Okay, so, I’m not really even sure if this is like a good ‘public’ list to keep (but whatever, nothing’s super secret or anything, so who cares).
So, since this idea has just been percolating in my brain, I thought I’d at least write out some of the things I keep thinking/saying I’ll get around to.
Some, I’m a lot more serious about than others. Some I’ve done before and want to get back to it.
Some of these are more “goals I’d like to achieve” as opposed to thinks I “say I’m gonna do and haven’t yet.”
It’s maybe a slightly nuanced difference, but I think of goals to achieve as like “completing an ironman” (’cause I don’t sit around being like “oh yeah, I say I’m gonna get around to that).” It’s more like “that’d be cool to do someday!”
Whereas, I think of “things I say I’m gonna do” like getting braces for my lower tooth (because I’ve said a lot “man, this little tooth bothers me; I really wanna get it fixed).
So, there’s similar but slightly different, and right now, I’m gonna brain dump it all together.
So, I dunno, let’s just start writing so I have something to refer to, if I want to get back to this idea sometime.
(I don’t even know how I want to separate/rank/whatever these.)
So, here are some things:
Physical stuff
– get back to the point of being able to do ultramarathons
– be able to do ballet pointe work in center (instead of having to use the barre).
– dance on a professional sports team (this one would include probably a bunch of other steps – like getting in better shape, etc)
– Learn to ride a bike already! (and that’s just the beginning, after learning, I’d like to do a century bike ride, and an Ironman, and do the AIDS/Lifecycle ride one year
Aesthetic stuff
– get whatever plastic surgery is needed to get rid of extra skin after some years of fairly intense weight fluctuations up and down (and trying not to have too much of those fluctuations anymore!)
– get those braces for my bottom teeth already!
– Laser Hair Removal!!! (I’m Italian, so I’m all like gross and hairy and stuff [I’m exaggerating a little, but I still do hate personal body hair], and I’ve always been told you want to get laser hair removal before your hair goes gray, because then it won’t work as well! I don’t know when my hair is gonna go gray, but I don’t know that I want to wait to find out. I don’t know for a fact that laser hair removal truly works, but it doesn’t hurt to give it a real try! I would say this one is actually fairly high in my priority list, just because you never know when your hair is gonna go gray and I don’t want to wait too late!)
Academic stuff
– finish my UCLA Extension certificate in writing!
– take the GRE (so I can apply to cool PhD program; I won’t say which one until/if we get into it [or if you write me to ask haha])
– and lots of other possible dreams (MBA, JD, etc, but I think starting with a GRE is a good starting point
– Take writing lab at The Groundlings! (I don’t know if this is ‘academic,’ or meant for another section, but since this is just a brain dump, I don’t know if it matters. There are various things I need to put in place to do this successfully, and I still have over a full year while I’m eligible, but this is, in general, on the list.)
Musical stuff
– spruce up my “portfolio.” (I do have some completed musicals. But I think some of the sheet music can be cleaner. And I think some of the demos can be higher quality, and I think there could be better/more interesting ways to package it all on the internet)
– Apply to more things! (I probably should make a definitive list of things like the Fred Ebb Award, the Jonathan Larson Grant, the Eugene O’Neill Festival (those are some of the big ones, but there are a gajillion), and apply every year. This could be an interesting project within itself
– learn to play piano better (this is just a thing in far off like “oh, if I’m looking for a hobby, this might be nice type of thing – I never really say I will do it, and it’s low on the list of things, so I don’t know that I will, but somehow if I completed all the rest, I would love to be a better musician/piano player/better at multiple instruments).
Career stuff
– I want to get an agent and book a commercial (I always think I have to have the absolute perfect body before I try harder to do this, but I might be waiting my whole life if wait for that.
Logistics stuff
– I have multiple computers and like different info spread across them in no rhyme or reason way. I’d like to organize my computers, so it’s clear where everything is, and have it centralized on whatever [a google drive, iCloud, even just a physical hard drive – just very clearly organized and easy to access]
– Organizing pictures – I always say I’m gonna “organize my pictures” but there are so many over all the years, it feels almost impossible. I don’t even know if I know what fully organized means. But I do know I have a bunch in iPhoto on this computer, on that computer, on this phone, on that old phone, whatever. Like, it’d be nice if they also were in a central location (and backed-up, of course), and organized
– True inbox zero (I know even if you achieve this, you have to work hard to maintain it, but it would be nice to ever achieve – even if just once!)
Random
– give a kidney to a stranger (I don’t know how to classify this. To some extent, it’s physical, but I dunno!). I have done a LOT to try to make this happen. So this one is absolutely not for lack of trying. But it is still something I haven’t done that I very much want to do.
– organize this blog! Like, make sure there actually is a post on every day in the calendar that I was supposed to be blogging, make sure posts have photos, make sure they correctly have categories and tags
– some thank you notes I’ve been meaning to send (like to old college professors now that I graduated, even to Wheel of Fortune after I got back from Barbados, but I’ve been waiting to get photos printed, which means I need to get on the ‘organizing photos’ things later in this list – a bunch of stuff is interconnected!
– I’d like to get a beautiful map to go over my fireplace mantle. I like to make my home pretty home-y and nice. I like for it to feel great in here. and I definitely do have some cute decorations up. And it’d be nice to have some cute ones above my mantle. And I’d like a way to track the countries I’ve visited [I want to go to every one. I don’t know if that should be on this list, as that’s basically a HUGE lifetime project], but anyway. I would like to get a trackable map above my fireplace. This is the one I’ve been looking at getting (and, magnetizing the back to make it a country tracker). But I dunno. I’m open to others. And this one is a fairly simple thing to do. It’s more about just when I want to spend the money, as there are clearly other things in this list that cost money that I want to get on. But yeah, just putting it on the list.
– Also, I could probably do a whole little section just on “finances,” instead of tagging it to the end here of the ‘random’ section, but those have fluctuated a lot over the year. And right this second, I am carrying debt again. So, I’d like to be debt free, maybe start saving…
And that’s just kind of my initial brain dump about it all. I don’t know if I got everything. And there are some things that aren’t super important to me that I ultimately might not do. But that’s just like the general starting list of it all.
(If you have suggestions, or things you think I’ve missed after hearing me talk on this blog for so many years, let me know!)