- learn to speak a foreign language fluently
- apply to be on The Amazing Race
- record my grandmothers telling me their life stories and how they met and fell in love with my grandfathers
- learn to focus on health instead of weight loss
- travel to at least 10 foreign countries that I've never been to
- go to midwifery school and spend at least a year using those skills in a 3rd work country
- write a book
- be on a talk show as a guest
- learn to knit
- read something by Charles Dickens
get rid of my children's outgrown clothes- move one last time to a home that I will live in forever
- enter and run in a half marathon and actually RUN the whole way
- stay in a hut over the ocean in Tahiti
- renew my wedding vows on my 20th anniversary in Hawaii
- take a road trip in an RV and visit as many National Parks as I can in a month
- continue having a weekend retreat with my girlfriends annually
- continue going to at least one conference a year that is just for me and my writing "career"
- learn how to dress for my body type
- stop drinking diet Pepsi... again
- start my own non-profit organization and get a great board of directors
- take a cooking class
- visit Washington DC and do the tourist thing
- learn how to make my Mamaw's sourdough bread
- learn how to make my Granny's pulled cream candy
- find a church that I am in love with and pour myself into it
- learn how to accessorize
- take a dance class of any kind so that I am not self conscious about dancing in public
- learn how to coupon and meal plan
- have my own garden
- grow fruit trees in my backyard
- find an excercise that I actually like and commit to do it daily
- have built in book cases
- get laser hair removal on my eyebrows
- get very drunk in Las Vegas with my husband, visit a wedding chapel and make a big scene
- fly in a helicopter
- learn how to scuba dive
- float in the Dead Sea
- snorkel on the Great Barrier Reef
- learn colligraphy
- go vegetarian
- be completely debt free with the exception of our home
- learn how to use power tools and then build something
- actually print all my digital pictures and scrapbook them
- meet a sitting president
- read the entire Bible
- get a job when the kids go to school with some sort of global health or global missions organization
- become a CASA advocate for children
- go on a series of mission trips to minister to missionaries to help them ward off burnout
- learn how to play Tiny Dancer and Piano Man on the piano
- learn how to play a few tunes on the guitar so I can have a common interest with my hubby
- read Anna Karinina
- convert all of the home movies from my childhood to digital
- study yoga and learn to meditate
- go to Disney Land
- sleep under the stars with nothing but a sleeping bag
- ride in a hot air balloon
complete Christine's sexperiment sex challenge- go to the Smithsonian
- complete a triathalon
- go to intergenerational church camp with my children
- own a vacation home that we can share with our friends and family
eat at In And Out Burger- have a living room with enough seating so that my entire family can sit down all at one time
- sing a song at karaoke
- get a masters degree
- have an actual defined muscle somewhere (anywhere!) on my body
publish something where my name with be in print- go on a safari
- get naked under a waterfall
- join a book club
- learn to accept compliments gracefully
- learn to make jelly and how to can vegetables
- do 5 pullups in a row
- see a play on Broadway in NYC
- learn how to take really good pictures
- be a more attentive wife
- learn how to fold fancy napkins
- create a grant to help other families afford adoption
- walk on the Great Wall of China
- see U2 in concert
- have a garage that I can park a car in
- tithe a full 10%
- learn how to correctly fill in a US map with all those darn tiny New England states
- find a form of seafood that I can stomach
see the Everglades- eat brunch at Brennan's in New Orleans
- hug a chimpanzee
- own a pair of really awesome red high heels
- go to a taping of a sitcom
- read something I've written in front of an audience
- learn a card trick
- learn a good joke that I can tell in public
- ride on a train that has sleeping quarters and a dinner car
- climb a volcano
- go to the summer Olympics
- go to a wine tasting and stomp on grapes like the scene from I Love Lucy
- become a regular blood donor
- make a time capsule and bury it
- go to a New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square
Life List
December 28, 2011
It's the season of New Year's Resolutions. This year, I'm not making resolutions because I never seem to follow through with them. Instead, this year, I'm making a list of things that I want to do, see, learn and accomplish in my life. Here are 100 things that I'd like to start working toward. I hope that I can cross lots of these off in the next year. (I'll update this from time to time with my progress!)
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