List of Dreams...

Well, you may or may not know this about me, but I make a new year's resolution every year, and for the past three years, I have kept it.

My resolution has been the same, and the reason why I've always kept my resolution is because it's a very flexible goal. I have a list of goals and dreams that I want to have achieve and experience in my lifetime, and my resolution each year is to complete four of them.

Well, it's almost the midpoint of this year and I think it's time that I update my list and do an inventory of the things I achieved.

Dreams Achieved.

1. Join a dance company: I joined Salsamania Dance Company in Jan 2003 and danced with them until mid-2004
   
2. Perform at LA Salsa congress, the largest salsa conference in the world: I've performed at LA congress twice in 2003 and 2004!
   
3. Learn a computer language and build something with it: I taught myself Php and made a calendar program with it that I used for one of my clients in 2003.
   
4. Run a marathon: I ran the Honolulu Marathon in 2003. Yep, 26.2 miles in 7 hours!
   
5. Raise funds for a good cause: In 2003, I trained for the Honolulu Marathon with Team in Training and raised $3,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
   
6. Fly on the flying trapeze: I've wanted to do this since I was 12 when I found out that the Pickle Family Circus moved into the building next door to my cousin's condo. They offered me a chance to try it out, but I was too afraid. It was one of my biggest regrets, but I finally had the opportunity to remedy that last year. In 2004, I flew the air with the greatest of ease and even got caught by the catcher and was dropped into the net!
   
7. Climb a rope.: I didn't have the kind of PE class where they made you climb a rope and do agility exercises. I've always wanted to know how, and I learned in 2004, at the Circus Center.
   
8. Hold a handstand: 2004, with training from the instructors at the San Francisco Circus Center.
   
9. Be more financially intelligent: I hate living paycheck to paycheck, and I wanted to learn what I needed to do in order not to live that way. In 2004, I started reading various personal finance books which helped me develop a strategy of getting out of debt, saving and investing for emergencies, my dreams, and my retirement. My favorite author is David Bach. I no longer use my credit cards, and I'm a lot more savvy in regards to the tax laws and all the deductions that I qualify for.
   
10. Kiss a grammy winner: This is one of those toss away dreams that you just put in there for fun, but you never think will happen. Well, lucky me, I gotta kiss a cute one! He's a musician and some of the recordings he played on received grammys, and thus, he's a grammy winner.
    
11. Live in an industrial loft: I crashed with my high school friend in his loft for 6 months. It was a converted steam engine factory and had 20 foot ceilings and a huge freight elevator. Nov 2004 - Apr 2005
    
12. Visit New York and see the Statue of Liberty: Yup! Just did that! May 2005
    
13. Attend the Collegiate A Capella finals: April 2005. It was one of my main reason for going to NY.