32 Before 32

1. Learn how to carry a tune
2. Read 2 Classics
3. Read 2 Best Sellers
4. Hike trails around our house
5. Make art for our dining room
6. Do another 30 day challenge
7. Go for a major bike ride
8. Thin out my closet
9. Plant a garden
10. Finish knitting my Abrigado blanket
11. Perfect a wing eye
12. Build a fire pit
13. Make a piece of jewelry
14. Make a DIY Camera bag insert
15. Make French Onion Soup
16. Take a silhouette photo
17. Improve my posture
18. Finish one design project per week
19. Go candle pin bowling
20. Find more balance
21. Watch House of Cards with J
22. Buy fresh flowers once a week
23. Get more sleep
24. Eat a vegetable at every meal
25. Make art
26. Decorate for Christmas
27. Take a trip
28. Try a new sport
29. Get my eyebrows done
30. Get a massage
31. Visit a new museum
32. Display my camera collection

31 Before 31 Update

1. 100 Pushups
2. Do another 28 or 30 day challenge
   I started trying to learn Spanish using Duolingo. I decided this was my challenge. So for the whole year, I certainly used the App, but I also succeeded in reaching my 30 day Spanish challenge.
3. Log my food and exercise every single day for a minimum of 3 months
   I would start doing this and I was really good at it for about five days, then I would lapse into forgetfulness and laziness and stop doing it. Lather, rinse, repeat.
4. Go ice skating
   Boom.
   
   
5. Run a 10K
   Why do I keep doing this to myself? Every time I work my way up to a 5K, I lose steam. We did do a 15 mile bike ride, this year...does that count? I feel like a broken record!
6. Go to sleep early
   Moved over an hour away from work. Need to wake up in time to take the commuter rail. Bedtime is now 9:30.
7. Improve my postureI have done noting quantifiable to accomplish this goal, and it is definitely something I've noticed.
8. Buy a house
9. Knit a sweater
10. Schedule "me" time at least once a week. Strive for at least two hours of solitude
    I don't think I met this goal, measurably, but I was able to be more conscious about the time I needed with myself, and to try to make only half of this time "computer time."
11. Meditate
    I downloaded Headspace, which got me started on a daily meditation program.
12. Visit a new state
    Shockingly, had never been to VA. Boom. Done.
    
13. Visit a new museum
    We saw Gropius House in the winter, and had a private tour. It was beautiful, and I would highly recommend it to anyone remotely interested in art, architecture, or just New England History in general.
14. Go to at least one lecture or creative performance
15. Read Four Classics:
    The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - Started
    The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton) - Didn't even acquire
    The Stranger (Albert Camus)
    The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
16. 52 Weeks listing Things for which I am Grateful
17. 52 Weeks to an Organized Home
18. 90 minutes of Yoga at minimum once a week
    Nope, although I did more yoga at home due to my subscription to MyYogaPro (courtesy of my sister!)
19. Learn about my family tree
20. Make a cheese souffle
    Did this for our anniversary!
21. Buy a watch
    I did this, and it was gorgeous, but I am glad I did not buy a very expensive watch, because it turns out I do not like to wear it everyday.
22. Make hot buttered rum

23. Take a stunning photographGot some Milky Way photography done in El Paso. Can't wait to try again, although I doubt I will find anything like that Texas sky up here!
    
24. Write a haiku
    Thirty-two, doing
    "old person" activities
    like feeding the birds
25. Make a pair of earrings
26. Get my eyebrows shaped professionally
27. See a Penn State Game at Beaver Stadium
    J, you had one job.
28. Letterpress
    I letter-pressed our holiday cards, and I am very very happy with the way they came out!
29. Buy number or letter balloons for an occasion
    Like, what occasion? Sitting at home and watching Netflix?
30. Find a new shade of lipstick
31. Buy It's a Wonderful Life on DVD
    Now I can relive the moments from my childhood when I used to wrap Christmas presents and watch this Jimmy Stewart classic with my grandmother in my own house instead of trekking to the Brattle Theatre—or maybe do both!