Bucket List for 2013/2014

• Eat healthy (by controlling my food portion)
• Eat out a minimum of 1 time a week
• Get Invisalign done  (Got my teeth scanned in January 2013, now just waiting on the trays to come in!! super excited!!)  (March update, had trays in for just over 2 weeks now)  another update oct 2013— only have 6 more trays left and then see if i need more after that 🙂 but loving the results soo much 🙂 UPDATE: 2/14. its been a year since i had them, i finished them at the end of Jan 2014 but need to keep the trays in for 6 months (til july) and then only wear them at night)
• Work out at least 4 times a week (at least 30 minutes)
• Walk Venus at least 4 times a week
• Go on a hike at least once a week  (March 2013–have been getting in alot of hikes! the weather is perfect now!!!)  4/2013– got a lot of hiking in the past few months, now it’s starting to get really hot, so this will slow down some unless I go up north or it happens to be a cooler day. 10/2013– i have been hiking a lot, even in the summer, about 2 days a week early early in the morning. now i been going 3 to 4 times a week. i love hiking.
• Pay off my Credit Card
• Start jogging
• Go to a Strip Club   1/18/2013
• Figure out what is wrong with my leg its the muscle on the side of the leg, since everything else came back good. i just keep stretching it more. (so im guessing, but im tired of spending money on tests that i really do not need)
• Save $$ & plan a budget so that I can go on a trip in 2014 (either to China/Taiwan; Hawaii; or Costa Rica)
• Volunteer more
• Start a blog & continue blogging
• Read a book a month
• Do a weekly photoblog   (didnt really start this, but might do for month project)
• Learn a new thing a month
• Take a crochet class; knitting class; & cake decorating class –10/2013 just found a groupon for a knitting class, that i’m going to buy. not sure if i’ll have time to go this year, it might be in january that i go. but i cant wait!! UPDATE: 1/14— took a knitting class. it was OK, i dont think i really care for it.
• Stop drinking soda  (March 2013— been doing fabulous on this, i think i might have had 2 sodas all year, and now that i have my invisalign trays in nothing but water)
• Learn yoga and/or pilates — started doing a beginners yoga dvd about 5 months ago, i need to work on doing it 3 times a week
• Plan a trip to the beach (San Diego)
•  Go visit my family back home in Missouri
• Continue posting things that I am thankful for
• Learn basic spanish
• Pay if forward (at least once a month)
• Give compliments
• Have a Spa Day: massage, facial, pedi/mani  (completed on my birthday in feb)
• Learn Photoshop
• Stop eating sugar
• Get my fortune told (psychic reading)
• Learn to shoot a gun
• Get a tattoo
• Pick up trash as I walk Venus (did this for a while, but then started making my leg hurt more and more so i stopped doing it)
• Attend the Color Run — (did not attend this year, 2014 I will)
• Walk South Mountain Cancer Walk  (leg was still hurting/going numb so did not do this year 😦   )   (completed feb 2014)
• Send flowers to Nana
• Make a vision board
• Paint Pottery more
• Go to Spring Training game  (went with a friend a couple weeks ago in March 2013, dbacks vs cubs) had fun and got a tan 🙂 tooo bad the Dbacks lost
• Write my will
• Sleep under the stars
• Update personal items
• Learn how to say “Hello” in 10 different languages