To-Do List

[shanmonster]

I think I made one of these lists about ten years ago or so. I'm not sure where I put it, but I do know I should cross a few of these off. And here's another list, in no particular order.

Completed

• learn to knit
  
• Learn card weaving
  
• Do a strict pull-up
  
• Do a chest-to-bar pull-up
  
• Create my own comic book
  
• Make a meal strictly from wild-gathered food without leaving the city
  
• Hike the Inca Trail
  
• Travel to the UK
  
• Take classical voice classes
  
• Be an art model
  
• Be a fashion model
  
• Study trapeze
  
• Learn to pole dance
  
• Learn aerial silks
  
• Learn to climb a rope
  
• Do mixed martial arts fighting
  
• Travel to a metropolis solo
  
• Learn to spin poi
  
• Learn to spin voi
  
• Get my first solo art show
  
• Learn to china paint
  
• Learn to do soft pastels paintings
  
• Run a cross-country race
  
• Run a road race
  
• Run a 5 km race
  
• Run a 7/8 km race
  
• Run a 10 km race
  
• Try parkour
  
• Eat a cricket (it was gross)
  
• Self publish a book
  
• Get published in a literary journal
  
• Teach myself Latin
  
• Learn to sing in German, Latin, French, and Italian
  
• Go to the opera
  
• Become a personal trainer
  
• Study butoh, contemporary dance, modern dance, Khmer ballet, tap, ballet, flamenco, krump, breakdance, dancehall
  
• Perform in a dance troupe
  
• Perform a choreographed piece
  
• Get rock climbing and belaying lessons
  
• Do multiple, unassisted pistol squats
  
• Do multiple glute-ham raises with ease
  
• Ride a camel
  
• See a Cirque du Soleil show
  
• Learn to do a headstand
  

To Be Completed

• Travel to Ecuador, Mongolia, Romania, Transylvania, Germany, Iceland, Greece, Morocco, Kenya, Hawaii, Antarctica, Galapagos Islands, Northwest Territories, Yukon Territory, Nunavut.
  
• Participate in a Tough Mudder
  
• Teach art
  
• Go backwoods camping
  
• Take up orienteering
  
• Improve my Latin
  
• Do unassisted handstand pushups
  
• Learn to sing in Arabic
  
• Learn to play the button-key accordion again
  
• Learn how to boulder
  
• Do a free-standing handstand
  
• Get proficient enough at pistol squats to incorporate them in a dance performance
  
• Ride an elephant
  
• Ride an ostrich
  
• Compete in a crosscountry adventure race
  
• Run a half marathon
  
• Run a marathon
  
• Learn nålebinding
  
• Hike the Lycian Way
  
• Hike the entire Bruce Trail
  
• Hike the Lares Trek
  
• Write a novel
  
• Make a quilt
  
• Learn to throw a spear
  
• Learn calligraphy
  

Incomplete (And likely to remain that way)

• Complete a GoRuck Challenge. Unfortunately, due to an underlying hip issue, my sports doctor has cautioned me that participating in such an extreme act of endurance is likely to permanently ruin my hip. So instead, I have shadowed some events.
  
• Complete a metal-smithing degree. Halfway through the program, I realized I am nowhere near passionate enough on the subject to complete my studies and go into further debt.
  
• Travel to Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Central African Republic.
  

What am I missing? I'm sure there's plenty.