Life List
Inspired by Mighty Girl's Life List, here is a list of my own. I started it about a month ago and it is still a work in progress, but the goal is to have at least 100 items on it. It has been surprisingly difficult and easy to think of things I want to put down in writing. A lot of these things I've maybe thought of in passing, but there's real power in writing them down and realizing, "hey, yeah, I actually really do want to do that...not just think about doing it." A good exercise. I'm sure it will grow/change as I do.
Now found here: http://gomighty.com/user/betherin/goal/#goals
1. Go parasailing
2. Learn to knit
3. Become SCUBA certified
4. Go on a cross-country roadtrip
5. Take dance lessons
6. Host a full sit down dinner party for more than 6 people
7. Live in a home where there's room for a table that will seat more than 6 people
8. Visit Antarctica, Africa, Australia, Greece, Poland, New Zealand, Iceland, Thailand, Japan, Brazil, Alaska, Southern Mexico, Turkey, etc etc etc
9. Live somewhere again where it snows
10. Get married
11. Travel somewhere awesome as part of my job
12. Set up my darkroom
13. Make more books
14. Paint the walls of my house any damn color I please
15. Refresh my music reading and playing abilities
16. Experience having a baby kick me from inside my belly
17. Live somewhere where nature plays a larger role in my everyday
18. Grow my own veggies (Did this w/ our garden plot - adjusting to having my own garden)
19. Go into an Egyptian tomb
20. Zip line through the rainforest canopy
21. Participate in a giant pillow/food fight
22. Have one of my photos published (and get paid for it)
23. Spend a summer in a cabin by a lake
24. Read at least 2 "classics" a year that I haven't yet read (2012)
25. Visit the catacombs in Paris
26. Go snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef
27. Have a wardrobe that I can be proud of
28. Repaint/repurpose an old piece of furniture (completed 3/2011!)
29. Have my hair straightened. Chemically. Done!
30. See the Northern Lights
31. See a polar bear in the wild
32. See penguins in the wild
33. Go on an African Safari
34. See Victoria Falls, Iguazu Falls, Detifoss Falls, Angel Falls, and Niagara Falls
35. Own a nice set of knives
36. Visit all 50 states (approx. 24 so far)
37. Go to all the National Parks (so far - Yosemite, Glacier, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Crater Lake, Great Sand Dunes (?), Hawaii Volacanoes NP, Joshua Tree, Mesa Verde (? - I need to revisit my trip journal from when I was 10), Olympic, Redwood, Saguaro - Thank you Mom, Dad, and grandparents for dragging me all over).
38. Ask someone out on a date
39. Wear dresses every day for a week
40. Re-learn French and use it in France
41. Visit Japan while the cherry blossoms are blooming
42. Own a proper picnic basket and make regular use of it
43. Spend a week rafting down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon
44. Ride a bike with joy
45. Be able to run 10 miles w/out stopping
46. Feel confident and less self-conscious in front of the camera
47. Feel confident and less self-conscious behind the camera
48. Print/restore some pictures from my parent's/grandparent's old film
49. Participate in a flash mob event (MP3 experiment)
50. Take trapeze lessons
51. Build something, anything, that requires a saw, nails, hammer, sand paper, etc. Just, build something.
52. Finally use that gift certificate to get a professional massage (11/8/12)
53. Feel beautiful
54. Ice skate on a frozen lake again
55. Get a tattoo (or, find something I would like to have tattooed on me)
56. Look through the telescope at an observatory.
57. Swim with bio-luminescent plankton
58. Get to know my neighbors, wherever I live (Terrace St)
59. Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
60. Take pictures in at least 10 abandoned houses/hospitals/whatevers
61. Make one new friend a year 2010, 2011, 2012
62. Live in one house/apartment for longer than 13 months (my record for the last 10 years) (completed 3/2010!)
63. Eat at French Laundry
64. Hike to the top of Half Dome.
65. Go dog sledding
66. Learn to make fresh cheese, aged cheese, and mold ripened cheese.
67. Visit 100 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (not counting the ones I've been to already)
68. Visit every park in San Francisco
69. Learn to drive stick.
70. Stay in a yurt.
71. Swim with a whale shark.
72. Volunteer at the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica.
73. Have my own garden that actually produces food.
74. Be able to do two pull-ups in a row.
Now found here: http://gomighty.com/user/betherin/goal/#goals
1. Go parasailing
2. Learn to knit
3. Become SCUBA certified
4. Go on a cross-country roadtrip
5. Take dance lessons
6. Host a full sit down dinner party for more than 6 people
7. Live in a home where there's room for a table that will seat more than 6 people
8. Visit Antarctica, Africa, Australia, Greece, Poland, New Zealand, Iceland, Thailand, Japan, Brazil, Alaska, Southern Mexico, Turkey, etc etc etc
9. Live somewhere again where it snows
10. Get married
11. Travel somewhere awesome as part of my job
12. Set up my darkroom
13. Make more books
14. Paint the walls of my house any damn color I please
15. Refresh my music reading and playing abilities
16. Experience having a baby kick me from inside my belly
17. Live somewhere where nature plays a larger role in my everyday
18. Grow my own veggies (Did this w/ our garden plot - adjusting to having my own garden)
19. Go into an Egyptian tomb
20. Zip line through the rainforest canopy
21. Participate in a giant pillow/food fight
22. Have one of my photos published (and get paid for it)
23. Spend a summer in a cabin by a lake
24. Read at least 2 "classics" a year that I haven't yet read (2012)
25. Visit the catacombs in Paris
26. Go snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef
27. Have a wardrobe that I can be proud of
28. Repaint/repurpose an old piece of furniture (completed 3/2011!)
29. Have my hair straightened. Chemically. Done!
30. See the Northern Lights
31. See a polar bear in the wild
32. See penguins in the wild
33. Go on an African Safari
34. See Victoria Falls, Iguazu Falls, Detifoss Falls, Angel Falls, and Niagara Falls
35. Own a nice set of knives
36. Visit all 50 states (approx. 24 so far)
37. Go to all the National Parks (so far - Yosemite, Glacier, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, Zion, Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Crater Lake, Great Sand Dunes (?), Hawaii Volacanoes NP, Joshua Tree, Mesa Verde (? - I need to revisit my trip journal from when I was 10), Olympic, Redwood, Saguaro - Thank you Mom, Dad, and grandparents for dragging me all over).
38. Ask someone out on a date
39. Wear dresses every day for a week
40. Re-learn French and use it in France
41. Visit Japan while the cherry blossoms are blooming
42. Own a proper picnic basket and make regular use of it
43. Spend a week rafting down the Colorado through the Grand Canyon
44. Ride a bike with joy
45. Be able to run 10 miles w/out stopping
46. Feel confident and less self-conscious in front of the camera
47. Feel confident and less self-conscious behind the camera
48. Print/restore some pictures from my parent's/grandparent's old film
49. Participate in a flash mob event (MP3 experiment)
50. Take trapeze lessons
51. Build something, anything, that requires a saw, nails, hammer, sand paper, etc. Just, build something.
52. Finally use that gift certificate to get a professional massage (11/8/12)
53. Feel beautiful
54. Ice skate on a frozen lake again
55. Get a tattoo (or, find something I would like to have tattooed on me)
56. Look through the telescope at an observatory.
57. Swim with bio-luminescent plankton
58. Get to know my neighbors, wherever I live (Terrace St)
59. Visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp
60. Take pictures in at least 10 abandoned houses/hospitals/whatevers
61. Make one new friend a year 2010, 2011, 2012
62. Live in one house/apartment for longer than 13 months (my record for the last 10 years) (completed 3/2010!)
63. Eat at French Laundry
64. Hike to the top of Half Dome.
65. Go dog sledding
66. Learn to make fresh cheese, aged cheese, and mold ripened cheese.
67. Visit 100 UNESCO World Heritage Sites (not counting the ones I've been to already)
68. Visit every park in San Francisco
69. Learn to drive stick.
70. Stay in a yurt.
71. Swim with a whale shark.
72. Volunteer at the Sloth Sanctuary in Costa Rica.
73. Have my own garden that actually produces food.
74. Be able to do two pull-ups in a row.