I have recently been inspired by a few blogs I read to create a life list. A list of 100 things I would like to accomplish. Many of mine are travel related but many are simple things I hope to work on someday. So I sat down and started jotting things down. Then I made Ryan sit with me and tell me things he’d like to do. And I couldn’t come up with 100. So, here are 74 things (and counting) I would like to do before I go. These are no particular order:
1. Have artwork I created on display somewhere public
2. Cook a meal with only food I grew
3. See the pyramids
4. Organize a fund raiser
5. Stomp grapes at a wine harvest
6. Give someone a scholarship
7. See all 50 states (I think I am at 22)
8. See all 7 continents and swim in all 4 oceans (still need: South America, Antarctica, Australia, and the Arctic ocean)
9. Become conversational in another language
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| June 2012 |
11. Drive across the US; perhaps in the RV mentioned above
12. Sleep in a “hut” over the ocean
13. See the Great Wall of China
14. Own a home somewhere beautiful
15. Visit the Taj Mahal
16. Learn to knit
17. Swim with a manatee
18. Swim with sharks
19. See Machu Picchu
20. See the Aurora Borealis
21. Go to a traditional Indian wedding
22. Wear a sari to said wedding
23. Go to the Kentucky Derby
24. See 4th of July fireworks at Mount Rushmore
25. Celebrate New Years in Australia
26. Attend mass at the Vatican
27. Ride in a boat down the Nile
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| April 2010 |
29. Have a pixie haircut
30. Change my own oil (changed my own coolant… I’m leading up to this)
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| April 2012 |
31. Really learn about wine
32. See a grizzly bear in the wild
33. Take a photo a day for 365 days
34. Grow a fruit tree (the sad lime tree in my yard that has never made fruit doesn’t count)
35. Be a millionaire
36. Drive on the wrong side of the road and have it be legal
37. Live in a high rise
38. Have an employee (does Ryan count?)
39. Host a wine dinner at my home
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| Sept 2010 |
41. Live in an historic home
42. Take a photo with Yao Ming (he’s 50% taller than me)
43. See a whale breach (or a shark) in the wild, and not just pop up but come flying out of the water
44. Spend a night at the Raffles Hotel
45. Visit Washington, DC
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| November 2011 |
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| Minus 5 in Vegas |
47. Go to Spain during the running with the bulls
48. Eat Tom Yum Goong in Thailand
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| July 2011 – me driving |
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| July 2011 |
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| Jan 2012 |
51. Drink Guiness at the Guiness Brewery
52. Visit the Florida Keys
53. Sleep in a castle
54. Fly in a hot air balloon (I think it is possible I did this as a kid but I need a refresher as an adult)
55. Visit the Holy Land
56. Take summer off. All of it. And spend it at a beach or lake house.
57. Go to a farmers market
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| Rice U Farmers Market |
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| July 2010 |
58. Ride the Orient Express
59. Italy, Italy, Italy
60. Touch a van Gogh (does it count it I have gotten close enough to touch one? Not sure I am going to be able to do this one without getting arrested.)
61. Visit Austria
62. Go to the Super Bowl
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| July 2011 |
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| July 2011 |
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| Life Lists are better accomplished with friends! |
64. Go to a book signing of an author I love
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| April 2012 |
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| Jenny Lawson, The Bloggess |
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| July 2011 – room for improvement here |
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| July 2011 |
66. See a glacier
67. Give $100 bill to someone on a street corner
68. Read 1000 books (the ones I have already ready count)
69. See Auschwitz
70. Visit Hungary
71. Tour the Orange Show
72. Visit the Galapagos Islands
73. Take a cooking class from a famous chef (Tyler Florence replied to a tweet I made…getting closer)
73. Sail around the Mediterranean on a yacht
74. Visit 5o countries (not sure my total here)
75. Get on a plane with just my handbag as luggage (the spirit of this was to get on a plane spur of the moment not jut with light luggage. I am however proud of my weekend in NOLA with just my purse, a big purse, but still, I am totally counting it)
77. Own linen linens
NEW ADDITIONS!
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| April 2012 |
76. Live in a house with 1 digit for an address
mel's universe 
We will get number 28 on the 29th at the St Arnold's beer cheese and boat float!
You could do so many of those things in just one day!
What a great list! The four of us should go to the ice hotel in Finland(?) while the aurora borealis is out and take care of numbers #20, #66, and #46 and possibly #36. (I'm not sure if they drive on the "wrong side" or if so, you would be willing to bend the rules for an iditarod)
Lets do it! If no one catches you is it really illegal? And for now I would settle for hanging out at La Villa Vista for a couple of days… Another one I was thinking of was "try 50 kinds of vodka." We could do that in a weekend!
Visiting from Jenny's site. Love your list. I had never thought of Mass at the Vatican. Might have to add that one to my list! Beautiful painting by the way. You are very talented.
Hi Melissa! Thanks for stopping by my blog. Our lists do have quite a bit of overlap. I love that you have a mix of both ordinary & extraordinary as well. Here's to achieving great things!
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Great list! Good luck on all your future adventures 🙂