The Life List
The fantastic Maggie started this internet project and it’s taken quite a bit of time for me to get in the mindset of sitting down to list this. It is clearly not complete, but that’s the point right? To leave a little to discover as life goes on.
- Learn to take better pictures – and how to use my camera
- Travel to Italy
- Travel to France
- Go back to Israel
- Travel to Greece
- Travel to Brazil
- Walk the Mizzou campus again
- Learn to ski again and go yearly
- Dance in high heels and a small dress in South Beach
- One Broadway show a year in NYC
- Taste 20 fantastic wines vertically
- Taste 100 cheeses – Cotswold, Seaside Cheddar, Jasper Hill Cheddar (Cloth Bound)
- Climb Masada and blow bubbles off the top
- Run the combine and hold my own
- Own a red Valentino dress
- Learn to cut a diamond – and get to keep it
- Learn to dance the Cellblock Tango from Chicago
- Belly dance and pole dance
- Attend a Catholic mass
- Travel to Montreal
- Travel to Vancouver
- Be conversational in Spanish (again), French and Hebrew
- Attend the Kentucky Derby – hat, mint julep and all
- Attend every major national sporting event in one year
- Own a vacation home my kids will remember as adults
- Finish decorating one house in its entirety
- Go on a girls vacation/adventure with my best friend
- Be a proficient HTML coder
- Launch a really cool website (see: AccessoryWhore)
- Spend a weekend in silence
- Repay my parents for the years of college I wasted – and for those I didn’t
- Host a dinner party that lasts until the wee hours
- Get another set of professional portraits made of my family
- Go on a picnic
- Develop a new ice cream flavor
- Make a wedding bouquet of fresh flowers
- Underwrite a wish for a WishKid
- Finish baby books for my kids
- Go camping
- See the foliage in the northeast
- Buy maple syrup direct from a Vermont farm
- Plant and grow a garden – sustain it for one year
- Live in another country for one summer
- Live in another city for one summer
- Get back on a horse. Learn to ride comfortably.
- Island hop on a sailboat and eat freshly caught seafood on deck
- Learn to make amazing pizza dough
- Be published in a national magazine
- Work with a terrific team again – virtually or in person
- Make exercising every day a habit and a joy
- Eat a lobster roll from a shack in Maine
- Attend NY Fashion Week
- Go back to ballet class – have ass kicked by Russian ballet mistress
- Learn to grill really well and without fear
- Cook competition level barbecue
- Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (yay!)
- Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge
- Endow a campership
- Road trip across Texas
- Visit Auschwitz
- Sit in the dunking booth
- Cook with a great chef (yum)
- Visit and work a horse ranch
- Perform a catch on a trapeze
- Go to market (retail)
Me too: http://knighton.blogspot.com/2010/02/jennifers-mighty-life-list-how-to-be.html
Fantastic! And a little wicked. Love it. I need to add the race car thing to mine – always wanted to go to racing school. ;)
Love the blowing bubbles off Masada. But I have a serious fear of Russian ballet instructors – last one kicked my ass AND made me cry. lol
This turning 40 thing really has me thinking about these sorts of things.
Tops on the list at present is learning to surf and looking fierce in a bikini. Sadly, I think the former is far more likely than the latter.
Yeah, I’m with ya. And, while not stated SPECIFICALLY, the bikini thing is in full effect. But notsomuch the surfing thing. :)
i’ve done #9 and #65…lived in coconut grove in my 20’s. miami merchandise mart rocked!
I really need to write my list down. I love some of your items. I can help with #19 and my husband is a championship BBQer. Let me know! :)
Oh, man you are so ON! That just seems like so much fun. And I promise not to give away any super squirrel secret rub recipes. :)
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