Accomplishments

  • lose 20+ pounds, keep it off, and be confident of keeping it off
  • earn a Bachelor of Science degree, graduate with honors
  • be a trail maintenance crew leader
  • bike 100 miles in a day (110 actually)
  • get a black belt in Taekwondo
  • perform solo in front of a crowd in an aerial dance performance
  • be part of props / costumes crew for an opera
  • become a credentialed Actuary
  • lead a 2 hour Meetup group discussion
  • make money as a fashion designer
  • make money from web design / development
  • sell some of my photos for commercial purposes
  • attend Burning Man and a regional Burn (CO Apogaea and TX Burning Flipside), lead a major art project for Apogaea and assist with a friend’s art project at Burning Man
  • build things out of wood
  • fix my car; fix my bike
  • buy a house; twice
  • do roofing, plumbing, electricity, flooring, painting, repair drywall, landscaping
  • design and make my own clothes; attend school for fashion design
  • have a cat (or 3 or 4 or 5); have a dog
  • move to a new city miles away where I don’t know anyone… twice
  • get quoted in a popular magazine, appear in a photo on a front page of a section of a newspaper
  • be voted "most likely to be an artist" in high school graduation poll
  • achieve level 80 in World of Warcraft
  • hike up a 14er
  • ride on a horse, a motorcycle, an ATV, a tandem bicycle
  • snowboard, downhill ski, xc ski, snowshoe, ice skate
  • mountain bike, rollerblade
  • canoe, kayak, fish (freshwater, fly, ice, ocean)
  • learn to scuba dive, go white-water rafting, water-ski
  • go bowling, play pool, ping-pong, volleyball, tennis, raquetball
  • play bridge, poker, use a Ouija board, roll-play
  • go off-roading
  • see a mountain lion… bear… alligator… whales (mating, no less) in the wild
  • experience a ghostly / otherworldly phenomenon
  • experience an earthquake
  • get something published as ‘word of the day’ on Urban Dictionary
  • ride Boulder’s Banjo Billy Bus
  • attend a pro football, pro baseball game
  • attend a meeting at Cambridge University (UK)
  • go backstage at a concert