i am a habitual list-maker and dreamer. i have lists within lists within lists, ten or twenty going at one time, so that i never forget all the “important things” that i need to remember. this is my life list.
- Visit all the places on my to-go list
Go to culinary schoolBackpack through Europe- Learn a foreign language and be able to speak it conversationally
- Go on a mission trip
Get a nice cameraTake a photography class- Put a message in a bottle and throw it out to sea
Go snow skiing- Go snowboarding? Maaaaaybe…
- Swim with dolphins
Go dog-sledding- Learn how to paint people
- Make PB&J sandwiches or cookies or cupcakes and pass them out to homeless people
- Ride an elephant
Go “pond-hopping” (that’s what Aggies call taking a dip in a fountain)- Get a henna tattoo
- Go on a safari
See a bear in the wildSee a moose in the wild- See a penguin in the wild
- Marry the love of my life
- Yes, I want kids
- Help build a house
Learn how to make homemade pasta- Visit a temple
- Visit a mosque
- Go camping on the beach
Learn to make tortillas, make tortillas at home- Plant and tend a vegetable garden
- Learn to crochet
Buy a home- Go to a drive-in movie theater
- Throw a fancy dinner party
- Swim in a bioluminescent bay at night
Play the lottery- Learn and experience a different religion
- Volunteer at an animal shelter
Visit a black sand beach- Stay up all night and go somewhere beautiful to watch the sun rise
- Learn to ballroom dance
- See the northern lights
- Get comfortable praying aloud with people
Learn how to make sushi,make sushi at home- Milk a cow
- Throw a surprise party
- Go to my grandmother’s farm in Illinois and have an old-fashioned Christmas
- Belong to a book club
- Climb a mountain (a fourteener will do!)
Learn to drive a standard car, get comfortable driving a standard car- Ride a camel
- Learn to salsa dance
- Go to Mass with the Carmelite nuns
Go on a vacation by myself- Make an altered book
Ride on a tandem bikeMake an elaborate indoor blanket fort to eat and sleep in for a nightGo to a European Christmas market- Write and publish a novel
- Write and publish a book about my grandmother’s childhood
- Write and publish a book about my great- grandmother’s life
- See a flash mob in person OR be part of one!
- Zipline in the rainforest
- Go to a music festival in another country
**Notice that skydiving, bungee jumping, cave diving, or anything that require remotely the same amount of adrenaline are NOT on my list. I’m just not that adventurous, guys…
…this list will be forever added on to…