So, lots of people have one of those lists. The list where you write out everything you wish to do in your lifetime. It’s not an uncommon thing, these lists. I know Maggie from Mighty Girl has her Mighty List, as do many of her readers.

My list was one that I’ve been adding to in my journal since I was old enough to have one when I was 13. Each new journal started a new list, and only the really important things made it all the way to here. When your 13 ‘kiss a cute boy’ seems like a nice thing to put on your list. But when you’re 25 you’ve kissed many a cute boy, and it doesn’t need to be on The List anymore.

In the last week or so I’ve been seriously thinking about what I want to do with myself. I’m all fired up to DO the things I want to do. And as I’m all fired up with enthusiasm, it seems appropriate to share my list. So I can be held accountable, and actually DO these things:

The List.

1 – Feed Stingrays by hand

2 – Learn to Kitesurf

3 – Learn and play a song with bar chords on my guitar

4 – Get Singing Lessons

5 – Move to London

6 – Learn sign language and volunteer somewhere that requires me to use it

7 – Make a successful chicken roast

8 – Get a tattoo

9 – Ride the snow in Europe. Specifically: France, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria.

10 – See the Auroras in person, with my own eyes

11 – Own a house

12 – Make (a GOOD) Pumpkin Soup from scratch

13 – Ride/Swim with an Elephant

14 – Have children

15 – Go to a Music Festival in Europe with Bunny. One of those ones where you have to wear gumboots.

16 – Visit the Greek Islands

17 – Learn how to ride a horse (and actually have it do as I ask)

18 – Shoot + Make a brilliant snow video with sound and clever effects

19 – Meet one of my blog friends, in real life, in their city

20 – Complete the 365 Project

21 – Build/Design my own House from the ground up

22 – See the snow monkeys

23 – Volunteer to help in a 3rd World Country

24 – Learn to ride a motorbike

25 – Swim with whales/dolphins

26 – Hug a koala bear

27 – Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity

28 – Ride at every one of Transworld Snowboardings Top 10 Snowboarding Resorts of North America (2009) [Whistler/Blackcomb, Mammoth Mountain/California, Northstar-At-Tahoe/California, Buttermilk/Colorado, Bear Mountain/California, Snowmass/Colorado, Breckenridge/Colorado, Park City/Utah, Keystone/Colorado Vail/Colorado]

29 – Make Pierogi from scratch

30 – Ride a bike around the base of the Eiffel Tower.

31 – Rock an African Safari

32 – Walk on a frozen body of water

33 – Change a flat tire.

34 – See the Grand Canyon.

35 – Fly first class.

36 – Complete a Guitar-Hero song on Expert

37 – Get my Full License

38 – See the Pyramids (Egyptian and Aztec)

39 – Visit all seven continents of the world (North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia)

40 – Be happily married at some point

41 – Get naked on a nude beach

42 – Make a quilt. All by myself.

43 – Go hunting, and cleanly kill a pest (ie, a Possum or rabbits)

44 – Cut off all my hair and be brave, and get a pixie cut

45 – Ride in a helicopter

46 – Figure out how to use my DSLR without the Auto-Focus function

47 – Take recreational culinary classes

48 – Walk along the Great Wall of China

49 – Finish Crocheting my red scarf

50 – Join the Mile High Club

51 – Ride in a hot air balloon

52 – Drive a convertible with the top down

53 – Visit the Amazon

54 – See the giant turtles at The Galapagos Islands

55 – Climb Ayers Rock (Australia)

56 – See the statues at Easter Island

57 – Dive in a submarine

58 – See the Leaning Tower of Pisa

59 – Visit the Vatican City

60 – Visit the Taj Mahal

61 – Pay off my student loan

62 – Attend a Movie Premier

63 – (Graffiti) Bomb a wall

64 – Walk on a glacier

65 – Wander the halls of the Louvre

66 – Plant a tree.

67 – Milk a cow

68 – Visit Stonehenge

69 – Learn how to surf

70 – Participate in La Tomatina

71 – Create a meal from vegetables I’ve grown in a veggie garden

72 – Pat a Tiger

73 – Go on a cruise

74 – Take a trapeze class

75 – Attempt to make cheese

76 – Try a deep-dish pizza in Chicago

77 – Do a road trip from Auckland to Dunedin

78 – See Polar Bears in the wild (Churchill, Manitoba?)

79 – Win and yell ‘Bingo!’ in a Bingo Hall

80 – Experience Zero Gravity

81 – Sand board in the Desert

82 – Ride in a Zorb down a hill

83 – Volunteer at a soup kitchen

84 – Help a stranger

85 – Ride in a gondola down the canals in Venice

86 – Visit the Serengeti

87 – Sail a yacht

88 – Have $10k in my savings account

89 – See a Shakespeare Play at the Globe Theatre

90 – Visit the coffee houses in Amsterdam

91 – Kayak around the Lagoons in the Bahamas

92 – Learn from a Silversmith and make something lovely

93 – Prepare and host a 5-course dinner

94 – Grow strawberries in my garden

95 – See the Nutcracker

96 – Go dog sledding

97 – Mail 100 hand written letters

98 – Ride the Orient Express through Asia

99 – Witness a solar eclipse

100 – Ride the snow in Japan

If I complete something on my list, it will no doubt get a post. :) Do any of you have lists?

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