2014 Summer Checklist

*constant updates: adding to the list and crossing items off*
Suggestions are welcome. So is company -- join me!

PHYSICAL

• Learn to ride a pennyboard
• Learn to rock climb
• Hike the Big C
• Hike Mission Peak
• Make 1000 shots from the free-throw line or beyond - [completed: 430]
• Throw the football around with Dad
• Get back into basketball/soccer/volleyball/swimming/etc.
• Walk after dinner
• Run 2 miles at least once a week - 2 miles once a day, 4-5 times a week for the past 3 weeks
• Run 8-10 sets of 30 meter sprints at least three times a week
• Get better at jumprope
• Be able to do a handstand for one minute
• Learn how to do forearm stands
• Start eating breakfast
• Drink more water
• Detox - Salt Water Cleanse

ARTISTIC

• Tie dye - fresh new bed sheets for the new school year
• Paint or dye a banner/fabric
• Calligraphy for Mom
• Build an outdoor table with Dad - this is hard work omg
• Paint a Chicago Fire piece
• Work on concert venue series
• Take more pictures
• Sketch in sketchbook more
• Make photo album of the Asia trip

CULTURAL

• Cook a 3-5 course meal for my family
• Learn to cook new dishes - sweet almond butter toast topped with an arrangement of fruits, bitter melon
• Learn to make kale chips
• Try new restaurants - Market Broiler, Takara, Blaze, Merlion, Amazon Juices, Five Guys
• Try new foods in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia - ice kacang, chendol, hokkien mee, curry mee, char kway teow, capitan chicken, top hat, asam laksa, durian, Penang curry, chi kut teh, bak kut teh, yong tau foo
• Learn Batik Painting
• Finish Treasure Yourself by Miranda Kerr
• Read Monuments Men
• Read Billy & Me
• Read How to Survive a Horror Movie
• Read the news
• Follow the World Cup - dammit Italy/England you guys kill me
• Visit California Academy of Sciences
• Find new music - Rixton, illScarlett, Bastille, American Authors, The Fratellis, Valencia, Young Guns, Deaf Havana
• Learn more about family history - I found my grandparents' immigration papers and their glasses, watches and photo albums from when they were younger how cool is that

HOME IMPROVEMENT/FRESH STARTS

• Clean out room
• Donate clothes
• Redecorate room
• Reframe family photos
• Repaint interiors, fill in cracks
• Repaint patio fence

FUN PLACES TO VISIT/THINGS TO DO

• Footgolf
• Color Me Mine - with Cathy
• National Night Out in Avalon - free ice cream! Met new neighbors, caught up with an old friend...5/6 neighbors I met asked me when I'll graduate high school #thanks
• Minigolfing at night
• Go Kart racing
• Try to paintball
• Beach - in Singapore to St. John's Island & Santa Cruz with Lucy
• Watch a sunrise - I guess jet lag ain't so bad sometimes
• Watch a sunset - chasing the sunset with Lucy!
• Watch the stars - chillin' outside with Jumbo in summer nights
• Wander

CONCERTS

• MAX - Really chill and intimate
• One Republic - How do they get better and better every single time I see them live?
• Warped Tour - Cute is What We Aim For! Mayday Parade! Breathe Carolina! We the Kings! Lionize! Yellowcard! Bowling for Soup! Echosmith! Real Friends! The Maine! Elder Brother! Nick Santino! 
• Ed Sheeran

MENTAL/HEALTH/SELF

• Control eating habits
• Eat fruits daily - blueberries, apples, mangoes, dragon fruit
• Be more confident
• Be more aware of posture
• Read and put to use Healthy Back Anatomy
• Be kind

MISC.

• Donate stuffed animals to children's hospital
• Send thank you notes/drawings to local Fire Departments
• Volunteer with Paint Patrol at CANVAS
• No internet for a week
• Spend a night at the apartment
• Fully furnish apartment
• See friends often

BIGGEST SUMMER GOAL

• Be happy

2014 Summer "Let's Do Stuff" Playlist:

• One Republic, "I Lived" 
• "Hope when the moment comes, I'll say: I, I did it all."

• Hedley, "Anything"

• Hedley, "Dreaming's for Sleeping"
• "Sweet dreams are sugar and spice, but dreaming's for sleeping and we're staying up all night."

• McFly, "No Worries"
• "It's times like these we'll never forget, staying out to watch the sunset. I'm glad I shared this with you, 'cause you set me free. Show me how good my life could be."

• American Authors, "Best Day of My Life"