List 88

In fall of 2010, I stumbled across Maggie‘s blog, found her Mighty Life List, and was inspired (as have been many folk) to create my own. Voici.

  1. See the Northern Lights
  2. Travel New Zealand (yeah!!)
  3. Make a quilt
  4. Learn ASL
  5. Visit Israel
  6. Grow my own potatoes
  7. Have kids (one day)
  8. Build myself a potting bench (myself!)
  9. Horse-back riding out West (can be US or Canada — I don’t care)
  10. Go camping for more than a weekend
  11. Institute the tradition of Christmas morning cinnamon buns monkey bread
  12. Attend a Solstice party, complete with naked dancing (uh, preferably summer solstice, but hey, an adventure’s an adventure)
  13. Learn to kayak respectably (rolling and all)
  14. Enter something into the local fair’s Kitchen Sciences competition
  15. Go to a barn dance (or ceilidh)
  16. Learn to shoot a bow and arrow
  17. Make bread regularly enough that we stop buying the commercial stuff.
  18. Do a tour of China — including the crazy Western deserts
  19. See Tibet (and yes, if necessary, Nepal would be an okay substitute)
  20. Get over my irrational phobia of speaking in French to The Boy’s family (although I’m okay around his nieces and nephews)
  21. Go to Morocco
  22. Wear a kimono with properly-tied, full-length obi
  23. Make one pottery piece that’s worth keeping around
  24. Give 10% or more of my salary to charity
  25. Finish one of my NaNoWriMo novels
  26. Paint something (arty, not a wall) together with The Boy
  27. Audition for a role in community theatre
  28. Make sushi for dinner sometime
  29. Find a local place to swingdance (and go)
  30. Bake more celebration cakes
  31. Attend a fancy charity gala
  32. Visit Egypt (specifically, Alexandria)
  33. Go snorkeling with The Boy
  34. Zip-line through a canopy
  35. Visit PEI (seriously)
  36. Do five respectable pullups
  37. Make croissants that aren’t weapon-grade (just once!)
  38. Learn conversational Spanish
  39. And Mandarin (and enough to read a menu in traditional, damnit)
  40. Finish Chibi-Robo
  41. Teach a class (in anything)
  42. Visit Chicago
  43. Learn to use my damn camera
  44. Do a walkover again (front or back; my money’s on front though)
  45. Make a skirt (or dress) that I love
  46. Make the Army Run a yearly thing
  47. Learn to skate well enough to play hockey (not competitively)
  48. Hang out with the girls more often
  49. Stick with the Daring Cooks (or Bakers) challenges for a solid year
  50. Look through a telescope and see a planet
  51. Knit through my stash
  52. Eat pears (and make cidre) from our tree
  53. Cross-continent road-trip with The Boy (I’m thinking here to Mexico)
  54. Buy cowboy boots
  55. Drive a 4-wheeler
  56. Buy my meat directly from farmers
  57. Go hang-gliding
  58. Reduce my wardrobe to about half of what it is now
  59. Learn to style my own hair, damnit
  60. Take tap lessons
  61. Create a repository of my favourite recipes
  62. Banish plastic bags from our home
  63. Redo this blog’s stylesheet
  64. Do Something that helps people out, regularly
  65. Give martial arts another chance
  66. Put on a puppet show
  67. Learn to navigate by the stars
  68. Visit the Mediterranean
  69. Institute yearly picnic
  70. Be a cartoon (or game) voice
  71. Do more charity knitting
  72. Write one paper letter per month
  73. Go fishing with The Boy (or ice-fishing!)
  74. Complete a year of p365
  75. Crow posture
  76. See the African savannah
  77. Read my way through (or give away) the books I’ve bought up to now
  78. Go cliff-diving
  79. Help one of my film-director-aspirant friends get ‘er done
  80. Love my work
  81. Make noodles by hand
  82. See Weezer live
  83. Unplug everything in the house (well, maybe not the fridge or freezer) for a day
  84. Try surfing
  85. Find one eggplant dish I like
  86. Visit the museums in our town
  87. Wear a toga somewhere
  88. Build an aquarium

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