Live. Love. Be.

To Define an Inhalation

New Beginnings

This is by no means finished.  It’s a reminder of things I’ve done and things I hope to do before I haven’t the time left to do them.
  • Find my way back to Europe.
  • Take more pictures.
  • Create a portfolio of more than 50 published pieces (3 thus far).
  • Go on vacation.
  • Be able to do a left sided split.
  • Have a bonfire on the beach.
  • Drive on the Autobahn.
  • Go camping.
  • Adopt a new hobby and work at it.
  • Save more money.
  • Learn graffiti art.
  • Get back into a yoga class.
  • Win something.
  • Become a master of something.
  • Finish an entire novel… Even if it’s just the first draft.
  • Learn and make my own bread.
  • Grow a tomato.  (It’s harder than it looks for me, apparently.)
  • Return to a place I’ve been and make new memories.
  • Cook 52 new, homemade recipes in 2012. Document them.
  • Read a novel every two weeks: 26.
  • Road trip to someplace I’ve never been.
  • Become more of a listener; become more attuned to the environment.
  • Take long walks after dinner.
  • Apply to UvA, Harvard, and Columbia for graduate school.  Just because I can and I’ve never been rejected by a school before.
  • Own a collection of vintage typewriters.
  • Get into better shape: run three times a week for at least 30 minutes; practice yoga four times a week for thirty minutes.
  • Limit fast food intake to once a month.
  • Learn how to change a tire.
  • Go thrifting and antique-shopping over the summer.
  • Conquer one of my irrational fears.
  • Ride on a train again.
  • Buy a large bookcase for my living room.
  • Become more forgiving.
  • Swim in a lake.
  • Shop locally.
  • Volunteer somewhere weekly.
  • Invest more.
  • Make a decent score on the GRE.
  • Send out Christmas cards.
  • Become more spontaneous.
  • Own an El Camino or Ranchero: hot pink with white leather interior.
  • Learn how to knit.
  • Be more honest about what I want.
  • Get a massage.
  • Take a plane somewhere.
  • Sleep on the beach.
  • Do something with the spare bedroom to make it more usable.
  • Buy a large iMac.
  • House-swap with someone.
  • Find a pen pal and write them handwritten letters.
  • Accept more invitations.
  • Spend more time with the people I love.
  • Give more hugs.
  • Rent a very fast car and push it to the limit.
  • Plant a flower garden.
  • Speak more Spanish as to not forget it.
  • Forgive quicker.
  • Feel more [openly].
  • Stop biting my nails.
  • Go sailing.
  • Have a collection of prescription glasses.
  • Work at a place that I love.
  • Learn how to blow glass.
  • Eat something prepared by Jamie Oliver.
  • Get out of credit card debt by the end of 2012.
  • Learn how to fly a plane.
  • Take a train the entire length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad.