LOVE THURSDAY
Cindy Maddera
Because it just seems to be the thing to do, Sunday I started working on my Life List. I have been following Maggie Mason and her Life List Adventures and had just about decided to start a list of my own when Chookooloonks posted her list.
I only glanced at the first few things on Chookooloonks' list because I didn't want to copy. But I reached a lull some where around #60, so I started looking around at what other people had listed, including Chookooloonks. What I was surprised to discover was how so many of us have the same or similar things on our lists.
Also, I was surprised at just how difficult writing the list could be. It started out to be really easy and at what point I thought about making it my "50 things I want to do before I die" list because I know there are things that I will probably never get a chance to do. But this is where the list becomes important. The list is like a pact I'm making with myself to live each day to the fullest. It's a promise to get up and get out there and just do something. Any thing.
I'm up to #91 on the list, so I'm not ready to post it. But here's the first 50 (no particular order)
- Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
- Grow my own vegetables
- Move out of the state I am currently residing
- Learn to really use my camera
- Live like a native in France
- Learn to speak a foreign language fluently (preferably French, if I plan on living like a native).
- Visit all fifty states (I have 19 down, 31 to go!)
- Learn to scuba dive
- Take a Zumba class (because I think it would be hilarious)
- Learn Ashtanga yoga
- Go kayaking with whales
- Hike parts of the Oregon trail
- Learn to surf
- Go snow skiing at least once
- Go on a cross country trip on my Vespa
- Learn to make cheese
- Get my bicycle fixed and ride it!
- Travel on Route 66
- Visit Yosimite
- Taste 100 new wines
- Learn Acupuncture
- Raise some chickens
- Have a Beach Blanket Bingo themed party at the lake
- Buy a good swimsuit (I've avoided the purchase of any swimsuit for the last three summers)
- Learn to drive a standard
- Take a small engine repair class and learn how to do my own scooter repairs
- Read Bhagavad Gita all the way through
- Memorize the Yoga Sutras
- Visit Yellowstone
- See Mt. Rushmore
- Ride elephants in Thailand
- Camp on the beach
- Learn to make gravy
- Tour the Grecian islands
- Take my mom to Ireland
- Buy and refurbish a n old 50s styled camper
- Go hang gliding
- Be in a play
- Sing on stage
- Have a dinner party
- Learn how to make tofu
- Grow my hair out really long and then cut it all off for charity
- Design a Threadless shirt
- Learn how to can foods
- Learn to make pickles
- Try 52 new recipes
- Taste 100 different kinds of loose leaf tea
- Learn to play poker
- Be in New Orleans on Halloween
- Learn to fly an airplane
Here's to life! Happy Love Thursday!