Trying new things.

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.” ~ Neil Gaiman

I have finished my list of new things to do this year. Some have carried over from last year and I hope to complete the whole list before September of 2016.


1. Have a picnic in Forest Park– witch castle

2. Christmas shop for my nieces and Nephew at Finnegan's Toys and Gifts

3. See a concert in the gorge

4. Get my sailboat on the water

5. Paint & frame my painting 

6. In august go to a movie in the park https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/489142

7. Organize a family reunion

8. Visit a state I have never been to.

9. Take a bus or train to a town, village or city that you’ve never visited

10. Go to Leavenworth in the winter

11. Purchase a cargo carrier for the Subaru and one of 
these http://www.coolcargadgets.net/product/heavy-duty-inflatable-car-mattress/

12. Finish my quilt

13. Deliver "care kits" to rest stops on way down to see my family for the holidays

14. Organize pictures that are currently in tubs

15. Buy my first house (STOP BEING A CHICKENSHIT)

16. Attend a Monday park it in Portland Square

17. Take my Photo at Ace Hotel

18. Top Down: Rooftop Cinema

19. Attempt to finish our McMenamins passport

20. Visit the “quietest place on earth” in Washington (Hoh Valley)

21. Shop locally when possible

22. Photograph the moon

23. Simplify my beauty routine

24. Finish my “one good deed a day” book

25. Blog more regularly

26. Read at least 10 books

27. Plan a family vacation with all the siblings

28. Watch a Portland Park Play

29. Oregon Zoo Concert in the summer

30. Pick a bucket of fresh flowers $15 (Kruger farms), or buy a fresh bouquet once a month 

31. Have salt and straw ice-cream

32. Attend a music festival

33. Spend a night in a tree house

34. Participate in my neighborhoods library in the park

35. Buy a hammock

happy birthday to me