Update on my goals

 The Year is almost half over and this is how far I have gotten with my goals.  I still have few more to go. 
This year has been fantastic so far and full of so many great changes. 

1) Go Hiking with my nephew
2) Try out for a play
3) Make my own yarn
4) Ride on a train
5) Donate to a Charity
6)  Reunite with an old friend
7)  Dress up Fancy and go out with friends. (not in a mustard costume)
8)  Do something  (good) that no one would expect me to do. 
9)  Learn a new hobby
10) Make a candle
11)  Eat cheese in Wisconsin
12) Make a workout video with Emily
13)  Throw a party
14)  Watch the sunrise and set in the same day
15)  See a play
16)  Go on a roadtrip
17)  Grow a plant
18)  Make my own cheese
19) Learn how to play guitar
20) memorize 10 pieces of scripture
21) Find a church to get plugged in to
22) Learn how to get maple syrup
23) Send a fan letter
24) Take a risk
25) Learn what it means to be poor
26) Learn how to darn socks
27) Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit
28) Host a Scrabble tournament
29)Make a quilt
30) super secret

22) Learn how to make Maple syrup

Yes friend part of my job is to give Maple syrup tours and I also got to be involved in setting up the maple line. Though I have not actually seen how maple syrup is made, I feel like I can cross this one off the list because I am learning about it and will get to help make it soon.

I also got to taste the sap straight from the tree, it tasted like watered down sugar.

Oh and another fun story so we use snow to cover up the huge barrels that the sap will be stored in, and today as we were putting snow on the barrels we found tons of soggy cheese sandwiches in the snow.  I guess Wisconson snow likes cheese just as much as I do.

4) Ride on a train

I am currently sitting on an Amtrak train.  This is my first time rideing a passenger train other than the ones at amusement parks.  I would have to say I have enjoyed it emmensly.  Every inch of scenery seems  breathtaking, in one day I saw a place that had 4ish inches of snow and a place that had none.  You move quick but if you are quick enough you can catch some real beauty.  Some miss it because they are just traveling from point A to point B. 

Yesterday around mindnight we passed Toledo Ohio and I saw flames coming out of a building.  It looked controlled, but I thought to myself holy Toledo what is going on.

A lot of Amish people ride the train.  I love watching them, emmencsed in technology yet keeping there tradition.

So first one done 29 to go.  bring it on.

Lara

30 things to do before I turn 31!!!!!

What I am turning 30.  Holy cow, it has been an amazing year and I only had 7 goals I didn't complete.... so....  Here is my new goals.  Again this could be the year.

1) Go Hiking with my nephew
2) Try out for a play
3) Make my own yarn
4) Ride on a train
5) Donate to a Charity
6)  Reunite with an old friend
7)  Dress up Fancy and go out with friends. (not in a mustard costume)
8)  Do something  (good) that no one would expect me to do. 
9)  Learn a new hobby
10) Make a candle
11)  Eat cheese in Wisconsin
12) Make a workout video with Emily
13)  Throw a party
14)  Watch the sunrise and set in the same day
15)  See a play
16)  Go on a roadtrip
17)  Grow a plant
18)  Make my own cheese
19) Learn how to play guitar
20) memorize 10 pieces of scripture
21) Find a church to get plugged in to
22) Learn how to get maple syrup
23) Send a fan letter
24) Take a risk
25) Learn what it means to be poor
26) Learn how to darn socks
27) Read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit
28) Host a Scrabble tournament
29)Make a quilt
30) super secret

Here goes another year.  Hopefully this year I will be better at keeping a blog of it.

a years worth of goals

 I am currently sitting at my grandmas kitchen table watching a sunrise so beautiful, it looks like the sky is on fire.  I am reflecting on my past goals.  I have a few more days and  anything is possible.  I thought about this year being the last year that I participate in my goals.  Possibly out of laziness, probably because I have never been able to complete them before.  Yet something inside me still loves the adventure and the sense of purpose as well.  So shortly there will be another list, but for now this is the one.  I have until the 11th to complete. 
1)  Go on a hot air balloon ride
2)  Crochet a sweater
3)  Eat a new food
4)  Make a postcard
5)  Get a pen Pal
6)  Eat at a fancy resteraunt
7)  Memorize sermon on the mount
8)  Make a new recipe
9)  Visit a friend in another state
10)  Backpack for 4 nights
11)  Go caving
12 )  Go on the Canopy tour (again)
13)  Make a hat for all of my nieces and nephews.
14)  Fly My kite at the beach
15)  Donate to a Charity
16)  Make up a new holiday
17)  Grow a plant
18)  Ride on a city bus
19)  go to another state
20)  Make soap
21)  Make cheese
22)  Make something out of alpaca wool
23)  Do something really nice for my family
24)  Get on a talk show.
25)  learn a new hairdo
26)  stay up all night
27)  Go See a play
28)  Summit Whitney
29)  Go to another Country, or super Secret.

#5 get a pen pal.

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Today I went to the Mail room and to my surprise I got my first letter from my Pen Pal Jen Spears.  It made me smile and really happy.  I know what you are thinking, but wait I wanted to be your pen pal.  That is fine.  I would love to have a bunch of pen pal's but this is my first one.   

  

Above is the cards that I ordered as well.  They are fantastic and I can't wait to send them to other people as well.  Yeah this is awesome.   I was looking to the link on the website so that you to could order an awesome card from the fabulous Jen Spears, but I couldn't find it.  So that info will be coming soon.

2 done 27 to go

#18 ride on a city bus

 Allright Here I go this was the first Goal I have done this year.

Monday the 23rd, I embarked to go to Occidental to Sebastapol on a city bus.  My first part of the journey was to walk to the bust stop.  That day it was raining and  I encountered some huge puddles, which I decided to jump into. 

Then I made it to the bus stop.  Although I was at the wrong place the guy let me on anyway and gave me a ticket so I could transfer onto another bus.

 Then I transferred in Monte Rio.  I sat at the stop for a little while the bus driver had a smoke break.

  I was the only person on the bus so she talked about how the roads were flooded that morning and she was an hour late getting to her first stop.  Then as we drove the bus filled up with a lot of people. 
We took the long way to Sebastapol, but it was a lot of fun.  I got off at the Sebastopol safeway, and met up with my friend Kaity, and went thrift store shopping. 

First Goal down 28 to go