Starting my blog off with a bang!

Time to start participating in the blog world! I was inspiried by the "bucket lists" via Simple Lovely & Doobleh-Vay to finally give this a go and I think it's a good first post to start with. I turn 26 in about a month and half (Nov. 18) so I've decided to go another year before I complete this whole thing but I'll try as much as I can before I turn 26.

1. Bake my own bread
2. Go to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Done!
3. Wear a skirt everyday one week (not the same one!)
4. Learn how to properly use eyeliner
5. Buy a new winter coat, replace the buttons (unless I like the buttons but I never do!)
6. Buy myself a balloon and a cupcake on my birthday Done!
7. Watch the Decline of Western Civilization Parts 1, 2, & 3 all in one day
8. Get a dog or cat
9. Shop at the farmer's market every week while it's open
10. Finally fix up my dresser from childhood
11. Make one new recipe a week for a month Done!
12. Donate to MPR Done!
13. Travel to Chicago
14. Visit the arboretum
15. Plant a vegetable garden
16. Figure out what I want to go back to school for Done!
17. Read David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (RIP) or Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
18. Take a yoga class
19. Talk with my neurologist about my migraines
20. Buy a pair of real diamond earrings
21. Travel by train
22. Take a day off to walk around downtown St. Paul
23. Pay off one of my student loans
24. Buy fancy matching underwear
25. Frame and hang family photos and artwork I've bought
26. Not scratch at my mosquito bites!
27. Find a decent apartment