Building a Better Bombshell - Building A Better Bombshell

And here it is (in no particular order)...

Learn to play guitar
Live in another country for 6 months-1 year
Learn to can/preserve. Do 12 batches.
Write a book of poetry
Be a lead singer in a band
Blog 6 days a week for 6 months
Visit Croatia
Discover my "passion" (aim high, right?), what I want to do
Visit that bone church in Prague
Plant and maintain a vegetable garden for one year
Make a quilt
Start a business
Exercise like a normal person (4x/week?) for a year/permanently
Visit 6 continents (2 so far)
Learn to knit
Take a cross-country road trip
Wear a size 8
Visit Russia
Be conversational in 3 languages: English, Spanish, ________
Set foot in all 50 states (17 so far)
Learn to ride a bike well enough to use it for regular transportation
Finish 10 paintings (3 so far)
Participate more directly in abolitionism
Sell something created by me
Take pictures of/in the abandoned subway stations in NYC
Host 100 parties
Start (and maintain) a holiday tradition
Sew a dress for myself
Make a pie (including crust) from scratch
Attend Loi Krathong
Brew a batch of beer by myself
Own a house, preferably a craftsman or California bungalow (Portland Bungalow)
Enter one of our beers in a homebrew competition
Camp in the desert
Purchase 5 original pieces of art that I love (1. Salt & Brine by Meg Bundy, 2. Fantastic Decisions by Alex Barrett, 3. Rufous Throated Tanager by Abby Diamond)
Attend Burning Man
Learn to roller skate
Cook a rabbit
Learn to use my camera
Make a coffee table book
Make a lamp out of a suitable object
Cultivate an understanding of and palate for whisky and choose a favorite/trademark brand/style/blend
Fly a kite at a park on a beautiful summer day
Memorize 20 poems
Find a dentist
Learn to break down a whole chicken
Organize a weekend vacation with my girlfriends
Stock an earthquake/emergency kit
Write and send 50 letters to loved ones
Make fancy chocolates from scratch(ish)
Put together a family recipe book
Finish or abandon my pending creative projects
Listen to blues in New Orleans
Learn to cook from the pantry (as opposed to carefully shop per recipe)
Keep a well-stocked pantry
Learn my family's applesauce recipe
Visit Bali
Get a manicure and pedicure (pedicure)
Develop (or adopt) a signature spaghetti sauce recipe
Attend Oktoberfest in Munich
Make a clock
Learn to butcher
Take a silly family portrait
Write a comic book/graphic novel
Visit Venice, Italy (the whole dorky gondola touristy shebang, out-of-the-way Venetian food, etc.)
Take a West Coast road trip/beer tour, San Diego to Seattle
Go wine tasting on the Central Coast
Re-upholster a wing-back chair
Draw a portrait for FreeCrappyPortraits.com
Read or discard any books in my library I haven't read yet (husband's books exempt)
Not have to *worry* about money
Get to know every museum at Balboa Park
Visit the Winchester Mystery House
Give all handmade gifts one Christmas
Find/join a church
Write a song on the guitar
Raise/keep chickens
Get a massage
Learn to shoot a pistol
Work for a San Diego beer bar or brewer
Memorize a book of the Bible
Roast my own coffee beans
Cook and eat 6 different winter squash (Butternut, Spaghetti...)
Create a tumblr meme entertaining at least to my husband and myself
Practice Stoicism
Discover 5-10 favorite recipes in each of my cookbooks. If there aren't even that many, discard the book.
Be a guest on a podcast
Learn to play the ukulele
Find the perfect city to make my home, or be convinced that San Diego is truly it. (Portland, OR)
Have a beer named after me
Complete The Artist's Way
Wake up at 6am 4 days per week for a year
Donate $5,000 to a charity
Learn to ride a motorcycle
Start and finish 500 art and craft projects
Open an Etsy store
Read 50 non-fiction (non-inspirational, non-self help) books
Get in the habit of sending birthday cards and thank you notes
Draw my life for a year
Meet 5 of my long-time Internet friends (I'm looking at you, poolies) in person