Have I mentioned just how hard completing this list was? It was hard. At one point I found myself listing things that I should do as opposed to what I wanted to do and I had to start all over. But I finished the list. I’m sure this isn’t the final list and that this one will be edited or changed over time. I’ve already started on some of these. I just need to get my act together and start posting pictures and such and keeping track of things. Basically, I need to get organized.
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1. Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
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4. Learn to really use my camera
5. Travel around France
6. Learn to speak a foreign language fluently (preferably French, see #5)
7. Visit all 50 states (States I’ve been in: Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Nebraska, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington Sate, Tennessee, Illinois, Alabama, Georgia, New York)
8. Learn to scuba dive
10. Learn Ashtanga yoga
11. Hike parts of the Oregon trail
12. Learn to surf
13. Go snow skiing at least once
14. Go on a cross country trip on the scooter
15. Go kayaking with whales
16. Learn to make cheese
17. Get my bicycle fixed and ride!
18. Travel on Route 66 (a section I haven’t been on before)
19. Visit Yosemite
20. Taste 100 new wines
21. Learn acupuncture
22. Raise some chickens
23. Have a Beach Blanket Bingo themed party
24. Buy a (good) swimsuit
25. Learn to drive a standard
26. Take a small engine repair class and learn how to work on my own scooter
27. Read the Bhagavad Gita all the way through
28. Memorize the Yoga Sutras
29. Visit Yellowstone
30. Visit Mt. Rushmore
31. Ride elephants in Thailand
32. Camp on a beach (real beach, not lake beach)
33.
34. Tour the Grecian islands
35. Take my mom to Ireland
36. Buy and refurbish an old 50s styled camper
37. Go hang gliding
38. Zip line through a jungle or forest
39.
40. Host a really great dinner party
41. Learn how to make tofu
43. Design a Threadless shirt
44.
45.
46. Jump rope on The Great Wall of China
47. Create my own perfect space in my home, just for me
48. Learn to play poker
49. Be in New Orleans on Halloween
50. Learn to fly an airplane
51. Make “yarn” from plastic bags and knit a rug
52. Learn to swing dance
53. Go on a trip with my best friend Steph, just the two of us.
54. Learn to throw pots on a wheel
55. Learn to make really good Indian food
56. Take a train trip across Alaska
57. Go sailing
58. Master that yoga move where you flip from boat back to plank
59. Visit a “coffee” house in Amsterdam
60. Do trapeze
61. Visit 100 new museums (new to me)[13 down, 89 to go]
62. Fast for Ramadan
63. Refurbish a VW Bus ( to pull the camper)
64. Go on safari
65. Volunteer for Habit for Humanity
66. Buy a new cello and re-teach myself to play
67. Visit and tour a Frank Loyd Write house
68. Volunteer at the elephant sanctuary
69. Grow mushrooms
70. Invent something new like a new drink or dessert
71. Ride my bicycle all over town
72. Ride in a hot air balloon
73. Ride in a helicopter
74. Ride burrows down into the Grand Canyon
75. Practice yoga in India
76. Learn Tai Chi
77.
78. Bake a really good cake
79. See one of Chris’s screenplays come to life on the big screen
80. Buy a sexy cocktail dress
81.
82. Fly one of those really big kites
83. Make seashell necklaces for all of my friends and family
84. See a Greek Tragedy in a Greek theater
85. Host a yoga retreat
86. Tour Italy on the scooter
87. Go to that crawfish festival in Louisiana
88. Enter the oyster eating contest at the Acme Oyster House in New Orleans
89. Refinish a piece of furniture
90. Learn to change the oil in our car
92. Learn to make a really good vegetarian Pho
93.
94. Go swimming with sharks
95. Make a photo book of 100 things I love
96. Go to one of those perfume places in France and create my own perfume
97. Research my family history
98. Learn to tango
99. Master a headstand (no wall!)
100. Learn to make vegan donuts
Of course, I don’t plan on doing these things alone. Chris groaned over numbers 12, 21, 37, 52, 78, 79, 52, and 98. Actually, he said that number 79 wasn’t fair because it was solely dependent on him. I told him to suck it. So, that’s the list. Some times I get a little panicky over all that stuff, that stuff that I want to do. That’s a lot of stuff. Guess I better get crackin’.
Why 54?
Wow! Nice list. I can help out with #’s 93, 90, & 33. I know our friend Holli & her Mom can things all the time, so she might be able to help you get started there. I’ve grown some pretty delicious veggies in the back yard if you need any pointers, & my friend Mike is the manager at the Habitat for Humanity Restore & can help out with the volunteer info. Let me know when you want to volunteer, because I want to as well & would feel way more comfortable with people I know around. Now i have to go make my list! We have many of the same things on our list I think. I want to fly an airplane as well. Go, Cindy, go!
Trapeze school is on my list, too. I’ve decided it will be my goal weight reward. There’s a school about an hour north of the city that’s a little cheaper than the one in the city, so I thought I’d make a day of it and go hiking as well.
Oh, and speaking of hiking….Oregon Trail is also on my list. I think maybe I’ll do that one this year. I have a hiking/camping enthusiast friend in Boise that I’ve got designs on visiting.
Love your list!!!!!
How awesome would it be to accomplish everything in the next twenty years then get to make a whole new list!!!
Sorry Katrina. That should be #52 as one that Chris groaned about. Or are you wondering why I want to do pottery? I wanted to do that way before mom ever did. In fact, I gave her the idea.
Jen, you are so in on the Habitat for Humanity thing. We should plan on trying to do that this Spring. Chrome, it would be pretty awesome to finish all that in 20yrs, but the thought of attempting it all and putting a finish by date on it sends me into panic attack mode.
No, I know why the pottery, I think that’s great, I wondered why he would groan at #54. Now I know. I would love to swing dance. I remember now when you talked about doing pottery quite some time ago, I had actually forgotten. You go girl, on all of the above. If we can do anything to help you achieve your goals, let us know, (scooter wise).
No pressure. I just got excited is all.
When you go hiking the Oregon Trail, I hope you’ll stop in to visit the Philip Foster Farm. Philip Foster settled the farm to manage the Barlow Road around Mt. Hood and greet emigrants arriving from Missouri. There are many hike-able parts of the trail around the Mountain, and our site gives people the opportunity to visit buildings and do activities from the era.
Come see us!
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