Summer Goals

A yearly tradition for me (established circa 2002) is to write a list of summer goals. And so goes this year's summer goals, which even admist adversity, I believe is totally accomplishable.

Summer Goals 2010

-Alaska (conquer) ....Check step one. Bought plane tickets for June 18-26. I will be there for the longest day of the year! Hello Summer Solstice and friend Josh Brown!

-Stock up on strawberry beer, so that it is accessible after it goes out of season

-Establish a poker night

-Learn to play a decent hand of poker

-Catch a fish and learn to clean it (this has been on the list since approximately 2005 and is still has yet to be accomplished in full)

-Baby pool party in the backyard

-Beach it - near and farther

-Mini-vacay as often as possible

-Go camping

-Go to the Insectatarium and WWII Museum

-Keep a basil plant alive

-No tanlines (might be even more challenging now that this oil leak is creeping in on our coastline :( )

-Make new friends

-Start watching baseball

-Go to a Zephyrs game

-High 5 a stranger while one of us is in a car

-Photo scavenger hunt

-Learn to dance Lindyhop

-Write letters (Pen pal anyone?)

-Stay awake for 24 hours (Summer Solstice?! 24 hours of daylight?!)

-Make friends with someone who has a boat/motorcycle/horse/insert something else really cool here (This has also been on the list since 2005...)

-Make something

-Find something

-Go out in St. Bernarnd, the Westbank, the North Shore, and Lafayette

-Make limoncello (check. Nick and I started the 90 day limoncello process on Sunday. It will be a long wait until July when it will be ready.)

-Form a bicycle gang

-Explore parts of New Orleans I don't know

-Complete Summer Goals list