Okay so I pinched this thread idea from the 100lb club but it was such a good one. I was actually talking to someone at work about how when I was in high school I made a list of things I wanted to do before I turned 40.
Name 10 things you would like to do or accomplish in your lifetime
And I actually did some of them - got to get to work on those last few!
1) Visit London, England -done
2) Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras -done
3) Visit New York City-done
4) Learn to belly dance - started 3 years ago and still doing it!
6) Learn to play an instrument - bought a Tablah drum about a month ago and I am praticing along with cd's to get the rhythms down - I plan on taking a class in the fall
Things left to do:
Buy my house
Learn to drive
get a dog
visit Las Vegas and renew my wedding vows in a tacky ceremony!
visit Italy - not sure which part yet, maybe Tuscany.
1.Somehow get my menopausal *** back in creative mode and finish the 3 quilts I have going right now, and do all the other ones that used to crowd my mind when I had one.
2. Organize my house.
3. Get yoga in EVERY day.
4. Switch to decaf.
5. Go back to college and become a teacher. And teach 1st grade.
6. Learn to play piano well.
7. Learn to speak French better. Then learn Spanish, then German.
8. Read and study just about every Complete Idiot's Guide Book out there. On every subject imaginable.
9. Learn calculus.
10. Find a way to get my In-Laws (all of them) to a Parallel Universe or something---as far away from me as possible. Or at least to find a way to not have them be a part of MY life, just my kids and hubby's.
1: Have friends and family that love me unconditionally. (Done!)
2: Find love & marriage with a great man. (Done! I still want to have a REAL wedding though..)
3: Have a child. (Done!)
4: Weed out the dysfunctional/toxic people in my life. (Almost Done!)
5: Visit Crater Lake. (Done!)
6: Own a home. (Done!)
7: Go back to college/have a satisfying career.
8: Visit places I've always wanted to see..(Australia, Grand Canyon, Hawaii, NYC, Historical Places back east, a Cardinals home game at Busch Stadium, my adopted bro in NJ, etc..)
9: Swim with the Dolphins.
10: Be financially set for my family and I for the rest of our lives.
Mauv-I have done 4 of the last things on your list.
Okay, mine are...
...hot air ballon ride
...visit Australia
...go to a nude beach
...have a daughter
...live by the ocean
...have a sucessful crafts business
...??? be content in where I am in my life
Mauv-I have done 4 of the last things on your list.
...go to a nude beach..
Hey me too!! I hate clothes... I'd be content on my own lil' piece of sand..soaking in the rays with a nice beverage in my hand and nothing else on but sunglasses and a hat.
1. Own a house
2. Spend a year of my life in service (and I don't mean my DH or my job! ) I am thinking the Peace Corp or something like that, I am sure a chemist/engineer person would be good for something
3. Write a book
4. Go to a yoga retreat
5. Become a sponsor (at least go through the 12 steps of recovery 1 time!)
6. Go back to Europe, and visit Japan
7. Do a motivational presentation
8. Live debt free (working on this one, harder than it sounds :P )
9. Live free of food/diet obsession (see #8 comment )
10. Accept my days as they come, one moment at a time
1. Travel to South Africa, New Zealand and Australia
2. Go to New York and Las Vegas
3. Finish my degree
4. Loose the weight and keep it off for the rest of my life
5. Go to Rome and Madrid
6. Become strong, fast and flexible
7. Work abroad
8. Have a month off somewhere warm and read the collected work of Jane Austen in a hammock
9. Find the love of my life
10. Do a triathlon
Hm. Travelling looks like a big issue. I have to start earning money again first though...