Last Update: December 8, 2011
Total Items: 41
Items Completed: 5
Items in Progress: 5
1. Be able to accompany myself on the ukulele in performance for at least one song.
2. Visit Italy - plans are in the works for October 2012
3. Visit South America
4. Visit Easter Island
5. Bring a show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
6. Have a novel published
7. Perform on Broadway
8. Bowl candlepin again
9. See Todd in a play again
10. Beach vacation - warm
11. Go to the top of the Empire State Building - DONE, went on the coldest night of the winter in February 2011. Alita and Carmencita came with me and we had a great time. Now Alita wants to go on the hottest night of a year. Maybe next summer.
12. Be a buddy for an disabled NYC marathoner
13. Gallery show of my photos
14. Road trip across the US
15. Remove money as a concern (hat tip to Maggie and Karen)
16. Be paid for my writing
17. Develop an erotic fiction web site - I'm doing it! How do you think it's going? I'm committing to spending more time on the site next year so if there's anything you'd like to see let me know.
18. Walk a meditation maze/labyrinth - It's looking like I might have to make one in order to walk one. I might be into that.
19. Make a terrarium
20. Throw a costume party
21. Take a dog sled ride (hat tip to Maggie)
22. Take a Mondo Beyondo class
23. Work the Artist's Way from start to finish
24. Bring a show to the NY Fringe Festival
25. Own a zoom and a portrait lens and know how to use them - I own one of each now and I'm learning. I think I do OK but I can do better.
26. Create another cabaret show - This is in progress. Two of them actually. Stay tuned for the first one to happen in March.
27. Record a CD/Finish the one I started
28. Attend Sundance Film Festival*
29. Attend Tribeca Film Festival*
30. Attend Edinburgh Fringe Festival*
31. Attend NY Fringe Festival*
32. Ride The Cyclone - DONE and it was fantastic! (See photo above.)
33. Visit 100 museums (already visited are in bold - 16 to date) - The Frick, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, American Museum of Natural History, Museum of the City of NY, Guggenheim, The Whitney, The Tate, The Tate Modern, The Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), National Portrait Gallery (London), The Rodin Museum, The Louvre, The Gardiner, The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), National Gallery (DC), Ellis Island, Brooklyn Museum, Folk Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Shanghai Museum, USS Midway in San Diego, Musee Mecanique in San Francisco, LACMA
34. Visit China - DONE in February 2011 and it was divine.
35. Train a dog to do at least 3 tricks (i.e. roll over, walk on back legs, bring something to me, speak etc.) - Eddie can now beg, roll over, crawl, do a handstand against the wall, walk on his back legs and is nearly able to skateboard and jump into my arms. I think I'll be training him to do things all his life. Though, honestly, I'm the one who needs the training. He gets stuff right away.
36. Perform stand up comedy
37. Go on at least one more trip with my dad
38. Go on at least one more trip with my mom - See also: Italy in 2012
39. Be able to accompany myself on the piano well enough to perform at least one song.
40. Drive across the desert from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in a convertible, preferably with friends.
41. Visit Rowan Oak in MS, the home of my favorite author, William Faulkner.
*Attendance in regard to these is to really dive into them like I've done when I've gone to Edinburgh in the past. The first time I went as an adult I saw 19 shows in three and a half days. It was glorious!
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