Check THAT off the list!

I know, I suck at blogging. Sorry folks. :) It's so funny to me to look back at the posts I've made and think about how far I've come since then. In November of 2011 I made a list of things I've always wanted to do. And you know what? I've made some progress! Check it out!

•   Pay off my student loans (I know, lame)  - Not even close to this yet, ha ha. Too bad.

•   Get a passport (Not sure where I wanna go yet though) - In progress! I started gathering all the stuff to do this a little bit ago. 

•   Have a family of my own - Ha ha ha ha ha. *Cough* Nope.

•   Legally buy a lottery ticket, some alcohol, and go gamble in a real casino! - Ok, so I haven't done the lottery ticket part, but I did everything else! 

•   Visit Coke World and M&M world in Las Vegas. - Did this on Spring Break 2012!

I can't find any pictures of Coke or M&M's. My bad! Instead here's me and Becky on the giant shoe in the cosmopolitan hotel. 

•   Swim in the Ocean. (How is it even possible that I have seen both the Atlantic and Pacific and never been in either?!) - Haven't even seen the ocean since then. Ha. I'll get there eventually!

•   Meet a famous musician backstage. (Prefereably Taylor Swift because we have the same name or Will Pugh because I think he is beautiful, but I'm not picky.) - Well... Does knowing Larusso count?! :) I vote yes.

Pic I took of Mr. Nick Sasich of Larusso. :)

•   Play the big piano at FAO Schwarz - Plan to visit New York still eludes me. 

•   Sled down Old Main Hill - Check! Did this last winter for FHE. SO. MUCH. FUN.

•   Buy a nice camera (I don't wanna give a specific because by the time I can actually afford it, everything out there now will be outdated.) - Not enough $ yet... Maybe sometime soon.

•   Watch a sunset in Hawaii - Not enough $ for a trip to Hawaii yet either. HA!

So, on my bucket list of 11 things, I've accomplished 4 1/2 of them. I'd say that's pretty great progress in only a year and a few months! I've added a few things I want to accomplish too, the biggest being going to grad school. I never, NEVER, thought I would go to grad school. But the closer I get to graduation the more I realize I'm not quite ready to be done. I've decided I want to be a school counselor, preferably in a high school. I am a firm believer that we should all choose a career that has something about it that we are just PASSIONATE about. I doubt a lot of people know this, but I love our education system. I love my parents for living somewhere that I had so many educational choices. I loved my counselors going through middle and high school. This is my answer. Here is something that I can do, that I think I'll be good at, that I CARE about. Even though my "real" career goal is to be a FAM, (Freaking Awesome Mom), I want a career outside of that too. And I want to have the security of knowing that if I have to work, I won't dread going to work in the morning. I'll feel like I make an impact on people's lives. That I do some good! How awesome is that? Here's to accomplishing goals!