My Bucket List

I love making lists of things to do, items to buy at the grocery store, things I wish I could buy, and things I want to experience and do. It is amazing to see that since my first little list as a young girl so many items have become real. I have so far been very blessed and am excited to see how the rest unfurl. 

• Travel around the world a few more times is ok
• Live in Italy willing to live there again
• Take a cooking class in Italy, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Paris, Spain, Morocco 
• Attend the Palio Race Horses in Siena
• Live in NYC
• Learn to speak Slovene-in progress
• Live in Slovenia for a year
• Learn how to walk in heels and look good doing it
• Learn how to do my hair well
• Figure out makeup and how it is supposed to work
• Learn how to surf
• See the Northern Lights
• Go Sailing
• Work as an NGO consultant
• Become a good candid photographer
• Learn how to shoot with film
• Rock climb and not be scared
• Visit every state in the US (to still visit: Oregon,Texas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota  North Dakota, Georgia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts.) 
• Learn to water ski
• Design and build a home
• Travel to 100 countries (The top of my list:Morocco,France, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Laos, Monaco, Namibia, Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Scotland  Iceland, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Belize, Bolivia, Argentina, Philippines, Panama, Albania, Venezuela) 
• Learn piano
• Learn guitar well enough to accompany myself while singing
• Get good at singing Jazz
• Sing in an actual jazz club
• Get better at painting and take more risks
• Take a pottery class
• Restore an old car (ken)
• Build a fixie (ken)
• Hike the Inca Trail 
• Climb kilimanjaro
• Hike the tea trails in Nepal
• Bike across austria
• Learn to play celtic fiddle (ken)
• Fly first class anywhere, preferably internationally
• Own land in Slovenia
• Adopt a child
• Become a slovene citizen (pending on new regulations)
• Run a half marathon
• Serve a mission with ken
• Live abroad with my family
• Go on a cruise with Ken
• Attend an opera in Vienna
• Learn to sew my own clothes
• See Macy's thanksgiving day parade in person
• Learn Spanish, Italian, Russian and Arabic 
• Walk down every street in Manhattan
• Paraglide 
• take aerial dance class
• ...

what is the value of a title?!

Since moving to New York, I have learned that many people define themselves by what they do professionally- their title. 

I don't like this. 

A job or career can change in a minute, and speaks little to the actual soul of a being. 

I want to be defined by who I am, by my character.

Christmas in the City!

There is something very special in the city once the trees begin to line the streets and the smell of pine tries to trick into thinking that you are in the midst of a forest rather than an urban jungle. I love the hustle and bustle as people rush from one errand to the next, all the while humming a christmas tune. No better place to be than right smack dab in the middle of it!

Ice Skating, Admiring the Window Displays, Walks in the Snow, Tree Decorating, Toffee Making, Christmas Markets, Eating and Eating