September 2013 ~ 100 goals in 1369 days

The List:

1) Come up with 100 goals

2) Find an articling job

3) Graduate law school

4) Write an academic paper I am proud of

5) Volunteer at least 1 year for an organization or cause that I care about

6) Grow my hair down to the middle of my back

7) Call my parents every other day for a year and tell them I love them

8) Go to Central America - hike a volcano

9) Go on exchange to Hong Kong or Singapore

10) Participate in a moot

11) Do a yoga challenge

12) Run a half marathon

13) Rock climb outside - real rocks!

14) Grow a vegetable from seed to harvest (tomatoes!)

15) Make jam to give as gifts

16) Go to Japan

17) Go to Belgium with G so he can visit all the breweries he dreams about

18) Learn to play a new sport (squash, golf...)

19) Hike a mountain a minimum of once a year

20) Go to a different music festival or concert every year

21) Go skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, or cross-country skiing at least once every winter

22) Be able to do 40 push ups in a row and hold a plank for 15 min

23) Do not eat out for a whole month straight (not even coffee)

24) Buy a house or apartment - stop renting

25) Take a roadtrip - camping involves (weekend trips don't count)

26) Go to California DONE!

27) Learn to make Lava Cake DONE!

28) Learn to make Hallacas

29) Learn to ice skate

30) Become a Canadian citizen

31) Get call to the bar - become a full licensed lawyer

32) Get my "G" driver's license

33) Collect 60 recipes that I love to make and actually cook them all

34) Read at least 2 novels every summer

35) Reach a Dostoyevsky novel - and finish it!

36) Go to Chicago - eat deep dish pizza

37) Bike from Brockville to Gananoque or the whole Wolfe Island Circuit

38) Have a dinner party and cook a lobster feast!

39) Make my own veggie burgers DONE!

40) Celebrate my 5th wedding anniversary on a fabulous getaway

41) Inspire 10 people to make their own goal list

42) Go to Montreal at least once per summer

43) Learn how to do a real manicure on myself

44) Kayak in the thousand islands

45) See Beyonce live

46) Go whitewater rafting on the Ottawa River

47) Go to Boldt Castle for a day DONE!

48) Start an Outdoors Club at Queen's Law

49) Take a photography course so I can finally learn how to use my DSLR

50) Do a headstand in yoga

51) Start a home design blog

52) Make my own granola

53) Participate in the Toronto City Chase

54) Learn how to sew (basic)

55) Return to a pescetarian diet

56) Have a keepsake from our last summer together as students

57) Do a bicycle wine tour DONE!

58) Learn how to sew (basic)

59) Decorate my next home so nicely that it could be featured on DesignSponge

60) Go to the Dali Museum in Florida

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Hiking the Stawamus Chief in British Columbia - Spring 2013

Posted by Unknown on 11:37 PM with No comments

One of my goals is to hike a mountain every summer. This wouldn't be a goal if I lived in a place with actual mountains, but I live in flat-semi-hilly Ontario. I love mountains. I grew up in Caracas, a city surrounded by enormous mountains, where the Avila is revered as our watchful patron. Moving to Southern Ontario has made me realize how much I...

California and Bicycle Wine Tour

Posted by Unknown on 11:27 PM with No comments

Sorry for the hiatus, the past couple of weeks have been crazy. I transitioned from full-time work to part-time and second year of law school started. I felt super guilty about abandoning my blog temporarily but I was so excited to see all my friends back, enroll in classes and organize my life that it was hard to make time. In these past few weeks...

100 goals in 1369 days

learn more about this project

The List:

What have I accomplished so far?

Time Left

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Hiking the Stawamus Chief in British Columbia - Spring 2013

California and Bicycle Wine Tour