Someday I Will

Appearance

• 5'8"
• 125 - 137 lbs
• 33-36" bust
• 25-28" waist
• 34-39" hips
• size 3/5
• 32D-34DD
• 8½ - 9½
• long, blue-black hair
• hazel eyes
• pale skin
• no moles
• red lips
• pert butt
• lean legs
• slim without even trying
• tattoo
• more piercings 
• dress the way I want to

Personality

• Do what I think is right, no matter what anyone says. 
• Live by my rules, rather than trying to make other people's rules fit my situation.
• Always be willing to swim against the current, if that's what's best for me. 
• Be polite, but never a pushover.
• Say what I wanna say, do what I wanna do, dress how I wanna dress, look how I wanna look, be who I wanna be, think what I wanna think.
• Don't settle.
• Be interesting.
• Be able to say "fuck you" and walk away when the situation requires it. 

Travel

• Hoh Rainforest
• Northern Idaho
• Western Montana
• England
• Ireland
• Eastern Europe
• Venice
• Volterra
• Brazil
• Canada
• Camping in Aspen, CO (2019)
• Snowboarding in Vail, CO
• Road Trip (Highway 101, Route 66)
• Live on an island for a month
• Go whale watching
• Swim with dolphins
• Overnight bike trip
• Ride Amtrak overnight
• Iceland
• Santorini Greece
• Visit the Smithsonian
• See the Northern Lights 
• Stay at a beach house for a weekend
• Mexico
• Drive across North America

     Languages

• Latin
• Gaelic
• Welsh
• Old Norse
• Old English
• Tolkien Elvish
• New Testament Greek
• Egyptian
• Italian
• Spanish
• French
• Portuguese
• Russian OR Kazakh OR Romanian

Music

• Go to a music festival

     Concerts

• Emilie Autumn
• Birthday Massacre
• Kerli
• Taylor Swift
• Reliant K
• Skillet
• Nickelback
• Blackmore's Night

     Instruments

• Piano
• Guitar
• Violin
• Drums
• Flute
• Pipes

Life Experiences

• Burning Man
• 5K
• 10K
• Half Marathon
• Full Marathon
• Triathlon
• Start a Geocaching team
• Society for Creative Anachronism
• Renaissance Faire
• Write a manifesto and/or mission statement
• Be a guest speaker at a conference with an audience of at least 100
• Graduate from college
• Go backpacking
• Go skinny dipping
• Buy a lottery ticket (but just once)
• Go to a drive-in movie
• Become a licensed minister 
• Go dog sledding
• Drive a dune buggy through the desert

Learn to

• Swim
• Sail
• Snowboard
• Skateboard
• Surf
• Fence
• Meditate
• Use Adobe Photoshop
• Use Dreamweaver
• Ride horses
• Play poker
• Rock climb
• Drive a stick

    Dance

• Salsa
• Tango
• Ballroom
• Modern
• Break
• Belly
• Historic/Folk

Try

• Zumba
• Hot Yoga
• Parkour
• Every restaurant in my home county
• Being vegetarian
• Being vegan
• A raw food diet
• Icelandic coffee

Careers

• Photographer
• Model
• Actress
• Director
• Movie Producer
• Singer
• Front a band
• Music Producer
• Makeup Artist
• Author
• Publisher
• Dancer
• Start an animal shelter (possible use for the Ranch?)

Possessions

• Macbook
• Cadillac CTS
• Home
• Cabin
• Ranch and/or Farm
• Friesian
• iPod classic

Fasts

• Juice
• Water
• Internet
• Books
• People
• Cell phone
• Facebook

Social

• Throw the most epic party, most badass bash ever (a la T.G.I.F.)
• Start a book club
• Get to know as many of my family members as I can
• Befriend a famous person

Art

• Paint an impressive mural

Nice Things

• Donate hair to Locks of Love
• Volunteer -- Best Friends Animal Sanctuary 
• Give a stranger a $100 
• Pay for someone's groceries
• Take a stranger out for dinner
• Take a kid on a toy shopping spree

Weird Things

• Eat vanilla pudding out of a mayo jar....in public
• Drink gatorade or powerade out of a windex bottle...in public

Other

• Send a message in a bottle

Unfiled
Build a snow cave
Blow one month’s wages on shoes
Paint a self portrait
Bury a time capsule
Plant a tree and carve your name
Play an elaborate practical joke
Spend Christmas Day helping out
Meditate for 3 hours in one sitting
Spend the night in a haunted house
Make fire the old fashioned way
Make your own pasta
Swim with something big
Create an online alter-ego
Catch a fish an eat it that day
Ride a giant roller coaster
Give a homeless person your lunch
Research your family tree
Cut your own hair
Get involved in a protest rally
Leave a love note on a windscreen
Build a giant sandcastle
Wear a fancy dress for a whole day
Spend one hour in a lift
Get your fortune told
Make a snowman
Help out at a soup kitchen
send flowers for no reason at all
Make a cake for the teachers
Take the day off on your birthday
Make a heap of Autumn leaves
Walk through knee deep mud
Have a night at the ballet
Take a tap dancing lesson
smile at 100 strangers
Read the plays of Shakespeare
Do a first aid course
Keep a diary for a whole year
Listen to your iPod right through
Fast for 48 hours
Take a vow of silence for a day
Finish the crossword or sudoku
Write to your favorite Author
Contact your childhood sweetheart
Pretend to be invisible
Buy some outrageous sunnies
send a message in a bottle
Make a kite and fly it
cook something you’ve grown
Write the story of your life
Watch every James Bond film
Get in the guiness book of world records
Run in fancy dress for charity
leave behind $1,000,000
Go on a holiday with no luggage
Have a night at the opera
Host a cocktail party
Spend a week at sea
Get married in Vegas
Have a suit hand made
Ride horses on the beach
Read a book a fortnight for a year
Make your own pasta
Go out shopping in just a Drizabone
Brew your own beer
Learn to throw a boomerang
Surf and snowboard in one day
Build a tree house
Take pole dancing lessons
Kiss a policeman on New Years Eve
Do a Roar and Snore at the zoo
Hire a house boat
Go trekking, carrying all your gear
Build something that will outlast you
Research your family tree
Go to a bedding store in your PJs
Make a crowd sign for the cricket
Leave a love note on a windscreen
Build a giant sandcastle
Blow a kiss to a Biki
Make love on the beach
spend Christmas day in Lapland
Take evening classes with a friend
Write a letter to your grandchildren
Visit your parents in a limousine
Live off the land for a week
skip with your kids along a beach
Resign by all-staff email


MOVEMENT (Physical + Athletic Goals)

Olympic Distance Triathlon (2009: San Jose International)
WildFlower Olympic and Long-Distance Triathlon
1/2 Ironman
Ironman (?)
Escape from Alcatraz (6/2008, 6/2010, 4/2011, 5/2011, 7/2011, 8/2011, 10/2011)
Tiburon Mile (2010)
SF-Berkeley Bay Swim (9 miles) – Relay (Sept 2010)
Bay Bridge to Golden Gate Bridge 6 mile Swim (May 2011)
P2P 10 Mile Swim (San Quentin to Alcatraz) (June 2011)
SF-Berkeley Bay Swim (9 miles): solo
Sausalito to San Francisco swim (6 miles)
Run a marathon.
Run 10 half marathons. (7/2010, 6/2011, 4/2012 …)
Yoga: Teacher Training.
Modern Dance.
Hip-Hop Dance.
Adult Acrobatics + Tumbling: Handstands (for 30 seconds or more), full splits, walkovers
Break Dancing
100 pushups in a day; 50 pushups in a row
TRAVEL

China (Beijing, Shanghai, Great Wall, Yangtze River, Silk Road)
Taiwan (Taipei)
South America (Brazil, Chile)
Central America (Mexico, Mexico City, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Puerto Rico, Honduras)
Patagonia: backpack
Horseshoe Bend, Colorado; also Boulder, Colorado
Thailand
Russia
Africa (South Africa, Central, learn more!)
Europe (France [Paris], Germany, Amsterdam, [Heidelberg, Carlsruhe], England [London], Italy, Spain [Barcelona], Switzerland, Greece)
South Korea (Seoul)
All 50 States (15 left: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont)
CAREER

Writing: become published author of critical thought pieces in Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Urbanism. See “writing” section, below
Coaching Certification.
Yoga Teacher Training.
Become a mentor.
Become location independent.
Design my own career. (In progress!)
Teach.
Lecture + Present: give a presentation or lecture to 100+ people.
Speaking
Fellowships
Installation: publish artwork + design work in a studio or gallery.
WRITING

Write my first, second, third … books.
Write a collection of short stories.
Author a book on cities, roads + streets (for landscape+urbanism)
Design and build a website on landscape+urbanism
Design and build a website about three life lessons (in the works…)
Write an e-book on writing.
Finish set of e-books (in the works…)
EXPERIENCES + ADVENTURES

Live in 10 major cities. (Philadelphia, San Francisco, Columbus).
Volunteer abroad (for at least 2 months 2013, for at least a year post-30).
Live in Spain.
Try out for Survivor.
Hike part of the Pacific Trail.
Hike all or part of the Appalachian Trail.
SKILLS

Take singing lessons and learn how to sing … well.
Teach myself the Classics (at least an overview);
Read a book a week (indefinitely);
Take boxing classes.
Speech, Debate & Presentations: learn the art of public speaking, and give presentations. Inspire people. Share knowledge well.
Take Acting Classes (Studio ACT Fall 2010)
Sign up for Toast Masters
Give at least 10 Presentations: UVA 4/2012 (100 people), Berkeley 3/2012 (50 people) KA Connect 4/2012 (200 people), WDS, Portland 7/2012, Bold Academy 7/2012
Learn how to Surf. (Surfing trip to Santa Cruz, 6/18/2012)
Take Salsa dancing lessons. Become an intermediate-level salsa dancer.
Learn German (again).
Learn Spanish (again).
Learn French.
Learn how to play the guitar decently well: (at least 5 campfire songs!)
Get a piano and re-learn classical songs.
FINANCIAL

Buy a car. Pay off dumbass car loans ($16K) by January 2013
Pay off student loans by age 40. (UPDATED: Pay off 1/2 of student loans by age 30.)
Save as much in retirement as in student loans. (YES! January 2012)
Save $100,000 in retirement+savings accounts by age 30.
Build an Emergency Fund of at least $2500 (June 2010)
Set up a Freedom Fund (6 months of expenses in a high-interest account) .
Save for retirement based on “The Millionaire Next Door” equation.
Be at least a millionaire by age 40.
Worry less about money.
Make enough money to do everything I want, and invest/inspire/create amazing work with and within other people.
Travel Fund: Save enough money to take 6 months off work and travel.
Sponsor at least one entrepreneur through Kiva every year (began 2010)
Sponsor a child in Honduras every year.(1991 – 2001).

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