Sooner Than Never List

People make "bucket list" all the time. I'm not fond of that name so instead I present you with Valerie's Sooner Than Never List complete with marks offs as I accomplish my goals. 

1. Learn how to use my camera
2. Participate in the Dirty Girl Mud Run and the Color Run.  Possibly even run a little during each event.
3. Do a Pinup style photo shoot
4. Read the Bible all the way through
5. Take a hot air balloon ride
6. Go to Ireland
7. Watch the sun rise on a beach
8. Be a positive
9. Ride the train,City of New Orleans, to New Orleans
10. Enter a photo or creation of mine into a contest
11. Learn to speak another language fluently
12. Plant a garden that actually produces something other than weeds
13. Go on a river float trip
14. Write/Publish a book
15. Let go of control
16. Learn to play the guitar
17. Ride a horse on my own
18. Create my own greeting cards
19. Zip line
20. Learn to be present
21. Pay my respects at Melanie and my step-grandfather's grave
22. Have grace
23. Watch the ball drop in Time Square
24. Write on the Before I Die...wall in New Orleans
25. Forgive
26. Document a year of my life in photos
27. Find a treasure with a metal detector
28. Be in a Mardi Gras parade