Happy New Year From Beautiful Venice!

It’s 2016… a new year means a new list… 100 little goals of all shapes and sizes, big, small, hard, fun, silly, serious and some just very random, but all things that at some stage this year I wrote down as things I wanted to achieve or do.  This is my 8th list… and they are all quite different so if you want to check out the back story you can by clicking the year you want to read about…  2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 or 2015.

In case you haven’t noticed, but I am pretty passionate about my list… and even though last years list was a cracker, I think this years is even better.  Last year I loaded some NZ adventures into the list, which at the time I felt a little guilty about doing as I like the list to be as spontaneous as it can be, in that I never know how I might achieve most of the list..  However, looking back at it, I love the fact that because lots of things we did also made it onto the list I have documented the events with more detail than I probably would have without a reason to.  So this year, given that we are starting the year in Europe, I have loaded the list again… but not just with things we are hoping/planning to do on this trip, also with things from a few other trips we have planned for the year.  But don’t fret, there are still plenty of home based activities to make sure that list is around for every day of the year.  I have tried to mix it all in together, and like all the other lists there are a mixture of new items and old things, some from previous years that I wanted to do again or things that I didn’t quite achieve last time they were on the list.  As always it’s a combination of everything from the mundane to the strange and everything in between… and if you see things on the list that you think you might be able to help me achieve, let me know, because list crossing is always more fun when there is other involved.

I am also hoping (like every other year) that I am better at blogging it when it happens… I like having it here to look back at and reflect on.  But enough chit chat from me… here is the 2016 list:

1. Start 2016 somewhere outside of Australia
2. Make a summer fruit platter in a watermelon
3. Send 12 hand written cards/letters
4. Make a lolly cake
5. Rearrange a space
6. Play my flute
7. Go to Disneyland
8. Find out is our house has a legit hidden fireplace
9. Visit something older than colonised Australia
10. Have tea in London… Queen optional
11. Do a ridiculously cheesy tourist photo with a famous tourist attraction
12. Go to a country I have never been to before
13. Find a geocache
14. Hide a geocache
15. Watch the Prince of Egypt
16. Go in the 2016 Melbourne Marathon festival somehow… 5, 10, half or full
17. Be a Victorian tourist and go somewhere all the tourists go
18. See my bestie face to face
19. Get back in the pool and swim at least 5 times
20. Go to the Zoo
21. Make some kind of festive seasonal dish
22. Use the fire pit
23. Go skiing or snowboarding or tobogganing
24. Do you want to build a snowman? I do
25. Go Camping
26. See some Northern Hemisphere stars
27. Run with at least 3 different people
28. Make a photo book or our Europe Adventures
29. Save money each pocket money
30. Go on a bush walk
31. Go to a farmers market
32. Make some meringues
33. Learn how to spell meringues without having to check it every time
34. Keep my photo storage under control – no extreme amounts of notifications on my phone
35. Get and keep my photo storage under control
36. Sew something
37. Do some trivia
38. Bake some snacks
39. See a musical
40. Read 16 books
41. Do a water aerobics class
42. Do a spin class
43. Have a BBQ Wednesday
44. Go to a state of Australia that I haven’t been to before
45. Touch my feet to some red dirt
46. Clean up my iTunes playlists
47. Visit another international thermal pool
48. Clean my car more regularly
49. Sort out my 2014 and 2015 scrap books
50. Try at least 2 new park runs
51. keep my apple things updated properly
52. Go to Inverloch at least 5 times
53. Swim in the Ocean
54. Have high tea
55. Walk to the end of a pier
56. Get some Fro-yo
57. Go roller skating
58. Ride a bike
59. Have some pasta/ pizza/gelato in Italy
60. Have some processed meat in Germany
61. See the Myer windows
62. Go to a place I can’t pronounce
63. Do some more work as a teacher
64. Take a photo with an English Guard
65. Take the Eurostar
66. See an Emu
67. Experience the outback
68. Follow through on the date box again
69. Go to Sherbrook forest
70. Be on time… it’s time
71. Have another Star Trek Movie Marathon
72. Make my own dumplings
73. Be confronted by WWII
74. Go on a Gondola ride
75. Visit a real life old time castle…. like one that would inspire disney
76. Visit at least 4 museums
77. See the Berlin Wall
78. Taste some dutch cheese
79. Have a Shakespeare moment
80. Do a 3D jigsaw
81. Ride a Camel… or at least see one in Uluru
82. Have one of those epic milkshakes
83. Have a Random Acts of Kindness week
84. Go on  a Road Trip
85. Have a wardrobe purge
86. Do another pinterest project
87. Help change something at home
88. See some carols by candle light
89. Get a massage
90. Keep getting closer again
91. Make the most of my gym membership
92. Get my menu planning and home cooking game on
93. Spend some time in the Old testament (Study at least 2 OT books)
94. Eat something from out veggie garden
95. Play some badminton
96. Make sure I remember my secret list
97. Run 5km without walking
98. Have the parentals over for dinner… all of them… separately
99. Be more domestic
100. Take Dex on a Doggy Adventure

And there you have it… 2016 here we come!