2024 Bucket List

Lyssa’s Goals

  • Completed: Read about the history of Occoquan book
  • Failed: Go to Governors Cup
  • Completed: Try rowing
  • Completed: Eat an éclair
  • Completed: Watch True Romance
  • Completed: Visit Theodore Roosevelt’s birthplace in Manhattan
  • Completed: Visit the Lotus & Water Lily Festival at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
  • Completed: Eat ragu at Red Hen in DC
  • Completed: Try a Duck Donut breakfast sandwich 
  • Completed: Visit Dumbarton Oaks when the wisteria’s blooming in April
  • Completed: Visit Frying Pan Park
  • Completed: Try Boba tea 
  • Completed: Make injera
  • FAILED: Eat a salad every day
  • Completed: Sun perineum
  • FAILED: Stop putting my hands on my face during work calls
  • Completed: Don’t drink alcohol for a month
  • Completed: Make Ratatouille
  • Completed: Attend ​Queen City Mischief & Magic Festival
  • FAILED: Attend Manhattan Vintage Show
  • Completed: Create a travel bag
  • Completing: Do a downward dog a day
  • Completed: Ride on a motorcycle 
  • FAILED: Go to Amnityville, New York
  • Completed: Visit Maymont, Garden Glow in Richmond
  • Completing: Mornings are rituals
  • Kind of completed: See Gabi Bernstein live
  • Completed: Try a bean pie
  • FAILED: Flight simulators 
  • Completed: Check out Springfield offerings more
  • Completed: Visit the Morgan library in Manhattan 
  • Completed: Visit Katherine Hepburn Garden in Manhattan
  • Completed: Play bingo at Moose Lodge
  • Completing: Replace coffee with green tea in afternoon 
  • Completing: Phone stays in other room after work
  • Completed: Visit Maureen O’Hara’s grave at Arlington National Cemetery 
  • FAILED: Get a Chromebook for writing book
  • FAILED: Travel to London and Berlin
  • FAILED: Stay up past midnight four times this year
  • Completed: Watch Homeland for the first time
  • Completed: Enroll Lillie in dance class
  • Completed: Try mushroom coffee 
  • Completed: Recommit to things I used to do more regularly:
    • Actively working on: Volunteer
    • Actively working on: Step up nonprofit girls
    • Do more goals with kris
    • Autonomy
    • Actively working on: Sharing voice
    • Work details

Kris’ Goals

  • Completed: Reconnect with at least one old friend
  • Completed: Get a Sam’s Club membership
  • FAILED: Touch my toes 
  • FAILED: Go to Ghostburger in DC
  • Completed: Go in our attic for the first time
  • Completed: Watch Back to the Future 1 and 2
  • FAILED: Go to Katz’ Deli
  • Completed: Get suction therapy (cupping)
  • FAILED: Watch the 35 best episodes of TV from BuzzFeed article
  • Completed: Try a coffee liqueur 
  • FAILED: Play at the golf course in my neighborhood 
  • Failed: Take an ice bath once a month
  • FAILED: Go to at least two concerts
  • FAILED: See Christ the redeemer 
  • Completed: Celebrate Christmas in July
  • Completed: See at least two movies in the theater
  • FAILED: Fish, clean fish, and eat it
  • FAILED: Go to Honey Bun Cake Factory in Maryland
  • Completed: Buy a fly swatter 
  • FAILED: Go to Hamilton’s bar, a Green Bay Packers bar in DC
  • FAILED: Go in the Vegas sphere
  • Completed: Play bingo somewhere 
  • Completed: Eat thick cut fries with a Guinness 
  • Completed: Learn more about B.C. times
  • Completed: Implement “themed days” 
  • Completing: Do not eat skittles for a year
  • Completed: Watch All in the Family
  • Completed: Find a primary care doctor 
  • Completed: Visit Lincoln’s grave 
  • FAILED: Copyright something 
  • Completed: Get the NFL ticket
  • Completed: Get rid of old inhibitions… be more open minded. 
  • Completing: Eat a Bagel a month
  • FAILED: Visit Sweden 
  • Completed: Get busy living or get busy dying
  • FAILED: Finish my tattoo
  • FAILED: Join a sports league
  • Completed: Try stretch zone
  • FAILED: Get a TV for the kitchen
  • FAILED: Go back to England 
  • Completed: Attempt to watch The Crown
  • FAILED: Make fish and chips (British style)
  • FAILED: Visit Suplex Vintage Wrestling 
  • Completed: Go for everything even I said I couldn’t have 
  • FAILED: Have a Carry The G Beer
  • FAILED: Go back to Green Bay 
  • FAILED: Not to give my opinion all the time and to be quiet
  • Completed: Stop restrictive eating 
  • Completed: Reimagine my fitness journey 
  • FAILED: Go to the Alamo drafthouse at least four times 
  • FAILED: Trade in the Tesla