Lyssa’s Goals
- Take an IQ test
- Visit Mars Candy HQ in Virginia
- Take a RV trip
- Learn how to hotwire a car
- Completed: Eat a Dairy Queen Blizzard
- Visit Maryland’s Women Heritage Center
- Wash dishes in exchange for dinner at a restaurant
- Completing: Pay no mind to people who get in the way of progress
- Play 9-18 rounds of golf
- Completed: Visit Lucy Burns museum
- Completed: Eat a chimichanga
- Completed: Scratch a match on my boot and light said match
- Axe throwing
- Completing: Explore amenities of new location
- Use a wood chipper
- Failed: Get on redistricting commission
- Completed: Finally hug family members
- Get aunt’s kayak and use it
- Completing: Take baby over parents’ house once week overnight
- Completing: Look up at the stars
- Focus advocacy efforts on: fair redistricting, abolishment of electoral college, and DC statehood
- Get finances in order for daycare
- Completed: Invest in something important in 2021
- FIgure out career next steps
- Kiss Kris under mistletoe
- Completing: Get back into pre-COVID hygiene habits
- Read all of Maya Angelou’s books in order
- Completing: Keep a puzzle in house and do it when passing
- Completing: Roller skate in garage
- Completed: Tend to and expand native garden
- Completing: Stop anxiety-picking skin around nails
- Completing: Get involved in the health of the Occoquan Reservoir
- Completed: Plant herbs
Every Day Living (things I don’t want to change post-COVID):
- Live joy and purpose
- Content just being
- Continue making baby food
- Be present
- Family first
- Never forget essential workers
- Firmly establish boundaries
- Balance
- Walks
Kris’ Goals
- Completing: Give soup a chance – try five different types
- Completed: Eat French Toast Cinnamon Crunch for the first time
- Completed: Try a churro for the first time
- Eat at a Benihana for the first time
- Go to Rutt Hut in NJ and get a “Ripper”
- See an immunologist
- Start deadlifting
- Learn Spanish
- Completing: Find a record store, play records in house
- Buy a winged tip eagle WWF belt
- Completed: Buy NWO type shirt with my initials
- Completed: Buy 80’s wrestling/weightlifting pants
- Completing: Listen to all of Metallica’s essentials
- Step inside a wrestling ring
- Completing: Watch the entire Good Times series
- Walk the Dirty Dancing steps
- Completed: Try Andre the Giant’s favorite wine, Beaujolais
- Completed: Make homemade ice cream
- Completed:Try pie again
- Completing: Watch all the “Bourne” movies
- Completed: Eat popcorn and M&M’s together
- Completed: Attempt to watch The Bachelorette/Bachelor
- Make a God damn difference
- Buy a game console
- Give golf another shot
- Completing: Give Star Wars franchise a chance
- Go to someone who specializes in non-allergic rhinitis
- Completed: Make latkes
- Take Lyssa to the dollar store and splurge
- Go visit Uncle Chuck’s gravesite
- Completed: Eat a Cinnabon for the first time
- Do something to celebrate Kwanzaa
- Completed: Try Hello Fresh for a month-minimal grocery store trips
- Completing: Turn my garage into a gym
- Completed: Make a tie-dye shirt
- Completed: Make sushi
- Finish my tattoo
- Completed: Visit a sleep specialist
- Completing: Advocate for the dismantling of police unions
- Completing: Show more gratitude
- Completing: Make more time for self care: baths, massages, pedicure, meditate
- Completed: Learn a new skill