I love reading Jen Lemen for a myriad of reasons. One of them is that reading her posts always reminds and inspires me to look at my life in a more positive, hopeful way. (And we all know I could use a good dose of that from time to time-- it's no secret that I can get mired in woe pretty easily.)
One of the things that helps me get anything done is the presence of a clear and concise To-Do List, and for a while now I've had in the back of my mind that I need to create a list of all of the ambitious and wonder-full things I want to accomplish in this life, or at least most of them, to give me a benchmark. Count on Jen to provide the inspiration and impetus to get me crackin' on it via a post by Stephanie Roberts over at Cool People I Know. There's even a Wiki to create your own list!! So if you haven't yet, go do it now! Mine's after the jump.
100 Things To Do Before I'm Done With This Life:
- Learn to improvise solos.
Visit the Louvre and see Nike of Samothrace(7/2000).- Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- Make and finish a quilt all by hand.
- Pay off all of our credit cards and cut them all up. (12/2007: 2/3)
- See the Sistine Chapel.
- Go to a Aerosmith concert.
- Play for a major CD recording.
Learn to knit and crochet.(1/2002)- Run and finish a marathon.
- Get back to my goal weight.
- Learn how to pair wines with food.
- Get a really good camera and learn how to really use it.
Have dinner with at least one person I idolize.(12/2007)- Stop picking at my toenails.
- Celebrate Chinese New Year in China. (2/2007).
- Learn to speak Spanish.
- Finish the novel that I need to finish.
- Go to New York just to walk around MOMA.
- Knit something for each member of my family.
- Learn to make tomato sauce from scratch.
- Visit Pompeii.
- Float in the Dead Sea.
- Learn how to draw portraits and people.
- Try out new positions from the Kama Sutra. (What?!? Don't look so shocked. It's a goal.)
- Spend an entire afternoon laying in my hammock drinking wine with no interruptions.
- Visit a whiskey distillery.
- Buy a piece of art I really believe in without worrying about the money.
- Learn to ride horses (1990-1991).
- Take a cruise with David.
- Research my family's genealogy.
- Stop drinking sodas.
- Read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Learn Irish step dancing(1997-2000).- Go back to school and get a Master's degree.
- Host a cocktail party.
- Make a habit of doing the dishes immediately.
- Attend mass at the Vatican.
- Attend mass at Notre Dame (7/2000).
- Brush and floss three times a day.
- Ride a camel or elephant in a country where it's commonplace.
- Learn to make bread.
- Visit Ireland and play in a pub session.
- Eat fried rattlesnake or alligator.
- Float in a gondola and be serenaded in Venice.
- Grow a whole long row of sunflowers.
- Visit all of the Smithsonian Museums.
- Have the entire house clean all at once, just for an instant.
Play a concert in Carnegie Hall(4/1994).- Take David to an Alabama football game.
- Let David teach me how to dance.
- Have a full-body massage.
- Grow my own grapes or muscadines.
- Learn how to prune roses and grapevines.
- Build a greenhouse in my backyard and grow things in it.
- Fix up our beautiful old piano.
Visit the Forbodden City(2/2007).- Climb to the top of the Great Wall.
- Get a bikini wax.
- Have a yard with a fish pond and a waterfall.
- Learn how to sail a sailboat.
Buy one extravagantly stylish, beautiful and expensive handbag.(3/2008)- Buy or build a house.
- Go to Hawaii.
- Break open a pinata.
- Spend one Christmas alone with David.
- Swim with dolphins. Or sharks.
- Restore a classic car with David.
- Take a cooking class with a master chef.
- Make my will.
- See the Northern Lights.
- Visit Rio during Carnival.
- Be a spectator at the Olympics.
- Create a family recipe book.
- Learn to recognize wild bird songs.
- Take an IQ test. A real one.
- Have weekly Sunday dinners for our whole family.
- Visit the Taj Mahal.
- See an opera at the Met. (3/2000)
- Have a chicken coop for eggs.
- Learn to make pasta from scratch.
Plant an herb garden and use it(6/2004).- Buy something from Tiffany's. Even if it's a sterling silver phone dialer.
- Visit Israel.
- Dye my hair I-really-mean-it-and-I'm-not-screwing-around-here red.
- Learn to scuba dive.
- Take another road trip wth my sister.
- Spend a week with no television, radio, internet, or cell phone.
- Visit my friend Tamara in Belgium.
- Play on a recital at ClarinetFest.
- Visit Alaska.
- Learn to shoot a handgun.
- Play for a show on Broadway.
- Finish my honeymoon scrapbook.
Buy my dream bass clarinet.(4/2008)- Visit the pyramids in Egypt.
- Learn to play the oboe.
- Buy a beautiful whistle that's worthy of my love for Irish music.
- Go back to Sedona and give another box canyon concert for hikers.
- Learn to play the concertina.
- Spend a month traveling down the Pacific coast with David.
- Take a family vacation with my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, and David.
Comments (3)
hey, in #102, you forgot your other sister. i'm telling your 'mom.'
Posted by the.muse | October 7, 2007 3:16 PM
Posted on October 7, 2007 15:16
oh, and i forgot to tell you this... your 'mom' and 'dad' have already floated in the dead sea. they said it was freaky. and then they were rebaptized in the jordan river. she even brought water back.
next time my parents go to israel, i'm going too. so, if they go back, i'll let you know. we could go and be sarcastic with all the other church folk.
Posted by the.muse | October 7, 2007 3:18 PM
Posted on October 7, 2007 15:18
I want to go on another road trip with you, too.
Posted by SisterSassy | January 2, 2008 1:34 PM
Posted on January 2, 2008 13:34