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| I was going to use a photo of a champagne toast like "Here's to the the new year!" but then I found this one from my birthday, when my team at work surprised me with DQ cupcakes and presented them in the shape of a K and I thought that was such a sweet memory that it made sense to include it in this post. |
We celebrated this new year in the desert. It snowed. In the Mojave Desert.
Yes, I'm sure that's happened before, I just don't know what the chances were that it would happen to us. I'm not taking it as a sign of anything other than maybe that there are a lot of strange experiences to be had and you can't plan for all of them.
This event prompted me start thinking about what I've been jokingly referring to as my "Secret 40 by 40 list" - like the secret menu at Starbucks. Basically a list of cool shit that I ended up doing that wasn't on my 40 by 40 list, but I wish they had been.
It's not a super long list, but so far I've got:
- Experience snow in the desert
- Sing onstage with Tanya Donelly
- Audition for Wheel of Fortune
- Rescue a dog
- Trade my minivan in for an electric car
- Meet Matt Lauer and appear on the Today Show (in the crowd)
- Win a progressive on a slot machine
That's all been within the last 14 months (if I take the dog off, it's 12), so I'm sure I'm leaving out lots of other interesting experiences, but it's still fun to write it all down.
Someday I will be old and unable to remember anything, so it's important not only to get out and experience everything, but to document the hell out of it. Life can be really hard, so you have to take the fun/amazing/once-in-a-lifetime moments when they come.
Here's to a new year full of new experiences!
