Kerry's goals: all categories (30 out of 172 completed)
The incomplete goals:
- Attend a board gaming convention outside of North Carolina
- Attend a film festival
- Attend a NASCAR race
- Attend an NC State vs. Kentucky sporting event
- Attend as many of my kids' sporting events, recitals, concerts, school plays, and other performances as possible
- Attend Spring Training
- Attend the Jazz Festival in Montreal
- Attend the Kentucky Derby and wear a fancy hat
- Attend the Olympics (winter or summer)
- Be a part of a studio audience
- Be able to retire at 50
- Become a millionaire
- Celebrate our 10th anniversary in style
- Celebrate our 25th anniversary in style
- Celebrate our 50th anniversary in style
- Chaperone school field trips
- Check out books from the library regularly with my kids
- Complete the H&R Block Tax Course
- Create yearly photobooks for our family
- Drive across the country
- Encourage my kids to take lessons to further their interests
- Ensure that my kids write thank you notes
- Fund my kids' college education
- Get a nice swingset for our backyard
- Get a photo of myself with the Welcome to Las Vegas sign
- Get paid to do other people's taxes
- Go on an African safari
- Go parasailing
- Go skiing again
- Go whitewater rafting in the Grand Canyon
- Have a little book club with my family
- Have a sandbox
- Have regular date nights with my kids, individually
- Help raise over $100,000 for the MS Society (running total: ~$38,654)
- Host memorable birthday parties for my kids
- Kiss the Blarney Stone
- Learn how to drive a stick
- Make a cross-stitched stocking for each kid
- Make sure my kids know how to swim and enjoy and respect the water
- Organize a charity poker tournament
- Pay off the mortgage by 2027
- Plant a tree for each kid while they are young
- Plant some flowers
- Play competitive bridge from time to time
- Play games with my kids
- Play in a casino poker tournament again
- Play my trombone again
- Play poker at Caesar's Indiana again
- Play poker in a European casino
- Prepare meals for families with new babies or illnesses
- Read all the Michael L. Printz Award winning books
- Read all the Newbery Medal Award winning books
- Read at least one "classic" every year
- Read Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels (1923-2008)
- Replace our remaining brass light fixtures
- Ride a camel
- Ride a zip line
- Ride an elephant
- Ride my bike again
- Run a 5k
- See a live performance of A Chorus Line
- See a live performance of Mary Poppins
- See a live performance of Rent
- See a live performance of The Little Mermaid
- See a live taping of Jeopardy
- See Alhambra
- See Bryce Canyon National Park
- See Cirque du Soleil's Chris Angel Believe in Las Vegas
- See Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
- See my kids graduate college
- See my kids graduate high school
- See penguins in their natural habitat
- See the 7 Wonders of the Medieval World
- See the 7 Wonders of the Modern World
- See the 7 Wonders of the Natural World
- See the 7 Wonders of the World (the new list by the 7 Wonders Foundation)
- See the ball drop on New Year's Eve in New York City
- See the Macy's Day Parade
- See the Taj Mahal
- See Yellowstone National Park
- Sing karaoke
- Sleep in a Japanese capsule hotel
- Stay active in at least one book club
- Stay at a Ritz Carlton
- Stay at the Canadian Railway hotels
- Stay debt free outside of mortgages, car loans, and interest free loans
- Stay in a Bed & Breakfast
- Swim with dolphins
- Take a Disney Cruise
- Take a pottery class
- Take a self-defense course
- Take a trip involving a sleeper car on a train
- Take another CPR class
- Take at least one family vacation each year
- Take my kids to concerts
- Take my kids to sporting events
- Take my kids to the San Diego Zoo
- Take our children to Sedona to show them where Mommy and Daddy were married
- Take scuba diving lessons
- Take singing lessons
- Take swing dance lessons
- Teach my kids about finances
- Visit all 50 States
- Visit all Canadian Provinces/Territories
- Visit all Continents (except Antarctica)
- Visit an ice hotel
- Visit Cedar Point
- Visit Easter Island
- Visit Egypt
- Visit England
- Visit France
- Visit Greece
- Visit Italy
- Visit Japan
- Visit Kerry County, Ireland and the Ring of Kerry
- Visit Mount Rushmore
- Visit New Zealand
- Visit Russia
- Visit Scotland
- Visit the Four Corners
- Visit the Georgia Aquarium
- Visit the Guggenheim
- Visit the Louvre
- Visit the Outer Banks
- Visit Tikal
- Visit Turkey
- Volunteer as a family
- Volunteer at a local library
- Volunteer at an assisted living facility
- Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity
- Volunteer for the MS Society (in addition to the MS Walk)
- Volunteer in a soup kitchen
- Walk in the MS Walk every year
- Watch the Angel series
- Watch the Dead Like Me series
- Watch the Dexter series
- Watch the Firefly series
- Watch the Veronica Mars series
- Watch the Weeds series
- Work in a bookstore
- Write regular letters to my kids and compile them together in a book for them
Things Kerry is thinking about doing, maybe:
- Become proficient in a foreign language
- Bungee jump
- Fly first class
- Go hang gliding
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Sky dive
- Visit Antarctica
Completed goals (30 total):
- Attend a home baseball game for the Cincinnati Reds - 2009
- Attend a Jack Johnson concert - 2010
- Cancel Netflix or take a break - 2009
- Create a document with all of our account information and store it in a safe place - 2010
- Encourage Gabe to get a professional massage - 2009
- Find a new, gentle dentist - 2009
- Find out where my closest library is located and use it - 2009
- Get a professional massage (again) - 2009
- Have another baby - 2010
- Install more baby gates - 2010
- Investigate whether refinancing the mortgage would be beneficial - 2009
- Organize my games - get new shelving, get rid of a few, update database - 2009
- Replace the kitchen sink - 2010
- See a live performance of Les Miserables - 2012
- See a live performance of Wicked - 2012
- Sleep 8 consecutive, uninterrupted hours again - 2009
- Take a cake decorating class - 2011
- Take a photo a day for the first year of each of my children's lives - 2011
- Take another photography class - 2011
- Take Gabe bowling - 2011
- Take our kids to Disney World while they are young enough to believe in the magic - 2012
- Try a cruise on a megaship - 2011
- Watch the first season of the Dollhouse series - 2009
- Write our will - 2009