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Life List

They’ve been popping up everywhere lately, and with all the introspection I’ve subjected myself (and you) to over the past months, I decided just to make the damn list already!

So – here it is: 50 things I want to do/learn/see/accomplish. As I accomplish, I’ll cross them out. A couple things that I’ve already done were awesome enough to include on this list pre-crossed-out.

  1. Attend a yoga retreat
  2. Be my own boss
  3. Become a marathoner (October 4, 2009)
  4. Brew my own beer
  5. Buy a piano
  6. Climb a 14,000’+ mountain
  7. Complete a 70.3
  8. Develop into a competent public speaker
  9. Do three pull ups
  10. Drink at a pub in Ireland
  11. Dye my hair a color not found anywhere in nature
  12. Eat Mexican food in Mexico
  13. Finish a Century Ride
  14. Go to the opera in Italy
  15. Gracefully and easily do headstands in yoga
  16. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
  17. Host a formal dinner party (September 30, 2011!)
  18. Ice skate
  19. Kayak
  20. Learn to fence
  21. Live in another country
  22. Make my own cheese
  23. Move into a house designed by my husband
  24. Not worry about money
  25. Open a Swiss bank account
  26. Own chickens
  27. Photograph the Parthenon
  28. Publish a novel
  29. Read a work by every Nobel Laureate that has won the Nobel Prize in Literature
  30. Receive money for writing
  31. Road trip across the U.S.
  32. Run 1,000 miles in one year
  33. Scuba dive
  34. See the Taj Mahal
  35. Serve homemade lefse
  36. Set foot in all fifty states (20 Remain: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia)
  37. Sew a quilt
  38. Speak Spanish fluently
  39. Spend an entire year as a (mostly) locavore
  40. Stand in one of the great pyramids
  41. Stay in the penthouse suite of a luxury hotel
  42. Stop by Stonehenge
  43. Successfully meditate
  44. Take dance lessons
  45. Throw pottery (on a wheel, not against the wall)
  46. Tour Sedlec Ossuary
  47. Visit Machu Picchu
  48. Volunteer for WWOOF
  49. Watch the championship singles matches at Wimbledon
  50. Wear a bikini in public

5 Comments

  1. Emily says:

    Yay! You did the life list!

    Reply

    gazelle reply on August 30th, 2010:

    yes! thank you for the idea & encouragement.

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  2. Alisa says:

    I just saw this tab! I totally approve! I think I need to do one of these.

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