Lyssa’s Goals
- FAILED: Attend the Small Foods Party in Baltimore
- Completed: Go to a pool hall
- FAILED: Go to Spangler Candy Cane HQ in Ohio
- Completed: Go to a batting cage
- Visit New River Gorge, West Virginia
- Completed: Learn how to embroider
- Completed: Visit Gunston Hall
- Completed: Read The Wizard of Oz
- Look into geting solar panels on house
- Learn how to surf
- Secret goal: Become an honorary member of a group
- Completed: Paddleboat on Tidal Basin
- Completed: Attend twilight polo in Middleburg, VA
- Carve initials into a tree
- FAILED: Attend the Pizza expo in Las Vegas
- Completed: Go see music at Epiq food hall
- Tour FBI’s HQ
- Completed: Go to a Dave and Busters
- Send a telegram
- FAILED: House/pet sit while I work from home
- Completed: Apply to be on a county board/committee in new county
- Completing: Regularly volunteer at a homeless shelter in new county
- Build a piece of furniture with my dad
- Completed: Visit local dump
- See a car get demolished
- Completed: Visit a Bass Pro Shop
- Attend a bonfire on a beach
- Completing: Give gifts to strangers
- Completed: Get Lillie in an active class/channel her energy
- Completing: Taste a new wine grape varietal every month
- Completed: Plan a vacation in early August when daycare is closed
- Completed: Regular manicures/pedicures
- Completed: Meet with friends at outside restaurants regularly
- Completing: Create comfy outdoor space at home for all seasons of entertaining
- Completed: Play dates for Lillie with daycare kids
- Completed: Map out days off throughout the year
- Completed: Find a signature perfume
- Use a metal detector at the beach
- Completed: Order pitcher of beer
- Use phone less. Always.
- Completed: Watch The Wire
- Completed: Stop wearing maternity/nursing bras and buy new bras
- Completed: Put car loan under my name
- Do not look at work phone after I put it down for evening
- Completed: Get passport renewed
Goals for Kris:
- Consider job opportunities closer to home
- Clean bathroom more
Kris’ Goals
- Make glass
- Buy an arcade game
- Completed: Get the Scott Steiner head gear
- Completed: Start burning sage
- Completed: Try Pralines and Cream ice cream
- Completed: Watch Deliverance
- Ride the parkway on a bike
- Partner with ACS on something
- Take a picture in a tux with the bow tie untied
- Completed: Watch Playmakers
- Completed: Learn how to pick a lock
- Completed: Have food from a place that’s known for the “best you’ll ever try”
- Completed: Relearn and play spades again
- Make a TikTok-style video I’m impressed with
- Completed: Try Oxtail
- Figure out how to tie sneakers in a specific way
- Completed: Visit Nashville
- Get and wear a fresh lei
- Visit DMX’s grave site in New York
- Completed: Go to a batting cage
- Do the people’s eyebrow
- Completed: Go to TopGolf
- Completed: Buy a new laptop and dedicate it to remixing songs and learning more about layering
- Completed: Watch A Few Good Men
- Try to become a calf model
- Visit Montana
- Completed: Go back to Green Bay
- Completed: Go to Third Zion Baptist Church in Front Royal, VA
- Completed: Drink a Spotted Cow beer
- Go clay shooting
- Get both cars detailed
- Go back to Finger Lakes, NY
- Completed: Watch Moana with Lillie
- Completed: Give grits another chance
- Completing: Try 12 of the most popular/stereotypical Starbucks drinks
- Completed: Buy Doc Martens
- Get in a wrestling ring
- Completed: Do more things I suck at
- Try Ambrosia salad
- Completing: Start a Chinese food ranking blog/try 12 new Chinese food places
- Finish decorating the basement
- Completed: Buy a head shaving kit
- Completed: Present at a conference or be a part of a panel
- Solve a Rubik’s cube (Yuxin)
- Completing: Look into equity and redoing our kitchen
- Be more flexible
- Completed: Make my dad chitterlings and my mom liver
- Buy a panini press and make paninis, including a French dip
- Get a new mattress/ChiliSleep
- Completed: Try on a pair of Crocks
- Completed: Watch Caddyshack
- Completed: Contact my old college professors about becoming a teacher in college
- Finish forearm tattoo
Goals for Lyssa
- Completed: Watch The Wire
- Lyssa design my forearm tattoo