New Year 2012

Happy New Year all! New Year's 2012 looked to perhaps be another year with just Matt and I playing the Wii at home, drinking champagne, and watching Dick Clark's Rocking Eve hosted by Ryan Seacrest (which have been pretty amazing New Years). Turned out that by procrastinating the hell out of New Years we cranked it up to 11.

We made last minute plans to rent a hotel room downtown Portland with our Reverend Jake (hopefully all who are reading this know the story of how/why he's called the reverend and is our actual reverend otherwise you are probably thinking, "this is a weird scenario"). We hit the town, met up with some great friends, and Matt and I wound up with a first.......it was the first time in my 29 and his 34 years that we have actually been out on the town for New Year's and not at a house party, working, or playing the Wii and drinking champagne in our living room watching DCREHBRS (there's almost a pronounceable acronym there). Reverend Jake has a new nickname, Fireball, and let's just say it was memorable for all.

This was not on my list, but I realized I always wanted to experience New Year's out on the town, or do something grandiose so I believe I just knocked something off my larger bucket list.

I'm excited that I've inspired both my mom and Matt to start cracking on some bucket list things. Mom wants to learn French. Matt has a list (but I do not think his is a bucket list, it's more of a "short term things I want to do" list). Matt's is more geared toward getting ready for our summer garden that we will plant. I think he's worried if we both start attacking bucket lists with wild abandonment, we may have to start accessing our Cayman Island account for funding. And that just leads to hassle and questions from the government, IRS, my mom, etc....

And over the holidays with all the quality time with friends and family, I thought of one more thing to add to my list:

27) See an awesome concert (maybe I'm copping out by not naming specifically who I want to see, but when I come across it, I will know it's the right choice for my bucket list). Also to clarify, I have seen many concerts, most of them awesome, but again, looking for that amazing one!