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Giveaway: Mighty Summit Gift Bag
When we were pulling together gifts for the Mighty Summit, we set a few aside to give away. There will be Summit giveaways on Mighty Girl all this week, but this first one is a doozy. Here’s what’s up for grabs today:
I bought a pair of these perfect ultimate travel shoes a while back, and they’re one of my new favorite things. Tieks fold in half so you can stuff them in your purse, but the quality is amazing. They come in all sorts of candy colors and metallics — plus they pack flat and slip off easily when you’re heading through airport security. The winner gets to choose any pair for $135 and under. I recommend orange.
Photojojo’s Tokyo Dreamer Strap
I can’t believe how long it took me to replace my ugly, logoed camera strap. Photojojo’s Tokyo Dreamer strap really dresses up your camera, and even has a little pocket for extra memory cards or a lens cloth.
Lola Epiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson
Maile was an attendee at this year’s Summit, and she brought along her bright Epiphanie camera bags. I use mine as my everyday purse and have finally stopped busting expensive lenses and gadgets by wrapping them in hand towels and shoving them into an un-padded purse. Now I can have my SLR, my flip, and my phone(s) with me without anything banging together and cracking or getting scratched by my keys.
And that’s it for today. Pretty good, huh? To enter to win, please leave a comment about something on your Life List.
Now for the fine print: Please only leave one comment, because it’s the nice thing to do, and also because multiple entries will be disqualified. I’ll use random.org to select the winner, and I’ll announce who won at the top of this post and in a separate post next Tuesday.
To have coffee and croissants in Paris.
However impossible this dream might be, I’ve added Live in a Lighthouse as a new goal. Anything involving crashing waves, aran sweaters and saving the lives of mariners everywhere does it for me.
Ride a tandem bicycle!
There is only one thing on my lifelist right now. I’ve been telling myself that until that’s done, there will be no additions.
It’s almost done.
I tried to go skydiving this past weekend, but it was too windy. Trying again in a week.
At some point, I want to travel to Germany to see the remnants of WWII – like the concentration camps. A bit of a downer, I know, but it’s a huge part of the world’s history. And I feel like being there will make a bigger impact on me than reading and watching historical videos can. I want to truly understand the scale of it all.
Take a solo trip for personal growth, not professional growth in 2011 and OH get picked for Mighty Summit 2011.
At the top of my life list: get a Ph.D. in immunology. That means a second B.S. first. Then a Master’s.
Also: finding a babysitter so I have time to do any of it.
Maintain a snail mail correspondence for one year.
I started this, now I just need to complete it.
Oooooh, I love all of those things.
On my Life List:
Attend Holi in India
(Preferably not as a tourist. I want to have been living there for at least 6 months at that point.)
Finally take a photographer class.
I am still working on making a life list. Currently I am just loving the life I am living now. But, man, it could use a new camera bag in it.
On my life list is taking voice and dance lessons. You know, so I can become a triple threat – a singing, dancing comedian. Isn’t that what everyone’s looking for in an entertainer?
My son started preschool yesterday and he went to bed last night with ease and slept through the night. It’s the first time the two have happened in one night in his entire two years and it made me feel like I could conquer my world, one life list item at time.
To go to Italy, as cliche as it sounds, and wander around and eat too much prosciutto and pizza and drink tons of wine.
find a job i love!
Invent a sandwich. Yeah, yeah. Silly. I know. But it will be a really great sandwich.
I’m working towards my goal of knitting myself an entire sweater. Currently: knitting a small dress for my niece. This will be the first thing I’ve knit that I’m going to give to someone (if it doesn’t turn out horrendous that is!)
Run a 5K!
To get really really good at something. I have no idea where my talent lies, but I must have some in there somewhere…I just need to figure out what it is!
Watched my girl teach something to my boy earlier today. Pretty satisfying.
A doozy indeed!
I want to learn how to do calligraphy. That would help make my life really beautiful.
Make a truly spectacular martini!
To take my son up in a hot air balloon.
Visit the very remote island, in Ireland, where my mother grew up.
Wow, scary cool giveaway! There are several items on my list that I’m working toward (long-term stuff), but the one affecting me day-to-day is to do some yoga every day for a month. Even just one sun salutation counts!
Thanks!
To read the books in the library alphabetically, just like Francie Nolan in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Something on my life list is to visit France and Germany. I’ve been saving up frequent flyer miles for years and I think next summer may be it!
Speak French fluently
wear shorts, miniskirt, or dress next summer (uh… have body issues… working on it…)
I put raise a guide dog on mine last year when I did the mondo beyondo class – so far so good – we have been raising Orchid since December and she is a super dog.
Wow, I so want all of that amazing stuff. From my life list, recently accomplished:
- Unearthed an arrowhead on an archaeological dig
- Walked across the Brooklyn Bridge
Hoping to accomplish in the near future:
- Take a drawing class
- Treat my mom to a Caribbean cruise
I want to visit my hometown again, in the Mojave Desert, California. It’s been YEARS since I’ve been back…around 13, and I miss it.
I crossed #66 off my list this weekend: Cook an ostrich egg. http://bit.ly/8XhgpO Great fun to drill into it. Not so much fun to smell.
I’m working on finding a job that I love or, finding a way to make a job out what I already love to do.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
To take my kids to Paris!
Live in Tuscany for six months!
Create something and sell it. Also, taste 50 bourbons.
I haven’t written out a life list, but I did take the plunge and get pregnant this year, instead of waiting for the mythical “perfect timing.” I think it’s all going to work out, too! Very exciting.
To stand on top of a mountain in New Zealand and just breathe.
Own my own business!
I just crossed off my #91, which is to get classy family photos taken. Next up? Finish knitting a baby sweater whose instructions have foiled me FOUR times. My baby is only two months old, but I’m gonna make it toddler-sized just in case things don’t go as planned…
my mom instilled in her children the importance of healthy living (she was a nurse after all!). when she lost her battle with cancer, i seemed to forget those lessons. i began running again a few months ago, and began to find a place where i felt the self-love, strength, and determination my mom so easily brought into my life each day she was alive. this january will mark five years since she has been gone, and my goal is to run a 10k to remember her, raise money for cancer research, and celebrate her life and the feelings she always enlivened in me. (after a 10k we will move on to a half marathon!)
I just started my life list and right now the two things I am actively trying to complete are:
1) find the perfect little black dress
2) make a baby
These two things may potentially conflict :)
I haven’t officially compiled my Life LIst yet. But, the events of the last week have inspired me to become more socially active, and volunteer.
Accept that I, and not someone else, am responsible for my sense of self-worth.
I recently told my dad that I wanted to learn the names of trees in my area and keep a notebook of drawings of the flowers, leaves, bark, and tree shapes. He bought me a tree identification book for my birthday! Right now I’m headed outside to tackle tree #1.
On my Life List: going back to Hawaii, with my children. The journey itself might kill us, but when we get there, I’d like for them to experience the utter peace and beauty there. It’s otherworldly.
Style a shelter mag story!
to live on an island in maine!
I would like to learn to line dance or square dance (or both!)
Take tango lessons, preferably in Argentina.
It’s not the sexiest thing on my list but I’m working on growing my emergency fund and just this morning took a step to help more cash flow into it.
I’ve also started to tackle “Expand my community” by finding a new volunteering gig.
In September I crossed off #35 from my list, right after turning 35, take artistic nude photos of myself. It was fun and also traumatic. See here, totally sfw, I promise. http://tiny.cc/ixmwp
I feel silly about this one, but I really really hope it happens someday: I would like to wear matching underwear consistently. There’s just something so charming and French about having a lovely bra and panties to match.
AB, I can help! Come to my house and style away! Ha! (Please?)
I decided that I couldn’t let my life go by without learning to make a kick-ass focaccia. Since I put that item on the list last year, I’ve gone gluten-free, but that hasn’t deterred my pursuit of heavenly bread. If anything, I’m that much more determined to make something that’ll curl my toes!
knit a sweater…seems silly but it REALLY intimidates me
Move to the Yukon…except I did that almost 2 years ago now. What’s next? How about…mush a dog team!
#64 Learn to drive a motorcycle.
I recently got to check something off my list! Eat a meal at Alinea restaurant in Chicago. No small feat for me, since it’s both pricey, and far from my home in Vancouver, Canada. It’s been on my list for about 4 years, and the feeling of getting to check off one of the biggies made the experience that much more incredible!
It’s my husband’s dream to own his own garden center, and it’s my dream to help him do that. It would make him so happy! Fingers crossed that this is our year.
I’m working on my list, and really loving that it will force me to take risks and step outside my comfort zone.
Number one on the list? Take a ballroom dance class.
Currently high on my Life List – get my teeth straightened (again) so that I don’t dread photos for the rest of my life.
My life list, which is short thusfar, includes learning how to use a camera. For real.
- go to an NFL game? check.
- go to an NFL game without having a panic attack upon hearing the roar in the stadium? workin’ on it.
publish a book, baby.
I’ve always wanted to see the aurora borealis. AND i just learned that when I do this that I should (and will not) whistle while watching it. To do so would bring evil down upon me and that does not sound like fun.
I want to become a certified EMT.
Visit the country of my birth and meet a long-lost relative.
Right now I’m working on a “101 in 1001″ list, but when that’s done, I’m creating a life list. One of my 101 in 1001 items I haven’t completed yet is travel to a foreign country with my husband. I’ve been to several but he hasn’t ever been outside the U.S. and I think it’s so important to travel as much as one can afford to. It’s so enriching and eye-opening.
I’m half way there; this is my work-in-progress right now: create a bedroom haven for myself.
Confession – I need to get my list officially written. However one thing on it is to take a hot air balloon trip.
One of the things on my list (#41, actually) is to organize a 5k for charity. I’ve talked to a few people who have done this and gotten tips, and, I might have just found a route. I’ve talked to my charity of choice (Puppy Hill Farm Animal Rescue) and they’ll support in any way they can, of course, so I’m really hopeful I can make this happen within the year!
I would like to bake a pie from scratch. I cook but do not bake at all.
I would like to spend one Bloomsday reading Joyce’s Ulysses!
life list item: climb mount everest!
To take Improv classes (which I started doing! – yay!)
OMG, I want one of those camera bags SO bad. I actually just checked off a life list item last night – score a hat trick (3 goals) in a soccer game! Woohoo! In fact, I slam dunked that puppy and went ahead and scored 4 :-)
run a second marathon (and beat my time from the first).
I’m working on changing my lifestyle to include both daily exercise and daily artistic expression.
I want to go back to college when my kids get older and finish college.
Skydive!!!
What a glorious collection of things!
I’ve been doing yearly lists for a couple years now (currently working on 27 before 27) and have been drafting my life list for the last couple of months (but haven’t published it yet!). However, that hasn’t stopped me from working on it already – this summer I learned how to pickle and can and will be eating very well come winter!
I want to make sure that my kids inherit my love for reading.
To publish a book. Actually, several books: a book of my poetry, an academic monograph, an edited collection, and a book of translations. All of them are started, none of them are published…YET.
Buy a new car with 0 miles!!!
For my life list, in March 2011, my husband and I are quitting our jobs, selling everything, and backpacking around the world. I am so excited!
Besides actually transferring my life list from my notebook to a public space (we all need a little public encouragement), I will finish (I will!) my memoir about getting a Women’s Studies degree in Texas during the Bush Administration.
To write a book!
I’m working on one of my Life List goals right now: Make regular exercise a real habit.
I’ve started running and am training for my first 5k.
have an affair with a frenchman. :)
On my life list: Teach my nephew something new everytime I get to see him.
Ever since I read Anne of Green Gables I’ve wanted to see Prince Edward Island!
I’m working on the idea of a life list. I would really like to go hang gliding. I bet I can try to make that happen.
I want to sing the National Anthem at a major league baseball game!
We seemed to have missed it again this year, but one of these days, we’ll make it up to the mountains to see the Aspens change.
Get my work published in a print magazine, with my name right under the title!
To visit the Greek Islands.
I was so inspired by your Mighty Summit (and Broad Summit last year) that I’ve planned my 40th birthday party celebration to be a sort of mini summit of sorts. I rented a house out in the wine country of Sonoma County (I live here…) and invited 8 of my closest girlfriends for a ladies only sleepover. I’ve made gift bags for all my friends like you would for a kids party but instead filled it with things I love or things they can use during the sleepover (fluffy socks, eye masks for sleeping, etc.) I even “borrowed” a few ideas I saw in your pics of the Mighty Summit. I bought gallon sized mason jars and tea candles to have on the deck of the house for our outside lounging and have made gift tags for all the party bags with quotes about friendship. You are always so inspiring to me on how to really enjoy life. It’s the details that can really make a big difference. Thanks for always offering such great ideas and making me make my life list.
Design a holiday window display for a department store in NYC.
Watch the sunset from the top of Table Mountain.
I officially started my Life List this week by starting to run in order to do a 5k. I’m excited to get started!!
To record my (remaining) grandparents telling stories from their lives.
I just checked off two items on my life list!
1) Go to Oktoberfest (didn’t realize it WAS on my life list until I stumbled upon the opportunity, go me)
2) Visit Italy
Climb a Colorado 14′er!
My Life List is full of travel adventures. Hong Kong is pretty high up there. Hoping to go in the next few years.
Live in a house with a lemon tree.
Homebrew beer!
One life list item crossed off: go to Las Vegas and see “O”. It was amazing.
I ran in Oregon’s Hood to Coast cross-country team race event this August! It wasn’t on my list until I was asked to be on a team until 2 weeks prior to the race, but since a lot of my items are sports/activity/trying new things related, I said yes and went ahead and did it!
http://monstergoldfish.blogspot.com/2010/08/hood-to-coast-life-list-accomplishment.html
It was hard but fun, and I definitely have a strong feeling of accomplishment for having done it. Which is awesome since I’m not doing so hot on my List item labeled “get along with the ex-bf better” right now.
That gift bag is great swag – would love to win it!
My life list has always involved living abroad, which I’ve now done…so on to (slowly) starting my own business.
Writing a book is also up there, but somehow it seems far more intimidating than a business.
Work on an archeology dig.
Make my own wine!
At the top of my life list, at least at the moment, is to go back to school and get my master’s degree. I know that I can’t move forward without also moving up.
Learn how to make some fancy truffles. Yum!
To not work for a summer. No school, no work, no plans.
I finally got around to blogging about my honeymoon, in which I was able to complete TWO Life List items: Ride an Elephant and Take a Cooking Class in Thailand!
I’ve been constructing my life list in my head for the past two years or so… I think I’m finally ready to put pen to paper and do this thing. I mean, life is going on with or without me; I’d better hurry up and figure out what I want it to be!
On my life list: “Throw awesome birthday party for myself.” I just did that last month. I turned 40, and celebrated with a bonfire picnic and friends at the beach, where we played and sang American and Balkan folk songs (ok, if Johnny Cash and Bob Marley are folk music…) It was amazing.
Hey, #68/Katie: That’s on my list too! But I have no plans/ideas on how and when to make it happen…
Live abroad again. Have some babies. Working to make both happen within the next 5 years!
Life List Item #23: Go to Iceland (inspired in part by the Masons!) became a reality last June, when we started trying for a baby. Now my son’s 5 months old, and his middle name is Thor.
I want to fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in a hot air balloon.
To spend a summer living in another country with my family.
I want to dance at my daughter’s wedding, I don’t know how to dance, and she’s only 16. I have time to learn to dance, but I desperately hope I am around long enough.
TAKE A TRAIN SOMEWHERE! I can’t believe I’ve never taken a train, but I want to, even if on a short trip… this is the year – I have a few months left! :) – oh… and what a fabulous prize!!!!!!!!
Harvest cranberries in a cranberry bog!
Swim the front crawl endurance swim (500 metre). I learned to swim earlier this year, I’m now in lessons to refine my stroke, and hope to be able to actually finish a whole 50 metre lap by the end of this week. Progress!
i want to climb a for real mountain (maybe 16000 ft or higher)
I scratched off a doozy, to ride in a 168km two day bike event to raise money for MS. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life!
To drive a dump truck.
Learn to play the eukalele(or at least learn how to spell it)
Now that fall is here I am doing this one:
Make a lattice apple pie from scratch.
(I’m a pie dough rookie.)
to one day buy a house that has a library in it.
Have a private vow renewal with my husband in an ultra-romantic, exotic location.
Nothing fancy, but something I’ve always wanted to do:
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge.
And… This will actually be happening during a whirlwind 20-hour trip to NYC in November! I am almost more excited about crossing this item off my list than the actual reason I’m making the trip in the first place.
Starting my own dog shelter. :)
Recently accomplished goals from the Life List:
- barefoot winegrape stomping
- giving a tear-inducing speech at my sister’s wedding
Need to accomplish:
- host an utterly fabulous Thanksgiving dinner for friends
- live for a year in a climate that doesn’t change (much) with the seasons
To ride my bike to work, which means riding it from Queens into Manhattan. I accomplished this once so far, and it was pretty terrifying. But I hope to do it again soon. I should probably add “get over fear of biking in the city” to the list as well.
Great shoes!
Visit every U.S. national park!
to write my mother’s story.
Visit a new country every year
I want to make a time-lapse video – I’ve loved them for years, but being inspired by The Unseen Sea sealed the deal. So, thanks for that.
get our vegetable garden and fruit trees up to snuff to actually grow enough food to sustain our little family.
Buy my dad a ’69 GTO– Matador Red inside and out.
I’ve started my Life List a dozen different times on paper scraps. If I win, I’ll compile them all together into one proper list this weekend… okay so I’ll do it anyway even if I don’t win:)
To take my mother to Europe, because she deserves it.
The strangest item on my lifelist is to learn about voice work – ideally being the voice of an audiobook. I love reading the funny bits out loud! But it’s so completely different from all the other things I’m doing with my life.
I want to make croissants from scratch.
To dance the tango in Argentina.
Oh, man, be around long enough to hold a grandchild.
This may sound crazy, but it’s on my list.
TO DO A CARTWHEEL
After cancer and chemo, my body (and skeleton) is weak and my confidence in my body’s abilities has diminished. Just one more cartwheel….
Visit all 7 California channel islands. Three down, four to go!
Learn to change a tire by myself.
That is THE most beautiful purse I have ever seen!
Become a really good home cook.
my best friend and i just went on a trip to new orleans, and each picked a life list item to complete before our trip a year from now. mine?? write 50 poems in the next year. i’ve got some time set apart tonight to start.
learn to play an instrument
My seven year old wants my husband and I to be in a band with her, my husband already plays the guitar, I suspect my ability to learn an instrument will take longer than her desire to have her parents in a band with her. And yet…..
oh man i really want that camera bag!!
at the top of my list is to go to Iceland and learn about my family’s history.
Life List: Roundtrip road trip from coast to coast! Eastbound northern route, westbound southern route.
Go to Germany!
To swim in a phosphorescent ocean!!
I need to update my life list, but still near the top is to live in Europe for a while.
mine was to become a mom. lucy was born on 8/18. :)
One item was to go to the Olympics. And I did, this past February! It was spectacular!
Sorry I didn’t read the fine print thoroughly enough. Here is my REAL comment!
Leave the country again!
What lovely giveawys!
The very first thing on my life list is to create a life list. But when I do that, I know one of the things on it will be to ride in a hot air balloon.
The summit looks amazing, Maggie! Do you invite people to attend or can people sign up for it (I didn’t see a sign-up form anywhere on the Might Summit page)?
My volunteer orientation is next week. Afterward, I plan to tutor the HECK out of some kids. Let’s go, theoretical teaching plans!
I didn’t know it was on my life list until I learned that I can do it Sonoma – ziplining through the Redwood forest! I’m going in November with a girlfriend to celebrate our birthdays.
Because of MightyGirl and Chookooloonks I recently started my own life list! One of my favorites is run with the bulls in Spain!
To raise healthy, happy children.
Love those Tieks! Am thinking they would make great bridesmaids gifts, especially if I can afford 5 pairs (eep). As for the Life List, I am completely supportive of adding things that are already done to instill a sense of accomplishment from unplanned but still momentous events. Thus I have simultaneously added and crossed off: “Bail a loved one out of jail”. Last but not least, momma needs a new pair of shoes.
30. Crack my grandma’s cinnamon bun recipe, which is written down no where and which she seems incapable of making in front of other humans (it never comes out right when there’s an audience).
Vacation in New Zealand!
Learn to play the banjo!
I’m four weeks into banjo lessons and was just able to pick out the melody of Beethoven’s 9th as I practiced!
One of my list items is to go to the Galapagos. I’m pretty close, since I’m already living in South America, but I only have a year left to get it done!
To live in a really tiny space with minimal stuff.
Right now I badly want to finish grad school, probably because I’m only halfway through and so the end seems so far away.
Skydive.
Send my husband to Culinary School.
Speak at a commencement ceremony (invited, not as a crasher)
I want to have 3 months of salary in a savings account.
I want to go tubing down a slow river with beers in a cooler.
I want to make Julia’s lobster thermidor.
I want to take my mom on a vacation to Europe. She has always been so supportive of my travels abroad and I would love to experience that with her.
This month I’d like to cross learn how to drive stick-shift off my list.
To get married at the top of Vail mountain. On skis. In a wedding dress.
To be accomplished 12.11.10
I want to complete a 5k without walking! (I’ll be making my first attempt on November 20 at my local Turkey Trot- wish me luck!)
Drink grappa in Italy. :)
My favorite thing on my life list is to have a Cadbury egg mcflurry. It’s kind of a dual goal, because I do not live in a country that serves them, and I’ve always wanted to leave the US.
Also, it’s the one most likely to happen soon!
Me, my two boys, my husband and my camera in Prague.
I want to learn how to really use my camera and take better photographs. Also, to get back into shape – this is on my life list because it will make my daily life so much better.
I recently added: Write a song, music and lyrics.
I want to visit Tokyo, climb to the top of Mt. Fuji and visit the Harjuku district to people watch, find fashion inspiration, and take photos to document the glorious madness!
I want to live abroad for a year. Anywhere but where I’m from and immerse myself in another culture.
Write a book!
Also, take a cooking class in Italy.
Ride a horse across a field (or beach) at a full gallop. If I’m escaping from evil bad guys, added bonus. :)
One of the items on my life list is to learn how to make cheese. So far I’ve taken a class on making yogurt, ricotta, farmer’s cheese, and feta (and have been mildly successful at making yogurt and farmer’s cheese). Next month – brie!
Have my younger sister learn from my mistakes, while making some mistakes of her own.
#44 – Try pistachio ice cream.
After sampling both pistachio ice cream and gelato I am now completely addicted to them both.
Someday, I will buy a house.
I want to learn to order a meal in the language of every country I visit. And I’d also like those shoes and that bag, thanks. =]
Visit Cuba while Castro is still alive, I better get on this one!
It’s a simple one, but one of much importance to me.. I want to see the Grand Canyon.
Get my masters degree!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Become multilingual. Over the summer I stayed for a while with some French friends of my family, and the six-year-old boy in the family, Raphael, taught me how to count to 10 in French. I told him that when I come back to visit next summer, we’ll be able to have a whole conversation in French.
My French classes start tomorrow! :)
To bring my son back to San Francisco for Swensen’s ice cream some day. We’re moving from SF to Arkansas tomorrow!
Visit Australia.
Giant goal: get into graduate school.
Smaller goal that seems a bit more feasible in the midst of so many applications: learn to knit in a basic fashion, and stick with it long enough to make a scarf.
to visit all the seven continents! africa, australia and antarctica to go!
Take a road trip this autumn with our new baby and my camera.
I rode a recumbent bike at the beach this weekend. That should have been on my list and I’ve added it retroactively. Next week I fly to St. Lucia to take a flash photography class with Joe McNally and Scott Kelby. That’s a big one to cross off the list!
stay in home in provence and learn about wine.
Get my masters degree! (I’m SO close to crossing this baby off my list!)
Thanks for the chance to win!
Spend a month (or more!) in New Zealand.
Complete the Couch to 5K (as part of the larger goal of losing 170lbs)
To walk quietly around the Taj Mahal. Breathing in and out peacefully as I take in it’s beauty. I do this my my dreams and I can only imagine what it would feel like to do in reality. Ahhhh…
This year, I beat my first video game, which was on my life list. I’m currently working on learning to dance.
This giveaway would help motivate me to take one good picture a day for a year, which is also on my list :)
learn to play the xylophone. :)
1. Run a half-marathon before I turn 40.
2. Knit something (wearable) for each member of my immediate family.
A porch with a rocking chair and a view.
Live abroad for at least 6 months with my family.
To run a marathon.
How lovely, Maggie.
To moo at cows in Scotland and brood upon a moor.
My life list is illustrated and directly above my desk. I want one of my paintings in a museum. I want to be interviewed on All Things Considered. I want to see all 7 continents.
I really want this bag… I’ve officially added it to my life list.
Fingers crossed! Thanks!
to make salted caramels.
Reykjavik.
I am being completely honest when I say that I have never won anything online, isn’t that crazy?
Here’s one thing I’d like to do: I’d like to go to Puerto Rico with all my kids, my siblings, their spouses & families, and my parents.
umm DANG this is one snazzy giveaway. one of the points on my list is to make the best homemade chai latte ever. ever!
Learn Arabic well enough to bargain and make small talk, and do so (preferably in Egypt or Morocco).
Travel to Australia.
Buy a house.
For a period of time I would like to run a restaurant that serves New Orleans cuisine.
Take each of my daughters to NYC for their 13th birthdays. They are 4 and 6 now, so I have a while yet! :)
Try to do something creative/productive most days of the week.
I’ve been super inspired by Mighty Summit and have come up with 5 of my own Life List items to tackle in the next year. The biggest? To birth this baby.
Run a 10K. I did a mini-tri this summer, which included a 5K. Now I want to stretch the distance out a bit, and get off the treadmill to run outside.
Be able to identify any type of architecture by name and era.
Take a trapeze lesson!
@kara sue: I had grappa in Rome last year, and I thought the 70-something-year-old sales guy in the liquor store was going to split his pants laughing at the face I made when I tasted it. I highly recommend the experience. :)
Relearn to ride a horse (for real, jumping and everything).
My life list includes traveling solo… In a foreign location (maybe Vietnam).
I’m in! Please randomly pick me! :) I need a camera bag baddddd! I put mine in my purse, but it always gets turned on and my battery ends up dead when I take it out. Bummer.
My life list is a work in progress, but of the 11 things I have so far, getting emergency/disaster relief certified is my favorite. I would love to be able to contribute in some way when disaster strikes and I know that without the proper training I’d cause more harm than good. Simply wanting to help isn’t enough – training is important :)
This year I crossed off “put 20 gallons of photos into albums” and “finish a triathlon.” Next up: sing cabaret.
I began my Life List on a plane last Friday afternoon. After spending the weekend in Toronto (and knocking “Have sex in a foreign country” off my Life List), seeing and understanding most of the bilingual street signs, I’ve decided I want to brush up my high school French and become fluent. It’s such a beautiful language.
Up next on my list: do a headstand in yoga. I’m so close, but need that last little something to get there. Marked off this year: scuba certification, pickling vegetables, going to a shooting range, and buying my dream house. Busy year!
great giveaway! hmm… one off my life list: find the best damn mac and cheese recipe ever, and perfect it
Learn to make beer, and brew my own “signature brew” to give to friends.
Live where I can’t see my neighbors.
Love reading all these comments! I want to go see the aurora borealis or australis. I think this spring might be the time. I have to figure out where (Canada, Iceland, somewhere in South America?).
Have a successful pregnancy.
Actually go to the bar and defend sexual assault victims and children whose parents are going through ugly divorces. This has been my dream for so long I can’t even remember when I started dreaming it.
1. Ride a century! 2. Write my memoirs.
Read the Chronichles of Narnia to my son.
Earn my PhD. in neuroscience.
To have really awesome sushi in Japan, which I will be doing in two! weeks!
You totally inspired me to write up my life list, and you’re right. It’s way easier to tackle things when you’ve written them down. So far I’ve swam from Alcatraz, met 2 of my favorite bloggers (yourself included), and unfortunately had to cancel skydiving plans temporarily…but for a good reason. I’m pregnant! Thanks for all the inspiration and sharing the love, Maggie.
I think I mentioned this one last time, but it’s a current favorite: Play the Old Course at St. Andrews with my dad.
Its been a dream of mine for years to open a holistic yoga retreat and spa in Central PA near my grandparents and the rest of my family. Its a big dream.
Learn how to play the violin. The violin is in the closet waiting, but I’m busy learning how to ballroom/latin dance. So much to do!
I want to make things of all kinds, and I want to start with getting my hands on a decent DSLR camera and enrolling in a photography class. Bliss…
I would like to learn to play guitar and to knit. I would also like to complete a triathalon.
My dream of visiting Paris is slowly becoming reality. Another one to start work on: become a certified homebirth midwife.
After one of my best friends died in August I realized there is no more time for waiting to do the things I’ve always wanted to do. Since August I have:
1. Taken a 5 week Lindy Hop class with my boyfriend so we can dance more together.
2. Taken a knitting class. I learned I do not really want to be a knitter.
3. Taken a photography class to learn how to use my camera. I’ve only gone to one so far but I’m learning a lot and so so excited about becoming a better photographer.
4. PAID OFF MY STUDENT LOANS! What what? SUCK IT, THE MAN. That’s 40k bucks I am no longer enslaved by.
5. Started Health Month and have successfully gotten at least 7 hours of sleep almost every night.
6. Cooking dinner at home almost every night. This is good for my health AND my student loan busting budget.
7. Also part of health month, I’m doing cardio at least 3 days a week. Going dancing with my boyfriend really helps!
So here’s to living the life you WANT, now. Cheers!
Go to a Liverpool FC match at Anfield. I’ve already visited the stadium but it was a few weeks before the season started.
buy my first house. and i just did!
Be a speaker at the Moth!
I’m tackling two things on my list — learn to speak French and learn photography — by taking classes at Purdue right now.
Visit Japan and eat my weight in raw fish.
So is it too ingratiating to say that meeting you is one of the things on our life list? In my defense I actually did tell Cecily that I wanted to at Type A Mom last week, so you know I’m not just making it up now.
But I’d also like to take a photography course. I’m such a rank amateur photographer and I finally have a snazzy camera – I’d like to learn how to use it.
I want to sell something made by myself. First, I have to get it together and actually make something, but that’s a thing I really really want to do
To be in the room when someone else is giving birth as a witness and a support.
Life List – Renew wedding vows on the beach in Hawaii.
SIGH. I think about it every day while working out……
Raise a happy son :)
Learn French.
Probably the biggest thing I could cross off my Life List? Work at an Olympic Games!
I want to sew a dress for myself. And with one sewing class under my belt, I’m that much closer!
Ooh, pretty! Love those shoes. Number 14 on my life list is winning a national title for speech and debate. Only got 1.5 years left to do it before I graduate college, but I’m optimistic :)
Have a baby.
I want to travel to Italy and stay for at least a month. While there i just want to eat, cook and love!
Love the giveaway. Love, love, reading these comments!
Just starting my Life List. One that will be at the top: take piano lessons. Never too late to learn!
learn to play piano. or learn to play Fire and Rain on the cello. Or both.
To find a way to sell my baked goods & jams that doesn’t give me heart palpitations. Or at least, gives me excited palpitations instead of terrified ones.
I would love to tour vineyards in Italy…
Maggie, the Life List thing has been such a tremendous inspiration for me. Here are some of mine: Take my family camping. Finish my Bachelor’s degree. Write something and get paid money for it. Sew an item of clothing and actually wear it. Post something on my blog every week for a year.
For the Sporty Spice section of my life list: see my favorite team play in all of our conference’s stadiums. Four down, five to go!
Learn how to sew clothing. I’d love to be able to make something and wear it and know it looks good on me.
I want to take a bookbinding workshop at Hollander’s.
Grow a vegetable garden. Small, I know. I haven’t quite learned how to dream big. It’s a little scary for me.
I just started my Life List a short while ago (it grows daily), and I was able to cross one off about a month ago – shoot a gun. Wow, it’s a serious rush, and now I am now more than all set with firearms.
The “biggies” on my list include attend culinary school, learn to speak Italian, and pay off all of my (embarrassing, former relationship baggage) credit card debt.
Here’s to beautiful swag and living life to its mightiest!
I’m excited to be crossed #5 — Take a Photography Course — off my Life List this week. It’s just a one day thing, but I’m already looking at signing up for another class after this one is done. And I LOVE that red bag!!
My next item on my LL is to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Donate money to my highschool and my child’s elementary school. Donate so much money in order to be tempted to do it anonymously.
I want to live on a boat. Even if just for a month!
I need to write a Life List!! I keep meaning to and I just need to DO IT!
complete a full on triathlon … planning on starting small with a baby one this spring!
Compete in a triathlon!
I want to travel to the places in Scotland where I can still find people with my name.
Learn how to play Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” on acoustic guitar.
What a nice tootsie roll pocket on the camera strap!
Attend a taping of the Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart!
To take my kids to see the ocean- out of my four, only one has dipped their feet in salt water!
#43 Spend a day in the life of a Parisian cheesemonger
I want to find a way to finish school. A few weeks ago my boyfriend and I took a very serious look at our finances, time and the amount of classes I have left and we’re coming up with a plan to make it happen.
I’m terrified but ready.
I just crossed off my list get my Pyro operators license! Hurrah!
To (obviously via motorcycle) recreate my own Motorcycle Diaries trip around South America as Che did.
I crossed an item off my life life this weekend – I met a blogger in person! I’ll be crossing another off on Sunday by completing a half marathon.
I love my life list! :)
Obtain my masters degree in public administration!
Cook a gourmet meal for 20.
on my list is to fly in a helicopter!
I wouldn’t be lying if I said that “win an on-line contest” wasn’t on my Life List ;-)
But on a serious note, I have “live in a foreign country for at least 1 year”… on there as well!
Keep up the “Awesome” Maggie, you’re really good at it!
My camera and I are praying I win.
One thing on my life list is go play Bingo at a Bingo hall. My husband teases me about this one… but told me that he would be my date that night as long as I call him Earl. =)
Have a bicycle custom built for me with chrome lugs.
On my life list last year was to “grow vegetables” and I just harvested 40 pounds of carrots. Troubling but delightful consequences. Heh.
One day, I will eat gelato in Italy with the love of my life.
I have slowly, but surely been composing a life list. The big ticket items are daunting: run a marathon with my boyfriend, publish my novel, get married, wear a bikini on the beach… it’s the random things that comes out when I start writing that bring me lots of happiness. I want to paint a room yellow, and learn to arrange flowers skillfully. I didn’t know these things about myself until I started writing.
celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary
Ooh ooh I started this one today: design and make a bed-size quilt. The Victoria and Albert museum has a website that converts any image file into a quilt pattern, so I created a stylized version of the Montreal metro map. So excited!
On my list: Ride an elephant in India…
I’m working on one of the things on my life list right now – founding a weekly open mic night in my neighbourhood.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Learn to refinish furniture.
Always have wanted to live in France. Sent out my CV to a University in Paris and am now on the short list to fill in (for a summer, semester, or year) when someone in the department goes on sabbatical. :-)
Someday I will conquer my fear of fondant and make the prettiest G.D. cake ever.
I want to learn how to sew!
to see dutch tulip fields in bloom …
Next semester at school, I will begin learning a new language!
It sounds silly, but I really want to learn how to cut hair.
Every single day, I take a moment, hush down, listen to my heart and ask myself, “Am I being true to myself?”
I don’t know if I will ever really check this one off my list, and that’s okay. I will try to be kind to myself until the day I die.
Take the leap from getting a steady paycheck and open up my own business
a.) graduate nursing school
so I can
b.) spend more time with my camera
while
c.) cultivating my photography into a money maker.
To take my children to another country. (I’ve never left the US, personally.)
My silliest, and most recently added, item on my life list is to make 12 different kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches. Today for lunch I made one with thin slices of leftover leg of lamb, colby jack, cheddar, and this amazing mustard from Das Wurst Haus in Lanesboro, MN.
On my life list: learning how to take amazing photographs.
About a year and a half ago, I wrote my Life List, and one of the items on it was “Re-create V–J day in Times Square with someone I love.”
Two months later, I fell in love with a (ex-)sailor. Coincidence? ;)
become a runner..a real runner.
and watch the sunrise in Maine
I would like to live in another country for awhile. Think I actually have my husband on board for this one!
This is my biggie one: I want to find something that I can’t wait to get up and go to work at every morning (which also will pay the bills).
I want to white water raft through the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river. Among other things (like traveling to China, owning a fancy camera, and having a baby).
To last a full year in my first “grownup” job. (I’m a little more than 3 months in so far)
I would like to visit Cuba and see the house my Mom grew up in. What lovely pretty items!
#12 on my life list is to help save a farm. We are currently attempting to save a piece of farmland in my town with the goal of starting a community farm on the land. We are about to submit our proposal to the town and hope our plan is more attractive than a soccer field.
To finally satisfy my childhood yearning and add a dog to my household. Any dog will do. :)
Downsize my house and get rid of stuff!! It may seem mundane, but with a toddler and another baby on the way, plus a lot of “precious family heirlooms” from various deceased relatives, we have stuff coming out our ears!! And my cluttered space is making my mind cluttered and thus unable to move forward with other goals and dreams.
I was uber impressed with your recent post about family living in a tiny apartment, would love any more info on how you make it work!!
Take both of my little sisters on a weekend getaway somewhere that none of us have never been. Bonus points for not making them stress about hotels and feeding themselves.
Also: bike cross-country with my dad. Which means learning to ride a bike first.
I would love to visit the philippines!
I want to teach English in Spain for a while. It combines a few of my “life list” items–to travel more, to live in a foreign country for a while, and a new one: to teach.
To publish a book!
i want to scramble around the rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey.
To do a week-long solo camping trip in Glacier National Park!
Amazing Giveaway!
Make puff pastry from scratch.
My Life List lives here, http://www.accidentalolympian.com/the-accidental-olympian/my-life-list.html
And my favorite Life List to check off, and also my most scary worthy so far was to try tubing.
http://www.accidentalolympian.com/the-accidental-olympian/2010/08/life-list-tubing.html
Please excuse the screaming…
I haven’t written out my life list yet, but I’ve begun it in my mind. Three things that I KNOW I want to do are:
1. Give birth and/or become a mom.
2. Make so many good and loving friends that finally someone throws a surprise party for me on my birthday – and I want it to be a true surprise. (Does this count, since it’s something that happens TO me, rather than something that I make happen for myself?)
3. Attend a Halloween costume party wearing a really clever costume. (Have never dressed up for halloween as an adult!)
To swim with a dolphin! :)
I want to collect copies of all the books I loved as a kid to keep for my future children. I wish my mom hadn’t thrown them all out!
I want to trek across Europe, visiting abbeys and monasteries and spending my days writing, taking photographs, and talking to people who live there and in each town.
I’m going to Give Birth (Again)this coming February!
To learn to knit with my daughter.
Wow. This is the best giveaway EVER.
Life List #27: Learn how to give really good massages. Hot stones and all.
Become a parent.
Truly “learn” to master my camera!
to design and landscape my own backyard, with my own hands!
I’m going to learn how to bake bread soon, which is the most intimidating item on my life list (not including, you know, becoming a parent. Which is definitely more intimidating than bread.)
The few that come to mind most readily:
I want to write a book.
I want to meet Bill Clinton.
I want to not suck at taking pictures.
I want to never get plastic surgery.
One of the items on my Life List is to learn to play piano well again. I have the piano. I have the time. I also have a four year old daughter who would rather have me play with her than at the piano keyboard. So I don’t practice much. Yet. And I don’t regret it one bit. :)
I want to go a month without wearing make-up. I don’t wear much to begin with, but I have a hard time being confident going completely au naturel. It’s time to overcome that!
Read all of Shakespeare’s plays! This one might take awhile…
Things I can check off: take a photography class, go white water rafting, visit China, fly on a private plane.
Still to do: travel to Vietnam, find time to get out and shoot at least twice a week, take a cooking class in every country I visit and go zip lining in Costa Rica.
To buy really cute shoes. I lean toward comfort and I want to find the cute and the comfortable.
A few months (years?) ago your life list inspired me to come up with 25 and they were nearly all travel related. We are going away tomorrow and I am anxious. I think I need 25 more.
Run Race for the Cure, not walk.
take flamenco dancing lessons… OLE!!!
Climb Mt Kilimanjaro!
Get into grad school for library science.
Ride in a hot air balloon.
*sigh*
Teach my dog to go to the bathroom outside.
Live in a state besides NY or CA.
On the top of my list is going to Burning Man!
To ride my bike up Loveland Pass in Colorado!
Visit the ten most beautiful lakes in the world!
go to algiers
Build a yurt for an art studio (now at the top of my list!).
Make a piece of wood furniture – all by myself!
Number one is still finish my dissertation. I am hoping when I finally get to crossing it off the list that I feel a sense of lightness because right now it just makes me crabby :).
Finish writing a book, already.
I really want to swim with Whale Sharks in Western Australia, visit every continent in the world, see La Sagrada Familia when it’s finished and most importantly stop procrastinating!
Hrm, mine are all travel related…
On my life list is to travel to Brussels, Belgium, and to live it up in Europe for a month.
I want to knit big, warm blankets for everyone in my family. Starting this soon hopefully!
To piece together the trip my Dad took around the world in the 1970′s from the stamps in his old passports, and then to make the same trip at the same times of year, to get a glimpse of what he saw.
To ace- to pass yes but also to ace- my boards. I’ll find out in November!
I really really really want to live in France for 6 months. In a village, where I can actually speak French to French people, and buy French vegetables, then take them home and cook them in a French fashion.
Visit Seoul, South Korea with my husband (who was born there and has never had the chance to return) with our now-20 month old son, Miles Jae. In my mind, this is on my life list timetable for when MJ is in high school.
I want to learn how to be comfortable in the water – learn how to *really* swim. That’s the latest thing on my life list.
I want to go to Montreal!
I want to win a cooking contest at a state fair!
Life list – go dog sledding at midnight under the aurora in northern Canada. It still counts if I’ve done it, right? :)
Own a pair of red cowboy boots.
I’ve wanted a pair ever since I saw Footloose when I was 7. I finally have the disposable income to make it happen, I just have to find the perfect pair.
Learn to pop and lock!
I have so many things to check off but the one I’m working on right now is perfecting the art of baking chocolate chip cookies. May sound simple to some but I’m awful at it!
Learn the art of cake decorating!
And then eat the results :)
Live in another country.
To set foot on the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost points in the U.S. And to learn whether I should have capitalized N, S, E, and W in that sentence!
To do what I love for a job- baking!
There are so many things on my life list! The top one which I’m most looking forward to is owning a dog. I grew up with a menagerie of cats, horses, dogs, guinea pigs, and newts, and am excited to reach a point in my life where my lifestyle can support having a dog of my own (from San Francisco SPCA, of course).
It’s on my list to master packing light – inspired by Maggie who does it with such style!
Going away this weekend and I plan on practicing just that!
Learn to play acoustic guitar!
Paint a portrait that I am proud of.
This first involves re-learning how to paint. I’ve started attending a weekly figure drawing class… baby steps.
I want to make some quilts for my son like the quilts my grandmother made for me. And retire to Lucca, Italy.
Play ‘freight train’ the entire way through on my epiphone guitar.
Have a photoshoot in the rain – with yellow rainboots, a fantastically unique umbrella and the biggest smile ever. I ordered the boots yesterday. I’m on the lookout for the umbrella…
Do my part to keep libraries alive and well.
To see whales in their natural habitat. I can’t wait!
My life list includes really boring things though! Hmm, trying to pick the most interesting. Oh! I have been working toward (and I’m getting closer) learning how to spin my own yarn. Okay, still lame. But it’s on the list! (along with becoming a mom so really you can see how ordinary mine is)
Just checked off walking across the Brooklyn Bridge – now focusing efforts on riding in a hot air balloon.
on thursday they announce the latest winner of the nobel prize for literature, which is pertinent to my life list goal of reading something by every single winner
One of the items one my life list is to make it a habit to take more photographs. My son’s childhood is flying by, and I seldom remember to pick up my camera.
I want to go see an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House when I’m back in New York.
I also really want those flats.
At the top of my list is a trip with my husband to Costa Rica.
I would like to travel out the of country! I live in Oregon and the only country I’ve visited besides the US is Canada – I’d like to go to France.
I want to learn Spanish well enough to converse (at least with pleasantries) and order at restaurants! :)
My next life list item: to finally sit down, as an adult, and have a detailed conversation with my mother about my biological father, about whom I know nothing. It’s going to happen this Thanksgiving.
I’m still working on my life list but one of the biggest challenges on it is to lose 100lbs and not find them again.
I just crossed one off last week – learn how to poach an egg perfectly (yay! so much easier than I thought it would be!)
To do this winter: learn how to knit something other than a scarf or a hat
Visit my cousin in Turkey, and travel around Ireland with my mother. Both happening (hopefully) next year!
To give a substantial amount of money to a worthy arts organization.
I want to take cooking lessons in Greece with my husband.
(This is the first time I put that out to the world!)
To be a poet laureate.
One of my life list to-do’s to hike a portion of the Appalachian trail! I have been wanting to do it for years and I finally decided to start training/planning and saving for it after making my life list this year!
I want to start bike touring! It has always been a dream of mine but I sort of gave it up when my son was born. I’m realizing I’m not quite ready to give up on it.
My list includes:
Learn how to row (done!)
Carry my camera with me everywhere, every day (done! since November of 2009!)
Learn to play an instrument, preferably piano or guitar
Live Somewhere Else for at least a year (I’m moving to Spain in 6 weeks!)
Become fluent in another language (see previous!)
Own a house by the time I’m thirty (6 years to go on this one)
To travel through one European country the seedy, hostel-y, student way.
#19. Tour the White House.
Just so happens, I’ll be able to mark that off by noon on Thursday! Woot!
I want to run a paper and stationery store.
I want to take cooking classes at the Culinary Institute in Hudson Valley and then using the awesome techniques I learned to throw a fab dinner party!
Learn to use my SLR camera as more than just a point-n-shoot.
I would like to do another half-Ironman so that I can stitch the two together and pretend I did a full one.
Donate my hair to create a wig for cancer. Currently in the growing out phase. Cut off the majority of my hair last year to get all the hair dye out because I was getting impatient.
Next to do on my list – buy a roasting pan and roast a chicken!
I REALLY want to sing an Ella Fitzgerald song on stage, preferably into an old microphone while wearing a blue sequined dress. Not that I’ve given this any thought.
I want to have a novel published.
It’s scary just to admit that.
If I can’t be naturally ambidextrous, I will teach myself a skill with my left hand.
I will run a bookmobile!
to make space for the enjoyment of the now rather than always planning for enjoyment in the future.
I want to spend a week in a quiet cabin by a lake where I’d spend days reading, tossing the ball for the dog, and playing in the water with my kids.
Host an outdoor movie party in my backyard. Must contain jammies, picnic blankets, a projector and a white sheet as a screen.
Have a solo exhibition of my art in New York City.
Travel to Egypt.
I’m adding “Visit all of Arizona’s dams” to my list, because apparently, we’ve got a lot.
Attend a Tour de France race in person.
Participate in a dancing flash mob.
Have the best little knitting/yarn store that people love to visit and sit and knit with me.
Become fluent in a foreign language. Oh, and develop some hand-eye coordination…
I’d like to attend BlogHer!
Own a home again and decorate it perfectly for me however impractical others might think it is
Write and record a song. Maybe even perform somewhere.
I just checked this one off the other weekend: sell my art at an art market/fair. It was a small market, but the experience has inspired me to apply to a bigger one. Also – 10 days until I leave on an RV trip across the west – that’s been a biggie on my Life List for a while!
I’m working on learning to crochet. I’ve gone the chain stitch down.
My whole life list is here: http://sassafrasmama.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-list-update.html
One of those items is to teach my son to appreciate a variety of fruits of veggies. On my mind because tonight’s broccoli effort was a fail. Onward and upward.
Start and finish a triathlon.
I am going to run a marathon. Today I ran my first whole mile without stopping.
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This is quite the giveaway. Right now I am working on number one on my life list, trying to have a baby. Currently recovering from my (second) ectopic pregnancy a few weeks ago, but hoping to be back at the fertility doctor soon.
I’d love to vacation with my family and our best friends at a tropical beach with warm water.
Learn to not just drive, but dock a speed-boat.
Go on a mountain sleigh ride.
I want to have a good come-back story – and I’m already on my way!
Swim in the Mediterranean. I’m eyeing this little town… http://www.bougainville.it/images/positano_beach.jpg
Is it a LifeList if it isn’t written down yet? I’ve been working on it though, in my head, and at the top of the list is “write a book”. Trying to decide if it should be “publish a book”–or perhaps they are two separate items?
Travel to Spain. My favorite thing to do when traveling to a new country is to visit local spots and not just tourist places.
A ten-day, silent retreat. :)
Swim in the Mediterranean. I’m eyeing this little town… http://www.bougainville.it/images/positano_beach.jpg
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Relearn my piano skills so I can play charmingly at a party.
#32 – take pictures of 1000 strangers by just going up and asking them
I turn 35 in December and set a goal of doing 35 things on my list. I am on track to get to 35. So far, the best have been going to Spain, feeding a giraffe, and trying more ethnic foods.
Go to the Memphis in May BBQ World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest – love, love, love BBQ and that is Mecca!
To wing a blog giveaway…no joke!
Currently in progress: Have a guest room that visitors look forward to staying in. T-minus 10 days: the in-laws arrive on the 15th!
I’m was going to work on replacing my ugly, super-pink bathroom countertop, but I think I’m going to just do something wacky to it instead. Maybe draw all over it with permanent marker, or something less dumb-looking but cheap and eco-friendly.
Make a cash budget and stick to it. This ties in with my life list theme of living as simply as possible.
Learn how to sew, and I’m taking a class next week to get started. yay!
Live abroad.
Visit Jordan.
Drive a car (preferably vintage) up the PCH.
I only just finally started writing my life list down last week, so it’s still in development. But one thing that was on there, that I’d really like to do but scares me a little, is take singing lessons.
I’d also really like to win this stuff! What an awesome goody bag. :)
Waiting to see my husband and I in the reflecting pools at the Taj mahal.
I’m currently working on a sub-life list based on things I want to see/try/eat/etc in San Luis Obispo, where I just relocated to last month (yes, I have lists within lists). I’m calling it the Mighty SLO List and it includes things like paddle boarding, eating basil ice cream at the Basil Festival, and staying at the Madonna Inn. So much fun!
See blue ocean.
Teach
Get grad degree
Organize my closet/room/house/life
Make a baby quilt (and learn to sew)
Bake cake from scratch. Really!
I want to surprise my musician husband with a trip to SXSW.
Go to a Steelers game at Heinz Field with my husband. I bought the tickets for his birthday this year. SO EXCITED.
Last month I biked across the Golden Gate bridge. Up next is moving across the country to Vancouver. :)
i want to thru-hike the appalachian trail. all 2175 miles of it.
Open up a bed and breakfast!
To bicycle through the South of France with my husband.
Become an accomplished large animal veterinarian. …And I turned in my application to veterinary school last week!
There is an item on my life list that is gaining a life of it’s own. Someday, I will own my own cafe. Someday I will own my own cafe. Someday I will own my own cafe. When I have checked it off my list, I will have you for lunch, with pleasure.
Become an expat! Live abroad!
#34 on my list: Spend a night at Grey Gardens (in the Edies’ bedroom). I’m determined to make this happen. It would be creepy and a little spooky, but so completely awesome.
The rest of my Life List can be found here: http://highbrowlowbrow.wordpress.com/life-list/
Visit Yellowstone with my hubs and son!
To stay on a houseboat for a vacation.
I just added: learn to play the cello.
Live in Paris for at least a year!
This past month I had Mom teach me to make grape jelly, and then we made an elderberry pie from fruit we picked ourselves. Two items in one weekend! Right now I’m working on another one: I’m knitting a sweater.
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Hike the Pacific Crest Trail!
To photograph the sunset over the Pacific every day for a year.
Next on my list: See palm trees in Scotland.
That is… See my sons graduate from college.
One of the items on my life list is to run a 5k without significant pain or loss of life!
Successfully complete a Master Gardener program.
Road trip across America! My husband, who is from Canada, has been to more states than I have on tour with his former band. I, of course, have romanticized this and now want to road trip with my husband and son for a month. My husband tells me that it wasn’t all I imagine it to be, but you know what? It could be!!
Learn enough Italian to talk to my extended family.
- Get a PhD in Computer Science. (Passed my qualifying exam!)
- Make a quilt out of my old t-shirts.
- Gamble in Atlantic City. (Hoping to do this over Christmas break!)
I completed my first goal, participating in a 12km run/walk. I was sore but it was so satisfying!
i want to be a mom.
… i really don’t think there would be anything more beautiful to accomplish.
a life list item…to learn how to letterpress and make my own cards.
#9 Build a well for a village in Africa. This means saving $5000 that I can give away. With 2 kids in college right now, that is some serious saving…I will do it though!
Oh Maggie, you’re killing me.
Did I mention the excuse to buy sexy shoes? Ah yes, that was in the last one. But these are such nice pretty sexy shoes, that would work with my poor deformed painful feet…
On the last giveaway, I read every single entry, thinking it would inspire me. I got exactly one new idea for my life list. Are people so uncreative they all want to travel to Ireland, Italy and Iceland? I mean, yes, traveling in those places would be great, but what will you do once you get there?
Ok, enough bitching. Should have my own blog, huh?
I want to make a set of wooden blocks for a baby. And play with them. The blocks, and the baby, together.
I just crossed #14 off my list: get engaged! Even after finding my wonderful boyfriend (of 3.5 years), I still had to get comfortable enough with marriage to let him know I was ready. That was the not so easy part, but once I realized that life is one giant leap of faith, sometimes more calculated leaps, I just had to trust…and more importantly LOVE. And we both couldn’t be happier.
Own furniture that is solid, pretty and doesn’t require an Ikea allen wrench to put together.
I got to mark something off my life list this past weekend! After having not seen my faraway best friend for more than three years, we snuck away from our regular lives and met up for a getaway weekend in Portland, Oregon. It was divine!
So many wonderful life list entries in the comments… My next list item to cross off is to throw an amazing and memorable 30th birthday party for myself next month.
I’m taking my first digital photography class as part of my life list. It’s even better than I had hoped!
As an Italian New Orlenian who loves food and spent her childhood in the kitchen listening to my mother’s stories while she cooked, my favorite item on my current life list: create a family cookbook
I want to attend a live performance of Saturday Night Live. Apparently you can only get them by emailing ONLY in the month of August. Someday…
Hmmm… master the 50mm/f1.8!
Something on my life list that I work toward every single day: graduate medical school!
I think I need to add some simpler goals as well though, too many of mine will take too many years…
I must learn to preserve and can!
To speak French fluently – I currently live in Paris so I’m working on it!
One thing on my life list: Join a secret society. I don’t know where to find one, so I just started my own! ^_^
Lake Titicaca.
For reals.
I’ve been dying to try a pair of those shoes, but just can’t see myself swinging the cash right now. as for my life list? I want to sell the things I make, but am afraid no one out there will want it. I need to just take the plunge, but the water seems oh so dangerously cold!
earn my ph.d.
I’m about one month away from reaching this goal and I couldn’t be prouder of myself and my husband who has supported me in every way.
Ooooooh! All of these would be perfect right now, I’m going on a trip to Italy with two of my girlfriends next month.
One item from my life list? To visit 6 of the 7 continents… all but Antarctica.
Own nothing that I do not use at least one a month (for most things it would be once a week, but hey, I don’t bake very often.)
Resurrect my writing career.
I want to learn to scuba dive!
Learn how to ride a horse! I always wanted to take lessons when I was little but my dad thought if I did I would want to *own* a horse, so he wouldn’t let me.
I’d like to finally receive my doctorate.
Learn to cook/recreate my grandmother’s recipe for roast and homemade noodles (a longtime family favorite) and serve it to all of my immediate family and inlaws.
attend the annual Over the Rhine Christmas concert at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati . . . just might make that one happen this year.
To make a quilt with my grandmothers fabric!
I’d like to be able to do 5 unassisted pullups
Next thing on my life list to tackle is to get a degree in fashion design. 2011 you’re looking like a good place to start.
23.Prepare for and climb Mira Peak in Nepal with my husband sans porter.
Learn to use my sewing machine (to repurpose old clothes and make cute things for my kids and home)!
I’d like to have a baby in my living room.
Same dream my entire life …
Buy land, build a cabin, and care for rescued farm aminals. :o)
Go apple picking and bake fresh apple pies.
From my life list: master a few good Indian curries!
Start a vegetable garden in my backyard.
Find the perfect lipstick. I have it pictured in my mind, some sort of raspberry/plum color but have never found it. Is that life list material? I have big life list items but I’ve been dreaming about this lipstick for 10 years that I think it’s worthy now of being a life list item :)
To go an entire month without wearing jeans!!
Learn conversational Spanish (classes start next week) and then take a trip to Spain.
Knit something amazing. Swim in every state. Become a doctor.
Become a Scotch drinker. Check!
Become a nurse and work at a free clinic for the uninsured.
get my masters degree.
Oh, those shoes. COVET.
I started writing a novel in July and am about 35,000 words into it – about halfway done the first draft. I want to finish it and then map out the rest of the trilogy I see it kicking off, then sell those bad boys so the rest of the world can read them. It’s a big, crazy dream and no one knows about it yet but my husband. And now all of you :)
I am totally smitten with the idea of folding shoes in half and keeping them in my purse. I tried this with some cheap, old flats the other day, but the results were not pretty!
find the perfect pair of jeans. learn to knit.
I want to go whale watching in Massachusetts.
I just booked my ticket to Austin, marking “Get to Austin before I get old” off my list!
I realized some time ago that I didn’t have to become a teacher to teach – so in my position as a Lunch Room Supervisor, I’m going to teach the kids who need an activity on a rainy day to knit using their fingers. After I teach myself.
I realized some time ago that I didn’t have to become a teacher to teach – so in my position as a Lunch Room Supervisor, I’m going to teach the kids who need an activity on a rainy day to knit using their fingers. After I teach myself.
Oh, pick me pick me! I want to start my own business, to have an in home barista, and to get married!
Oh wow.. this is beyond amazing! All three of those have been on my wishlist for a while!
I’m starting a new life list after completing my first one between 1985 (skydiving) and 2000 (completed my BA) In between, I took tap dance lessons, swimming lessons, bought a guitar and learned to play well enough for me to sing along. I also learned sign language, and took a leave of absence from work to travel with a backpack and passport. My new life list includes (among other things) learning to use a cordless drill, pulling out my sewing machine again, and traveling through Newfoundland.
Watch a meteor shower in the dark, dark desert!
To learn to dance well, and not just fake it (like I’ve been doing my whole life!).
I have added “learn sign language”, even though I don’t know anyone hard of hearing. I hope it leads me to a new world of communicating.
Some of the things I have on my life-list include learning how to snowboard and participating in a Latin ballroom dance competition (like Dancing with the Stars!).
You inspired me to get off my butt and make a life list. Next week, I’m tackling #8: a Chinese calligraphy class so I can honor my grandfather
Do a cartwheel on the Great Wall of China!
I want to write an article that gets published in the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.
The item on my life list that’s getting the most attention lately is definitely:
Sell an original painting for what it’s worth.
I’ve sold prints before, but I’m hanging in a small (teeny tiny) gallery show soon, so maybe I’ll get to cross this off!
learn how to REALLY use my camera!
To open a culinary bookstore/donut shop and walk to work!
Here is one of my favourites from my life list:
Organise and execute a Flash Mob at the local Farmers’ Market
learn to ride a skateboard : )
Sing lullabies to a baby while accompanying myself on the acoustic guitar.
I want to learn to make lobster. I am plum terrified of making lobster and yet I find it delicious. Perhaps my abject fear stems from my youth spent landlocked in Nebraska where there are cows aplenty, but very few lobsters. Now that I’m living on the East Coast, I’m ready to master the crustacean. I can already imagine he’ll be delicious with butter sauce ala Julia Child.
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My life list changed recently; I added this to it: help my hubby by being his own personal wonder woman health advocate while he goes through some stuff in the coming year!
Deliver a child without drugs. Currently pregnant with number three… third time’s a charm?
like many other people, getting to a healthy weight and fitness level is on my life list. i just started with a personal trainer, and when she asked me what my ‘fitness goal’ was, i told her that i wanted to feel and look better by the time i turned 30 next July. then i hesitated for a minute and admitted that my slightly more *specific* goal was to have great calves so i could finally wear slutty boots.
On my list is to fly in a plane,to go to NY to see my sister and to move out of this God forsaken town!!!Sorry,got carried away
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Running a half marathon.
I would like to sell the watches I make at craft fairs/Etsy.
To drive Route 66 with my husband. No planning. Just doing it.
Yes! Ma’am!
To play cello in an orchestra. To learn cello first.
I posted my life list on my blog and have had several friends mention writing one of their own. It warms my heart that I could take something that inspired me (your list, Maggie) and have it inspire others. Thank you.
I’d love to take a photography class. What a fantastic gift basket!
To write a book.
I want to learn how to perfectly toss pizza dough like the pros in NYC pizza parlors!
To live in another state.
I get to cross that one off in 6 weeks when we move!
One little item on my list is to make and can apple butter. My great-grandmother used to make it and it was so good, and I’d like to do it myself. I’m planning on crossing this one off any weekend now, as soon as I can get a whole bunch of fresh apples.
To get published for my photography in a national/international publication. :-)
to become fluent in ASL. i took a semester class, learned TONS about Deaf culture and ASL, and have always wanted more. so far, life has had other plans. but, someday!
Complete my Masters in Social Work.
start a business with some friends.
I would like to hike the Grand Canyon with my husband; I’ve actually never been there and feel like it’s somewhat criminal that I’ve gone nearly 40 years without managing it!
Take a 10 day road trip around the Pacific Northwest.
I would like to take a trip across the country with my husband and two kids this summer – Those shoes and that camera bag would make my trip that much better
Learn how to french braid hair.
Make my home a more calming and inviting place; in progress. It’s taking awhile. ;)
I want to walk across England, stopping at pubs and tea houses along the way!
sleep in a yurt
My husband and I are trying to reach every continent before we have kids (2 left – Antartica is one of them.
Would love the giveaway, am so inspired & entertained by your blog daily!
~Kerianne.
I’d like to travel throughout the rural south, finding small towns like the one I grew up in and photographing a book of portraits with short accompanying bios. Churches and flea markets, I think, will be the best place to find subjects.
To drive alone across the desert, in a muscle car at least twice as old as I am, while blaring ‘Spirit in the Sky.’
I want to find a job that I love so much that it makes me unreasonably excited to get up in the morning. I want to learn to make a souffle. I want to eat dinner at an expensive fancy schmancy restaurant and feel totally comfortable.
Live in a foreign country for a year or more.
I did my first Olympic distance tri last year and my big goal is to do a full Ironman in the next few years. First, I have to have this baby due in Feb and get back to triathlon shape afterward!
One of the things on my life list is getting married. Hopefully I can make it a few more weeks!
When you blogged about ziplining in the redwoods, I added it to my list. At the time, we lived in Orlando, Florida, and I had never been to the West Coast. But we moved to San Francisco a month ago. :-) I’m getting closer!
I just started writing a life list last night! Item #1 is walk the Inca Trail.
To one day take my quadriplegic son hang gliding off the cliffs of Greece. So that he can know that even though he will never walk, he will always be able to fly.
I want to travel somewhere that requires a passport. I got one a few years ago and have yet to use it!
As of now I don’t have a life list, just alot of ideas swimming in my head. I think it’s time to start writing things down and start making them happen!
what a wonderful giveaway! i hope i win!!
I haven’t finished writing my life list, but raising a few chickens for eggs and entertainment is on it. I am reading a book now as the chicks are purchased in the spring. I rejected the idea of a life list for a while because it seemed appropriate for younger women and I have done so much already. But then I realized how much I need the list at age 60 to make sure I’m living my life desires.
28. Become a mom. Check! I’m due May 1st! :)
Interview my parents and write their story.
Live in a home alone with my husband for the first time in our lives. We have been married 34 years and have always had a family member living with us. 3 kids, Mother in law, sister, daughter w/2 grandkids…
I would love to decorate one of our spare rooms as a guest room.
I checked go to Italy with my mom off my list this summer! What an accomplishment!
Get a passport so we can travel to Australia and Greece, and Isreal, and London, and Scotland and…
Photograph a tornado.
I’m still gathering up thoughts on my life list. Right now, I think to completely renovate a fixer upper would be on it.
Swim, bike and run a Half Ironman-distance triathlon. Next summer!
I’m going to start a website.
I’m going to organize my photographs.
I’m going to become a teacher.
In doing so, I’m going to show my kids what kind of students they need to be.
My godson will graduate college.
I want to finish my grandmother’s biography by the end of the year. Well,I want to have a draft for her to review by the end of the year. She will definitely have comments!
Own chickens!
See the Great Migration in Africa, Holi in India, Lunar New Year in China.
Ooooh…small manageable thing from life list…organize and beautify my mess of a spice collection!
To have a baguette, brie and a glass of red wine in Paris.
To run and not die while doing so a full marathon. I”m signed up this weekend so we’ll see how it goes! :)
Win an online contest! Just kidding. Life list: do a major road trip across the US.
to go on a hot air balloon ride!
Just finished a 3 week tour of Europe. HUGE tick off many items on my life list!
Go to Alaska.
To return to school & finish, at least, my bachelor’s degree in Art History.
I want to drive around the country in an RV for a year, visiting as many states as possible and homeschooling my kids.
Read at least 200 books before i turn 40 (in 20 years, that is..)
see tierra del fugo – going next month!
Dissertation submission in 5 months and 9 days. I can do it. I know I can.
To visit the Mayan ruins
This summer I crossed off taking my mom to a Storycorps booth, but now I’ve added taking my husband to one. Thanks for the chance!
I’d like to go skydiving.
48. “Grow a row” for the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank
I want to attend a ball.
Camp in Crater Lake National Park
A recently completed item- making eastern north Carolina barbeque by myself!
To finish my early childhood education degree. I also achieved something on my list: I’m now the supervisor of the child care centre I work at!
To become fluent in French – beyond the minimal amount that I learned in the sixth grade.
Pick and eat a coconut.
To knit myself a sweater. I know how to knit, but I’ve never completed an actual garment. I want to knit something I can wear that isn’t a scarf or a hat!
I’m still working on my life list (only up to 50 items), but I’ve started to make progress on some of them. The biggest progress has been to meditate on a regular basis. I find a feel better after wards and miss it if I don’t do it.
This giveaway is spectacular! On my life list: to save as many abandoned and misunderstood dogs as possible through volunteering, training, and rescue.
I had one career doing something I love (was a pastry chef for a while) and now I want to figure out what inspires me like baking for and feeding people did. I think this involves travel.
My Life List includes going back to school to get my Christian Ministries degree.
Direct and choreograph a full-length dance show. I have the music and the idea. Now I just need a plan.
I want to learn to quilt, so I can make a quilt with my kids’ baby clothes.
I randomly chose #27. grow food for my family.
#87 Take karate lessons for a year with my 15 year old son.
We’re starting classes next Monday!
I would like to scrape up the courage and sing on stage. By myself. Loud enough for people to actually hear it.
I want to sing in a choir filled with other women AND I want to have a yoga practice.
And orange shoes:)
I made a life list 10 years ago and have done almost everything on it! How crazy is that? I still haven’t ridden in a hot air ballon, but after having a kid, I had a change of heart about that one! I have added a new one in its place: Finish the book I began writing!
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Visit Iceland and drive the “ring road”, the road that goes all the way around the island.
Write a book. So far I have the outline.
Number 20 – Complete a 365 project. Finished it yesterday. Woo! :)
One that is in progress is trying 1000 new recipes. One that I hope to start and complete this winter is taking a glass blowing class.
I want to volunteer on archaeological digs on six continents. (2 down, 4 to go!)
I have recently decided to add learn to fly an airplane to my life list. Just seems like an awesome experience. Handy, too.
Visit New York City.
I threw a wig party last weekend. It was a little itchy, but fabulous.
One of my goals is to ride a horse! Thankfully my sweet boyfriend is taking me to Marfa, Texas Halloween weekend to check it off my Life List. I’m stoked.
Make it to Antartica, which will be my 7th and final continent.
Bake a cherry pie from scratch, including the crust.
Number eight on my life list is to learn how to make my grandmother’s bread pudding. Yum!
To take voice lessons and audition seriously for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus. The hope would be to make it, of course. :) But the life list is to seriously audition.
I crossed the first item off of my life list this summer: Ride a horse on the beach. My parents took me on a super swank vacation to Turks and Caicos where Pilgrim and I rode into the clear turquoise water until he started to swim. It was possibly the most frightening yet exhilarating experience of my life to date.
top O the list – decide what I want to be when I grow up. Second – be that.
#1 is taking a bit longer than I planned…=)
one day i’m going to buy a house on the coast with a vintage kitchen.
I am currently attacking the following:
1. Academically approach my wardrobe and acquire clothing that is both flattering and reflects my personal style.
2. Learn to part with my money without a)having a panic attack, b)returning all items purchased with said money, or c)both.
Awesome giveway!! Thank you!!!!
10. Become friends with my nieces.
i want to run a marathon!
Someday, while singing to my ‘someday’ baby I want to sing a lullaby that I’ve written. So I guess I’d better:
Write a lullaby.
Love a mighty giveaway! This week I am going to make an appointment with a fertility doc! WOOT!
Turn my printmaking into income.
I’ve just started thinking about a life list though I have been a “what would I do if money is not object” list maker from waaaaay back. And lots of the things on those list came true so I know it works….the one most often on my mind lately is–to live for a year in a foreign country–preferrably either Mexico or France….but I’m open to other opportunities!
Open an Etsy store…
To throw a successful fancy multi-course dinner party!
One of my life list items is to learn how to pack a carry-on bag without feeling deprived of clothing and shoe options. Thinking the Tieks would help with that!
Regularly write, publish and distribute a zine serial about something.
A bit sillier: ever since you posted your outfit with magenta superhero boots, I’ve wanted a pair of colorful boots (preferably in teal or turquoise), preferably custom-made since I have large wide feet and fat calves. Because everyone needs to have a pair of awesome superhero boots.
Also, due to pondering my Life List (thanks to y’all) all this time, I’ve been slowly realizing with increasing strength that I really, really want to travel, perhaps somehow make a living from that. Not sure how to accomplish that yet, however (teaching English? hmm).
To run a 5K race.
To see the Northern Lights. Also, learn to drive (mundane but necessary).
Witness the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace without laughing at the funny hats.
Beat this cancer without surgery.
Spend time in Montana. Yes.
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Submit an answer to the Sunday Puzzle on NPR and get chosen to call in to the show. (And yes, I realize getting chosen is a bit out of my control, but I *did* submit an answer this week!)
Become fluent in Spanish. A few of my co-workers are bi-lingual and have been gleefully sharing their culture and language with me. It’s really fantastic so far!
to be able to wear a bikini and feel good in it!
Getting a lovely olive tree tattoo on my side so celebrate creation and creativity and life! :) Just call me hippy dippy!
I want to drive up the Going to The Sun Road at Glacier National Park.
A few things on my life list are:
1. Get an essay published in the New Yorker
2. Hot air balloon ride
3. Learn to sail
4. Meet Oprah
5. Meet HH Dalai Lama
6. Live in Thailand for 3 months
7. Live in India for a year
8. Run my own business
9. Swim with biolumniesence (sp??) – yes, Maggie, you inspired me!
10. See Northern Lights
To host a Thanksgiving Dinner.
(Won’t happen this year though.)
I’m wondering if I will be as fast a sprinter as I imagine when I finally join a Masters Track Team.
Go on a vacation… with my mother!
Climb to the top of Machu Pichu.
My friend Emilie and I have both recently been inspired to continue listing and have agreed to help each other get 5 things crossed off in the next year. I had recently crossed off wearing skinny jeans in public and attending a cooking class! A few things on my list to tackle next are becoming comfortable eating alone at a restaurant (it’s taking a lot of practice), cooking a new recipe every month (and in the process resurrect my old blog), read Arabian Nights and listen to 20 full length classical musical masterpieces! Thank you for the inspiration and the stories! Did I mention my best friends all live in different states? Life lists will help us stay close!
Run a 10k, sew my son’s Halloween costume
Beekeeping!
And, more immediately, take a course at the Apple Store to teach me how to make/edit awesome videos on my laptop.
Own a house.
Complete yoga teacher training.
To open a wedding photography business. That bag would be wonderful going on engagement sessions!
I want to teach English in Paris or Italy…whatever comes first. I have started the registration process – hoping for this summer.
I’ve started transitioning to a new career and soon I hope to be my own boss!
Took my son fishing at Walden Pond.
Touch my toes without bending my knees!
Cook a nine course Victorian dinner.
I simply couldn’t decide between “making waffles on my Foreman grill” (i’m completely intimidated!) or “visiting Bhutan” (when? how? with what pocket change?) because they basically exemplify the range of items on my list, which I’ve labeled “Intentions” because I so strongly associate “Life List” with you.
Anyway, these are gorgeous items you selected for your bag – of course. I’ll keep my fingers crossed, and cheer for whoever the lucky winners are if my fingers don’t do the trick.
Someday I will learn to sew something that I can wear. Preferably something that doesn’t turn out ugly.
Go to Italy and eat myself silly.
One of the biggies is to live in Barcelona with my family for at least a month. Related: learn Spanish.
I want to teach all of my kids Spanish–at least enough to get by.
At the top of my list right now is to have a natural childbirth. Positive thinking is leading the way!
to conquer my social anxiety. taking baby steps!
To study Yoga and not fall down alot.
Learn how to use my new camera. Specifically in manual mode.
i want to live in Sweden!
Other than make these two toddlers happy, healthy,loving, and productive members of society…I would like to uproot and move to France for a year (or, you know, for ever a year is easier to wrap my mind around)
To try every type of coffee at Starbucks until I find one I love. I am determined to like coffee.
Drive a Zamboni is on my life list. I have no idea how to make it happen, but I’m just itching to do it!
See Greece!
Make a damn chocolate chip cookie that doesn’t flatten!
One thing on my life list is to work in a restaurant as a pastry person, at least for a week. Just to get a feel for the professional side of baking.
Visit Dog Bark Park!
Visit Iceland.
I want to learn how to sew my own clothes!
On the top of my life list right now– become a Psychologist.
For my life, I want to see wild horses and build a house.
#44 Photograph the troll doors in the Icelandic countryside in the summer
keep my house clean for a week
go on vacation with my girlfriends
have a family band-me, my husband, our son, and whatever subsequent children we will have
go to New York and eat everything
piggy backing off of that, i’d also like to be in amazing shape.
I just started my blog which was on my Mighty Life List for a long, LONG time. It feels pretty good and I’m really excited to start cooking one thing that scares me each month (also on my list). First up: MUSSELS?!
On my life list is to buy and wear one pair of awesome cowgirl boots.
I want to have a house that is big and comfortable enough to house my parents in their retirement for as long as they want to live with me.
One of the first things I hope to cross off my Life List is “take 100 photographs in 100 days.” Having such a lovely camera bag would be inspirational!!
I would really like to some day make my own life quilt based on the old tradition.
Well, on my Life list is “Become a Giants season ticket holder”, but now that they’re in the playoffs everyone will think I’m just jumping on the bandwagon. I’ve BEEN ON the bandwagon! Truly.
I hope to finish a book. I don’t care if it is published, or finds any kind of success, but if it’s something I can give to my daughter that she will be proud of I will fulfilled my biggest goal.
Mine- travel to Madagascar and buy a house!
I want to own the perfect pair of red cowboy boots. I keep searching but we haven’t found each other yet!
I’ll tell you the thing I’m working on off my life list right now – learn how to use (really use) my camera. I’m taking a class, and my camera and I are taking our relationship to the next level.
To take a glassblowing class- hopefully in just a few months…
Get my PhD.
Be able to support my husband financially so he can pursue his dream of writing a novel. Right now we’re in the opposite position — he’s supporting me while I pursue my dreams and I desperately want to return the favor.
Hi Maggie!
I checked another item off my life list in September. Throw out the first pitch at a Major League Baseball game. I’m not kidding. I was one of the first responders recognized at “Heroes Day” at the Los Angeles Dodgers September 19th game. I represented the LAFD and our educational non-profit, MySafe:LA. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=272059&id=738326396
Usually I’m shooting this kind of event -stills and video – but this time I was in front of the camera. Not an easy spot for me. That Lola Epiphanie Camera Bag by Maile Wilson is making me drool!
–Cameron
One that had been on my list for awhile that I have accomplished this year (!) was to be my own boss. Which is great, because I’m kind of the best boss ever. New life list addition? Earn enough to support me and my husband with my business. The three month vacation I’m planning for next year (ALSO a life list entry) may delay that….
To run the Big Sur Marathon.
I crossed of “run a 5K” earlier this year. Have been training for, and will be crossing off “run sprint triathlon” on October 23rd. Long live the Life Lists!
Mine is to go to culinary school, something I am currently doing AND IT IS SO AWESOME. Ahem.
To make my almost two-year-old son birthday garland.
On my life list: I want to stay overnight in a windmill in Greece. I’ve even picked out which one I’d like. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
My husband and I are crossing something off our Life List together at the end of the month: we are moving West-something we have dreamed of for the nearly 10 years we’ve been together. We’re leaving the flat, boring Mid-West for Portland, OR and we couldn’t be more thrilled.
A few from my list:
– learn how to juggle
– visit every state in the US
– read the Bible from start to finish
On mine and my husband’s life list: “Touch the snows of Kilimanjaro.” A fleeting experience that would reveal a bit of the breadth and depth of Africa.
learn to swing dance/lindy hop (i just signed up for my second set of classes – so much fun!)
When my kids are all in college I will be in my late 50′s. THEN…I’m planning on conning some poor soul into letting me be a roadie for her band for a year. I’ve always wanted to be a roadie!!!
Learn to drive stick. I just need to do it!
Long before you had The Mighty List, I had “this thing I need to do”. That’s how I always referred to it. When my parents asked why I didn’t want children, I always had “this thing I need to do” first. I am in a PhD program and I am just about half way through this thing I need to do. Better yet, I am just about to the good part – fieldwork! Nearly everything in my life has been put on hold for this thing, but it’s totally been worth it. My husband, too, is working on his PhD and it’s been an incredible adventure for the two of us to do together (even if we don’t see that much of each other any more).
I do my research on another continent, so I board lots of airplanes, take lots of pictures, and spend an insane amount of time worrying about the right kind of bag to carry.
I’m a lit professor, so here’s an appropriate one from my life list: 1. Read every Pulitzer Prize for fiction award winner of the 20th century.
An item on my life list is to go back to school. I’ve started studying for the GRE.
Throw a kick-ass Halloween party!
My list is short at the moment because I lak perspective due to newborn sleep deprivation. My list? Sleep for six hours…in a row.
Take a whole-foods cooking class.
Find a great vegetarian lasagna recipe.
Take a class or private lesson in watercolor painting.
New Year 2012 in Hawaii.
Writing a book has been on my life list before I’d ever even heard of a life list. My first book comes out this month, and I’m going to be celebrating it. A lot.
Learn to play the dolsimer
This is very timely as I am just about to post my list on my site! A few things on mine include:
-Go to Scotland and have an awesome guided historical/ancient sites tour.
-Try glassblowing.
-Learn to enjoy cooking and make food I love.
-Take a photography class.
-Spend several consecutive days being pampered at a spa.
First. Redo my life list like I said a would when I took it down. :(
I want to learn how to play an instrument and sing at the same time.
Visit Greece!
Go to Italy (coming true next week!!!).
Write a book with my sister.
Tour the Jelly Belly factory.
;)
Just want to finish this year of nursing school first, then on to ARNP hopefully.
Learn how to build a house.
Visit Naples, Italy, my birthplace.
Raise bees!
Those shoes look awesome! I’ve never spent that much on flats, I feel like I can justify boots for that much, living in the Northeast. But they look nice for traveling!
Learn to ice skate backwards (lessons)
Run in an all-woman charity race
My life list: I really want to be a midwife. My personal prerequisite to that is having a baby. My husband just quit his job to go to grad school, so for a long time we have felt like its not the right time, or we don’t have enough money, but I think its time we through caution to the wind and just go for it!
Run a 5K. Just started the Couch to 5K plan last week.
Watch my daughter read her first book all by herself.
Have high tea in London!
Restore my smile (mentally and physically).
Knit a sweater that I can wear.
Tour Turkey.
Read the classics.
I really would love to take a weekend spa trip with my best girl friends. Ahhhhhhhhh :-)
Take a Mediterranean cruise!
Throw a “frat party,” adult-style: trompe l’oeille jello shots in delicious thematic flavors.
To spend a night in a treehouse
For next year I want to swim to the island at our cottage.
Co-design and teach a course with a good friend.
trompe-l’œil, that is. i meant trompe-l’œil!
Make a proper cassoulet – with the fancy beans from France, and everything but the sausage from scratch.
Go to a silent zen retreat in northern california.
I’ve always wondered what bangs would look like on me…& today I found out! Not too bad, not too bad at all :)
I finally took a mini step toward selling things I make. Mini but big all at the same time.
Three things on my life list (and I’m not even kidding about this): finally find a pair of shoes that don’t kill my feet, learn to use a DSLR, and carry a bag that doesn’t look like I only paid ten dollars for it (even if I did).
Thanks for getting me to dream big, Maggie!
Circumnavigate the earth. (I’ve gone > 1/2 way and back, but not all the way around.)
Go back to the Philippines. I was born there but haven’t been back since we left when I was 8.
OHhhhhh! I would love to learn to play the accordion.
Lose another 12 pounds by the end of the year. Lost 38 so far since January!
go scuba diving!
…somewhere on my list is have enough courage to be with my true love…i’m working on it
Witness (in person) the aurora borealis (Northern Polar Lights)
learn how to can/preserve like my mother and grandmother did . . . good time to try here in michigan with the abundance of apples . . .
I want to read all of “A La Recherche du Temps Perdu” in French. I figure it will take me the better part of a decade to be that fluent, but it will be worth it when I accomplish it.
to teach my kids spanish. which involves learning spanish, and then having kids.
I found your website a week ago and have been trying to spend 15 mins a day thinking/adding to my life list. I want to make sure its thorough and thoughtful!
Spend a weekend (at least) at Kripalu, the very Zen hippie retreat center in the Berkshires. Oh, how I long to do this….
karate chop something (or someone)!
OMG..I want that bag soooo bad!
On my life list is to actually learn how to use my Nikon D90. My sweet husby got it for me last year for my bday and all I ever use is automatic. I would like to change that.
Fill my passport so I need to get extra pages! I’m super close; I just have one page left! :)
Celebrate Canada Day in Ottawa!
I want to own my own business some day – I don’t know what I want to do yet, but I know I want to be my own boss!
Live in Hawaii and open a coffee shop there.
Make a wedding cake for someone.
To overcome my hatred for running. I’ve been training for a 10K that I’m running on Monday. Mission (almost) accomplished.
on my life list, which is still very much in progress as I only recently learned about all of this — to learn to forgive myself for not being perfect.
I have been coveting those shoes for a while now. But- I just finished grad school (1st item to get crossed off the Life List- Become a Physician Assistant!) and am doing the unemployed/job hunt thing. So, shoes are a low priority now. How great would it be to get them anyway?
I want to someday have a house with a spiral staircase. In the short term I’m going to go puddle jumping. In colorful rainboots. And, I want to give a kid a library of classic children’s literature.
Wowza. I’ve been lusting after that bag for the longest time.
Life list: Ride on a motorcycle.
Those shoes would be The Business.
ride a bike (preferably one with a cute basket on it).
I will see a spectacular showing of the Northern Lights someday. I am thinking Norway. Snowy nights with that indefinable mid-winter calm in the air, followed by fire-lit lounging in a warm cabin.
I’d love to return to Switzerland, minus the 25 teen Jazz Band members I was with on my first visit!
Kiss the blarney stone in Ireland.
Complete a sprint triathlon.
going away to a french immersion program in a lovely place
Learn to do a handstand.
I will run a 10k!! I will learn to make bread! I will win this contest! (I hope)
Go to Portugal!
Spend part of my 40th year in India (I turn 39 this month!)
i checked off a couple things from my life list this summer…and now i’m ready to expand on my pottery goals. i made lots of tiny bowls (check) and now want to make a giant serving bowl (yikes!).
to hike and camp along the Appalachian Trail in the Spring
get married & have babies.
To have my picture taken with a drag queen.
Publish a novel
To live in a foreign country for a year.
To start developing my black and white film. And then to set up my own dark room.
To have a home with a nice backyard and a dog.
One of the things on my life list is to drive the Blue Ridge Parkway in the fall.
P.S. — I’m job hunting! So if you pick me, you can tell everybody that there’s an awesome PR/communications person up for grabs. :)
I’ve added a few new things to my life list since I began work as a tenure track professor in a Midwestern city.
1. Consciously work to educate myself about fashion and develop a coherent fashion of my own, in which I feel comfortable and beautiful.
2. Learn to play the banjo! (Hey, I live so close to Kentucky now…)
3. Attend 10 sporting events at my new university.
Also, last month I crossed another item off my life list: I learned how to score a baseball game!
Thanks for being such a great source of inspiration.
I want to finish and publish my first novel. <3
I would love love love to go to Germany and see the Neuschwanstein Castle. The one Walt Disney based Sleeping Beauty Castle on. I think that would just be absolutely fantastic.
Also, go to every Disney park that exist. 2 down so far!
Bathe in an outdoor bath in Costa Rica.
24.Write and produce a documentary piece (film or radio).
Root around in the dirt at Olduvai Gorge!
become an aerialist
learn to swing dance
be happy with myself
Live my motto every day “half the kidneys twice the fun”
To stop buying so many “disposable” clothes, and invest in some long lasting classics. But still save room for the fun stuff.
i need to edit my life list. as i’ve been checking things off of the list i’m refining my idea of what should be on it. i thought i wanted a lot of solo experiences, but i find them more lonely than i thought. it was fun taking myself out for a fancy dinner, but it would have been awesome to have a friend with me!
one new thing: i want to learn some swedish and go visit my cousins in sweden.
Learn to bake really good bread!
Something that’s been at the forefront of my list right now is to write a short story. Then another. Then a novel. Baby steps.
Your life list has been pretty inspiring. I’m glad it’s motivating people (myself included) to get moving on their life goals!
learn to shoot manually
scuba dive!
Number two on my list: fold 1000 paper cranes.
A goal to live overseas – I lived in Bulgaria from 2000-2002 while in Peace Corps. I’d love to do so again when the kids are no longer minors.
To win a drawing from Mighty Girl! (although I’m not into photography so I would take the shoes and see if you could randomly choose someone else for the strap and bag. Except the bag is so cute maybe I’d keep that as a handbag. Hmmm.
Write a children’s book and have it published!
Stay overnight in a French chateau.
lawsy mercy, woman, i hope you pick me!
to take a year off from work and wake up every day doing what i love.
i’m still working on my life list… but one thing that is definitely on there is to buy a house that has a yard big enough for chickens and a dog, i’m just so sick of renting and having to deal with real estate agents!
i have a question about the life list though… can it include things you’ve already done that were challenges and dreams?
Find the perfect red lipstick – and wear the hell out of it!
To compete in a Three Day Event. I used to ride very seriously, but stopped due to kids and lack of time/money. But I will get back on the horse again!lol.
Finish my Bachelor’s degree! I started school again this semester, and though it is uncomfortable to be the oldest student in class, I love that I’m working towards my dream. Also, I’d like to learn how to make a soufflé.
Surfing in Tofino.
Get a job where i can use my French and become fluent, or a job where I can learn another language.
Bake a pie entirely from scratch, crust and all!
Run a 5k, then a 10k, then a half marathon …
Get saucy boudoir photos taken and give them as a surprise to my husband.
This past year, New Years Day in fact, I rode in a helicopter. Life list check off thank you very much. I also started aggressively paying off debt, and took on a saying as a way to inencumber myself of things. “Love people, use things. Never confuse the two.”. It’s been a great year.
Ride in a hot air balloon! New Mexico Balloon Fiesta, here I come!
Figure out a way to make a living on my own.
The most important item in my list is to move to another country. I’m halfway there!
Take more pilates classes. Knit more. Swim with stingrays (will be doing this in less than a month!)
Visit England. Take a photography class. Keep learning new things.
Learn to do “Around the World” with a yo-yo before I have this here baby (any day now!)
To get out of debt so I can be free!!
I hope to tackle two life list items in the next few months: 1) teach my children to read (they are four) and 2) learn to make really good bread.
Hang a sheet in the backyard under the stars and project a Pixar or Harry Potter movie, with popcorn, mind-blowing candy mixes, the works. Quick, before our 3 kids get too big!
to finally publish that book.
I want to visit all 50 states with my husband and kids. I’d also totally lose it if I won this giveaway!
To start and run a successful photography business and get out of the portfolio building stage!!!!
With that Hot Red Camera bag I would be in STYLE!!
To win something in an internet giveaway contest. For real! It’s on my list. And it hasn’t happened yet. This is where YOU come in. ;)
Watch my gay friends legally get married anywhere in the United States.
1. Become a Nurse Practitioner and start a family practice with my health profession friends (MD, Midwife and genetic counselor)
2. Run a 5k
3. Learn to speak Danish
Be able to run at least an entire mile without having to stop to walk….and also have babies.
Travel to Denmark someday, hopefully with my kids while they’re still young!
To learn to can veggies and jams. Thanks for the opportunity to win! I love that bag!
To learn how to sew. And wouldn’t you know it I passed a sign for sewing lessons in a shop window today. Gonna sign up tomorrow.
Run a marathon. I ran ten miles on Sunday, and I’m doing my first half-marathon in November.
To go to a surf’n'yoga retreat in Bali. On my own. Sorry georgeous partner and deliciously lovely toddler. Mummy needs some me time.
Oh the Teiks! I have been coveting a pair of those. One item from the list? Machu Picchu.
Finish my novel.
go dog sledding (please, please, please pick me!!)
Catch a salmon!
Enjoy running.
Complete a race…I ran two 5k’s last month!
Now that I’m in the midst of post-B.A. retail hell, the majority of my life list boils down to this: Go to graduate school and get my PhD. Oh, and staying sane through the final month of wedding plans is pretty high up there right now too.
Open (and cook in) a restaurant somewhere in Northern California (well: a b/b, with a restaurant on the first floor), possibly in wine country, where most of the food comes from the garden grown out back.
To visit Iceland.
learn how to poach an egg, how to mesh video with still photos in one project, take Sunday afternoon naps.
i think it might be time to actually write a life list down! i’ve been taking opportunities as they come … but the next big scary thing might be a real full marathon.
hence, i would kill for some sensible flat shoes. :)
To run a marathon! Doing it in may!!
kayak through locks on a river
To buy and learn to use an SLR.
have a photo gallery up in a public place
To paint a picture of the house my dad built and give it to my parents as a gift.
I wanna learn how to ice skate. I think I might take lessons this winter!
To take a vacation without any extended family. Just me, my husband and my girls.
Make soundtracks to commemorate different periods of my life; Organize my photos into some kind of beautiful art piece; Send my Mom to space camp.
To print and bind together all the letters I’ve written to my daughter since she was born.
To travel to all 4 grand slams (Australian, French, Wimbledon, and US Open)
Tops on my list right now is to get healthy and organized.
This weekend I am checking off an item on my list!
See a Van Gogh in person [Check!}
Up this month is applying for entrance to UIC! Wish me luck :)
Own a house!
Start my own business. As a lawyer, am hoping to consult others with small businesses on the legal side of things…
learn how to make cheese!
On the docket for completion in the next 5-10 years – Have a dog named Haricots Vert (Harry for Short)
Play the guitar on stage.
I want to ride on six different rapid transit systems throughout the world. Because I’m a nerd for transportation!
just conquered a life list item – taught myself to sew buttonholes and sleeves. Neckties, here I come!
Live abroad, again.
Paddle a canoe.
Learn to sew. Being 5’4″ I need to be able to hem my own pants!
Me too, ME TOO!
I want to host a clambake.
I’m THRILLED to hear the report on your Tieks! Sounds like a wonderful candy-colored investment. :)
Travel to Italy!
Travel to Antartica!
Travel to Europe and eat the best chocolate, olive oil, and bread there.
To drive through London and be able to be totally serious when I say “Look kids- Big Ben, Parliament.” ;)
I want to be on Ninja Warrior!
Travel through Midwestern autumn woods in a convertible in the early evening, preferably while wearing something vintage.
I want to get a passport, even if I never get to go anywhere.
Read the Bible all the way through.
Get published in a Respectable Poetry Journal!
Sell one of the quilts I make on Etsy. The quilts aren’t perfect, but they’re made with love, and making them brings me incredible joy and not a small amount of peace after pushing numbers around on spreadsheets all day. Working in tech, balanced by actually physically making something. I love it for me, would love to see if others like the output as well.
i desperately want to go to morocco and tangiers
I want to dress how I feel.
Something on my life list would be to go scuba diving. I have always been amazed by marine life and hope that it happens one day
Life list: Take my parents on vacation anywhere out of the US.
Go with my family and my sister’s family to Norway to visit our good friend, and former exchange student (back in 1990)!
Life List: visit each state and each continent.
I’m wearing a skirt or dress every day for one year. And that year is 2010. After 10 months, it’s kind of hard to imagine putting on jeans or pants again.
To dig a well with my family, especially my husband, in Africa. He’s a Civil Engineering major and this is the dream that first brought us together.
Take an island vacation, solo.
I want to throw a fancy dinner party. I’ll probably need a place with a bigger kitchen to pull it off though!
I want to visit England, Scotland, and Wales. I want to have high tea every day for a fortnight.
Finally, once and for all, finishing my dissertation and receiving my PhD!
Make sure every woman I know and then some, gets a mammogram once a year, so they won’t have to go through what I did.
I’ve always wanted to ride in a hot air balloon!
I recently crossed off my very first adventure on my lifelist – go whitewater rafting.
I never made the time to compose a life list for myself – until I realized that I had just crossed the first thing off of it: move to a brand new city.
Some people might say that was starting with the hardest thing first. But now there are dozens upon dozens of hardly-easy things I want to try next, like running a half-marathon and living on a boat for a year. Or maybe just learning to knit (seriously, knitting is complicated!).
To go sledding down the ashes of a dormant volcano. In Nicaragua. In two weeks. :)
I am currently working on my life list goal to sign up for a camera workshop/class. Everything for this giveaway would help me have fun while completing another thing on my life list!
Learn to surf! (Considerably easier now that I’m now living in California.)
I want to make a documentary. Maybe this summer? Need to learn how to use a video camera first…
I want a small farm, with a horse, and a huge veggie garden…with a house that has a wood burning fireplace.
I want to FINALLY see the nympheas room at the Orangerie in Paris – something I’ve wanted to do since I was seven or eight.
Enter a photo contest. And win!
I want to live in France for a month.
I want to take a photography class.
And I want to take a year off from work.
I loved your idea so much for trying different fruits that I made one of my life list items to try 500 fruits. I’m up to 60 in only a few months with two more sitting on my kitchen counter right now.
To hire a stylist. I’m hoping this one will be done by the end of this year!
Go to Africa and see the Mountain Gorillas
Oh, pretty please!
i am crossing “teach a bookbinding class” off of my life list next weekend!
To grow old with the love of my life, and be happy.
I want to become SCUBA certified.
Do yoga every day for one month.
To take my husband to Yankees Spring Training.
Work in a winery.
I want to go to Ireland and drive on the left side of the street!
I don’t have a Mighty Life List so much as a Play the Piece Before I Die List. I am a professionally educated amateur clarinet player and I managed to find a really phenomenal local community orchestra in which to pursue my dream of becoming a professional clarinettist. This year I was named principal clarinet after seven seasons with this orchestra. The first concert we are playing includes Mahler’s first symphony, which I have wanted to play since I was a freshman in high school. We are three rehearsals in toward a performance on October 30 and 31 and I am thrilled to check Mahler 1 off my list. Now, onto Ein Heldenleben.
I’m nearly 11/12ths of the way to completing Library School!!!
I want to take photography, painting and sewing classes.
To go to Ireland and have a Guiness in a pub with my husband
To go to Alaska and kayak, hike a glacier, and ride a train – all in Alaska.
I just crossed off “have a cool portrait taken” as a part of this project http://iliveheresf.com/.
to drive a vw bus cross country with my family
Ride the train across America.
The first three on my Life List:
1. Get a tattoo
2. Learn how to french braid my own hair
3. Go on a two week long backpacking trip
Buy a house in Joshua Tree
I have been drooling over that camera bag for awhile now! Sure would help me (look the part) when I accomplish my goal of taking a photography class and learning how to use my camera!
After moving across the country in August to complete life list item #1: Go to grad school, I started adding oodles of new things to the list like: camp on the Appalachian Trail, attend a Bluegrass festival, and learn how to make grits from a true southern woman.
I definitely need a good camera bag to go with me (and travel shoes for when I fly back home!)
Start a “Creativity Group” of women who meet once a month for some creative pursuit…like a bookclub only much more fun! (First meeting…Oct, 26..Yeah!)
go back to Utrecht or Paris with my husband and our two young boys. thanks for the opportunity!
I recently re-read my life list and there was ‘live in New York’ on there. It was that last push that I needed to apply to grad school there.
Learn to dance well, and take a vacation by myself!
To go to bartending school!
Choreograph another hip-hop routine! I may change this to any kind of dance routine. I choreographed a dance routine for a group of high school students last year and loved it. It’s also something I didn’t know I could do!
I suppose it’s rather cliche, but I really want to visit Britain. I’d love to spend several weeks and just explore all of it.
To kill everyone with kindness, particularly my nagging MIL.
I want to start a scholarship fund for seniors at the high school I attended.
Learn to weld
I’ll be crossing off a pretty major Life List item this Saturday: I’m getting married! And then we’re off to Italy for our honeymoon, where I shall cross drinking wine at an Italian vineyard off my list. It’s a big week for the Life List. :-D
Run a marathon. A year ago I would have sworn that I had no desire to EVER do something as absurd as running for 26 miles, now here I am two weeks away from race day! Funny how our sense of what is possible grows with a little faith (and a whole heck of a lot of work!)
I am writing this comment from India right now. Can I still enter?
I just started my life list this afternoon, coincidentally! So far the only thing I have on it is to double my website traffic within the year, which, now that I think about it, doesn’t seem to be the point of the life list. But, count me in for this lovely giveaway anyway!
Moonlight as a hibatchi chef.
The magic of the life list for me is that it has forced me to overcome fears that may have otherwise held me back. An oppertunity arose to tackle a fairly significant. and very personal item on my list last year. Honestly it wouldve been easy to put it off, telling myself “now” was not the time, or doubt it was worth the stress. Those “little lies we tell ourselves” wouldve won. But then I thought – its on my list! I want this! Its worth working through the fear and insecurities! So I took the leap, and that one cross off now is the one for which I am most proud.
Get my driver’s license before I’m 40.
Speak Italian
I cannot believe the response you’ve had to this, amazing. I have two things I am currently crossing off my list; we are in the process of securing a mortgage for our first house!!! GAH!!! and I have gone back to school to upgrade in something I already love doing, drafting. This means being able to leave my soul crushing job on completion. Life is getting extremely exciting! Thanks for all the encouragement you don’t even know you have been giving me.
I want to take my babies to Japan to meet my Mother in Law’s brothers and sisters. They are amazing people (I got to meet them in 2005), and I would love for my Mother-in-law to be able to show off her Hapa grandbabies. I need to make this happen!
Perfect my Arabic.
Plant bulbs for the spring/summer and keeping a houseplant alive.
Thank you so much for the encouragement to start my list… I want to visit Hollyhock http://www.hollyhock.ca/ with my husband.
Wow, it’s great to read everyone’s comments!
I crossed off one item this very evening: sing karaoke by myself, in public. It was awesome. Another step toward a major life list item: feel confident and comfortable in my own skin.
I will make Hatha yoga a regular part of my life. I want to be strong, I want to be flexible, and when I am old, I want to be hot!
Live in another country.
Create a peaceful office space in white and yellow…
Sing and strum in a small bar for pay without letting in the not good enoughs.
Cruise down the Nile , see the pyramids!
A new thing I’m adding to my life list: go soak in some natural hot springs, out west somewhere.
Knit a sweater for myself or one of my children.
I want to go cage-diving with great whites around Seal Island.
I baked a challah from scratch (#45), and it was a delicious non-disaster (http://karenpery.com/2010/03/21/its-the-yeast-i-could-do/). Really want to teach an adult to read.
Maggie & Mighty Readers, thank you for the inspiration.
#17 Stand on the stage at the Hollywood Bowl. Just stand (not even preform or anything) and take it all in.
learn to play the violin.
Rub shoulders with the mighty gals :) (Ok, more than complimenting you on your momversations at Dooce’s signing in Mt View and blushing and trying not to be a goober while posing with Heather.) Shameless kiss ass right here.
Take a vacation without my three sons.
I’ve recently begun my progress toward achieving my life list goal of finding a job that isn’t just a job, but a career (one that is enjoyable and rewarding) by leaving my adopted second home of the past three years, New Zealand, and returning home to the USA, where more plentiful opportunities exist. The best part is, my new kiwi husband is with me doing the exact same thing!
To take my family on the road, living in an RV for a year traveling from state to state.
Bonus (recently added due to the amazing-ness of said event): Be chosen to attend the Mighty Summit.
I want to have children. I have always wanted to be a mom, so having children is number 1 on my life list. Hopefully it’ll happen naturally (we’ve been trying for over a year) but it will happen however we need to make it happen.
ps.. I love those shoes!
To find the perfect part-time job that would allow me to be a present mom in my little boy’s life but also still feel like an accomplished adult. I want to continue to be “me” but also be there for him in his life. That is my #1 priority on my life list right now! ;)
My younger sister has inspired me to run a marathon. I currently don’t run anywhere, but for some crazy reason I completely want to do this. It’s going to take a few years, but I’m starting to take some baby steps.
One of the things on my list that I have been actively working on, is #9. Living Debt Free.
While it is going slowly, it isn’t one of those things you just do in a day and cross off. But that is how I am treating it. I am just going to make positive progress, every day. Then, I am never going to look back.
But, I can tell you now, I am going to relish the sound of that pencil sliding across the paper on that one.
I still want to be in a Wes Anderson movie!
One of my life list goals was to get health insurance, and thanks to Obama’s health care initiative, I was able to do so last month! And for a reasonable price. I realize this is a rather boring goal, but it’s also a super important one.
Travel internationally with a good friend (instead of always travelling with my family). :)
write a letter (and mail it) every month for a year to unsuspecting friends and family.
Great contest…very inspirational!
I have crosssed several off the list recently:
- moved to Europe
- learned a second language
- spent two weeks on an organic farm with my family in the south of France (woolfing)
still on the list: learn to ride a horse, start a new green business and do yoga everyday.
Life has brought me and kept me in Arizona for the past seven years, but I would like to live very near the ocean and walk regularly on the beach. My Turkish man might move me to Istanbul next year, so walks by the Bosphorus would also be excellent!
I want to become a midwife and help babies come into the world.
Getting married. ;-)
I want to buy and live in a house with a screened in back porch and sleep out there on summer nights with my kids. And oh man, winning this would be oh so good! Love your site!
See a total solar eclipse!
Tryout for a local theater production.
Learn how to drive a stick-shift. Not freaking out that the car will roll backwards when stopped on a hill would be nice too.
I want to learn the harp and perform in public.
To go to a nap cafe.
By the way, I have a long flight (SFO to Logan!) tomorrow, and I plan on drafting my full list.
To surf in Portugal.
To learn to sew a dress.
To have a baby, and a garden for he/she to play in.
Tonight I added one to my life list while making an impromptu fall dinner with a friend, take a cooking class so that friends and family can say ‘she sure knows her way around a kitchen!’.
Start a blog and be happy with the life I have
Learning/Improving my guitar playing!
added to my list:
become a scuba-dive instructor
visit 10 mediterranean islands (done: Sicily, Crete, Malta)
I want to spend enough time on every continent to know them all intimately. This year marks 5… I can’t believe how lucky I am to get to do this!
Go to lake Como Italy on a honeymoon with my fiance. Eat ourselves giddy on pizza, pasta and vino.
learn the Argentine Tango
To live overseas for a year. The ball is rolling on this one!
To live in another country (or more) for a year (or more).
My number one spot on my Life List is thaken up by this:
1. Visit India for the Holi Festival
There’s something about all the colour and fun and madness that looks unreal.
I look forward to ticking that off my Life List most.
Thanks!
R
Taking a break from studying for my general exam (blargh)! I am one step closer to being a competent bike rider. I bought a bike about a month ago and I’ve been riding around town with my husband. Yeah I screamed like a banshee going down the reaaaally steep hill, but we made it to the farmer’s market! Rejoice :)
Learn to speak French, spend some time in Paris, and take a cooking class there.
To write my ph.d.-thesis abroad
Learning to sew so I can make a dress for my daughter.
To fly all of my family and friends from Texas here to New Zealand for my wedding. Or to fly all of us to my favorite island off of Malaysia for my honeymoon. How about both.
Had the opportunity at the last minute to complete a goal on my life list (take a knife skills class!), but decided to finish up my homework (grad school’s a pain!) and take care of myself instead.
So, priorities win?
Winning would feel more complete with a sweet new pair of shoes!
I want to research my ancestry and create a family tree going back as many generations as I can possibly trace.
I tandem skydived a few weeks back. It was on my list- now crossed off. Had I thought about it more beforehand I could have put on the list “skydive through a cloud with my eyes open.” That was the BEST part.
Here’s a photo I took of my feet from 3000 feet. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillsmooch/4959442320/in/set-72157624881812172/
I want to run down a dock and cannonball into a lake without getting wet first. Usually I take FOREVER to get into the water!
I hope to someday design and build my own home using 100% natural materials. I’m sick of renting the lead-paint-and-asbestos mistakes of the past :-)
One of the things I have on my Life List and that I’ve wanted to do for ages it take a trip with just myself and my sister. I have always thought that we would make the perfect travel companions…
Last week we both booked aeroplane tickets to San Francisco for a week in November! I am excited to cross that one off, though I may have to put it back on again with a more specific qualifier so that we have a good excuse to do this more often!
It is also going to let me cross something else off – Attend a world premier of something. We’re timing our visit to S.F. to be there for the world premier of Rufus Wainwright’s compositions commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
I just started dating a fantastic guy- who happens to be a tattoo artist. He is going to help me with #101 on my list “Get a really vulgar word tattooed on the inside of my lip”!
Learn to play the accordion and stage a street corner performance for loose change!
I want to finish writing a novel. I’ll start with 500 words. And then another 500…and another…until it’s done.
Sew a fifties style dress.
To become a really good Argentine tango dancer
Cook a multi-course meal for more than two people.
I’m halfway to number 29 on my list: “Get a design plan drawn up for our garden and make it happen”. I now have a large format plan for our garden, commissioned from a local landscape designer. Chickens, veggies, fruit trees, native grasses, fragrant flowers… now I just have to make it happen!
Talk to Devdutt Pattnaik: Sometimes, I forget I’m a journalist. So instead of hanging around cafes, waiting for Pattnaik to walk by, be enamoured by my aura and settle down for a chat, I just called him up for an interview. He can truly force your mind open with a crowbar.
To study Spanish in Madrid
Run a 5k. Hopefully this would get me to eat better and help me with another item on my list, get down to pre husband weight.
Take my puppy to puppy training school while she’s still, well, a puppy.
Create an awesome kitchen space and fill it with perpetually yummy smells.
hold a baby panda in china (they let you do this at a reserve so it isn’t as random as it sounds)…ooh and own one of these awesome camera bags!
To teach my son to sail (he turned one last Friday, and I want to teach him *everything*, but I’ve been trying to narrow it down a little).
I’ve had a Life List since 1999 – I actually wrote a post about it earlier this year on my other site, WhenIHaveTime.com :)
I’m steadily cutting a path through mine – I love to see your progress, too! The Summit sounds like an awesome idea.
30 presents over 30 days for my partner’s 30th birthday.
Yeah, it’s coming up fast!
to have a pet goat
I’d like to develop a serious yoga practice. By “serious,” I mean attending classes more than once a week and also being able to do poses in my basement without feeling completely foolish.
Go on a roller coaster road trip across the US!
So on Friday I attended my first spinning class. While a very small and achieveable item, this is something I’ve been putting off for fear of failing miserably and embarassing myself. In reality it was fine, so has spurred me on to tackle some of the other items I’ve been a bit daunted by.
Holy wow, the commenters really come outta the woodwork when there are good giveaways at hand huh?
Anyway, to pitch my lot into the fray, I’m currently working on #62 Learn yoga and get really flexible and strong.
My one and only thing on my life list is to figure out how my family can move to France in the next two years.
I want to renew my wedding vows atop Table Mountain.
Eat at a 3-star restaurant in Paris
i’m not sure how this is going to sound, but i would like to do a serious self portrait project with my photography. i’ve always hated photos of myself and think i’m so unphotogenic… but i want to have a go.
Current goal: learn to drive a 4X4. Lessons start in November!
One item on my life list is to drive across the US… and we’ve planned a road trip for next summer!
Hike the Appalachian Trail. Which requires neither Epiphany bag nor travel shoes, but…
Travel to New Zealand for several weeks: it was going to be our honeymoon destination, but our cat is chronically ill so we decided to go away but not so far in case we needed to come home suddenly. Someday, though!
Eat Haggis and hike the whiskey trail..conveniently, my friend is getting married in Scotland. Awesome.
Sew my daughter a dress.
To drink a bottle of wine that costs over 100 dollars.
Run Hood to Coast next year.
Just last night I added something new to my list: to become an afficionado (whatever that means to me) about the different types of coffee, wine and chocolate.
to self publish my book.
To stand on top of a mountain. Not a gigantic one or anything. ha ha ha I’m not talking Mount Everest or anything. A reasonable sized mountain.
learn to roll in a kayak & kayak the fjords of iceland woot!
Learn to play the piano again. I have the piano, and I have my sheet music. Now I need the time.
Think of a theme for a half-sleeve and get one!
To see the Aurora on a different continent.
To buy a house
To get a Masters’ – and to figure out what in first!
To make an intimate meal for 6 or 8, with an least 6 courses
To spend an afternoon with kids, preferably my sister’s or mine (the latter yet to be conceived), cloud-gazing, ice-cream-eating and swinging from a tree (perhaps this is three-in-one)
To plant morning glories around the light pole in front of our house
To have a baby, at 14 weeks I am working on it!
I’d like to run a marathon someday. Considering I only recently completed my first 5-mile run, I’d say it’s a lofty goal.
recently added: run a marathon :)
Take a photo safari in Africa.
Go to Alaska with my camera.
Great giveaway. Also, one of my goals is to be a “plus one” for a restaurant critic.
One of my life list items is to have dinner at Alinea, and I was wondering if I would be the kind of person who takes pictures at a dinner like that. After dinner at Chez Panisse for the first time this year, I think I can safely say I am not, and I’m totally cool with that.
to finish the marathon this weekend (10/10/10)
Spend a summer in Italy.
To learn how to cook w/o using recipes.
Working on “Build dream house” right now. Just got permit yesterday!
to hike the Appalachian trail
Oh! Gorgeous giveaway! My life list includes learning French, Italian, and Ruby on Rails.
To take a wine tasting tour through Europe!
Travel to another country on my own.
To take my family on a hot air balloon ride — looking into companies right now!
To become confident enough with my camera and new lens (woo hoo!)to take photos of three families this year.
Learn how to properly use my camera!
I need a happy. Pick me, pick me please :)
To run a half marathon (already started training, the NYC half is March 20!)
To finally learn Spanish.
Go to Africa. Ideally South Africa, Kenya and Democratic Republic of Congo where my dad was born.
Learn to speak French fluently. You know where I know what they’re saying right then rather than 5 minutes later when my brain finally finishes translating what they’ve said.
Learn how to do a cartwheel.
I want to learn how to quilt and then make my children their own baby quilts. (I’m currently childless so I still have time.)
I have a gaggle of sisters, spread out all over the world. On my life list, is to have photo sessions of us done at least once every two years so we can document how we change and grow, together.
To visit Italy with my husband.
Buy my first house with my fiance. Whether it be in GA or NY or anywhere else (but in south FL) I’d be happy. I want something we can fix up and make it all ours and has plenty of room for our family with room to spare for any future children! I’m almost 26 and would really like to see this happen before I turn 30…
Still working on my list but at the top is to own a house.
I want to start a part time photography business!
I have a bunch of running goals on my life list – 5k, 10k, half-marathon, marathon. I’ve beat out the 5k several times over (most recently, and most fun: http://www.ruggedmaniac.com ), and I’ll have the 10k and the half-marathon under my belt in the next (yikes!) week and a half. The marathon… the marathon can wait just a little bit longer.
On my life list is to live in Washington, DC. I’m scared to move away from my city where I have a large group of friends, but DC is so wonderful, how could I not?
I want to learn to speak Japanese.
live in a foreign country for 6 months…
To have a (relatively) clutter-free house.
I want to see a space shuttle launch!
I have always wanted to learn how to play the piano and the violin (or at least one of those!) When I was in elementary school and everyone had to pick an instrument for band, I had to learn the clarinet because we had access to my dad’s old one. But the piano and violin were what excited me. I’ve already lined up piano lessons to begin in the spring!
to win a freebie on a website!!
(ONE DAY….)
I’ve started a 365 project from my 29th b-day to my 30th to celebrate the end of my 20′s.
One of the items on my life list is to get to each of the 48 contiguous states, and last week I added Maine(!) and New Hampshire to the list. Maine gets an exlamation point cuz I figure it deserves it, what with being one syllable and all. We also crossed New Brunswick, Canada, off while we were at it. Bonus!
To visit Hawaii with my whole family!
to serve on the board of a non-profit.
To get my photography business up and running.
to live in the mountains for a ski season
To “just breathe.”
I want to be free of real estate that is holding us back…putting both up on the market in the spring!
To live in another state for a while.
To learn how to sew and make a baby blanket!!
to run a marathon!
The first thing on my life list is to be brave enough to write a life list!
Build a chronological, hard-bound book from my mother’s photos…added: with captions, because capturing the stories is kind of my thing.
To create my own family traditions.
I want to run in a marathon and finish the race.
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I want to go camping in a remote area…..and enjoy it.
To attend a birth
To host a brunch once a month
Travel the world off the beaten path and meet people who are NOTHING like me….and to live on a houseboat.
I actually just decided yesterday (the day you posted this) to start a life list. First on the list: Learn to play Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.”
Learn sign language.
I love baking bread, so like a crazy person, I just added go one year without buying any bread, only making it. I should start buying yeast in bulk i think.
So many things on my life list. One is to run a vineyard. Crazy!
Just last week I almost accidentally completed one thing on mine: sell something I baked. My friend asked for lemon bars for an event at her store. $20, satisfied customer, done!
I do think I can cross “be kinder to myself” off the list! Hazzah!
Zipline!
Go sky diving
So every once in a while my hair falls out in clumps. It is genetic–I had a bald great grandmother. So every time it starts to fall out I feel sad.
Life list: Next time I’ve got all my hair, I’m going to shave it off (i’ve done this before, but only when it has already balded itself) and have some pictures taken of myself so I can remember: I am an attractive bald person. And the hair will come back (eventually). And I’m not afraid of it falling out again.
To meet one of the bloggers I admire most…and I might get to do that next week!
I want to learn to like (and discuss) Scotch, just like my great grandmother!
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail (Mexico to Canada).
Visit Patagonia!
Road trip Rte. 1 from Key West to the tip of Maine.
Spend a few months in Puerto Rico researching my family tree and interviewing the oldest members of my family…
Well have a drug-free birth was on my list, and I did do it epidural-free, with just a little fentanyl when my water broke at 9cm. I think that deserves something. Next up: lose the baby weight!
I would love to see the Northern lights!
Own a business. Wow. Even writing that down is scary!
To learn conversational Spanish and use it in birth work.
I would like to have something published! (And win a contest, could this be the time?)
To become a mother… done it once, now in the process of round 2!
I am going to learn how to do a drum roll!
One of my lifelist goals is to learn to play the saxaphone again (I have lived away from home for 5 yrs sans my sax, and have forgotten everything I learnt).
But my parents came to visit recently and brought my saxaphone with them! Hurrah!
To have a latte in Paris.
I would like to found a dog rescue group.
Be 100% comfortable in my own skin.
Great giveaway! The first thing on my life list has been to prioritize the rehabbing of 2 chronic injuries – PT, chiro, easing up on hard exercise. It’s not fun, but it is working. Yay for acting like an adult!
I want to figure out how to go to paris for vacation and enjoy it with 2 kids under the age of 4.
go crawfishing! Random, I know, but I have always wanted to do that!
I want to do a lot more traveling – specifically I want to visit Italy and Australia.
I have always wanted to write a book.
live for a year or two in rural ireland, writing and learning about my heritage from the inside out
Complete an Ironman 70.3…July ’11!
I want to go to the Field of Dreams in Iowa, but I think I have to do it quick bc I’ve heard they’re in some financial trouble!
See the Pacific Ocean!
Create a piece of wheel-thrown pottery, paint it and fire it in my own kiln.
take a picture of my daughter every day for a year.
An unpublished item: to actually be my real liberal hippie self in front of my in-laws. I have unconsciously created a sort of alter-ego for them that makes me dread their visits even more than I normally would.
It is on my mental life-list to write a hard-copy life-list.
drive cross country in an RV!
Be able to fit into the jeans I wore in highschool.
To visit every national park.
To visit England and Ireland and see all the places I’ve read about.
I cannot find the right vanilla coffee creamer that I like that has zero weight watchers points!
Own a “successful” photography business.
Run a marathon and a 1/2 marathon… checking off the 1/2 marathon this Sunday!
Visit the art museums of the world to see the paintings in person that I’ve only seen in textbooks. Meet the old world artists as well as discover some new ones!
To travel to Tahiti with my husband! Aaaah….warm sand, clear waters, a hut over the water where I can dive in from my deck. That’s the life! Dream vacation. One day.
I’m less than a month from crossing off Veruca Salt costume off my list! YAY!
Say what I really think. (I’m so “diplomatic”, I might as well stamp “Welcome” on my forehead and lay out on the porch.)
life list item #1, sit down and make a really awesome life list. i’ve been meaning to do this for far too long now.
To some day upgrade my camera and buy a new lens so I can expand my passion for photography.
Travel to Peru and trek through Machu Picchu!
I want to photograph a wedding at every LDS Temple in the United States – and then bind one or two photos from each into a book or album to keep forever. :)
To sleep one night on the clouds in an old fire lookout in the pacific range (with my camera, of course!)
Break some plates, just for fun
Finish my PhD.
Or, as an alternative, own an Epiphanie Bag! :)
Attend the ballet with my daughter (as soon as she’s old enough to sit still through the performance! ;)
I want to spend an entire weekend just reading a great book. It seems like I’m always so busy, and end up just reading for five minutes here and there between other things. But I’d love to just set aside all the ‘To Do’ lists for an entire weekend and just immerse myself in a book. Easy, right? Except, it’s been on my Life List for over a year and I still haven’t had the time to do it.
Travel abroad with my husband.
Knit a blanket (I’m nearly done with this one).
Take a hot air balloon ride at sunrise!
A trip to Japan with my husband!
Travel to Egypt to see the Great Pyramids! I’ve wanted to see them ever since I learned about them in elementary school. :)
Become a docent at a museum I love.
I hope to sit on my back deck while my grandbabies play in the yard!!
I’m making mozzarella cheese this weekend. It’s on the life list. Then, I think we’ll slice it and put it on a pizza.
Get into school to become a photographer!
To go on a loooong Mediterranean cruise.
To set foot on, explore and Photograph Antarctica! :)
To have one of my photos published. many things are on my list, but this one excites me.
I have always wanted to go on an African safari. :)
teach my son how to make photographs (when he’s old enough)
To ride a horse on the beach.
To live overseas, possibly Germany, for a year or two.
To strap my camera to my back and ride my Harley across the country … while capturing the journey in a photo journal!
Travel the world!
To learn to do a cartwheel…because there is a long hallway in my office just BEGGING for cartwheels.
To scuba dive with Manta Rays
To buy a house..with a yard, a fenced in yard for my kids to run around in the backyard. And with a basement that I can make into a playroom to keep there rooms a little bit more clean! Also with a sun room for taking natural lighting newborn pictures :)
Wow, I love your list :) So many great things on yours, it’s inspiring me to make one of my own & I really think everyone should! I will gladly wear a big hat to the Kentucky Derby & we can have a mint Julep together & place a bet on a horse with a funny name that reminds us of something silly. I’ve always wanted to do that :) Thanks for reminding me to live this precious life again. I forget sometimes…I think we all do. Such a shame to waste it :) Blessings to you!
Corinne Noel †
#49 Run on a spinning log like in lumberjack competitions
To learn Spanish!!
Skydiving. Last thing on my list from when I was a teenager, somehow I’ve managed to do everything else. Guess it’s time for a new list.
Visit Napa Valley with my husband (and no kids in tow) and visit as many wineries as possible and drink lots and lots of wine! :)
I want to learn to swim so I can swim with my grandchildren. I am nearly 50 years old and this is on the top of my list. :)
To visit Paris with my family!
I put just one item on my life list for the year–run the Army 10-miler–it’s three weeks away, and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna make it. I may be the slowest runner in the race, but as long as I finish, it’s all good.
I want to learn to dance en pointe. I took dance lessons growing up, but quit just before we got to go en pointe.
To FINALLY get the designs I have had in my head for 10 years….out into the market, reaching every woman hunter out there!!
Learn some geography. I have trouble locating China on a map.
To become a painter. I am on my way; I’ve painted a picture for each of my three boys, based on their favorite books. Next is a Tolkien-themed painting for my husband.
To take a photography class so I can take my bad ass SLR off “auto.”
I really really want to become fluent in Portuguese!
To travel with my kiddos on an airplane to somewhere awesome in the near future. Also to go to Iceland, but without the kids. Travel, travel, travel!
Travel to Ireland, I have always felt a desire or a ‘pull’ to go there.
I want to go to Hawaii!
ireland…. i must go.
To conceive a child.
I want to see all six of my kids graduate from high school and go on to college!
To sing on a Broadway stage…in front of a real audience. :)
To travel to Europe and sepnd a whole abroad… Oh and Africa, I really want to go to Africa too. And Bali and Australia. Ok, how about we just say travel? lol
wine tour in europe… either southern italy or spain.
Meet the family of my organ donor and tell them how grateful I am….and that I hope that I’m doing him proud every single day.
My big dream from my life list is to help a friend start a company so that s/he can earn her/his living doing something s/he loves. If I could do that, I would be so happy!
I’ve never had a life list, but if I were to create one, at the top would be to see my boys find special someones to spend their lives with, raise happy, healthy kids with that someone, and be as happy as I am!
To have more children and have one big happy family. :)
To be a photographer on a mission trip to a third world country for Compassion International or to have the opportunity to photographically document something socially important.
Photograph the world while traveling. I specifically want to visit Tahiti, Africa, Greece and Australia. I know ill do this one day!
To publish some poetry!
Visit Disneyland, Disneyworld og Eurodisney. I don’t care if it will have to wait until I’m 80(I’m 25 now), I’m going!
To open a run a dog rescue!
I want to have a family of my own.
I’d like to sit on a beach in Hawaii, after taking photos all day and watch the sunset through my camera lens…
One of my items on my long list is to get certified with PPA (professional photographers) and also NAPCP (National Association of Professional Child Photographers). Along with upgrade my camera and hopefully one day buy a Epiphanie bag or win won :o)
To take a family photo with my husband and two boys on the beaches of Saipan, the tropical island where I was born.
live in kathmandu for a year with my family.
To have a garden themed wedding :)
To get the time to really go into business. I want something for ME for a change.
I want to bring my husband to Rome.
I think my ultimate goal in my life list, is to be in my husbands arems when we are delightfully old and watch our children with their children. To see these wonderful people that are here because of the love between my husband and me.
Live in an exotic place for one year. We are thinking about Belize.
To open my own photography studio
Hmmmm….to actually start working out and eating better regularly and to then stick with it for the rest of my life!!!!!!
And to hopefully someday have my own precious little family :)
To see the French Riviera…
My life list – hmmm… I would love to travel and take photographs of my travel and wallpaper a room in my house with them.
One of my lifelong dreams is to take a hot-air balloon ride.
- To photograph a wedding in Greece. :) <3
To travel to all 50 states in an RV!
oh my,what an awesome giveaway,please count me in:0)
Take my wife to Europe.
Staying in a hotel on stilts in Bali.
To photograph weddings on the weekend, teach yoga anytime anywhere :)
Lacy-jeffries says: my life list is pretty long but the # 1 thing that’s at thr top of my list is to show someone GODS love. I’m a born again christian and I struggle everyday. I want to help someone find the Lord and lead by example.
I don’t have anything major on my Life List currently but just enjoying every day and experiencing the season’s with my young daughter… this month has already been filled with first zoo trips, apple picking and next week; pumpkin patches hot air ballon festivals. Life is grand right now. :)
Play a violin duet with my two year old son… once he gets old enough not to use the bow like a sword!
To take a tropical vacation with my husband (sans kids) to reconnect.
Learn to sew and make my daughter a holiday stocking she can have always, that reminds her of how much I love her.
Latest life goal: To live the 100-mile diet – for serious! – for a year.
Run a successful vegetarian cafe and magazine.
one of the things that has been on my life list ever since I was a kid, in so Cal and flipping thru surfer magazine’s amazing photos, was to have the guts to be out in the water photographing the surfers. I now live in New Hampshire.. and I’m learning to surf and I am a photographer. I am getting closer!
Refer to myself as a “Professional Photographer” and actually get paid for what I LOVE to do..Take Pictures!~XO
To take a trip by myself.
I want to travel the world with the love of my life and capture every step of our way with my camera so I can always cherish our trip together!
I just started my life list a few weeks back. I started it by making a 45X45 list with (mostly) achievable (if challenging) goals…and I’ll be expanding it and making it a full, challenging life list. Right now the one that’s at the forefront for me is making a full Victorian Era gown from the skin out from scratch. I’m partway there, but its a little at a time with money and time limitations!! Another goal is to make it to a blogging conference. I’m REALLY hoping to attain that one this coming year!!
To visit Italy for two weeks.
Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
To take a photo that becomes an icon.
To be around to see a cure for my mother’s disease.
To have my mother see me get married one day.
to take my girls on a trip to Europe
Go to Disneyworld :)
I would love to go to Italy and visit the city my grandmother grew up in and maybe meet some relatives while I am there :)
Oh Lovely! What a fabulous giveaway! On my life list is to take a trip with my kids to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Spending at least a few month in Hawaii is also high on the list.
“Surviving” being a mom is on the top of my Lifelist right now…thank gawd I have photography as an outlet!!!
I’ve just recently starting trying to bake really good artisan bread.
Wow…I could really make quite a list. Right now my priority is to learn how to quilt so I can make my 8 month old son a quilt from all of his old baby clothes. And just to complicate things more I want it to be a queen size quilt so I can wrap up in it with him and snuggle him.
life dream..to find a job I love, then be able to travel to places I have never been. I would love to go to Paris and Ireland.
I’m flying to LA in one month to visit my brother (who’s been out there for 5 years!) Next time, I’ll bring my 3 year old to visit “Uncle B”!
See a volcano at night.
I want to learn to play the piano. I’m almost 33 and have never had a single lesson. This could be the year!
Go to Italy!!!
I want to bust through a paper wall, milk a cow and go on a hot air balloon ride. Among other fun and silly things.
Take a two week trip around Italy!
I want to take a boaters safety course so I can drive my own boat. I honestly can’t say why I haven’t done that already. I also want to learn to sail.
Send my kids to college without them needing any loans, and live a long and full life with my beautiful wife!
One of my things is to concur my fear of yeast. So that I can successfully made yummy baked goods!
I broke out a bit of my life list and made it into a 30 before 30 list (ala Making It Lovely). The one I am working on now- going on a vacation with my sister.
I want to travel the world.
To live in the UK.
To learn to scuba dive!
To vacation in Greece. The photos of your trip suckered me and now I want to go. Also I WANT THOSE TIEKS!
hmmm..part of my Life’s list is to experience riding the zip line…I love to experience the adrenaline rush that it will bring :-)
Having overcome illness, I plan to just enjoy every single day of the rest of my life! Be happy & be positive :)
Learn Italian. And then sit in a cafe and use it. =0)
I hope that by leading by example, I will lead others to Christ.
This has encouraged me to write a Life List! Such a simply perfect idea! So many great ones on here. I finally started my blog this year so I can finally scratch that off my list after talking about it for two years! Yee Haw! My new goal is to not be so hard on myself and enjoy our last and final pregnancy. It’s been hard to do with two under 4 and a business to run…
Own a sewing machine – and learn how to use so that I can make pretty dresses for my daughter.
To take my kids on a real family vacation.
Visit Europe once.
Get married to my best friend and have a loving marriage that dwells in Jesus and that blesses others.
I have recently added “Build a house” to my lifelist, after being inspired to up the ante a bit. I’m not sure what kind of house this will be – a treehouse? Tiny house? Playhouse? All I know is that it will have walls, a floor, windows and a roof and it will be built with these hands and this head. It will be a place for dreams to grow.
To see my children grow up happily.
I would love to take a family vacation somewhere very different and not have to worry about financial bothersome the whole trip
On my life list…..
-Take a coast to coast roadtrip so my kids (and I) can see and experience all of th cool things we read about/see on tv
-take my kids camping in Alaska
-Turn the thing I love into a productive career
Eat lobster rolls in Maine. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
To build a brand new barn for our horses….complete w/laundry and a sweet office space! For all the love they give…I want to give back!
Some things on my life list are taking my kids to Disneyworld and scuba diving in Australia.
open the pages of a magazine and see my work featured.
I work towards that everyday, and even though there are a lot of other things on my list, this one isn’t just buying a ticket or taking the time. It’s about persistence, rejection, hard work, and joy- all rolled into one little goal :)
I am just starting to knit my first ever sweater (it’s for a baby, on account of I figured that’d be easier to start with).
I want to make a pie crust that doesn’t taste like sand. And I want to spit off the Eiffel Tower.
To go to ireland and meet family that I have never met before!
teaching my babies (boy=4 & girl=2) the art of nurturing and cherishing each other so their relationship can withstand the fiercest pressure.
a bit (a lot?) cheesy but that would be one of the greatest goals to achieve.
To travel. Greece, Italy, France, across the USA and use my new Nikon!!
This is going to sound a little nerdy, but my lifelist includes investment goals for each year. I’m not too far from completely mine for this year.
To take a month or two off and do the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela across northern Spain, WITH my husband and babe in tow.
to be debt free!
Go on a family vacation to California!
To witness the birth of a baby. Birth is a miracle and I would love to be a spectator. I watched my own little miracle born, but I was the one writhing in pain. :) ((Another life list: win a giveaway! :))
I want my children to grow up knowing my parents.
Something on my list?…own a red vintage Schwinn bicycle. Every time I see one, I want it a little more! :)
To lose over 80 pounds. I’m almost there and it’s been less than a year! Wow, it feels good. 8 pounds to ‘goal’.
Visit all 50 states!
To visit India
To run a half marathon… attempting/COMPLETING it in 3 weeks!!!! Wish me luck! :-D
I want to visit all 50 states!!!!
This will go a long way in helping me realize goal No. 57 – learn how to really use my “big girl” camera. Accessories are half the battle, right?
My life list includes enjoying fresh made pasta and red wine overlooking the coast of Amalfi Coast ;0) mmmmmm
Visit Iceland.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Finish my PhD!!!!
I have done quite a bit of traveling, mostly to Europe and Latin American countries. My dream, for as long as I can remember is going to Africa (w/ my DSLR in hand) to go on a safari and see the pyramids!!!
Oh! I really want to learn how to eat fire :)
Run a marathon. I’ve done a half-marathon, but the 26 miler has eluded me thus far. One day!
I just took my Mom to NYC for a weekend for her 60th birthday, which was an item on my list. Those Tieks would have come in handy!
(Good grief. “Come in handy” is a very odd expression.)
I love my job and a college degree would not help with a promotion, but I would love to finish my college education.
See an active lava volcano
Travel to Europe!
Go bike riding with my son.
I want to have coffee in a coffee shop in Italy.. :) and I want to spend at least one week in an orphanage working with orphans..:)
suceed with my children! and win an epiphanie bag! annemolino at hotmail odt com
Do the Chinese splits, finish my book, and take a three-month break from dating.
To travel to every European country with my love and my camera.
Visit Bergen, Norway is written down on my list, but what’s not written down is that I want to take my mom with me. It’s the only one of my ancestral homelands that I know about that’s from her side of the family.
Ride horse in the desert.
I want to be happy
Finally take a primarily-for-the-pictures, but also for the tranquility and beauty, trip to Monument Valley and the Grand Canyon.
Planning, planning, planning….
to make a turducken.
There are so many things on my life list it’s ridiculous. At the top of that list though is my need to spend an entire summer in Barcelona.
I love these prizes!
Life list: take a sewing class this Fall
(looking at various choices today!)
My dad is not a long-distance traveler, but he’s always wanted to see the Grand Canyon, and I want to be there with him when he does. Next year he turns 60, so this may be the year it happens!
Top of my Life List is a trip to India, taking beautiful portraits of the beautiful and colorful people.
Lola would fit in nicely…;-)
to go to New York Fashion week!…and Italy’s, Paris’ ;)
Visit Italy.
To become a RN :)
I am saving up to replace my bed. I’ve never owned a new bed before..and my old one will give me a bed for a guest bedroom….*squeal*.. :)…but for long term…my husband and I have dreamed and talked about going to Italy for over 9 years…and one day….it is going to happen!~!! :D
to earn my motorcycle license and buy myself a motorcycle. Then take a photography road trip by bike !
Visit (and connect with average people) in all of the “-stans”. (Afghanistan [done], Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan [done])
Travel back to China with my beautiful daughter to visit the city where she was born.
Watch a tornado funnel cloud from afar.
The most important thing on my lifelist right now is getting an awesome new job!
To become a better cook for my family!
To step foot on every continent. :)
Own an old-fashioned claw foot bathtub.
To learn my camera and work in photography
To visit the Taj Mahal :)
Thanks for the opportunity… would be a dream to win!
Recently added learn how to do a handstand.
To travel to Africa.
Take a trip to Hawaii, kid free!
My life list is a work in progress, but I’d really like to go to Ireland. I studied Irish history – even took Gaelic – and have yet to visit. Someday, though, I will!
Someday when our son is a little older we would like to take a family safari vacation in Africa. To show our son that animals come from this magnificent place not the zoo.
To take a photography workshop in Tuscany with David duChemin.
I want to conquer my fear of cooking live lobster. Intellectually I know they are not screaming tiny horrible lobster death screams, but I’m having a hard time getting over it. Lobster at home would be so much more delightful than lobster out, though, that I’m determined to do it.
To not worry about money.
I LOVE the life list :)
A few of mine are: to have no mortgage, to travel Europe with my mom and daughters, and to own a LOLA bag ;)
Travel to Utah ( a place I never thought to go) and have Ashley Thalman take my family photo’s..
Learn how to drive a stick shift (I know, I should already know that, but I don’t).
Drive the AlCan in fall.
To live in a house that I designed myself.
travel to at least 15 countries!
To be able to randomly walk around and take pictures of what ever I choose with out kids in tow. Oh and they will turn out fabulous.
To visit Paris with my best friend.
The last travel destination from my original Got-To-Go list (age 18) is an African Photo Safari. I would love to take incredible photos that would move people to try and save the remaining wild animals that still exist…
I’m planning an overseas trip in February, both to explore the world and to get the heck out of Chicago during what has to be the most depressing month of the year!
I’d love to adopt a retired racing greyhound. They are such amazing dogs and many are in need of homes.
Go visit my Grandmother’s childhood home in Sweeden.
To backpack across Europe with my hubby!!! :)
To travel to Australia and take beautiful pictures of everything there!
Honestly my #1 goal in life is to become a mother.
I know lots of people say “Go to Paris,” but I was supposed to go in junior high–but couldn’t, I wanted to go in college for study abroad and was too sick. I was supposed to go on my honeymoon, but my (now ex) husband changed his mind because he’d “been before and didn’t want to go again.” (I spent our “honeymoon” in the hospital.) I was going to go with my ex-boyfriend but he wanted to go in the dead of winter and/or only stay three days because “you’d get bored” (who would get bored?)
So NOW I am planning a trip for myself and if my current boyfriend comes along, good for him.
I added something to my list that I never thought I would do — running! I’m doing it now and even though I can only run in tiny little spurts it is AWESOME.
One of the items on my life list is to become a runner. Not just to run but to enjoy it as a release.
Gosh… something on my life list? I think it would be to have kids and be a good mom. :)
Ride a horse through Patagonia.
One of my items chosen at random by the really scientific process of closing my eyes and pointing: host a wine tasting.
To turn my hobby in photography into a career.
I would like to throw an amazing dinner party. I want there to be fancy cocktails and ridiculous over the top appetizers. I love bite size food!
To explore Italy with the love of my life, my husband.
Run a 5k. I started running for the first time since high school two months ago and I love it. So now I want to actually sign up for a race.
In a few years when my youngest is a bit older I would love to be able to take my family on a trip to the East Coast to visit historical sites.
A life list… My least interesting is to learn the functions of my camera better, and the biggest is to retire in Hawaii.
Well I have always wanted to start a life list, but I find that I am so busy, that it isn’t a priority. So for now mine would be, START A LIFE LIST!
On my list: To sail a boat through the Panama Canal.
I’m currently working on the highest priority item on my life list: to get in SHAPE!
I really want to finally be able to relate to my dad…Just once before the cancer takes him.
Travel to Italy with my husband. And eat a lot while we are there.
1 short term goal I have is to get a photo of my 3 kids with our 2 horses and pony! My horse is 26 (I’ve had her since she was 4)and our pony is 19…I need a super nice canvas of the 6 of them above my fireplace:):) (I’m not even going to try to get the dogs in this one! lol)
On my list: Take a circuitous bicycle vacation through France.
To backpack thru Europe taking pics
to see the world one country at a time and take millions of beautiful pictures!
To bake bread from scratch. Once the radiators are turned on in the apartment (so the bread can rise) I’m setting aside an afternoon for it.
One thing I have always wanted to do is to learn to golf. :) Too bad no on in my family shares this lol
I want to conquer my fear of flying and go to Ireland!
I played a violin recital at my husband’s great-grandmother’s nursing home. She is 94 and sharp as a tack, but I didn’t want to wait until it was too late (like I did with my own grandparents). It was my favorite performance ever! :)
To shoot a wedding in a foreign country.
I want to visit all 7 continents!
I will visit the Alhambra in southern Spain!
I crossed off a big one last week: launching my business website. Hooray!
To Hug A Cow. And I’m going on a tour of a dairy farm in the North Bay to do just that!
Love my husband like no one else can, be half the parents my parents are, and laugh until I feel like I’m going to burst.
this is fantastic!
*see the sunrise,with a coffee in my hand.
Life list #1–loose 10 pounds! Trying with Weight Watchers.
I want to snorkle or scuba dive and see the Great Barrier Reef!
Go to Grand Canyon!
On my list…next year I turn 40 and I want to run a marathon in less than 5 hours. I did my first one ever last year and it took me 6 hours to go all 26.2 miles.
My number one Life List goal is to have a book published.
To become proficient enough in Spanish to have an actual conversation. “Una cerveza por favor” doesn’t count!
have a baby. or two.
Go on vacation with my nephew and niece. Thanks for the great giveaway!
These are all amazing….I want to own my own horse and learn to ride really well. This has been a dream of mine since I was 8 years old.
To live near the ocean. Thinking the Maritimes…
I have a long list! Number one is to spend some time in another country, preferably in Europe.
To travel all over Europe with my husband
Become a mom!
I want to see both of my special and unique boys lead successful, self-dependent lives
To learn to make jewelry.
Top of my life list is to travel to Europe for several weeks with my adolescent daughter. I want her to see different cultures, appreciate art and history, and remember how awesome her mom was. :)
I don’t have a formal life list (yet) but I have always wanted to visit every state in the U.S. before I die. I’m over half way there.
to learn everything about my camera and have a great bag to carry it in!!<3
I woke up last Friday and there was a coupon for a discounted hot air balloon ride in my email. Purchased! Now I just need to get it scheduled :)
What great life goals everyone has! Also what fantastic prizes! I’d love to win!
My main life goal right now is to be the first one in my family to graduate from college. I’d like to do photograph and graphic design. And one day soon I will!
Write something that truly makes a difference.
This looks awesome…
i hope to one day have christmas dinner with all of our family at our home
Not to kiss up to you or anything, but a few are: 1) put my MFA in creative writing to use by starting a blog that will (among other things) 2) help me to attend a Mighty Summit one day. Also, 3) win a fabulous prize off your site.
To learn archery (and then convince my husband to let me shoot an apple from his head, ha!).
Go to an island in the South Pacific called Pohnpei, where some family friends built a library when I was 17. I wasn’t allowed to go, and I always regret it.
When my children get older, I want to read chapters of Harry Potter and Anne of Green Gables with them before they go to bed each night.
I’m gonna climb Kilimanjaro
Number one on my life list right now? Get a book published.
go skydiving!!
Live in France for six months (at least). Ooo-la-la!
On my life list: spend a month in Europe with my hubby and 4 kids!
Get an NIH multi-year grant funded.
complete a 365 day photo project
On my list are many things, but the most important one that I am working to check off is to get a work transfer so that my husband and I can live together full time. I guess the larger goal is to make family my ultimate priority.
Another that I hope comes soon after achieving this one is to start a garden again. I miss playing in the dirt. :)
Go to Italy for sure!!
On my life list: Visit Egyptian pyramids and not be cursed.
Watch the Northern lights
Run a 5k in honor of my grandmother for surviving colon cancer!
To own a home.
On my life/ bucket list?
-Tapas in Spain.
-Surprise my husband with his dream motorcycle– big red bow and all.
-Take my (far in the future) grandchildren to my mother’s hometown in England.
-Rock my new d7000 in that red Lola bag!! :)
…and much more.
Oh, yes, making a quilt made of my kids’ jammies is also on my life list! Those jammies that have made it through three rough and tumble little boys, countless washes, countless memories…I’ll never part with those! :)
get a college degree!
see hawaii
go back go Germany
have my daughter meet my husband’s family
is there still time to enter? if so, on ething from my list is to knit 1000 squares for charity!
Traveling Europe is on my life list.
My hubby & I started our family pretty quickly that we never got to travel. Oh I take that back, I got to go on a business trip w/him when he went to Chicago. But I was stuck in a hotel room all day while he had the rental car & was in class. Oh yay! lol
To go to every Cirque du Soleil show.
To move to Venice, Italy.
On my life list is to travel the world!
I want to be able to travel to a natural disaster state like Haiti or a war zone refuge and photograph that raw human nature and emotion.
To learn every button, dial, and function on my camera.
To take my kids to all my favorite cities and explore new ones together.
To win a contest. ;)
I don’t have an official life list, but I’d like to live in San Francisco someday.
(love those shoes!!)
One thing on my life list is to move to Portland Oregon or somewhere in the Northwest and own a “tiny house” :)
Build a tree house.
Plan, fund, and take my parents on a fabulous overseas adventure
One of my life goals. I would love to one day have the resources and the means to go on a honeymoon with my husband of 5 years!
Invent a savory sandwich that tastes good on cinnamon raisin bread
ahh.. maybe a cruise with hubby?! Travel the world too, someday!
I want to travel leisurely through Europe with my husband, enjoying all of the sites, scenery and each others’ company!
Just one, from dozens? Can I toss in a couple extras?
Climb Kilimanjaro.
Watch my children marry (man or woman, whomever they love) and have children of their own.
Have a house with a library with bookshelves from the floor to the ceiling.
Travel the world with my love, capturing photos of the sights that we see.
Write a book.
I would like to take my boards and license, is almost 8 years since I graduated, but decided to start a family and pospone that. Someday.
To take an multi-day train ride.
On my life list: Learn how to make sauce and meatballs the way my mom does. This involves setting aside a Sunday for her to come over to my kitchen, and listening to her instruction.
After that: Making Sunday dinner for my family, including my parents. A Sunday dinner that would make Mom and Grandma proud.
This may sound silly, but I’ve always wanted to be Minnie Mouse for a day at Disney World. :)
to learn how to make amazing fruit pies. my mom’s the queen of cheesecake and i love apple pies, so therefore i want to be the queen of fruit pies. :)
To own a hobby farm.
To start my own business(es)! One of these days…
My big life list item is to travel in New Zealand… Conveniently, my aunt and uncle live there. Now if only I could get there…
To have my mom teach me how to sew so that the family tradition doesn’t end with her.
I jumped off a pier at sunset into the Med. while taking an impromptu trip to the Greek Islands! There may have been Canadian boys involved. ;-) Life list? Living it!
To see my son become a great man.
Write and publish a novel (or more than one…)
To go back to Spain…we spent our honeymoon in Andalucia and want to go back so it made my list!
To get (and keep) my house completely organized!
Become a mother
My list includes “find the perfect pair of red cowboy boots” — I thought this was a very unique list item, so I had to smile reading through the comments to see that someone else had that on their list as well! :-)
I’ve always wanted to be a zombie in a zombie movie.
To run a 5K in honor of my 29-year-old best friend, who was just diagnosed with breast cancer. I’ve never run a step in my life, but for her, I’ll do it.
I would like to travel to Australia and visit all the places my Grandmother lived. And to visit her family that’s still there.
And in 2011 go on a Disney Cruise with all the kids and are best friends and their kids. This one will happen.
To actually learn how to use my DSLR.
I’d like to throw the perfect, Gatsby-esque dinner party, complete with twinkling lights, delicious food and wonderful company.
The problem with my life list is that I add to it more often than I cross off! This year, I’m focusing on my mini version: “30 when I’m 30 list”, which will help with momentum toward some of the bigger Life entries.
See great white sharks at seal island in South Africa or spend a week vacationing in Tahiti (bonus points for spending that week in a hut over the water).
I love thinking about my life list, it’s so motivating. There are SO many things I’d love to do!
The longest standing dream I have is to learn to play the guitar and sing several songs on stage in front of a crowded room! Eeeek!
Oh, and I would love to blow bubbles off the Golden Gate bridge with you some day…that’s a combination of two of my favorite things of all time!
Take a family vacation to Norway!
Dogsledding!
Take my 2 boys to Disney Land!!
I made an appointment for this coming Saturday to dye my hair blonde, which is on my life list. Want to see if they do have more fun.
To visit Italy…Greece…Ireland…etc. I have a lot of traveling in my future. :)
First I crossed “quit smoking” off of my life list. It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. That accomplishment has made it possible to move onto “run a 5k.”
Just to continuously grow and learn from my children and life…
The top of my life list is to stay in an overwater bungalow in Bora Bora!
The best giveaways I’ve seen!
On my life list: climb to the top of every 14er in Colorado
Go on a photoshoot in Rome, Italy!
Retire to a sea-side apartment in Croatia.
I want to photograph on all 7 continents.
To hike to Machu Picchu!
Swim with dolphins :-)
I will tour Italy and see where my Great-Grand parents are from. And eat as much food as possible.
Finish my doctorate degree
To not let me dread of traveling long (I mean loooong) distances with my children stop me from taking them to as many different countries as we can.
Start up my own wedding planning company.
I have a two part goal: I want to speak in sign language with an ape(gorillas, chimps, orangutans, or any other ape). So first I need to learn sign language. That shouldn’t be too difficult. Then I need access to a an ape that knows sign language. Anybody know any apes?
Visit Europe and some of it’s many historical treasures. I want to see castles and the Tower of England, I want to see the Eiffel Tower and walk thru the streets of Italy.
right now “make life list” is on numerous other much more mundane “to do” lists. I will get there soon though!
To take the honeymoon we didn’t have after our wedding.
I will admit, I don’t have anything numbered or written down. But I do know that I want to finish college (at 37) and sky dive.
Maybe I should start writing these things down…
visit the South Pacific
I want to go to Italy and do a wedding shoot of a lifetime!
Fabulous!! I don’t have a written life list yet. But this summer was filled with many things that could easlily have been on it. Things that I’ve been wanting to do for years and finally DID them this year. We had such a great time as a family!!
I want to think deeper, ask fearless questions, and really live the answers.
To visit New York City!
To start a blog!
To take my camera on travels throughout Europe!
To have my dream wedding (I am already married, e eloped, but I promised myself if I loose a certain amount of weight, we will celebrate by a real wedding dress and reception)
To find a job I really love. Where I can wear jeans every day. It might be at an investment bank, a winery or a horse barn, who knows.
To fly coast to coast on the 4th of July!
I want to travel through Asia for a couple of months.
To own a house (not a condo, which I have, but a real house!)
Buy a house and make it our own!
I’ve been thinking about doing a variation of the life list and do “40 books by 40″ featuring all those books I meant to read, but haven’t gotten around to. Like Darwin’s Origin of Species.
Learn to make gumbo from scratch!
I dream of taking our 3-year old and 1-year old boys back to our honeymoon destination, Disney World.
I’m from the west coast and one thing on my life list is to spend a Christmas in New York! I’ve heard it’s amazing!
Awesome giveaway!
Lifelist:
1. Vacation in Bora Bora
2. Visit my friend in Seoul
Go to Norway
Something on my life list travel. I have always wanted to see Scotland, Greece, and Australia.
Be a healthier eater, eat fruit and veggies everyday … I LOVE COOKIES!
Visit the Amalfi coast in Italy and make tarte au citron from the amazing lemons that grow there.
To travel by myself overseas in an ‘independent’ trip.
To travel to Europe and take wonderful pictures of the countryside!
Yesterday I picked out the patterns for my next three holiday quilts. Here’s hoping they don’t take me as long as the Halloween quilt, which will be finished before this Halloween..9 years later. :)
I would love to be able to say that I’ve been to every one of the states here in USA. There’s so much to see and appreciate right here.
I want to visit the pyramids in Egypt.
Learn to play the violin.
Here’s one from my life list: To teach someone else how to sew!
I’d like to say that owning an Epiphanie bag is on my Life List, but that seems like cheating. Although it’s true.
So what’s on my Life List, let’s see… I would like to learn sign language. That’s a big one.
There is a large international quilt show coming up next week that I look forward to attending every year. I always say, some day I’ll have a quilt in this show. I think I need to work on making that actually happen. I’m not saying I’ll win any awards, but getting a quilt accepted would be quite an accomplishment.
My life list has lots of fun and interesting things, but first up is to see the Magic of Disney World through the eyes of my daughters.
Assist Annie Leibovitz on a Vanity Fair photo shoot. Or shoot a Vanity Fair spread on my own! Either one :)
I love love to travel….
the next places on my list are:
costa rica, austrailia….
Also to have a successful photography business….
To take an all girl roadtrip.
I’m going to finally learn to use the sewing machine I bought 6 years ago. I’m signed up for a class later thi month. :)
My life list includes learning to use an SLR to greatest display of its greatness, and then photographing California and Nevada ghost towns on a long road trip.
I want to live in an area that has the weather that I want with family close by, wonderful friends and time to enjoy them all.
To learn how to run…
Travel the world w/ hubby and camera in hand!!!!!
I want to host a spectacular, fancy dinner party for 10 or more people. With pretty clothes and multiple courses and appropriate background music and decor.
I’m about to achieve something grand from my life list: having my second child. 38 1/2 weeks today!
to visit Italy and spend Thanksgiving in Colorado with all my family!
visit ireland.
Complete a triathlon in the top 10 percent of my age group!
Sleep in a castle!
To go the the Azores (Portugal) and visit family and do research on my family tree.
Spend a month in Tuscany!
cooking school in Italy!
I want to visit Ireland and Prague to see where my family came from. I also want to show my children the world.
I love to travel. I’ve accomplished one ‘travel’ on my list. The Eiffel Tower. Now I would love to travel around Africa.
ride our motorcycle all the way up the coast along highway 1.
Being 21 and half Italian one of my life dreams (on my list.) Would be exploring Italy for three months and capturing moments with my camera. Plus, finish my fictional book which I started at 16 and get it published.
To run a half marathon…
Just started learning to juggle this past weekend! Totally lame Mondo Beyondo item but totally hilarious!
Finish my bachelors in photography!
Visit my grandmother’s homeland (Denmark) with my mother.
cook professionally.
One of the things on my life list is to cook dinner every day for a week. I’m on day 4!!
Start a business making specialized pj’s for hospitalized children.
Learn to be a better baker… I will not buy another supermarket cookie again. Which is part of the larger idea of removing high fructose corn syrup from our diets. Easier said than done!!!
Right before I decided to get a divorce and start my new life over, I made a Life List to power me through and get some goals on paper. So far I have crossed off one thing: Grown my own vegetables and it feels AMAZING to have accomplished it! Thanks for being inspiring!
I started a life list when I was 13. It’s amazing to see the things on there that haven’t changed, including…backpack across Europe. Granted, 10 years ago when I wrote it I didn’t realize I would be blessed to have someone else come with me…my husband and I are planning to go next Summer!
I would like to take my dad to London. He’s never been to Europe and I would love to be the one to take him there.
get married
I would love to be a mom.
To have a gallery showing of my art. Wow, did I just say that out loud?
Learn to knit so I can go yarn bombing. Instead of knitting scarves for trees and utility poles I will give them to homeless people.
To finally learn how to balance keeping my house clean (to actually get it clean) and be able to spend quality time with my children! It would be amazing if I could learn to do this by 2011!!
To expand my horizons beyond travel to Europe, and explore South America. And take a safari trip in Africa.
I would really love to become better at photography. I work for a newspaper and often have to take my own photos but I’m a writer by training and have no real training with a camera. Taking a community education course or something like that is on my life list because it will benefit my work but also just because I love photos and it would feel pretty great to get better at taking them!
I would love to run a marathon.
One thing very high up on my life list is to visit Italy. There is so much to see there and so many amazing things to photograph.
I scratched off one item on my Life List this summer — scuba diving!
go on a vacation to Bora Bora and swim with the Dolphins with my husband and my son!
I would love to see puffins. When I was younger I went to a zoo and remember seeing a zookeeper in the enclosure with the puffins. They were so cute and just hopped all over her clipboard and on her lap. Ever since then I’ve wanted to see puffins in the wild!
The first thing that popped into my head is a goal that is so special to me – I want to have my own gallery showing of my art. It can be my painting, printmaking or photography, the medium doesn’t matter. To have my own showing would be such an accomplishment & personal fulfillment!
I’m entering…and if I win I know it will seem weird. I just really want that camera bag! :-)
to finally figure out what I want to be when I gorow up and quit my awful job!!
to visit every major league baseball stadium.
Set foot in all 50 states!
Next item on my list is 70-200 2.8 lens :O)
I’ve been hard at work at getting my photography business off the ground.
I’m going to Bonaroo in June and currently working on how to knit while completing my thesis.
I have always wanted to enter a contest and actually win :)
become conversational in my use of Spanish – and then USE it. :)
Mysore classes!!
To finally have a baby.
I would love to travel overseas.
Bake the perfect pizza from scratch, it’s a delicious journey!
I said this in another comment on here recently, but mine is: Meet/hang out with Maggie Mason.
Cheers!
And thanks.
to go on a solo trip
Go to New York to see all the broadway shows!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE musicals!!
I have many cool things on my life list, thanks to your inspiration. However, I think one of the best ones is to learn to drive a Big-Rig. Big trucks = fun!
Drive across Canada with the kids, camping the entire way.
Be as great of a mother to my kids as my mom was to me. I miss her every day.
Thank you, Maggie, for being such an inspiration. You are wonderful!
Learn to nap so I have energy (and temperment) for adventure.
To win this would make my year! Thank you for the opportunity.
I am currently unemployed and know, in my gut, that corporate America is not where I belong. There’s something waiting for me to discover…I can FEEL it.
to watch the jesus lizard walk on water in costa rica.
Go to Hawaii with my hubby.
This one is about to happen: have some of my photos be part of an exhibit. Granted it’s just a student exhibit, but it will be nice to see them printed and displayed on a wall for lots of people to see.
To learn to surf!
Man, I’m starting my list today..great idea!! One thing Im putting on that list is to date an exotic guy..as long as he has an accent I’m good! :)
I want to travel the U.S. coast-to-coast.
I want to help fund 1,000 adoptions.
I want to take my husband on a trip to the Arctic.
I want to be published in a national magazine.
Travel with my husband to Italy, and tour the country. (BTW I love that Lola bag)
To go to Paris with my husband!
I’m in the process of creating my life list, and just posted my unfinished list on my blog yesterday. One of the items on my life list is to sew 100 things, and I just finished my first two projects last night — Tinkerbell and Lightning McQueen covers for my kids’ booster seats in our car.
Travel to Europe. Seems simple, but we never seem to have the time or money.
To take my mom to a Broadway show in NYC :)
Run a marathon. This is a self-proclaimed prerequisite for childbirth. I figure if my body can do something like run 26.2 miles, it can DEFINITELY survive passing a small human.
One of my life list goals is to coordinate a fund-raising effort / event for a local animal rescue organization.
Beautiful items you’re giving away!
Since I read about the Mighty Summit life lists, I’ve been pondering my own life list. So far, the only item on it is to visit Paris just to hang out and watch people and maybe see some sights.
Realized that just saying I want to go won’t get me there. I need to book a plane ticket and make the plans to go!
So along with going would be to learn conversational French.
I’d like to learn how to use my old-school 35mm SLR on fully manual settings.
Something that is on my life list is to become a mother. I don’t care whether I become a mother naturally or through adoption, but I want to give the gift of life to a child, or the gift of family to a child who doesn’t have one.
live in another country with my family for at least a season.
Visit China is the next thing I’m hoping to cross off my life list.
Take my son to Salzburg to visit the Schloss where I stayed/worked after college.
Become fluent in Spanish
I want to surf Mavericks, of course I’ll have to learn how to surf first!
I’ve written my life list a long time ago and have crossed out some. Right now the top ones in my long list are: be a good mother to our son, get a driver’s license, take photography classes, jump off of Waimea Rock in Hawaii (lived there for 6 yrs. and never had the chance to do it), be a certified scuba diver, scuba dive with my husband, and go to Africa and experience a Safari.. :)
I want to learn to sew. I’ve found a local class to take and I’ve signed up for it. Halfway there!
Preparing to leave (on January 5) to backpack around SE Asia for 10 months … those shoes would be a great addition to my pack!
Two girlfriends and I made our life lists on a car trip from Ohio to NC. Next up on my list? Learn to play the piano.
I would love, LOVE, love, to voice a cartoon….. Someday.
I want to knit up the beautiful handmade yarn I bought that’s just gathering dust.
I’d like to one day have a functioning farm. Could be the tiniest farm in existence, but a farm nonetheless.
One item on my life list is to visit Madrid and find where my parents lived. I booked a ticket last night for a tip in June 2011. I am beyond excited to finally make it happen!!!
Someitems on my Life List: Earn a Master’s degree, speak a language fluently, perfect a great marinara sauce, grow massive amounts of peonies. :) Pick me, pick me!
One of my new Life List items is learning how to whip butter, sugar, and eggs into the magic that is Genoise and buttercream. Right now my frosting curdles and my sponges are pound cakes. :)
I would love to someday write a novel. I’ve always wanted to do that since I was 13. One day . . .
I would love to teach people how to grow food in their backyard, cook with what they’ve grown, and get paid for it.
To go to Italy!
One of my life goals is to help save lives through photography. I was a teen mom and now my daughter is 5. I would love to volunteer and take pictures of young pregnant moms and help inspire others around them to choose life. :)
I’ve just completed one, which was to see a movie put on by our local film society. It was lovely – they were running a film noir series – and now I have a membership. Next up this fall is to create my own signature cocktail.
Learn another language. I know English and Spanish but I’ve always dreamed (really, since I was a wee kid) of being trilingual. I took a semester of Russian back in college … didn’t quite cut it. Some day!
After plugging away at several multi-step items, and not documenting them (tsk, tsk), I finally knocked something off my list! I enjoyed a frozen concrete at Ted Drewes in St. Louis.
Explore a pyramid with Zahi Hawass
Take my parents to New Zealand. That dream’s at least 5 years from being realized!
drive across the country, hugging the northern edge, in my ’73 Karmann Ghia (I’ve got the Ghia, just need to make it run).
I want to start my own greeting card line. :)
Cross country roadtrip–stopping to see friends and family along the way.
To paint The Picture or take The Photo that makes me tear up with happiness when I see it. then put it on the wall.
To visit Norway and Germany and find the towns my ancestors came from!
I want to learn to dance tango…
To travel to Ireland with my mom and two sisters!
To go to Disneyworld, baby! This is my ultimate goal right now. I have to wait for my younger son to get a little older before tackling a very long road trip, and a week away from home! Others will come in due time. Thanks for the opportunity!
To have a beautiful, old farmhouse where my girls can run around in a huge, green yard and play with the dog they have been begging for.
perhaps one of the most fun items on my life list is that I want to learn to double dutch. I always wanted to go to double dutch camp as a kid (I loved jump roping), and my parents always said no. you’re never too old, right?
To learn how to use my camera on manual! The automatic setting is my crutch…
I have not completed an ueber-list yet, but I got started on a piece of paper and then misplaced it. A few weeks later my parents were visiting and my husband handed me a piece of printer paper with my list, among which were some earnest and explicit post-baby sex-life goals. Apparently he had found it while cleaning up for my parents arrival. Item now checked off!
Stay a month or two traveling in Asia with my family.
Travel to Europe before I turn 40!
Go back to the places I lived at in Spain…but this time with my husband and a nice camera to document and show him all the people and places I loved.
Have a Belgian beer in Belgium. Cheers!
One of the items on my Life list is to visit 11 new places in 2011, whether it be in the US or abroad. First place on the list is Hawaii. oh and ah, another item is to lose 50lbs
I think Lola would look nice there.
Hike a 14er (14,000 + foot peak) in Colorado!
I wish to begin publishing the many books that are currently floating in my head.
I want to finish my masters before 40 and travel outside the country.
To take on some interior design projects for someone as a client instead of just for friends.
Spend a year in Europe working on my drawing & photography!
To create and finish a photo documentary. I’m so busy with work, I’ve left no room for my creative outlets. My room is filled with half finished paintings and my mac is filled with un-edited photos. It’s time to dedicate myself to a good project.
Write down life list instead of keeping a mental tally.
Get a passport.
Vacation in UK.
Sew a shirt for myself that I would wear to work.
Learn ukulele well enough to accompany family during Christmas Eve sing-along.
I want to take a real vacation with my family!
Get my private pilot’s license — I’m fifteen hours into it, and getting close to my first solo flight!
Go on a mission’s trip to Africa.
I have on my list to go to NYC someday.
57. Start and grow a business. There are so many great lady entrepreneurs to choose as models!
To make art every day.
Visit a tuscan vineyard!!!
On my Life List: Get the hubs to Europe one of these days. I’ve been to Europe without him, backpacking and staying in hostels. I’d like to stay in actual hotels this time, take more photos, and enjoy London, Paris, Barcelona with him.
The newest thing on my life list is to make a dance video, inspired by Joy Tanksley’s.
That’s number 99. When I hit 100, I am publishing it on my blog.
And asking for help.
I would love to spend 6 months traveling, visiting all of the far away places whose images fill my head, taking pictures and writing poetry along the way, and just simply enjoy the people, the places, and the magic of each and every destination.
To be happy with a career I have that makes us our main income.
I’m planning a getaway with my favorite ladies, a la the mighty summit. You’ve inspired me to action!
To become a mom (and be an amazing one just like mine is!).
To travel to the coast of Spain and just lay on the beach with no distractions. :)
To get enough sleep!
Laugh every day
To visit all of the Indiana State Parks. 2 down, 23 to go!
Make it back to Octoberfest, with my own dirndl (not borrowed this time).
I want to take my daughter on a mother daughter trip to another country
I want to learn to play the cello.
It’s quite possible I am going to be doing #45 on my life list in the next two weeks!
http://www.noonewatching.com/archives/2010/04/life_list.html
Travel to Poland to see where my Dziadzia was born.
To get a stamp in my passport
Be more courageous.
#14: Go to a MetaFilter meetup.
To sit on a beach, surrounded by grandbabies. I can wait 25 year +/- for that.
I want to go to Greece with my entire family!
I want to go bungee jumping!
Learn to play the guitar;)
To travel to Greece, Italy, and France.
I have a strong, strong desire to learn how to play the harmonica. A handy skill whether I’m sitting around a bonfire with friends or killing time in prison.
Conquering Life List No.9: Have at Least One Squishy Baby…by having TWINS!
I would like to go to Naturopathic Physician school, and become an ND.
Traveling to Hawaii with my hubs.
To have a short story published.
Check: I just adopted my new love, Bennett (a gorgeous English Pointer and retired show dog) and joined the Mitten Mavens roller derby! woop woop!
I’ve always wanted to travel to Ireland.
Ride an elephant in Thailand!
On my list is a long hike to a high alpine cheesemaker!
I want to enter a contest and actually win
Take a ride in a fighter jet. This might come ture because of my father-in-law (keep you fingers crossed for me).
I am working on one of the items in my life list right now. (Well, not right now…right now I am typing, but you know what I mean)
I am learning how to can the vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants, 5 different kinds of peppers) from my garden. It is a lot easier then I thought that it would be.
Next up, figuring out what to do with all of the canned veggies. I hope everyone on my Christmas list wants homemade canned salsa!
I want to finish a knitting project before starting another one. There are too many half-finished scarfs in my knitting bag!
one day own lake property so all my kids and future family will have a place to spend summer vacations together:)
Awesome! I would like to see the aurora borealis.
I want to tell as many others as I can what the Lord has done in my life!
I want those Teiks so bad I can taste it! And it tastes of buttery leather.
To be in Oaxaca, Mexico for a Dia de los Muertos celebration.
To learn to read music and play the piano.
On my list: Do one random act of kindness for a year.
To find an occasion to throw an epic roller disco party!
To be my own boss – and have that cozy little shop that welcomes everyone to come and stay a while!
Lisa J.
Something that is high up on my list is to be a great photographer and to have my one studio one day!!!! I hope i win!!! : )
To live overseas with my (yey unborn) kids.
To stand at the edge of the grand canyon at sunset and just take it all in.
Live in NYC for a year!
To see Paris in the Fall!!
To finally get off my butt and go back to school and get a degree. And maybe take a photography class. Its calling me.
I would like to find someone to share the rest of my life with. And then, I’d like to travel Europe with him… ahhhhh.
Just crossed making pickles off my list!
To take dancing lessons with my hubby!
I have 2 major items on my list that I’m wanting to accomplish within the next year.
Personal~ I just started running. Two goals in mind. Run a 1/2 marathon in February. Run in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure MARATHON in Oct. 2011 in Phoenix.
Business~ I want to start a non profit volunteer group that provides images to families w/ children under the age of 18 who have a parent w/ terminal cancer.
To learn to play the cello!
I want to take a bicycle tour of every major city I visit. (Inspired by David Byrne’s Bicycle Diaries.)
Get my motorcycle license – oh, and have a meal at the French Laundry.
Take a class for fun not for work
Visit all the wineries in the Finger Lakes in Upstate New York. I’ve lived here for years and have only visited two!
Learn to swim.
One main thing on my life list is to visit Austalia and photograph the wildlife there! :)
I need to learn how to use a sewing machine, even just for simple things like hems.
Travel to Italy!
I need to see Italy, at least once if not more than once.
One thing on my life list is to go on a ministry trip with my husband South Africa. There is a ministry and orphanage there that we support.
Stand up for myself or something I care about, on the spot. Concisely and gracefully, without being weird. I’m not very good when i’m put on the spot, but I will improve!
Sew something I’m proud to wear (I guess I should add that I don’t know the first thing about sewing).
One of the first things I crossed off my Life List (only a few months ago) was going to a drive in movie. This was all inspired b/c there was a drive in in my town that we would always see and then it closed right after we moved there. This was 20 years ago.
I JUST found out yesterday that this drive in that has inspired so much longing for 20 years showed exclusively porn. PORN has been fueling my Life List this whole time and I had no idea. Clearly it worked though.
To open my own studio in the DC area with my sister in law. With great photography, eclectic crafts and a little coffee shop too!
To visit Barcelona and see/spend time at all the Gaudi sights (leaving tomorrow, for a long weekend!)
Travel and photograph all the old clapboard churches I can possible find, them make a book of them for myself.
One really big thing on my life is to knit a sweater for myself. It might take a year (or two!) but I will do it!
I want to start a tradition of taking a trip for my birthday every year.
Run a 5K.
One of the items on my list, is to go on a storm-chasing tour. I just discovered that not only do these exist, but they have ones that are specifically for photographers. Saving up right now–can’t wait!!
To take a bike tour of Italy.
Take a photography class and really learn how to use my camera.
buy and remodel my dream house and take lots of pictures of it
Travel (and excessively photograph) iceland.
kiss my husband under the eiffel tower! hope to do it next year for our 10th year anniversary!
Get a job that allows me more time with my family.
Graduate from college and get a great job
To take the perfect picture, of course!
Find out what job would make me happy and then go get it!!!
The two things on my life list right now are to finish my bachelor’s degree and find the love of my life. :)
Teach my daughters to roller skate.
Visit Sweden.
to ride on the back of a cute boy’s motorcycle (while he’s driving it, obviously!)
watch a baseball game at Wrigley Field (guess that’ll have to wait till next year….go giants!).
To run my first marathon which I will do November 7th in NYC!
To volunteer for a cat rescue organization (and not come home with an armload of kittens every day).
Run a 5k!
The first dog I ever had died a year ago this past Sunday. A couple of months ago my new dog found me. He’s only about 18 months old and 16 inches long but he’s turned up to 11, 12 if he’s well rested. I’ve been struggling. Struggling with the loss, struggling with the gain, struggling with having a new dog around, struggling with how smart he is and how dumb I feel when I can’t keep ahead of him (8 times out of 10, guaranteed). A few days ago, though, I hit on a way to help. I’m going to put “Train a dog to be a Canine Good Citizen or Delta Dog (hopefully Eddie)” on my life list. I think the extra motivation of the life listing community and how much I like to accomplish things on the list are going to help me enjoy the journey and see the process of training and trusting and loving this new dog in a kinder light. Kinder to him but kinder to myself, too.
Thanks for the life list community. On this, as in so many other things, I really needed it.
To be able to bake bread every week
Taking pictures in Italy would be lovely! :-)
Take my dad out of the country. He has never been and traveling has always been my favorite thing. I want to share that with him. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
I’d like to own a tiny storefront where I sold my handmade photo greeting cards, candles, soaps, jewelry and muffins, and a few stellar thrift store finds. I would keep a pot full of tea brewing, and customers would be free to linger and chat in the super-comfy seating areas.
To run a marathon.
I am just starting my life list, but three I want to complete are:
1. Buy a house
2. Visit the Caribbean
3. Have a second baby
and of course take lots of pictures of all three.
potty train my daughter!!
I’m recording family voices … Grandma talking about quilting, the kids talking about video games, the uncles about football, etc… Anything ordinary.
Travel Europe and photograph it with my husband
One of the items on my life list is to sleep in a castle. I think it has a strong possibility of coming true this next spring. We’re hiking Hadrian’s Wall, with a side trip to Scotland. As a matter of fact, I’m GOING to make it happen. I know it’ll be a cold place, and not the fairy tale most people imagine… But it’ll be AWESOME nonetheless!
Finish an Ironman triathlon.
In all honesty, to become a great photographer and get paid for what I love to do best!
Also, find a cure for my dilbating Fibromyalgia…
The most pressing item on my life list is to become a professional photographer. I was just recently laid off from my job, so the pressure is on!!
I don’t have a Life List but I’m going to start one and the first thing on it will be ‘MAKE A LIFE LIST’… That way I will have already gotten one thing finished and hopefully will keep the momentum going!
Go to Tokyo and spend time visiting the mountains, shrines and city. And, take a bazillion pictures of it all!
My biggest goal is to show my daughter the world. I also hope to go to college some day.
Learn to play a musical instrument.
Pull of a multiple course dinner for extended family.
Wear a flouncy hat to the Kentucky Derby.
I’ve had a list for years, it’s still being modified, fully fully back having one and you are awesome for all of your encouragment for others.
Currently to be completed:
restore something old (preferably a house)
Live in a foreign country
meet my future children
Eat a regional food from every state while in that state (halfway done)
Travel to the Galapagos Islands…
I want to take my children to all the places where their dad and I lived when we were kids: Juneau, AK, Honolulu, and Middlebury, VT.
Live in Buenos Aires. Learn to tango.
To climb Mount Kilimanjaro!
Go to Paris…and I’ll be headed there on the 15th…all of these things would be great for my trip! :) Thanks for the giveaway :)
To live on a houseboat for at least a year. Preferably in a quaint European town (or Seattle).
Go zip-lining
Take my husband on a cross-country road trip
See glaciers
I would like to live in a spanish speaking country for at least 6 months.
to win a tennis tournament!
Travel abroad with my husband for our 10 year anniversary (6 more years to plan) and more immediately, have a new job by this time next year.
how sweet is this giveaway?
Life List? It’s a perfect time of year for me to:
learn how to can (tomatoes, applesauce, etc.)
Ride a bicycle from the northern-most to the southern-most tip of Sweden!
To have afternoon tea with my cousin in England as we laugh and talk together….just like when we were teens.
It is my dream to own property in Moab! Gorgeous place. I go there every March for the Half Marathon!
Volunteer as a teacher for the Adult Learn to Read program at the Community Centre.
Going to ANWR to see polar bears in their natural habitat!
I want to create my dream home!
I didn’t get around to it this summer but next year I plan to learn to surf.
I know it’s pretty cliche, but…run a marathon. I ran a half a couple of weeks ago, so I am on my way there!
I ran my first (and let’s face it, probably only) marathon in June. Felt amazing to cross something off the list, and also to know that I could do it!
To learn to bake the perfect croissant.
Learn to play guitar and perform in front of a crowd of more than ten.
I am 6 chapters into writing a book. The only thing on my life list right now besides finishing that book is traveling to a new country every 2-3 months. Unfortunately work gets in the way of these things. Which is why the flats and that camera bag are so perfect!
I would love to travel to each state to see the beauty in it, to taste the foods, and to try what each state is known for. Then gather all of my findings, and document it all in a book. All while carrying my Lola camera bag with me.
That, or take a 300 day world cruise doing the same thing!
Visit Outer Mongolia. When I was a little kid, my mother would threaten to run away to Outer Mongolia when we started driving her just a leetle too crazy. When Mom died this spring, I realized she never made it there. I’m gonna make it there, for her. And for the yurts.
Gearing up to make my daughter the homemade Halloween costume of her choice, just like my mom used to make for me!
When my son is old enough, I want to take him to Angkor Wat. I think it would be a magical place for a young boy to explore, and I can’t wait to share my passion for world travel with him.
Memorize a joke that I can tell WITHOUT MAKING A MISTAKE.
One more baby…maybe two
I will make my own coffee table, including turning the legs.
Starting a book club!!
ride on a float in a parade!
Create awesome holidays for my baby (and me).
Grow my business enough that I can live comfortably & be my own boss—- FULL TIME. and use my time to raise my kids :) and wear tieks!
Something on my life list that’s hugely important to me? #48. Dedicate my photography skills to an overseas mission organization
Oh and # 19. own an Epiphanie camera bag! haha
My entire list is here: http://mjphotos.squarespace.com/imported-20101001151620/2010/8/18/feeling-inspired-my-life-list.html
Thanks for giving us the opportunity to enter :)
I want to take a long cruise through the Holy Lands.
To go to Paris with my husband.
Such a beautiful bag!!! I love that red!! One thing on my Life List is definitely to visit Australia!!!
Bungee jump off the Bridge to Nowhere
I want to read Harry Potter in Arabic!
To turn my photography business into a full time career which will allow me to pay off my husband’s art school debt and be a “work at home” mom.
I lust after those camera bags!! So beautiful!
Take my mother on a long, slow trip to Sweden. Let’s walk the walk mom!
I just started my life list a few months ago, and I’ve got 50 items so far.
#24: Drink Coffee and eat Pain au chocolat with my mom in Paris.
To really, really , learn to let go of all annoying , worrisome and heavy things and just breathe in good clean thoughts and energy.
To get my photo business up and running full steam ahead!! :)
To publish a short story.
One of the more achievable items on my Life List is taking a photography class and getting comfortable with my camera. This is clearly fate.
To go back to college and take Spanish language classes
Become a member of a local book club and stay in the club for at least one year.
I know it doesn’t sound as thrilling and exciting as many of the other posts…
But here’s mine..
To become a mom
Part 2: Build a life size Scrabble set in our backyard!
Part 1: Own a home with a backyard!
On my life list… I’d like to sew a quilt.
Write a comparable-to-fancy-nancy-but-for-boys book. I’ve got two boys, and find it depressing there isn’t any fun, cute, vocabulary building stories for boys. Don’t get me started on superhero books.
#1…make a life list! I’ve been meaning to, I swear!
I really want to see the Northern Lights
to have a baby.
Learn to speak French.
To ride a roller coaster w/o passing out.
At the top of my life list is living abroad for a couple of years. My fiance and I are working to make this a reality. We hope to move to Lima, Peru in May!
(Please don’t disqualify me if this shows up twice – my computer hung just after I hit the Submit button and then crashed. I wasn’t sure it went through)
I want to volunteer as a teacher for the Adult Learn to Read program at my local community centre.
I am also going to travel to and spend at least a night in each of Canada’s provinces & territories – I’ve done 6 already.
To really learn how to use my digital slr camera.
I would like to ride in a hot air balloon.
Hug a redwood.
Climb to the top of a lighthouse- did a couple weeks ago while on vacation.
Next- Try sushi.
Beat my roach phobia.
Ride in the bucket of a bulldozer.
I finally picked an apple from a tree I planted, and it was delicious!
get married again, but this time to my true love. have joyous, surprise wedding. live authentically, exceptionally, happily ever after.
To take my girls when they’re older, on the most fantastic family vacation to Europe. Or, ladies shopping trip to NYC for their 16th birthdays.
On my life list…… To finish my BSN.
I would like to carve out a career helping brain injury patients. After suffering a traumatic brain injury a little over a year ago I realize how many people have helped me to recover this much, I feel like I could help someone else because I know where they are coming from…now I just have to figure out how to help!
To walk/explore the Cinque Terre in Northern Italy.
Bellissimo!
(Oh, and to learn Italian before I go!)
I just checked something off my lift list this weekend: sew something I would be proud to wear in public. Made a pregnancy shirt, wore it to church, many nice comments ensued! Success!!!
Sew myself a dress.
Learning how to create and love my photos straight out of the camera
To grow old with my hubby!
I want to throw responsiblity to the wind and take my little family to live Italy for a year. And while there, I want to paraglide.
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
Join a Brazilian samba band!
To go back to germany!
Join a Brazilian samba band. I love that samba!
To build a sanctuary for people with environmental illnesses.
To photograph the chameleons in Madagascar.
I made it my goal to do 3 of my life list goals in 3 months and have managed 2 out of 3:
-Show Andy how much fun Oktoberfest can be -> Done. Rocked out in our lederhosen and dirndls in Munich last weekend with steins of Bier!
-Vroom! Vroom! Get my Irish driver’s license -> Done. Passed me test yesterday! Yay!
-Take fancy dress for Halloween VERY seriously -> In progress. Shera costume purchased and Andy’s Heman is en route. Oh yeah!
To get a handle on my camera and start capturing these magic moments with my 8-month-old… something a cute, comfy pair of shoes and amazing photography accessories would certainly help motivate!
Visit my brother in Alaska.
To make, start to finish, one shirt that I would be willing to wear in public.
Own horses – at least 3 – and go riding with my sons.
Spend Christmas in an Italian villa
go back to college.
Make a croquembouche. Also, make a life list.
Learn Photoshop!
To learn to play one song on the guitar all the way through.
Go to the Getty in LA.
Take a real vacation with my family. One that doesn’t involve a wedding, photography, or the military!
I have already checked off one item: I am spending the year living in Haifa, Israel! I am in the process of checking off another item: I’ve made inquiries into taking sailing lessons on the Mediterranean Sea and just need to find enough English speakers to split the cost of the instruction.
try 100 cocktails.
I want to take my family to a Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field.
To drive the romantic road in Germany, stopping along the way to visit castles etc.
I only have a couple more months to finish up my thirty by thirty list. Next up…skydiving!
Have a baby! (on track for this winter…)
To have my own house:)
To be debt free!
To make some sort of positive impact in healthcare reform
To see my children grow up to be happy adults
Own a modern house on the hillside in Duluth and live there happily ever after
To master arm balances in yoga (so far my crow is grounded – no flight there!)
To fit into my high school prom dresses again. I’m getting there! :)
Live in the mountains.
I’m finally crossing things off my list. I’m halfway through my photography class and next up is glassblowing!
To learn how to skate.
Stay at the Ice Hotel in Quebec.
Just crossed one of mine of my list on saturday: run a 5k. Next year: a half marathon
Pie someone.
Finish my BA!
To travel to Greece to photograph the beautiful countryside.
see iguazu falls
I’d like to visit every state in the U.S. For starters…
I want to live in Argentina for a year!
I want to become a great Nurse Practitioner, love what I do, and learn spanish!
Oh I have a very long life-list but for this I’ll put, Visit Italy (sans kids!) with my husband! And of course, bring my camera :D
Raise chickens from eggs
to travel internationally with my daughter. or oldest daughter – whatever she turns out to be :)
To visit Barcelona!
Start a blog.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. I write posts in my head while I lie in bed at night, but the fear of putting my thoughts out there paralyzes me. Ugh, damn anxiety.
Stay in a yurt for the weekend.
Get a successful career in fashion.
To watch the sunrise while kayaking on Lake Tahoe.
I just added “take a photography class” to my list AND even better, I just checked something off – take a trapeze class. It was amazing and I recommend it to anyone who has ever wanted to run away and join the circus or who is convinced a workout can’t be fun. I went with two friends and we had so much fun we signed up for a 8 week course.
I’d like to meet a president. Any president.
to build a house for Habitat for Humanity, preferably as a multi-generational family “vacation” – children, parents, grandparents.
Turn 14 years of family photos and video clips into kickass short movies set to good music, one for each year. Bonus points for making copies for each kid’s treasure chest.
have a baby.
Wow! It took a lot of scrolling to get all the way down here. I kinda wish I was Meredith #421, but I’ll settle for Meredith #1972.
I want to see a moose in the wild, preferably in the snow while drinking cocoa from a porch.
Learn to tango.
learn to take better photographs
travel to denmark
learn to letterpress and screenprint
To be able to quit my dayjob and pursue my photography full-time, capturing moments and memories around the world!
I want to spend a Girls’ Weekend in NYC with my mom and my sister.
I have a lot of things I want to do on my Life List but I am most excited to try to send my parents on an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii. They deserve it.
to grow/raise all of the food i eat
Sunrise on a volcano. Preferably in Hawaii.
I re-crossed something from my list: we took our son back to Disneyland. The first time he was only 4 months old, so it didn’t count (for him, I had a blast!) We took him back when he turned 4 years old, a few weeks ago. And HE had a blast too.
I’m running my first half marathon this weekend, on my way to crossing “run a marathon” off my life list.
Since making a life list, I find that I have so much more direction with my accomplishments.
One of the ones I’m working on right now is “Learn to play the bass guitar.” It’s going fairly well, if I do say so myself. Bass playing chicks are hot.
One of the ones I look forward to accomplishing is watching my sister and brother-in-law graduate from college.
Visit the international space station.
Spend the night in “my” lighthouse without being removed by local law enforcement.
I’ve been married 7 years and and am a professional photographer, but I have yet to finish our Wedding Album.–> Finish my wedding album keepsake!
So…this is true. Last Saturday morning…I met Wonder Woman…together, we fought AIDS.
To get back into shape so that I can be the kind of mom my kids deserve.
Write a children’s book… even if it is only read by my own children!
Lie in the grass and stare up at the Eiffel Tower while holding my husband’s hand.
Swim naked in the ocean. At night.
to make merangues. and learn how to spell them! i meant meringues.
Make out with a celebrity.
The cooler weather has inspired me to focus on one of the items on my list – to learn how to knit! I was given a very basic lesson last year, and youtube and google have been helping me with the rest.
This weekend I’m also attempting another item – to bake (cook?) a souffle!
Spend an entire day in silence….blissful silence.
Travel to all 7 continents (5 down, 2 to go!)
Take aerial arts classes.
Write a snail mail letter once a week for a year.
Vacation in Italy with my husband and 3 kids before the oldest is 10. I have 7 years to achieve this.
Travel to Ireland to see the Winter Soltice sunrise at New Grange.
travel the pacific northwest
To see Paris with my husband
Some of my favorites from my newly updated Life List are:
2. Instill a sense of appreciation and respect, if not love, for reading, the outdoors and do-it-yourself-ness in my kids
17. Feed a giraffe
22. Celebrate 1,000 successes, small or large
Raft the Grand Canyon
Master a perfect pie crust.
Read Little Women to a child.
Finish my novel; have it published.
Knit a fancypants lace shawl.
Trace my genealogy back to my ancestors from Ireland.
Make snow angels with my kids.
climb mount kilimanjaro!
Learn to surf
To learn to sew from a pattern.
start each day for 1 month with 15 mins of meditation, go skydiving, and stop bitching about something and try to change it.
Do something in the rain, in the nude!
Build a house! This is very unlikely as I am very unhandy.
Number 26 on my list: Waltz to “Moon River.”
I want to go to Ireland. Hopefully, this will happen next year, but if not, it stays on the list until it happens!
Take my son to Disney world. I think we are on the right road here, and may pull it off in Feb. My husband was in a rollover this Feb, and our lives rolled over with the truck. Maybe a little time away from here, would be good medicine for our souls. I know my little guy would be jumping for joy if we get to.
live in another country for a year! (for me that would be Vietnam!)
next up on the life list: visit Vietnam – to learn more about my heritage and learn some medical Vietnamese so i can better serve my patients
My Life List is 20 items deep and the next two I’m tackling are #15 Learn to Jump Double Dutch and #1 Become Fit Enough to Do a Back Flip. #1 is a process but can surely be done. #15 I’m SO excited about. I reached out to a friends younger sister and we’re going to set something up. I am going to be the coolest girl in 28th Grade!
I would love to take a painting class.
Visit Paris. For months.
Wow – all these comments are so inspiring! I want to spend a day on a tugboat, start an apple cidery, and be proud of the way I raised my child(ren).
Take a riding class!
The eyes are windows to your soul. I would love to use my photography as a witness to everyone by taking photos that show God’s abundant love for all of us. It would be awesome to ride a train all thorough Europe doing just that!! Of course Lola would accompany me on my travels!!
Blessings
Blessings to all
Go to Europe with the Hubs
Go back to Vienna (I studied abroad there) and play tour guide for a loved one.
Still working on the life list, but one of my recent goals is to “send my grandmother a care package each month.” So far, so good.
My life list has so invaded my mind that every so often I skim the list only to realize I’ve completed things on it without thinking “right now I am completing an item on my life list!
Walk, not crawl, across the Golden Gate Bridge.
Wow! This is fun! I wrote my list and started working on it. Then I went back and read it through again, only to be surprised at how inspiring it was. Thanks Maggie!
I just decided to add this one: live in a state that has a real Fall season. 10 years on California and now 8 months in Hawaii and I would love to enjoy a nice fall evening.
Travel to Africa – it’s been on my life list before I knew I had a life list.
finish my BA, and actually do something with it!
Run a marathon. See the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
Crossed off in August: Get a dog.
We got our second (and final) one today! :)
I want to buy and fix up a VW van, paint it teal, and road trip with my husband and dogs across the US…oh, and run a marathon… and do a trek from Kenya to S. Africa.
To visit the Galapagos Islands and see the blue footed boobies!
to break an entire set of dishes.
Take my kids overseas (before they turn into teenagers)!
To travel to greece with or without my kids, but with camera in hand!
Oh I would love love to win the bag!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
To go ziplining in Costa Rica.
I want to go somewhere, anywhere, with my husband. We have been married 7 years, and the entire marriage, his elderly mother has lived with us. She has Alzheimer’s, and, due to a fall, has not been able to walk since. My husband works, and I stay at home and give her constant care. Our entire marriage, we have never spent one night alone, or away from home. To help with the isolation,my husband, because of my love of photography, bought me a nice DSLR camera. My life list would consist of finally going someplace with my husband and taking lovely photos to remember it by.
To write a book.
Skydiving!
I want to run a half marathon and shoot 100 clients before next year!
I want to cruise the Greek Islands.
I want to go on an African Safari! This has always been a dream and really hope to do it one day.
To take painting and photography classes!
I want my husband and me to go on a honeymoon. We didn’t get to when we got married and had hoped to after Thanksgiving this year, but the people we had planned on babysitting for us fell through.
One sweet: Be a foster parent during my sabbatical.
One fun: Visit a coffee cooperative in Costa Rica.
Own and be able to use a dishwasher before I am 40 :)
Take photos in NYC! (And I have a plan to get there!)
Run a Marathon!
and, as I am not a runner this might prove to be quite difficult but I want to start enjoying to run with the ultimate goal of running a marathon.
Go to the Galapagos!
Get a driver’s license. (I turned 30 this year, by the way….)
be a contestant on the price is right!
To travel the world and then settle down in Nashville, TN.
Learn to knit socks…half a sock done!
A holiday alone with my husband & no kids! (Preferably Tropical)
A week in Santorini…to ride in a hot air balloon…to drive around the racetrack in a Nascar track…
Near the top of my Life List is to hike Machu Picchu with my husband.
I desperately want to go to Costa Rica with my husband and spend the whole time walking through the jungles and taking a tour of all the volcanoes.
Travel to South America….
Speak pretty decent French to a pretty decent waiter in a pretty decent cafe in Paris.
Hike the Grand Canyon with my kids.
Someday, I will go to India.
Travel the world with a purpose- share a blog adorned with photographs where others can read about beautiful places, delicious food and interesting people.
make a quilt – unfortunately, I won’t be able to do this before my grandmother passes away – as she is in hospice and very sick – but I can do it in memory of her
Learn to swim before my 2.5 year old realizes I can’t.
Travel to the highlands of Scotland and buy the warmest, knittyest sweater possible. :)
I want to learn to use (and use) a DSLR. When we were gearing up for our new baby, I got talked into buying a non-SLR. I like it and have taken some great pictures of our daughter, but I suspect I’d have better “action shots” of our babe if I could adjust it more. (She wiggles a lot. She’s three months old. I expect she will only move around more, rather than less, as she grows older.)
Write more. Everyday.
Learning to throw knives. :)
To attend a class Pilchuck glass school!
Get through one and a half more semesters of grad school, get a job, travel somewhere. Wait, did you say one thing?
To live in a house on the beach.
to be an artist included in the DeCordova Museum’s annual exhibition.
To have a big enough house boat that I won’t feel the rocking. Wait – that’s my husband’s life list. Oh well…
To learn everything there is to know about my digital SLR and the accessories I have too!
go anywhere and everywhere with my essentials: dslr, books, iphone, mbp.
Go on a REAL African safari
Visit all of the National Parks in the US.
hike the Appalachian Trail
I was lucky enough to check something off my life list today… to see a no hitter. It’s a life list item that is tough to achieve because you can’t predict it– you just have to go to a whole lot of games and hope for the best.
After going to 15 Phillies games this season, I got to see Roy Halladay pitch in person for the first time today and he pitched the second no hitter in MLB post season history. It was incredible!
ooh, I covet.
One of my life list items that I’ve been dreaming about a lot recently is having an incredible front porch.
Learn to knit.
One day, I will be on a nationally televised game show. I know it!
Scuba dive the great barrier reef in Australia!
Travel to Italy with my hubby!
learn how to sew and design my own clothes (and in the process, get over my mystification of simple machines)!
Travel to Venice!
After reading about these life lists I started working on my own. It’s hard to create. But one thing I know I want to do is try being a vegan — a giant step for my cheese-loving vegetarian self.
One item on my life list? Grow my hair long enough to donate to Locks of Love. I have a bit of a problem with cutting my hair Peter Pan short right about the time it gets to my shoulders…
#47: Conduct a choir and orchestra in Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.
Travel to Norway and hike to Prekestolen.
Become fluent in Arabic.
Visit the Egyptian pyramids
see more of the world!
I want to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.
I will be checking off my “visit Washington DC” this December when I go spend a week with my son who is in the Navy and stationed in MD! So excited to be raalizing this dream and getting to see my boy at the same time!
Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov; own a pink house by the ocean; do 5 minutes of standup; set up a scholarship at my high shcool.
Life list –
France with my daughter
write a kids book
I long to see the pyramids of Egypt!
Take my kids to DisneyWorld :)
Foster a child.
I want to run a marathon. :-)
Spend a month in Asia photgraphing the sights.
Pay off all my debt! Then get a hot tub!
To jump out of an airplane with the US Army Golden Knights. Wahoo!!!!
I thought I commented yesterday, but I don’t see it now. Hopefully this won’t count as a double post!
One of my items? I’d like to sign my dog up for a basic obedience class with the ultimate goal of training him to become a therapy dog.
Learn to speak Italian and go back to Burano with my fiance. Such a beautiful island!
Tell a story that is featured on The Moth podcast!
I only just started mine but already love the whole process. Here’s one I added today.
Visit Oma within the next year and have her teach me how to make potato pancakes from scratch.
visit Ireland with my husband and our beautiful little girl and see in real life what I think is gorgeous in pictures.
to be photographed by spencer tunick. please.
thru hike the appalachian trail [with my as yet-unadopted/fostered kids as a year of 'home study'] <3
I want my business to really blossom in the next year and a half, and be able to get an actual studio instead of just doing outdoor stuff.
Learn to grow vegetables. And now I can actually do it – we just moved into a house that has a garden!
Make a ‘free box’ for the utility pole in front of our house.
Try and capture Nessie on film!! And tour Scotland in the process!!
On my life list, cafe and marzipan in an adorable Swiss village with my now-4 year old daughter.
On my life list: Be a speaker at a TED event!
With my husband, take my children to the many cities in Germany where his family lives, including visiting my husband’s uncle, Josef, who we named one of our twin boys after. (the other twin is named after my husband’s dad, Leo). Leo & Josef were also twins–my husband’s dad has passed away–
Traveling with my children is high on my life list!!
start a family with my husband. :)
complete a marathon.
To learn how to knit
I’m working on the homey things on my list now, like learning how to knit.
On my list is to live on a boat, so my man and I are currently stashing money (a little at a time!) to buy a sailboat that we can live on and travel the world!
One thing on my life list is to take an overnight trip on a sailboat. If only I had a boat. Or knew how to sail. Details, details.
One of my goals is to convert my Garage into a veritable Girl Cave. It will be a combination fiber studio (housing my looms, fiber and spinning wheel), there will be a dark room space and finally a big comfy couch and well stocked mini bar fridge!
I want to live in the mountains with a beautiful view from my back porch.
I want to completely decorate a room, including pictures.
Open an arts studio and teach/share my passion.
To complete an Olympic Distance triathlon.
To explore Scotland – on my own, and take some amazing photos while I’m there.
Not be afraid to practice my (very limited) Cantonese/Mandarin.
I have three things currently on my life list – I’m afraid that if I write them down, or add to them that they won’t happen…
One is try out for roller derby. And I did it this September. I’ve only been to one practice, but it was amazing.
Two is own my own craft store by the time I’m 40 so I can quit my current job and do what I love. This one… well… I haven’t done much yet. But I’m talking about it, which I suppose is a start.
To sing the national anthem at a professional sporting event. Not in the stands… but to be the one who is mic’d.
To find that perfect, sexy red dress to go out on a much needed date with my husband. :)
It is so on my life list to own one of those bags and a camera for it and actually know how to use it! They are gorgeous! And then to know how to use everything Adobe makes to make a freaking awesome blog that pays my bills!
Get married to my fiance on a beach
Be paid to take pictures… with that, set up a studio in my basement
I am committed to completing three more things on my Life List before the end of the year, and identifying 5 things I want to really focus on for next year. I recently crossed some things off my List…I’m attending grad school and this weekend I will complete my first painting!
Visit Pompeii
To float, canoe, or kayak the Missouri river from it’s headwaters to the merge w/ the Mississippi.
Have a baby.
Live in Hawaii where I can hear the surf all night.
Learn how to ride a bike, so I can ride alongside my son. Also, go on a girls trip!!
To speak German well. I’m working on it!
I must visit Wales!
make a quilt!
Make something I love, every week. This week was a Greek Salad Pizza(yum), Last week was a killer invite to my 29th b-day party.
I would love to spend some time of my life with my family living in Europe!
I want to finish my college degree.
To run a marathon
This is probably top of my list- buy a dutch oven.
(I’m pretty easy.) here’s my list- http://jennyinohio.blogspot.com/2010/06/life-list.html
Going a whole year without forgetting any important birthday or anniversary. Unfortunately, I missed one yesterday, so now I have to start all over again :(
I want to ride a century — a 100 miles on a bicycle.
I want to go to Iceland.
Write a short story
I want to go on a photo tour of Paris and London.
Adopt an orphan and advocate for orphans all over the world.
I’m trying not to drool over the camera bag alone.
To swim with whale sharks off the coast of Mexico.
A good friend of mine passed away from lung cancer; she was a 22 year old athlete and a non-smoker. I am going to raise awareness and help find a cure for lung cancer!
I’ve just started to compile my life list, but I am enjoying thinking about what I would really like to accomplish. This weekend, I’m starting a new tradition: Pancake Sundays!
start a family
Aweome giveaway as I’ve been drooling over this bag for quite some time. I’d love to run a heaviliy-sponsored, Disney World travel review blog.
finish reading The Power Broker – 2/3 done!
Ohhhh, I love it!
Go back and see my host family in Uzbekistan.
Get in a car and drive across the country, stopping to photograph strangers and friends in their homes.
Have my own herb garden. We just bought a house with almost 2 acres of land. Looks like I’m getting here, huh? :)
To finish a triathlon.
I would like to do a cross-country trip. Apparently I did this as a kid but I was only 8 months old, so I can’t recall much. I love a good road trip and I’ve covered a good stretch of the East Coast, but I’d like to change my axis and see different places and landscapes that I’ve only read about or seen in pictures or in the movies.
To open a small bakery!
See Mt. Saint Helens.
Life list right now involves letting my boss know that I need to start working less before this baby comes out. Yeah, doesn’t sound hard, but trust me, it is.
Is it still open? I just signed up for a “learn to crochet class” at make workshops. And I must learn how!
live alone in the woods for a year- thoreau style!
Would love to do so many things…travel and shop like I’m independantly wealthy seems to top the “selfish side” of my Life List. However, I should probably just be content with raising happy and healthy children that become productive members of society. “and World Peace” LOL :-D
Take our kids (currently they are 3 and seven months) on a multi day bike trip.
Complete a Marathon!
I want to open my own Etsy shop. I would love the camera bag so I have a safe place to tote my camera while I run around trying to snap pics of little ones in my kid’s clothes!
I’m hopefully going to complete this one this year: ride the full 109-mile distance of El Tour de Tucson. Fingers crossed that training goes well.
I have SO many things on my life list, but one of them is to visit the Canary Islands. That’s where my paternal grandparents were from, and I’d love to see it before I die.
I already ordered some in black, but orange would be fantastic! pick me pick me, oh please pick me!
I have a “101 things in 1001″ days list because never know just how long this ‘life’ really is- we recently crossed off #3 “start our family”. I’m ten weeks and counting! Boy those shoes could work wonders for the pregnant-can’t-see her-shoes-girl i’ll be soon enough.
I took the Mondo Beyondo course and I already have one thing coming true! I am pregnant and due in just one month!
To ride a motorcyle on tree lined back road in the fall.
To have a baby. 40 is coming, I’d better hurry that one up!
To learn as much as I can about photography…and become good enough people want to pay me for taking pictures!
ha! I put a new thing on my lifelist today: afternoon tea at the Ritz in London… Ideally with a gorgeous new camera bag ;)
Swim from Alcatraz to Aquatic Park!
To get out of my comfort zone and move to a big city. And it’s happening! Moving to New York at the end of November with a kick ass job to boot.
My mighty list, like so many things, has yet to leave my head.
But “be a balloon handler in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” will definitely be included.
I entered a body building contest when I turned 40, just ran my first half-marathon last week as I turn 50, so I hope to do a triathlon before I turn 60!
Pick up a car in Germany and drive on the autobahn.
Take my oldest daughter to China so she can see where she was born.
By the end of 2010 take the flight lesson!!
Learn the foxtrot!
Travel to Ireland and Australia, but probably not in the same trip.
Live by the water while my kids are still young enough to play in it together.
Hike the Grand Canyon
Travel to Japan.
Ride on the Concorde or future equivalent. Sigh.
Run a mile without stopping, anyone who knows me can verify that this is a crazy-ambitious goal for me, but I think if I train I can do it!
As of this August, I crossed going to New Zealand off my list. I’m here on a year long working holiday visa and have added a bunch of things to my “New Zealand List”. Lots to accomplish…it’s going to be an exciting year!
When I was laid off in June, we learned how to get by on next to nothing. Things are looking up now, but I’m really really ready for the opportunity to not live on next to nothing .. but this time, be so much smarter about it.
Maybe not a life goal, but definitely a goal I’m concentrating on: lose weight and be healthier!
I’d like to find a no-fuss emergency black dress that doesn’t need to be pressed and works for casual and more formal events. I could have crashed a wedding reception this past weekend if I’d had something like that in my day-pack.
Graduate from BGSU – scheduled for December 18, 2010. It’s been a LONG 5.5 years (wedding, adoption, pregnancy) but it is finally here.
Join the Peace Corps!
to find a way to move myself, my partner, and my dog to paris for this summer to do some research and to remember what it is to live small inside and big outside again.
To live where I can see and hear the ocean.
Be more adventurous in the kitchen. This week I successfully made turkey burgers stuffed with blue cheese and bacon! Yay!
Get a passport – check! Now to visit some foreign countries like the Caribbean this November/December!
visit the Galapagos on an educational cruise
Make a cottage style garden in my yard.
Life list…
Chickens in the backyard for fresh eggs every morning.
I want to hike the Inca Trail to Macchu Picchu.
making a home out of my current house.
During a dinner party, clear a big space in the living room, call everyone over and start a Soul Train dance line.
This year: Run 10k
Next year: Move to Sydney
A silly thing on my life list is to have a real picnic. In a park, with an actual basket filled with bread, cheese, fruit, etc. And there has to be wine.
I discovered Epiphanie bags after reading about Mighty Summit, and I am saving up my pennies to get one!
Earn my PhD
This is happening. And it’s already started. I think I’ve lost a little bit of my mind.
But I won’t lie, getting to write “Dr. Rogers” is going to be pretty wicked awesome.
To live in another country for at least 6 months.
teach a class… as a professor!
I wanna go to Oktoberfest in München and wear an authentic tracht from my Omi’s dorf.
Direct at least two feature films.
Go to the top of the Empire State Building.
One of the things on my life list is to go on a yoga retreat somewhere tropical.
Re-establish contact (friendship?) with my old college roommate, Tera.
Get a big, fluffy, exuberant dog!
I want to create a photo album for each year of my child’s life.
Three years after making a life list with: “Give birth without pain meds,” and I’m due in a week. Wish me luck.
1: travel to Greece
2: visit Egypt and see the pyramids
3: have baby number 2-a girl would be wonderful
4: win this amazing contest! Lol
To take dancing lessons with my husband…
to live in house with a dock on the california delta
Go to Paris and makeout with my boyfriend in the Tuileries.
To feel good in my body every day
Have a successful pregnancy… at least once…
to author a book that is published
I can’t wait to buy a book, authored by my best friend, from a splash display in a big chain bookstore. As you might guess, this is a companion item to one on her life list… :)
Do a safari in Africa.
live by the sea again, so that I can walk to the beach to watch the sun go down.
Wow, I just took a peek at my life list and I can’t believe all the things on it that I’m so close to completing
Eat at a 5 star restaurant – My husband and I did this on our anniversary back in Feb. Spend enough to buy groceries for 2 weeks, but the meal was amazing
Run a 5K – First one is next week, second one in the first weekend in Nov
Participate in a flash mob
Learn ballroom dancing
I’m part of a ballroom class that is putting together a flash mob performance for a Halloween party.
Successfully potty train a puppy – The puppy is almost a year old and I finally did it.
Learn to play the banjo!
To study yoga in southeast Asia!
Take our kids to Africa.
I have already crossed “quit smoking” off of my list, now I need to get to work on “run a 5k.”
TO take a photography class and use my new SKILZ on my trip to New Zealand!
to go swing dancing
To be able to be a stay at home mom
Get my doctorate. Because, dammit, I took all the classes, now it’s only this dang dissertation (and my procrastination) standing in my way.
Travel Italy!!! See the art, the architecture, the countryside, eat the food, drink the wine!
I’m saving to go shoe shopping in Italy!
Make a delicious apple pie from scratch, including the crust.
Win a pie baking contest!
To put my love of sharing information, providing encouragment and connecting people and ideas to use daily by working at one of my current dream jobs (Ashoka, TED).
I started down the path earlier this year by planning Learnapalooza Chicago, a community learning festival.
Which reminds me, I’m happy to help with any aspect of planning a virtual and/or live Mighty List community.
Photograph a series of portraits of ungulates.
write a book that someone other than my mother would chose to read. :)
Complete my graduate school applications and hope for the best.
Visit Italy. Spend quality time there.
To send a love note via homing pigeon!
Throw a yearly party that is a MUST for all my friends.
starting small: to decorate the house we moved into, so it doesn’t feel like I’m house sitting. (was going to be smaht & put “to win this gift bag” but that would leave me right in the same place, sitting on my bum, not making anything cozy or homey)
Drive a race car!
I’m working on brewing up the first baby of my life list’s #6: “6. Give birth to at least two kids at home, orgasmically, ecstatically.”
And I’m about to register for the Ecstatic Birth teleseminar to learn from some brilliant teachers about the second part of that desire!
And I love love love Epiphanie bags and crave one so truly.
To visit Russia.
Spend three months learning to windsurf properly
- pet koalas in australia
- skydive
- visit all ballparks in the US
To learn photoshop and go to grad school. Both are MUSTS for me in this life…
Attend Oktoberfest in Munich!
visit moominland!
To spend a day exploring a National Park with my husband and future first born child.
I would like to go on a honeymoon with my husband. When we married 13 years ago, we didn’t have the means, and we were probably too caught up with life to enjoy such a luxury. We both want to go to Ireland, hold hands while we explore castle ruins and kiss the Blarney Stone (and each other)!
Finish college. Someday. I swear.
To have a photo in National Geographic, and to see pandas in the wild!
Check: I joined the Mitten Mavens roller derby! Hello, bruises
I also adopted an English pointer and retired show dog
Hello, new love of my life
Attend Wimbledon!
To spend a summer in Italy, learning the language and immersing myself in the culture.
To return to Tanzania – where I worked as an HIV/AIDs teacher five years ago. I want my boyfriend (we were together then via long distance) to see what I saw and taste a bit of my time there. It was hugely impactful on my life and I want to share it with him.
Go in a hot air balloon
Travel to Italy and get in touch with my roots! :-)
publish an article in a peer-reviewed journal by December!!!
Make our new home a clean and clutter free place to live!
To climb a natural glacier which I did in New Zealand http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=606946377435&set=a.606945489215.2255015.423780
I want to see Paris in the winter
Work in a bakery in France!
Learn how to play roller derby!
Find my first real job and do it well!
Visit Paddington Station.
Stop buying disposable clothes – buy well-made things that fit & will last!
Lovely prizes from a lovely website!
I can’t seem to get a comment to post here, but I thought I’d give it a shot from a different computer and see if I have any luck.
#34 on my life list is pretty important to me. I’d like to do a photoshoot with my mom and my grandma. My hope is to do something fun – the three of us with funny animal noses on, just goofing off. It’s been touch to arrange, but time and events are reminding me that I should do it sooner rather than later. :)
I would love to travel and take pictures of the people I meet along the way as they tell me their stories in a familiar location of their choosing.
Scuba diving in Mozambique. With giant manta rays!
I crossed two more items off my Life List when I went to visit LA a couple weeks ago: Stand under a plane while it lands and another restaurant I haven’t been to yet…In N’ Out Burger!! Woo!
Return to London with my child(ren) and husband and visit all our favorite places from when we lived there for a year five years ago. The markets, the museums and art galleries, and the cheap Indian buffet.
publish my own novel.
I want to knit a sweater.
Learn to cook 5 new recipes. I’m hopeless in the kitchen, so this will be quite the feat.
On my life list: travel to Africa.
I will find out where my grandmother grew up in Spain. And then visit.
In June of this year, I crossed off a visit to Alaska & Denali National Park.
To have something I’ve written either performed or published.
To speak Spanish fluently.
To finally sit down and really write the book I know I can write.
One of my items is “Tell myself I am beautiful and MEAN IT.” It sounds so simple but I am finding that a LOT of work is having to go into it. So very worthwhile, though. :)
to be on the ellen show!
Organize a family Christmas at a destination- first choice right now is Jackson Hole, but that might be a rough one to get to… more research required.
On my Life List:
To have my own successful spa business.
To become intimately acquainted with Europe. The first stop on that goal is Paris.
Make peach jam with peaches from a tree I planted myself.
I recently crossed “Run a half marathon” off my list – which wasn’t even on the list until I finished “Run a 10 K”!
So now I have Run the NYC Marathon on my list, as well as Get a PhD. I’m just starting the work for both of those.
Thanks for starting me on my list!
27. make a decision about having a child and stick to it.
If I could only make a decision…
I want to see Savion Glover tap live
Learn to cook fantastically by taking a cooking class with my mother in Italy. Thanks to watching Audrey Hepburn’s Sabrina many, many times as a kid, I have a funny perspective on life: in order to really be grown up, you must learn how to cook in Europe. Also, I’d love to spend that time with my mother, and oh man, Italian food is so, so delicious.
Also on the life list: someday be a professor, mother, and still be able to grow my own food, with my husband and (future) children.
I can’t wait to take my children to India or another country that is considered “poor” so that they can see how rich the people really are.
To have and raise disciplined, smart, respectful, loving, functioning children.
My life list is sort of on hold now – the past two years of the economy have not been kind to me. After over a year of unemployment and being significantly underemployed for a year now, i am juts trying to get out of bed every morning, pay bills and try to figure out how I’ll ever retire. My life list now is just 1 thing – survive without losing it all.
gather a group of women entrepreneur’s together in my town to share and to engage and to grow
fly to Paris with my camera. Just me and me alone.
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do a flip on a trampoline!
Go back to the mission field to remember just how much I do have instead of what I don’t have.
To go to Venice and have my picture taken outside the NARDI store! That is my last name and I am the second to last in my large family to go and do it!
To stop being too afraid to fall in love with someone really quality.
I want to complete something that is really physically demanding like a marathon.
Learn to take great photos. I want to have wonderful photos of my kids, and our holidays and christmas mornings. P.S. I covet the Tieks!
See my name in print.
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Learn a foreign language – any! <3
I’d like to learn how to whistle with two fingers in my mouth. I was at a great concert on Friday night (Hannah Georgas and Royal Wood – you should check them out for your Friday music!) and I was wishing I could whistle for them. All the cool kids could. Instead I was just stuck yelling “Whooooo!”
Learn to surf.
to learn all the dance moves from the “thriller” video
To travel across Europe and visit all the major wine growing regions. Of course, taking photos off all the beautiful Chateau and Domaines is on my to do list!
Audition for a major theatre troupe here in DC.
I’ve done theatre for the majority of my life, but have fallen out of it. This goal will take willpower, drive, and a whole lot of guts to get up there and do.
I hope the next thing I get to cross off is the boat christening…
To eat pasta (and lots of it) in Italy…
To collect real prayer flags from Tibet. Right now my garden is sporting the Urban Outfitters variety ;)
Have a kid before I turn 30!
Lappland in the fall. Some day.
Go deep sea fishing where my grandfather did.
The first item on my life list is to start a web site, which my friend and I are close to launching!
Maggie, your recent post about Nina Simone’s life list (or at least a very deep to-do list) has finally inspired me to create my own. Piano lessons, here I come!
I have decided to quit dithering and be more decisive. I figure it will make accomplishing the other things on my list so much easier.
I want to join the Air Force Reserves as a nurse, which means I have to get my nursing degree first! So I guess that’s two things on my life list.
Learn to make my mom’s awesome eggrolls. I mean, seriously, I should have this down by now!
I want to foster dogs. Give them some TLC until someone’s ready to adopt them.
Ride an elephant through a forest in Thailand.
I want to try 50 different world cuisines. 20 down.
I want to learn to ride a horse.
I just crossed off #53, attend the roller derby. It was SO MUCH FUN. I can’t wait to go again. (Would it be cheating to put it back on the list?)
To see all the Rodins in Paris, with my husband.
The cousins’ reunion I wanted to plan is happening in a few weeks. And everyone will be there. YAY!
Visit Death Valley in the spring to see the wildflowers :)
I added eight dollars to my Naples travel fund jar yesterday. Huzzah!
Learn to play the drums.
Have dinner at the French Laundry in Napa, CA (hopefully followed by camping in Yosemite, but that’s optional!)
Learn to use that darkroom in the basement. Well.
Write every day for 15 minutes. I feel this would be key to many other great things.
to be conversational in spanish. not quite there yet…
Visit some dear friends while they are living in Brussels.
Start my own design business and quit my job working for the Man.
Create a blog that I can call successful! I’m just getting started! :)
One of the goals on my life list that I’m focused on right now is to learn to bake my own bread. It’s a small one, but I need something that I can accomplish now. I’ll hopefully get to Easter Island *someday*, but for now I’d like to be grubbing on some tasty homemade bread.
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Juggle at my child’s 5th birthday.
I’m 24, unmarried, no kids, but when I worked in a bar this man said I must learn how to juggle so that I could be the coolest mother at my kid’s birthday party. He took time out to teach me in the bar, so I think if he had enough time and interest in teaching me how to juggle I should definitely dress up and play the clown at my future child’s party.
I’ve had so much success in the last years with my life list, and I’ve changed it a lot. But I definitely want to take my husband to Rome. He’s never been and he’d love it!
To raise a healthy and happy girl.
Start my photography business.
To get the courage to stay home.
Learn to surf — well ;)
Learn to play guitar just well enough so that I can be a guitar playing librarian during story time :)
To learn to garden and not kill our lawn!!
To be able to spend just 1 day with my Grandmother. I miss her so much!
Thank you for inspiring me to write my own Life List, Maggie. One of the biggest things on there is to figure out how to support my family with my writing. (Gulp!)
LOVE the inspiration. Great ideas I too have a list that I am going to be working one.
Hmm, not sure if you’ve chosen a winner yet, but something on my list that I’ll hopefully complete this year is to make cheese.
See a show at Red Rocks in Denver, CO!
Snorkel in Mexico
To write an epic screenplay!
Learn to knit!
Paddle through the Grand Canyon!
I’d love to learn to play the piano.
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To learn how to surf!
take my kids to disneyland
See Katie Melua in concert
travel the world!
to have my 30th birthday party with 30 different cakes