Personal goals I want to accomplish… someday.  I will italicize them as I get to them.  Suggestions welcome!

~ have my own domain!!! [https://maryqin.com – may.03.2009]

ADVENTURE
~ skydive

~ parasail [dec.26.2008]

~ go white water rafting

~ windsurf!

~ go kayaking

~ ride a donkey or mule (in the Grand Canyon)

~ swim with dolphins and/or sharks [pet a dolphin – july.28.2009]

~ fly in a helicopter [august.2014]

~ ride in a hot air balloon

~ ride a motorcycle [may.05.2017]

~ scuba dive [got certified june.06.2021, went diving in Turks & Caicos june.14-15.2021]

SKILLS
~ fly an airplane

~ make sushi

~ finish the two other cross stitch projects I bought ages ago

TRAVEL
~ go back to Australia and Europe

~ revisit my childhood homes (at least the ones in the states) [went back to New York – 2013/2014?] [went back to Kansas – july.12.2015]

~ go to all 50 states (not counting driving through)
[25/50: Pennsylvania, Kansas, Florida, Missouri, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Indiana, Texas, Hawaii, California, Nevada, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Washington, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alaska] I feel like I’ve been to more, but I can’t remember when/why/for what, so I won’t count them.

~ visit Croatia, Japan, Korea, India, Egypt, Morocco, Dubai, Finland, Southeast Asia, Central America, South America, Madagascar, Djibouti, Fiji, Bahamas, Bermuda, Mongolia, Russia, Israel, Bora Bora, Wales, Canary Islands, New Zealand… [made it to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Macau! – july.25.2009] [made it to Bahamas – feb.03.2011] [made it to Croatia – may.17.2016] [made it to Israel – march.11.2017] [made it to Japan – may.21.2017] 

~ check out Iguazu Falls and Victoria Falls

OTHER

~ start my own business (hopefully in environmental consulting) [briefly sold trinkets online 2013]

~ live in Houston (I actually like humid weather)

~ get a massage at a spa without getting too tickled to enjoy it [hot stone massage, didn’t laugh once! – july.15.2009]

~ get a kitten

~ take yoga, yogalates, pilates, kickboxing, belly dancing, or some other fitness class consistently for a year! [yoga around 2014!]

~ ???