Time to re-post and re-update my Life List – bday is coming up and I wanted to add some more things.
- Do Roller Derby
- Own at least 7 days of matching bras and panties
- Go skydiving (maybe this summer..)
- Finally learn Spanish. And brush up on my German, French & Italian.
- Visit Montreal and see a sunset.
- Send my parents on a trip
- Learn calligraphy
- Frame my g*d artwork – done! well partially, but at least the main ones I wanted framed are done!
- Visit Edinburgh for Hogmony
- Own a dog
- Write one of those strongly worded letters I’m always going on about.
- Teach a (my?) child to ride a bike / tie their shoes / blow a bubble
- Disconnect for a full week – no phone / net / tv
- Learn to knit – FINALLY
- See the pyramids at dusk – Orions Belt
- Surf in Byron Bay, Australia.
- Do the NYC thing: Empire State Building / Times Square / Central Park / Broadway / see an off Broadway show
- Hot air balloon ride (anywhere, tho definitely would like to do it over Iowa – where I first saw them)
- Road trip to the Grand Canyon – stopping at the tiny towns along the way (note: bring own sheets).
- Scuba dive – NOT in a pool or lake (preferably be certified)
- Plant (and keep up) an herb garden
- Make my own bread, routinely
- Sew curtains
- Travel to all of the places I have lived, again.
- Keep writing – even if just for myself, for the memories
- Surprise my mom on her birthday
- Surprise my dad on his birthday
- Learn to shoot a bow and arrow
- Throw an elaborate dinner party – in the woods, on a roof, someplace random.
- Take a photography class and finally learn what Fstop and ISO mean.
- Spend an entire day naked.
- Walk on hot coals (cliche? I’ll take it!)
- Run a mini-marathon in every state (Indiana – DOWN)
- Visit every state in the US.
- Hire a breakdancing bear
- Go to the top of a lighthouse.
- Do something utterly outrageous and grand in honor of a friend.
- See a rodeo
- Buy a beater Jeep – just old school, no top necessary.
- Full out decorate my bedroom – make it as awesome as I deserve.
- Write emails to some of the writers of blogs I read routinely – let them know they matter. Say… 10. I’ll list em here.
- Catalog all my books (sound tedious? yep, but I guarantee I’ll pry love doing it. And love even more having them all on there!)
- Learn glassblowing.
- Join a wine club. – done! did this just the past Friday.
- Take a weekend away – high class hotel and spa. Indulge
- Take a weekend away – cabin in middle of nowhere. Preferably with a hot tub and write almost all weekend.
- Get a massage. I put it on here because I won’t do it for myself otherwise.
- Set up patio with lighting, more chairs and make it party-friendly.
- Strip and refinish grandmother’s writing desk.
- Buy a house.
- Rock an outrageous hat at the Kentucky Derby.
- Get a right-hand ring to celebrate paying off my student loans.
- Visit a black sand beach
- Go to Music Festivals: Bonnaroo, Rothbury, 10kLakes, Coachella, Red Rocks Concert, Lollapalooza
- Picnic in Yellowstone Park – picnic basket required. Yogi – optional
- Stomp grapes in Italy
- Host a movie festival for friends
- Watch a game at Wrigley from the bleachers
still in progress.