The Final Tally

I look forward to bidding 2016 adieu with two middle fingers blazing. Not my favorite year. I write this on a beach chair overlooking the warm Atlantic in the beautiful keys. This is one of the reasons that this blog is so important to me. Not only does it motivate me to live life to the fullest, it gives me perspective and reminds me that perhaps I should keep my middle fingers in my pocket tonight and count my lucky stars.  But Glen Frey is dead and Hemingway has cancer, so maybe one middle finger.

As for the final tally, I completed 55% of this years goals. Not the best completion rate over the last eight years, but not the worst either. I’ll post the highlights in the next week or so.

1. Grow LA Fashion Insider, Inc.
2. Ring in the New Year
3. Do something I would never do
4. Write one true sentence each month
5. Go to a Marquette Game
6. Travel with an empty suitcase
7. See a waterfall
8. Off Roading
9. Go Snorkeling
10. Try all of LA’s Most Iconic Burgers
11. Camp with Mom
12. Visit an American city I’ve never been to
13. Try 10 New LA Restaurants
14. Pearl Jam
15. Try 6 downtown coffee houses
16. Open up the kitchen
17. Remodel Master Bathroom
18. Wipe out 2015 Business debt
19. Read 10 New Books
20. Return to Salsa Lessons
21. Celebrate my Dad’s 70th
22. Paddle Board
23. Hike to the wisdom tree
24. Lose 25 pounds
25. Perfect my signature
26. Eat a fish I catch
27. Sell the Bronco
28. Design a sport coat
29. Spend a day at a lake
30. Go to a baseball stadium I’ve never been to
31. Senior Night
32. Draft our wills
33. Go on the road and sell Basically Me
34. A better shoe closet
35. Small Town Festival
36. Better Insurance
37. Watch a sunrise
38. Watch a sunset
39. Star Gaze
40. Nap in a Hammock
41. Plant a lime tree
42. Lounge by 5 hotel pools
43. Attend a music festival
44. Three Beaches
45. Walk across a bridge
46. Celebrate Brittany’s 21st
47. See 10 New Movies in a Theatre
48. Visit something ancient
49. New Workout
50. Train ride
51. Kayak
52. Five hometown photo galleries
53. Have a picnic
54. Out of State Concert
55. Stay at Chateau Marmont
56. Don’t eat out for two weeks
57. Take Devin to a Giants game
58. Have a drink in a bar over 200 years
59. Commission a ’92 Peral Jam Concert Poster
60. Eat at a top 100 restaurant
61. Complete 2015 Italy Album
62. Visit a National Park
63. Go to a game at the Big House with Dad
64. Visit a museum
65. Migrate year one of the blog to this site’s archives
66. Bike ride in a mother city
67. Jet Ski
68. Visit a winery
69. Auroura Borealis
70. Set my watch to six different time zones
71. Make the most of a layover
72. Go to a outdoor movie
73. No red meat for a month
74. See a Broadway show
75. But a new suit
76. Write one leaf
77. Go to a Marquette Game
78. Explore a new Nawlins Neighborhood
79. Have a Catch
80. Do not buy a watch
81. Go to a professional sporting match I’ve never been to
82. Publish a Mezcal Cocktail Book
83. Launch a new LA Fashion Insider, Inc. website
84. Get a tattoo
85. Go to at least three work shows
86. Eat a NY hotdog
87. Five Rooftop Toasts
88. Restructure/negotiate all monthly bills
89. Garage Sale
90. Lanscape the curbside
91. Host a pool party
92. TSee five local bands
93. Take a picture with my family at the highest point of that location
94. Watch Brittany play a game out of state
95. Art for the dining room wall
96. Rain 2
97. Turn my office back into a guest room
98. Remove a tattoo
99. Get my teeth whitened
100. No beer or hard liquor for two months
101. Remove the fire place in the den