towing the line

Thought I would do a Bucket List check in, especially as our cruise is only a week away! (For the original--wordy--list, click the above link.)

• Clean our basement
• Paintball
• Cruise X We leave in a week!!
• Read 30 books by the end of the year  8 books down, a few more nearly done
• Hike all of the trails on the Farm  Done several  more since last time, but more to go.
• Read more poetry Have been reading more poetry, trying new poets
• Watch the Godfather I & II I
• Go clubbing (out here)
• Get everyone to go karaoke
• Make it through Life Aquatic without falling asleep
• Go to Minute Man National Park
• Go to Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket
• Go to more of the museums nearby
• Get through The Fountainhead
• Grow sunflowers
• Read War and Peace
• Philadelphia
• Library Job (PT or subbing or even volunteering) X  started volunteering at a nearby library, Feb. 2010
• Have a Breakfast at Tiffany’s night in NYC (stay up all night partying and then walk around outside, looking in storefront windows while eating a doughnut and drinking coffee).
• Go camping
• Publish a poem Nothing accepted yet.
• Get a first draft of a book done
• Get my photos in order
• Pick up a hitch hiker X February 2010 (Hitch hiker taken across town)
• Organize my entire iTunes Library
• Submit something for publication in a library magazine
• Lose two dress sizes
• Get involved at the parish I attend here Begin cutting church lawns in the month to follow. Went for lawn mover "training" today and met a couple very nice parishioners. Made me homesick for my church back home.
• Read the Bible more
• Become a better pen pal to my brother while he is overseas Sent a couple letters to date; an improvement on before