The year of twenty-wahoo!

Last year, when I turned 21, I dubbed it the year of twenty-fun. Today, as I turn 22, I am officially making this the year of twenty-wahoo! (clever, I know.) In order to keep the wahoo alive and kickin' every day of my life, I've put together a list of 23 things to do before I turn 23. You all know how much I love life lists, and I've made (and accomplished!) many of them on the blog before. I was thinking about it today, and I realized that one of the reasons I love life lists is because you're actively crafting the kind of life you want to live. You want to be the type of person who climbs a mountain? Then you put it on your list and you do it. Now, I have no plans to climb any mountains this year, but I do have some big goals, and I plan to accomplish them one by one and start again with 23 this time next year. (tentatively labeled twenty-wheee! it's a work in progress.)

23 before I turn 23

• Have a reiki treatment
• Eat nothing but fruit for three days (it's a real thing, I'm not being ridiculous)
• Try acupuncture/acupressure
• Bike commute to work/grad school/wherever at least a few times
• Make Indian food from scratch (chana masala mmmmm.)
• Pay anonymously for the stranger's drink behind me in the Starbucks drive-thru (people used to do this when I worked at Starbucks, and it melted my heart. I love people.)
• Watch When Harry Met Sally (oops. never seen it.)
• Take a road trip
• Camp. Or sleep under the stars, even if it has to be on my balcony. 
• Greet the sunrise outside with sun salutations & my favorite yoga practice. Preferably at the lake, but anywhere where the sun is and I am is good enough for me.
• Have a dressy dinner party with friends that looks fancy on the outside but is goofy on the inside. 
• Go to a wine tasting, for the love of pete. Shouldn't I have done this by now? 
• Make pasta from scratch
• Launch the new blog (wait, what?! I know! More details to come :))
• Write a short story
• Build a little nest-egg in my savings account
• Say YES more. (yes to love! yes to life! yes to staying in more! Liz Lemon, anyone? ;))
• Learn all the words to Ice, Ice, Baby
• Cook something intimidating, like a roast of some sort. Or a souffle. Or a whole chicken. Anything but live lobster.
• Read Anne of Green Gables (I never finished it when I was an itty bitty. Whoops!)
• Knit myself hedgehog mittens
• Create a fancy-pants recipe of all my own making. Not just throwing random stuff together (which, admittedly, usually works deliciously), but actually create a dish that I can stamp my name on as my very own, thankyouverymuch.
• Make every breath I take be a prayer of love + gratitude. Be aware, consciously, of my blessings at least once every single day.

Here's to twenty-wahoo :)