I don't make resolutions...I make plans...

So, every year I make a list of things to do. I spend time marking things down as the year goes on, that I would like to experience in the following year...like festivals or art shows or picnics in this area or region during a specific time frame. I don't make resolutions. Resolutions to me sound just a lil too much like work. What I do enjoy doing are things that excite me, enrich me, provide me with food for thought or soothe my soul. This years list is a ton of stuff I want to do OUTSIDE. My list gets larger each year because of my age. I am determined to have life in my years. I just always believed that life should be an adventure but a fun one. It's really up to you how you define your life.

This years list was things I thought to remind myself to do this year...and a ton of new things that just make me itchy writing it hahaha Admittedly, I already really do feel itchy just thinking about the bug bites and how my body is going to be drunk off deet for months after the big bad bug season ends....nevertheless, here is my list for 2015:

1) Get a telescope to spend an entire night star gazing with someone who is interested in it;
2) Sleep underneath the stars (I'm itchy just writing that);
3) Rent a pontoon boat for the day and take my family on an adventure;
4) Dance naked underneath the full moon (y'all won't see me do this hahahaha);
5) Go to a Blues festival;
6) Go somewhere based on whatever destination people write down, put those pieces of paper in a hat and whatever I pick is where I go;
7) Fall in love;
8) Buy a bird watching book, some binoculars, and start bird watching (drag someone into it with me);
9) Buy a fishing rod and learn to cast like a pro (or at least not like a total amateur lol);
10) Re-learn how to salsa (it's been waaay too many years);
11) Rent a cottage out of town that is close to places with hiking trails and a lake (because I love swimming);
12) Walk the hiking trails around where I live;
13) Paint a mural on a wall;
14) Dedicate a weekend to just random acts of spontaneous kindness near and far;
15) Practice singing and dancing in the rain;
16) Do something that celebrates my inner child (finger painting comes to mind);
17) Write some lusty based on a true story...well...story about a man that is 6 years my junior and how I drown in the way he worships every inch of my body;
18) Get a new tattoo;
19) Spend more time around fires and laughing with good people;
20) Find a reason to celebrate life (if not everyday, then at least once a week);
21) Take my Mum to a spa;
22) Spend 120 on fireworks each pay for two months and then light those suckers up;
23) Plant a tree in memory of my unborn son <3 ;
24) Learn to play a sport (even if I suck at it hahaha);
25) Learn to back-up and drive without breaking the sound barrier (this is such a big deal with me);
26) Have a picnic in 5 different botanical gardens;
27) Be a model for a photographer (even if it's nude);
28) Learn the lyrics to a song in a foreign language and sing it like it was my first language;
29) Go to a drive-in movie theater or get a projector and make my own hahahaha;
30) Snowshoe (need snowshoes!);
31) Have a year forgetting party;

and one more for good luck...

32) Have fun.