Back Story This blog post will be pretty long, but I can’t get into this year’s adventures without giving it a little lead-in, so bear with me. I suppose if you would rather just hear about my Year of Disney… scroll down to the heading that states as such, but what fun would that be,…
2025 Bucket List
UPDATE 12/29/25: As much as it feels like failure when I look at my spreadsheet and see unhighlighted spaces, it certainly wasn’t. When life takes a swing at you, every accomplishment should feel like a win! There were many things I did that weren’t planned ahead (see my 2025 Recap once it’s posted), and I…
2024 Recap
Though I feel like I failed miserably at my 2024 Bucket List, this year was filled with a variety of new experiences, repeat activities, reunions, and impromptu trips, along with a whole lot of concerts and, well, Florida. 🤣And while these decisions may have wreaked a little havoc on both my wallet and waistline…YOLO, right?!…
The adventure continues…
Update June 2025: I am no longer an affiliate with BODi (formerly Beachbody & Team Beachbody) as everything got a little too much for me. I’m still working on my state racing challenge, health, and fitness journey, and will still be running a variety of groups in the future, but no longer serving in a…
Traveling Cat Chronicles…
Short updates at the bottom, as my journey continues… 😊 Around this time in 2017, I realized I had run road races in 6 different states and decided it would be pretty cool to some day complete them all. Fast forward 7 years and I have raced in 37 states with 3 more already planned…
2024 Bucket List
UPDATE 12/31/24: Failed pretty miserably. Going to reassess my bucket list procedures before tackling a list for next year, because I want to be more successful at this and not feel so bad about what I DID accomplish haha. I downsized this year, but many were multi-part, so I guess not really. I did a…
Hawaiian Superlatives – Hawai’i & Oahu
I returned from our 10th anniversary trip to two of the Hawaiian islands this winter with nearly 2500 photos and videos. It wouldn’t make sense to share all of those with an audience, because I’m sure most of you could care less haha. But when I was doing my massive research for this trip, I…
Bucket List 2023
Update 12/23/23 – I know the year isn’t technically over yet, but I likely won’t make any more progress on my list than I have up until now. I’m pretty disappointed in the lack of effort I made on this year’s list, but it was a bit of a trying year and I was able to…
2022 Bucket List!
Update 1/1/23 – Made decent progress this year! I took a few liberties with the list, but I think I gave it an okay effort 🙂 Plus we were able to complete TWO things from a previous year’s list – visit the Mormon Temple while it was open to the public, and used that for…
40 Before 40 (2021 Bucket List)
UPDATE 12/30/21 – I ended up extending this to the rest of the year, since I couldn’t complete everything by my birthday. I still didn’t complete all 40 items, but I got as close as possible and will try to get these accomplished after I tackle 2022’s list!! Instead of doing a Bucket List for…