Tuesday, February 3, 2009

THE LIST

So I was up one night just thinking about life and I want to do so many things. I let my mind wander at all of the possibilities and decided to take all of those ideas and dreams and put them into motion. I made a LIST. I wrote down everything and anything that came to mind, without reviewing or analyzing, that I would like to do in my lifetime. (And I am still adding to it eveyday) 4 and a 1/2 pages later I was thrilled to see what my soul really desired. What really makes a full life other than the day to day trials and tribulations at work and home. Surprisingly I think we all censor our own lives to think within very small boundries.Well,I think I've started to find out that most of the boundries can and should be crossed to really feel the wind in our hair and thd the sunlight warm our face. Finding joy and love in the little things in life bring great adventures that change lives forever.
While I was sitting there notebook open and a pen in my mouth Sheldon called me and asked what I was up to. I dropped the idea of my list on him. He thought it was interesting and I shared a few things I had scribbled down. Then he said he wanted a copy of it. Without thinking I made him a copy of my very personal, uncensored list.
He has done some research on things to do to help me accomplish my list( and surprised me with some) and we might just do many of them together. We are going to cross them off and take pictures of everything on the list as we go.
I want to share it with you to let everyone know more about who I am and maybe inspire people to look at their own lives and really make it an experience.

THE LIST
  • journal
  • ride in a helicopter
  • take a cooking class
  • go to a meditation class
  • visit a shooting range
  • try acupuncture
  • go horseback riding
  • learn about wine
  • ride in a hot air balloon
  • learn pinhole photography
  • skydive
  • ride an elephant
  • take a picture with the giant panda at Sierra Honda
  • scuba dive
  • go parasailing
  • ride a motorcycle
  • learn to race a car
  • put $100 a month in an adventure fund
  • take overnight train ride
  • swim with dolphins
  • bungee jump
  • jump off a cliff into water
  • make out under a waterfall
  • go on a cruise
  • have a dinner party
  • volunteer abroad
  • donate blood
  • volunteer for a search and rescue team
  • hand out flowers at a nursing home
  • do a random good deed to someone who needs it
  • ay off debt
  • go to the gym regularly
  • say yes to life
  • have a wter balloon fight
  • stay in touch with old friends
  • get lasered
  • schedule a regular girls night out
  • have a game night
  • have a themed party
  • take my mom out for a fun day
  • host a slumber party
  • let Sheldon know I love him everyday
  • keep a list of all birthdays, anniversaries etc and send cards
  • have a penpal
  • go to a local festival
  • collect my families recipies, make into a book and send everone a copy
  • finish painting my apartment
  • learn to play the piano
  • go to a gospel church
  • go to an opera
  • go to a jazz club
  • visit the dentist :(
  • get braces
  • take Kazu to obediance school
  • fast one day amonth to raise awareness of world hunger
  • make a list of 50 things I like about myself
  • go to a silent movie theatre
  • see a tv taping
  • celebrate something that is never celebrated
  • start a chain letter with friends of what makes us laugh, smile, giggle, happy
  • be in an art show
  • go to more gallery openings
  • go to a hockey game
  • kiss a horse
  • have a scavenger hunt
  • go to spy school
  • get a massage
  • sit in a tree and watch the world go by
  • lay on the hood of a car and look at the stars
  • meet more people
  • catch fireflies
  • have a picnic
  • ride in a canoe/boat
  • camp out at the neach
  • go to a comedy club
  • take a massage class
  • go to a lecture
  • try a new restaurant once a month
  • spend a day taking pictures
  • take karate
  • go to a playground and play on all of the equiptment
  • write down 3 secrets and leave themin random library books
  • take a painting class
  • clean 1 thing in my house everyday
  • organize a neighborhood poem or picture story with sidewalk chalk
  • drive with my eyes closed and have someone direct me
  • take a pole dancing class
  • got o a horserace
  • participate in a peace protest
  • fly a kite
  • go to the x-games
  • go to dinner at the Magic Castle
  • scream on an empty beach
  • use a bow and arrow
  • go to Catalina Island for a weekend
  • take a random weekend to Paris
  • visit a monastery
  • try ziplining
  • zorb down a hill
  • swim naked in the ocean in the middle of the night
  • get eyes lasered
  • stay at a bed and breakfast
  • get new glasses
  • go see the Nutcracker with my Nana
  • spend more time with family
  • build a dreamhome
  • buy a mini cooper and a range rover
  • get married outside
  • have a baby, preferably twins
  • write a letter to my future self
  • photograph everything on this list, keep it in a book and give my children when I'm old
  • try everything once
  • ride a scooter
  • visit thailand
  • lay in a hammock
  • visit the ruins in Peru

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