Participate In NaBloPoMo
Make Great Halloween Costumes for My Kids
Take a Picture a Day for a Year
Own a Goat
Get a Proper Bra Fitting
Learn to Build a Roaring Fire
Drive Across the US Without Using Expressways
Attend an Al-Anon Meeting
Run a Mile
Educate Myself About Wine
Try 1,000 Recipes from My Cookbook Collection
Visit Termini Imerese
Take a Trip On a Boat Smaller Than a Cruise Ship
Take a Train Trip
Catch Up On My Backlog of Podcasts
Learn American Sign Language
Attend Alden and Elliot’s College Graduations
Grow an Herb Garden
Take Another Trip With Dad
Live Abroad for At Least Six Months
Get a Dog
Attend a Legally-Recognized Gay Wedding
Save One Million Dollars
Make Mustard
Sponsor an Animal at a Zoo or Sanctuary
Take a Photography Class
Volunteer 1,000 Hours
Try All the Vegetarian Options at Tomato Head
Get Laser Hair Removal
Make a New Friend
Attend a Luau
Watch an Argument Before the Supreme Court
Get a Gorgeous Family Portrait Taken
Finish All Christmas Prep By December 1
Take the Boys Camping
Go an Entire Year Without Soda
Be a Season Ticket Holder to an Arts Organization
Visit Boca del Toros
Get Back to My Pre-Pregnancy Pants
Read All the Unread Books In My House
Make a Great Birthday Cake
Get SCUBA Certified
Try 100 Cheeses
Buy Fresh Flowers Every Week for a Year
Visit Every Continent
Get a Fish Tank
Stay In a Monastery
Send Damon and His Mom On a Cruise
Ride the Maid of the Mists
Skinny Dip at a Mexican Villa
See the Galapagos Islands
Adopt a Daughter
Stay In an East-Coast Beach House
Live In a Cottage
Go a Week Without Wearing Shoes
Make a Great Lemon Curd
Become Known at a Favorite Bar or Restaurant
Make the Perfect Stuffed Artichoke
Win an Award at Work
Move Back to Cincinnati
Serve On the Board of a Non-Profit Organization
Make a Lamp and Lampshade
Have a Water Feature In My Home
Send a Message In a Bottle
Take My Kids to the Places My Dad Took Me
Attend Tapings of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
Take Damon to Howth
Have Original Art for Every Room In the House
Learn Three Dances
Observe Lent
Complete a Family Genealogy
Learn More About Buddhism
Take an Impulsive Train Trip In Europe
Get a Masters Degree
See the Seven Natural Wonders of the World
Mentor a Brilliant Young Woman
Complete the World’s Largest Crossword Puzzle
Take a Cooking Class
Live at the Cabin for a Year, Starting In Summer
Visit 50 Museums
Collect State Quarters With My Kids
Get Rid of All My Clothes (15-Item Exemption) and Start Over
Sleep In a Hammock In the Backyard
Try a Zip Line
Get Comfortable Ice Skating
Renew Our Wedding Vows
Take the Kids to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon
Compost
Institute a Regular Sunday Dinner With Family and/or Friends
March In a Pride Parade
Volunteer In a Political Campaign
Pick Five Charities to Support Regularly
Put Window Boxes On My Home
Grow a Lemon Tree
Have an Indoor Swing
Go to Disney World with Mom and the Kids
Drive the Length of Route 1
Sunday Pedicure (Professional Or at Home) for a Year
Sleep In a Tree House
Stay In a Lighthouse
Build a Birdhouse
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Posted by travellight on January 25, 2010 at 12:56 am
I have done 17 of these things. By far the one I most recommend is getting fresh flowers every week.
Posted by travellight on January 25, 2010 at 12:56 am
I have done 17 of these things. By far the one I most recommend is getting fresh flowers every week.
Posted by jaysaint on January 25, 2010 at 4:15 am
We will have to discuss as I go.
Somehow “Build a Birdhouse” got left off. I may need to do an edit.
Posted by jaysaint on January 25, 2010 at 4:15 am
We will have to discuss as I go.
Somehow “Build a Birdhouse” got left off. I may need to do an edit.
Posted by electricrocket on January 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm
I think I could cut and paste about 85% of this to make my list.
Especially getting a proper bra fitting.
Posted by electricrocket on January 25, 2010 at 2:02 pm
I think I could cut and paste about 85% of this to make my list.
Especially getting a proper bra fitting.
Posted by jaysaint on January 26, 2010 at 4:52 am
I wasn’t going to say anything.
Posted by jaysaint on January 26, 2010 at 4:52 am
I wasn’t going to say anything.
Posted by satogaeru on January 26, 2010 at 2:11 pm
This was a very thought-provoking post, thank you for making it. I don’t know that I would be able to compile such a list unless I could change it all the time and keep a parallel list of things I’m proud of having done since that seems very important too… but at that point the whole enterprise seems like too much work. It was still fun to read and think about. I think everyone must have such a list in their head, however ill-formed.
I would have two things on my list from childhood: visit all 50 states, and learn five languages (Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese; these are what I thought were the most important languages when I was a kid in the eighties). The former, I think I will manage. Eventually. But it’s become less important to me as I get older. The latter turns out to be both harder and less useful than I’d thought. I will never accomplish it. But I’d still keep it on my list because it would be cool 🙂
Posted by satogaeru on January 26, 2010 at 2:11 pm
This was a very thought-provoking post, thank you for making it. I don’t know that I would be able to compile such a list unless I could change it all the time and keep a parallel list of things I’m proud of having done since that seems very important too… but at that point the whole enterprise seems like too much work. It was still fun to read and think about. I think everyone must have such a list in their head, however ill-formed.
I would have two things on my list from childhood: visit all 50 states, and learn five languages (Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese; these are what I thought were the most important languages when I was a kid in the eighties). The former, I think I will manage. Eventually. But it’s become less important to me as I get older. The latter turns out to be both harder and less useful than I’d thought. I will never accomplish it. But I’d still keep it on my list because it would be cool 🙂
Posted by jaysaint on January 27, 2010 at 4:46 am
I don’t know what got into me. I saw someone else’s life list, and I couldn’t let go of the idea. It turned out to be great fun to create. To your point, I am maintaining the right to add and edit, although I will never strike anything fully because it’s a record as much as it is anything. I can’t tell you how much this list has shaped the way I’m thinking about my future, both immediate and far away.
What states do you have left to visit?
Posted by satogaeru on January 27, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Rhode Island, Michigan, West Virginia, Alaska, and Hawaii. We’ll go visit in July, which is what made me remember the goal in the first place.
Posted by jaysaint on January 27, 2010 at 4:46 am
I don’t know what got into me. I saw someone else’s life list, and I couldn’t let go of the idea. It turned out to be great fun to create. To your point, I am maintaining the right to add and edit, although I will never strike anything fully because it’s a record as much as it is anything. I can’t tell you how much this list has shaped the way I’m thinking about my future, both immediate and far away.
What states do you have left to visit?
Posted by satogaeru on January 27, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Rhode Island, Michigan, West Virginia, Alaska, and Hawaii. We’ll go visit in July, which is what made me remember the goal in the first place.
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