They’ve been popping up everywhere lately, and with all the introspection I’ve subjected myself (and you) to over the past months, I decided just to make the damn list already!
So – here it is: 50 things I want to do/learn/see/accomplish. As I accomplish, I’ll cross them out. A couple things that I’ve already done were awesome enough to include on this list pre-crossed-out. I update this list regularly – take off things that I no longer care about and add things that become priorities…
- Attend a yoga retreat
- Be my own boss
- Become a marathoner (October 4, 2009)
Brew my own beerBuy a piano- Climb a 14,000’+ mountain
- Complete a 70.3
Develop into a competent public speaker- Do three pull ups
Drink at a pub in Ireland(February/March 2018)Dye my hair a color not found anywhere in natureEat Mexican food in Mexico(October 2017)- Finish a Century Ride
- Go to the opera in Italy
- Gracefully and easily do headstands in yoga
- Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Host a formal dinner party(September 30, 2011!)- Ice skate
- Kayak
Learn to fence(July 27, 2015)- Live in another country
- Make my own cheese
- Not worry about money
- Open a Swiss bank account
Own chickensno longer a priority- Photograph the Parthenon
Publish a novel(Fuck yeah, bitches!)Receive money for writing(April 13, 2015)- Road trip across the U.S.
- Run 1,000 miles in one year
- Scuba dive
- See the Taj Mahal
- Serve homemade lefse
- Set foot in all fifty states (15 Remain: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia)
- Sew a quilt
- Speak a foreign language fluently
- Stand in one of the great pyramids
Stay in the penthouse suite of a luxury hotel(May 29, 2015)
- Stop by Stonehenge
Successfully meditateTake dance lessons(March 31, 2015)
- Throw pottery (on a wheel, not against the wall)
Tour Sedlec Ossuary(March 2019)- Visit Machu Picchu
- Watch the championship singles matches at Wimbledon
Wear a bikini in public(summer 2015)- Finish a 50K
Travel alone (for fun) to somewhere I’ve never been before(Iceland August 2016)- Get back to pre-baby fitness levels before said baby is 10 (goal date to run 15 miles is 4/7/22)