Okay, rather silly of me to assume that being awesome could happen overnight. On one hand, I've been thinking about my life goals a lot (I know! Big step woo!) but really, it's hard to work on climbing a mountain when I'm still broke and still trying to figure out my life.

I've done miniscule progress to all my goals in the last few days, at least:

1. #9 Backpack across Europe and #26 Hike the Pacific Crest Trail: Finally bought myself a backpack from REI - the first step, right? Now I don't have any excuse (well, except my lack of hiking shoes/water bladder/tent/sleeping bag/etc augh) not to start planning some beginning weekend backpacking trips.
2. #10 Scuba dive the great barrier reef: Ignoring the whole needtobeinAustralia part of this goal, I should have plans of getting scuba certification soon. As I'm rather terrified of drowning (nevermind that I'd rather swim under water rather than above water right now), getting certification will be terrifying too fun.
3. #12 Sell a piece of art: Hey I'm drawing again! Of course, I forgot my sketchbook at work before this weekend so I can't actually finish that superdetailedfreakincactus drawing, or any others for that matter. But it's a good start.
4. #13 Become proficient in a martial art: Okay, I'm off my Aikido kick and now I'm interested in Bazilian Jiu Jitsu and there happens to be a boxing academy near me (Undisputed Boxing) near me that has classes! I'm going on Monday to see about signing up for classes (that, or Mixed Martial Arts, which also counts towards this goal).
5. #41 Achieve a healthy BMI: Oh. Hi diet, I kind of forgotten about you already (blame the beer and cupcakes and cookies that have been floating around my house lately). Monday, the diet will be back on in a vengence (I hope).

Ok, apparently I've been making a lot more baby-steps (minus the whole diet backwardsstep) than I thought. Yay, progress!