I was recently challenged to make a list, however long I wanted, of the top things I wanted to do or acheive in my lifetime. Of course there are many more things I'll want to do in my lifetime, but here are 52 of 'em, in no particular order :=)
1) Travel to Australia
2) Work with children diagnosed with cancer
3) Read one book off of Oprah’s List
4) Learn to play guitar
5) Be a summer camp counselor again
6) Honor my mom’s legacy by helping to keep the whole family connected
7) Obtain a college degree that I will actually use
8) See the Great White Sharks feeding off the tip of South Africa
9) Do some research and form my own opinion about the JFK assassination
10) Design and build my own home (probably using the UBuildIt program!)
11) Participate in a cancer walk
12) Get back into horseback riding
13) Travel to Kenya, Ireland, Jamaica, Brazil, the Canadian Yukon and Russia (among many other places)
14) Get with the times and actually buy a music apparatus (i.e. iPod or mp3 player)
15) Start a once-a-month massage regimen
16) Overcome my phobia of roller coasters
17) Send one month traveling and taking photos of God’s gorgeous, natural earth
18) Climb a mountain…….any mountain
19) Learn how to play the bass clef on the piano
20) Meet my birthmom, Brenda
21) Be the best wife and mother that I can be, just like my mom was
22) Purchase (or build) a vacation cabin somewhere, preferably near a beach or in the mountains
23) Record my own song someday, just for fun
24) Have an outdoor wedding
25) Master the art of cooking non-predictable dishes (like Spaghetti, Omelets, etc)
26) Take another Sign Language class (and actually try to learn it this time!)
27) Own matching bath towels (and maybe matching dish sets too)
28) Get over my fear and try to ski again….. and not on the bunny hill
29) To challenge myself at public speaking and get over my stage fright
30) Write less predictable poetry
31) Have a dark room in my home
32) Start a journal and actually keep it up to date
33) Regularly give money to the church and to one medical research organization
34) Visit the Statue of Liberty
35) Spend one New Year’s Eve in an exotic location (Spain anyone?)
36) Learn to ice skate
37) Watch a launch of a space shuttle
38) Ride a mechanical bull
39) See the Goonie’s movie
40) Test drive a REALL nice car…..
41) Take my kids to Disney World
42) Visit a tropical rainforest
43) See a Broadway show in New York
44) Learn to knit
45) Experience zero gravity
46) Kiss in Paris
47) Swim with a dolphin
48) Have my portrait painted or drawn
49) Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe
50) Take private voice lessons again
51) Take my own road trip, all the way around the US
52) Create the Hawkinson/Antisdale most up-to-date family tree
