dog Contest in Sonoma
- COVID Nope: Go to RuPaul’s Drag Con in NYC
- COVID Nope, Completed in 2022: Go to the Stonewall Inn in NYC
- COVID Nope: Visit the Sand Sculpting Challenge in San Diego
- COVID Nope: Fly in a plane on the Fourth of July to see fireworks below me
- FAILED: Go to a Dark Sky Sanctuary
- FAILED, Completed in 2022: Visit Billie Holiday statue in Baltimore
- Completed: Go to Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland
- COVID Nope (completed in 2021, virtually), Completed in 2022: Go to Washington DC’s Mormon temple when it’s briefly open to the public
- FAILED, Completed in 2022: Visit the Black Wax Museum in Baltimore
- Completed in 2022: Visit the Peabody library in Baltimore
- FAILED: Go to the Harriet Tubman mural in Cambridge, Maryland
- FAILED: Get passport renewed
Eats:
- Completed: Try traditional Virginia food of peanuts soaked in Coca Cola
- Completed: Try a Monster Energy drink
- COVID Nope: Eat a Crab Cake from the Kennedy Center
- Completed: Eat a warm Krispy Kreme donut
- COVID Nope: Take Kris to Bergdorf Goodman’s for their delicious crab cake
Personal Enrichment:
- Completing: Listen to a Ted Talks or Super Soul podcasts while getting ready in the morning
- Completing: Look into voiceover work
- FAILED: Take a writing class
- FAILED: Become a sommelier
- FAILED: Write a Christmas story script for the Hallmark channel
- Completed: Write stream of consciousness, not formatted
Aspirational:
- FAILED: Profit off of podcasting
- FAILED: Apply to be on Nailed It
Make a Difference:
- Completed: No more single use plastic
- COVID Nope: Attend a women Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Every day living reminders:
- Live big (SMD)
- Take things as they come and try not to get overwhelmed
- Embrace, surrender, and meet huge lifestyle changes with patience
- Live in honor of our ancestors and in service of our descendants
- Think about all the time you’ve wasted on social media when you could be changing the world
- Empower and support friends/women better throughout the year
- Trust body knows what it’s doing
- COVID NOPE: Say yes to new adventures, particularly with Kris, before April
- Integrate baby into travel. No excuse to not travel.
- Continue to practice presence
- Choose love not fear
Goals for Kris
- COVID Nope: Attend Cirque du Soleil
- COVID Nope: See a physical therapist regularly
- FAILED: Submit poems as lyrics for songs
- FAILED: Disconnect from phone while home, designate phone time
- MEH: Stop resisting me taking photos of you
Kris
Travel:
- Completed: Go to Len Bias’ grave
- COVID Nope: Visit Kettle of Fish in NYC
- COVID Nope (completed in 2021): Go to the York Barbell Retail Outlet Store in York, Pennsylvania
- COVID Nope: Go to International Wings Factory in NYC
- COVID Nope: Visit Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia
- Completed: Become a member of an airline company
- COVID Nope: Go to DokoDemo Japanese Grill in NYC
- COVID Nope: Go back to San Fran and Muir Woods
- COVID Nope: Take a solo trip with baby
Experience:
- COVID Nope: Go to a flea market
- Completed: Go to a big screen store
- COVID Nope: Go inside the Pentagon
- Completed: Play Fortnight
- Completed: Do “9 Round” three times in a row
- FAILED: Get Oculus VR
- Completed: Create a bitcoin account
- COVID Nope: Step inside a wrestling ring
- COVID Nope: Become a season ticket holder somewhere
- Completed: Watch Frozen
- COVID Nope: See a mass choir perform
Eats:
- Completed: Try capocollo meat aka gabagool
- FAILED: Have Susucaru wine
- Completed: Try lamb ragu
- Completed: Crack two beers open on 3/16 like Stone Cold Steve Austin does and drink them
- Completed: Have two Krispy Kreme donuts and chocolate milk
- Completed: Try beyond meat
- Completed: Try Burger King’s Impossible Whopper
- Completed: Try Nando’s PERi-PERi Chicken
- Completed: Try Olive Garden again
- Completed: Try Zaxby’s
- Completed: Try wings at Penn Quarter Sports Tavern
- FAILED: Make Corey Behnke’s “Old fashioned”
Personal Enrichment:
- FAILED: Take a 23 and Me test
- FAILED: Learn everything about retirement and Medicare and Medicaid
- FAILED: Publish my poems (old goal)
- FAILED: Read 12 CliffsNotes books
- FAILED: Take a class in wine
- FAILED: Learn to make vector files
- FAILED: Learn photoshop like Lyssa
- FAILED: Attempt to learn spanish again
- COVID NOPE: Baking class with local baker
Make a Difference:
- FAILED: Start a scholarship foundation
- Completed: Be on a city Board
Health/Fitness:
- FAILED: Hike at least one time
- COVID NOPE: Exercise in DC one morning or afternoon
- FAILED: Take a class on nutrition
- Failed (can’t): Get a colonoscopy
- COVID Nope: Get a Facial/manicure/pedicure/massage/chiropractor monthly
Every Day Living Reminders:
- Treat others like they treat me
Misc. To-do:
- FAILED: Create a black and white photo of myself with white eyes and hang in our house
- Completed: Get shoes with red soles
- COVID Nope: Finish my tattoo sleeve
Goals for Lyssa
- COVID Nope: Try SolidCore
- COVID Nope: Cook at least once a month for the family
- Embrace the spotlight
- Completed: Take a solo trip with baby
Update: June 2020
Mid-Year Fuck It List:
- Take African ancestry
- Become board certified in something
- Become a notary