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There’s fireworks and parades and red white and blue and I made cupcakes, pink ones, that don’t look so pink, but that taste of strawberries and summer, and I bought myself a kitchy vintage film camera for my birthday present.

We watched A Clockwork Orange the other night, so I can cross that off the list that apparently I never made. And I got over my fear of the library, started a giant tattoo, chopped my hair off and went on a road trip by my lonesome while I was 30 years old. So this time around, I’d like to make a list, my own list:

31 things to do before I turn 32

1. shoot with the K1000
2. go to Voodoo Doughnuts
3. drive from San Francisco to Seattle on the 101
4. sit by the ocean and marvel
5. make a dress and wear it in public Done!
6. knit a pair of socks
7. organize my graphic design inspiration
8. hang art in the guest room
9. find the perfect pie crust
10. sleep on the beach
11. pierce my nose
12. finish the sea sock
13. sleep under a homemade quilt
14. make a new friend
15. camp in the wilderness Done, BWCAW for 3 nights
16. walk through the doors of an ad or design agency
17. eat at Harvest
18. collaborate
19. frolick in the rain
20. twirl
21. visit a friend who lives in a far off land
22. spend an afternoon at the union terrace
23. mend a relationship
24. watch Full Metal Jacket
25. acquire a pair of rubber rain boots
26. go night swinging at the park
27. make a difficult pastry that I’ve never attempted
28. show my art and/or photography in public
29. get some film cross processed
30. go to a parade
31. wear a skirt or dress without a special occasion the special occasion may have been that I made a dress, and it was cute, and we were going to a beer drinking festival, but hey! I wore a dress! And it wasn’t a holiday!