Habits

▢ write weekly
▢ exercise 2-3x weekly
 ▢ yoga class weekly
▢ stretch daily
▢ update skincare routine (face masks, eye masks)
▢ better eating
 ▢ use Lingo sensors to monitor blood glucose
 ▢ cook weekly
 ☑ walk after eating [September 18]
 ☑ eat before passing out [October 2026, haven’t been crashing as much]
▢ catch up in bullet journal
▢ get caught up on iNaturalist observations
▢ edit Insta360 videos
▢ build wood puzzles
 ▢ cello
 ▢ piano
 ▢ telescope
 ▢ airship
 ▢ car
 ▢ owl
▢ build Chinese architecture series
 ▢ classical gardens of Suzhou
 ▢ peach blossom pond
 ▢ plane mobile (metal)
▢ learn more kalimba songs
▢ organize things
 ▢ clothes
 ▢ skincare products
 ▢ kitchen
 ▢ moving boxes
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☑ sleep in consistently [September 2026]

Experiences

▢ farmers market
 ▢ Dana Point Farmers Market
 ▢ Dana Point Harbor Farmers Market
▢ diving
 ▢ finish AOW certification
 ▢ Catalina
 ▢ Indonesia (ideally Raja Ampat)
 ▢ Hainan (family reunion out there, dive shops don’t seem to have websites so I’ll need my Chinese contacts to help me out… probably need to use WeChat)
 ▢ somewhere with Ceeburticus!
 ▢ Palau? Maldives? Okinawa?
▢ whale watching
▢ local festival
▢ tea ceremony (Village Tea Hut)
▢ candlelight concert
▢ international travel
 ▢ Indonesia (Bali, Raja Ampat)
 ▢ Philippines (Palawan)
 ▢ China (Hainan, Yunnan)
 ☑ Greece (Ceeburticus decided last-minute she really wanted to go to Santorini and invited me along to join all the honeymooners out there! lol) [October 9-14, 2026]
▢ Korean spas
 ▢ K SPA
 ▢ Wi Spa USA (open 24 hours!)
 ▢ The Spa Hyu
 ▢ Irvine SPA (this is the one I usually go to, but I never stay more than about 3 hours. I wonder if I could putz around for the full 6?)
▢ pampering [September 19, 2026]
 ▢ reflexology (a proper one with foot bath and deep massage of pressure points… not just a foot massage)
 ▢ sound bath (Meta Ye)
 ☑ head spa (wow I just learned these are a thing! saw an ad and immediately booked the one listed, Sugar Coat Spa, but there are easily 3 others I found online — though it looks like mine is the cheapest) [September 19]
▢ animal encounters [August 12, 2026]
 ▢ California Wolf Center
 ▢ Alpine Acres Sanctuary Farm (engage with animals!)
 ▢ Nurtured by Nature (otter or capybara encounters!!!)
 ▢ Critter Encounters
 ▢ Hawk Ranch (alpacas!!)
 ▢ The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
 ▢ Forever Wild Exotic Animal Sanctuary
 ▢ Edwards Foundation for Rescued Animals (another one I found looking for encounters in CO when visiting Ceeburticus)
 ☑ Kaleidoscope Desert Sanctuary [August 12]
 ☑ Kangaroo Ranch (this wasn’t on my radar until Ceeburticus invited me to CO and I looked for an animal encounter there! it was amazing) [September 24]
▢ nature reserves/parks [August 08, 2026]
 ▢ Laguna Niguel Regional Park (went here for a friend’s kid’s birthday party once, but didn’t get to properly explore the nature)
 ▢ Irvine Regional Park
 ▢ Channel Islands
 ▢ Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
 ▢ Anza-Borrego Desert State Park (spring wildflower bloom)
 ▢ Death Valley National Park (wildflowers and/or when Badwater Basin turns into Lake Manly)
 ▢ Wild Animal Sanctuary (Ceeburticus found this but we didn’t get a chance to go during my Sept visit)
 ☑ El Dorado Nature Center [August 08]
 ☑ El Dorado Park [September 14]
▢ tidepooling [September 28, 2026]
 ▢ Crystal Cove Reef Point Tidepools
 ▢ Crystal Cove Pelican Point Tidepools
 ▢ Crescent Bay Tidepools
 ▢ Shaws Cove Tidepools
 ▢ Heisler Park Tidepools
 ▢ Woods Cove Tidepools
 ▢ Treasure Island Tidepools
 ▢ Thousand Steps Beach Tidepools
 ▢ Dana Point Tidepools
 ☑ Little Corona Beach Tidepools (this was my first iNat bioblitz event! there were a bunch of marine biologists who were experts at finding nudibranchs) [September 28]
▢ pottery class
 ▢ ARTime Barro
 ▢ OLAS

☑ hiking [August 23, 2026]
 ▢ Aliso & Wood Canyons Wilderness Park (I drive by this every time I go north, yet never stopped by… but I have made it to Kite Hill across the street a few times)
 ▢ Kite Hill (haven’t actually hiked it properly, just walked around the top)
 ▢ Laguna Coast Wilderness Park
 ☑ Aliso Peak Trail [August 23]
 ☑ Aliso Summit Trail [September 17]
☑ snorkeling [August 27, 2026]
 ▢ Divers Cove
 ▢ La Jolla Shores
 ▢ La Jolla Cove
 ☑ Goff Cove [August 27 & September 11]
 ☑ Shaw’s Cove [September 02]
☑ Padres postseason game (went to game 2 of the Wild Card series!) [September 30, 2026]

Places

▢ landmarks
 ▢ Sherman Library & Gardens (drive by this on PCH all the time and it looks cute, though it’s under construction at the moment)
 ▢ San Clemente Pier (still haven’t been after all these years!)
 ▢ Hsi Lai Temple (I think I saw this when landing into LAX once)
 ▢ Integratron (sound bath, heard this when out meteor shower watching by Joshua Tree)
 ▢ Friends of Hortense Miller Garden (random local place)
 ▢ Birch Aquarium at Scripps (I’ve been watching the Scripps Pier Live Cam to determine a good day to go snorkeling at La Jolla Cove and it is mesmerizing, so I thought I should check out Scripps and support them)
 ▢ Aquarium of the Pacific (I went to an iNat bioblitz event tidepooling, mentioned above, and there was a girl with an AotP jacket, which I don’t think I’ve been to yet)
 ☑ LA County Library [August 08, 2026]
 ☑ Denver Botanic Gardens (what a lovely place! we swung by after our kangaroo adventure) [September 24, 2026]
 ☑ Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden CSU Long Beach (I got to feed the koi and a duck was very interested in eating out of my hand too. after leaving, I realized I might have been there before and completely forgot until I tracked down the pictures from 2018) [October 01, 2026]

▢ restaurants
 ▢ Tea House on Los Rios (and Los Rios Historic District in general)
 ▢ Pinpoint Café (La Jolla treehouse vibes)
 ▢ Snooze (enjoyed it in CO visiting Ceeburticus, didn’t know they were out here too!)
 ▢ Moulin (driven by the Dana Point location all the time and wanted to swing by)
 ▢ Le Saint Honoré (yet another I drive by all the time)
 ▢ Little Frenchie (not sure why I seem to have so many French places on my list, pure coincidence! this one came from Instagram showing off its Le Parisian Hot Chocolate)
 ▢ Hatsuzakura (also seen on Instagram)
 ▢ Roger’s Gardens
 ☑ Paris Baguette (kept seeing ads during Padres games — I was surprised by the very large selection!) [September 16, 2026]
 ☑ Ethiopian — Abyssinia (delicious but bizarre service and I wasn’t allowed to customize my order. you know they’re good when they don’t care for your business lol) [October 01, 2026]
 ☑ Okayama Kobo (my friend ConnorJo pointed this out, they opened one in LN close to me! tried it when I went to get pho next door) [October 08, 2026]