Friday
Feb122010
Life List
Friday, February 12, 2010 at 10:07PM - Move to Maine
- Write and publish my own book
- Visit Italy, explore Rome, ride a gondola in Venice and enjoy real Italian cuisine
- Visit Australia and the Great Barrier Reef
- Take singing lessons
- Finish quilts for the kids (Update: June 2010, I finished Mia's quilt!)
- Write and document stories from my life
- Watch a great Broadway show in NYC
- Go whitewater rafting
- Go scuba diving
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Go skydiving
- Volunteer at a women's shelter
- Volunteer in a foreign country
- Volunteer in a soup kitchen
- Go hiking in the Grand Canyon (Update: We have visited the Grand Canyon, but "hiked" with two small children. I hope to go back for some more adventurous hiking.)
- Raft through the Grand Canyon
- Run a 20 mile race, or marathon
- Create a fun, colorful and eclectic home and fill it with lots of art and meaningful photographs
- Practice meditation daily
- See the Northern Lights
- Visit Hawaii, learn how to surf
- Learn to play guitar (I took a guitar class in college, but have forgotten everything I learned)
- Take a pottery class
- Take a sculpture class
- Take another painting class
- Enjoy a weekend at a spa resort
- Visit Nova Scotia
- Go whale watching
- Go snow boarding
- Go sledding
- Reach my ideal weight
- Go to a wine tasting at a vineyard
- Donate blood at least three times a year
- Donate bone marrow
- Take a gourmet cooking class
- Obtain Masters degree
- Make a documentary film
- Become a doula
- Learn to speak Italian
- Sleep under the stars
- Visit Machu Picchu, Peru
- Visit Ireland and have a drink in an Irish pub
- Back pack Europe
- Leave an anonymous gift for a stranger
- Design and sew my own clothes
- Build a tree house
- Take a great photograph of my grandparents
- Tell my grandparents how much they are adored, and how they have been such an inspiration to me
- Go horseback riding
- Sing an amazing song in front of a crowd
- Have a photograph published in a respected publication
- Go out dancing with my husband (Update: We had lots of fun salsa dancing... but I'm not marking it off my list yet!)
- Learn how to shoot a pistol
- Watch sea turtles hatch and run for the ocean
- Create a cookbook filled with family recipes
- Visit the Great Wall of China
- Pick fresh fruit in an orchard
- Dive off of the side of a cliff
(more to come)