Life List
April 23rd, 2012
- Write and publish a cookbook – In Progress
- See an active volcano
- Read all of Michener’s works of fiction
Knit a blanketCompleted 3/27/2011- Start a company
- Be a mentor – In Progress starting Fall 2011, Leeds School of Business Mentor
- Work with CASA
- See Alaska
- Take a tour of European art museums
- Scan, organize, and archive all family photos – over 10K complete, more than that left to do!
- Live in a loft
- Start a real art collection
- Go camping with Rich–at least once
- Be silent for an entire day
- Renew my wedding vows
- Take singing lessons
- Go on a safari
- Make a special piece of jewelry for my husband
- Send a postcard to Post Secret
- Go snow machining
- Take a cooking class in Italy
- Have an over the top New Year’s Eve
- Make every present that we give one Christmas
- See the pyramids
- Touch a large cat
- Visit Oceanografic aquarium in Valencia, Spain
- Sleep in the shark suite at Mandalay Bay in Vegas
- Go back stage at a major rock concert
- Learn how to make an authentic paella
- Make a large, anonymous contribution to a charitable cause
- Write a letter to my Grandpa, thanking him for his military service
- Do yoga every day for a year
- Host a giant house party with live music
- Spend a week in Austria
- Speak in front of 10,000 people about something I am passionate about
- Create and share something in honor of my Mom
- Draw at least one full comic strip
- Run a 10K
- Grow a “gumbo garden”: peppers, onions, garlic, tomatoes, okra
- Create a creative space just for me in my home – In Progress!
- Visit Harper’s Ferry
- Visit Ellis Island
Learn how to can foodFall 2010- Reupholster a piece of furniture
- Get family heirlooms appraised & authenticated
- Archival frame the quilt my grandmother made with her mother and grandmother
- Learn and become proficient in a new programming language
- Spend an entire week “in studio”, doing nothing but art
- Cook in a restaurant for at least one night
- Start an internet meme
- Host a celebration for a new citizen
- Make paper
- Weave a basket like the one my Mom used for her crafts when I was a child
Have my DNA tested for ancestry and health2011- Stay in a cabin without internet, television, or phone for a week
- Cook over an open fire
- Learn how to clean and bone a fish
- Learn how to chop cotton
- Keep a daily journal for a year
- Learn how to crochet
- Drive a speed boat
- See the aurora borealis with Rich
- Swim with sharks (in a cage is acceptable)
- Find and document the origins of the Indian relic found in my great uncle’s yard
- Photo document our family’s Christmas traditions and mementos
- Act in a local theatre production
- Drive a race car
- Climb a 14er
- Become a Techstars mentor
- Be in a band
- Sing in front of at least 500 people (sang a solo w/ an audience of 1500 as a child, want to repeat as adult :) )
- Tour a marijuana grow op (I don’t smoke–just curious)
- Ride a mechanical bull
- Perform a standup routine – committed to completing in 2012!
- Go to the Independence Day fireworks show on the National Mall in Washington D. C.
