Life List

On the eve of my 40th birthday, I finally decided to commit to a life list of things I aspire to. I’d been puttering around with one over the last couple years.  When I pulled out that draft, it made me smile to realize I’d been making my way through many of them already.

Doing things like taking my kids to Disney World and running a half marathon. It was fun to cross them off and add new things.  I look forward to continuing to do that!

And for anyone curious, I call it our list because it doesn’t just belong to me. Most of them are mine and things I aspire to.  But it’s also my husband’s list.   Even though he lived a whole lifetime of adventures before he met me, he looks forward to doing them again with me.   He's the big lug with the soft caramel center. Wouldn’t trade him. Wouldn’t and couldn’t.


Our Happier Mighty Life List:

  1. Go on a family camping trip and roast marshmallows. Done! November 2013
  2. Go white water rafting. With my kids.
  3. Take a trip alone with my husband again. 
  4. Take a cruise. 
  5. Shop for new clothes that actually fit. Drop serious cash.
  6. Take dance lessons.
  7. Sleep on an overnight train ride.
  8. Have a topsy turvy day and serve dinner for breakfast and breakfast for dinner.
  9. Do a mud run.
  10. Do a color run.
  11. Run a marathon.
  12. Run a race with my kids.
  13. Run another race with my husband.  No injuries this time.
  14. Do a real push up.  Nose to the ground and correct hand and elbow position.
  15. Try a step aerobics class. "Try" means go more than once.
  16. Try a yoga class.  "Try" means go more than once
  17. Renew our wedding vows.
  18. Have a family portrait taken.
  19. Buy a sundress.
  20. Grow my own vegetables and eat them.
  21. Ride on the back of a motorcycle my husband is driving. 
  22. Stay at the beach for an entire week and not do anything except swim, read and walk on the beach every morning.
  23. See a Cirque de Soleil show.
  24. Watch an Olympic event live.
  25. Be in a parade.
  26. Have my hands painted with henna.
  27. Finish reading every Agatha Christie book.
  28. Make a pizza from scratch.
  29. Join a book club.
  30. Make homemade bread.
  31. Try 500 new restaurants. (edited 11/2013) 1.) Olive Garden knockoff for date night - the original is better.  No thumbs up or down.  2.) Le Peep breakfast place - Blah. No thumbs up or down.  3.) Cane's  - 4 thumbs up! 4.) Macklins - a little overpriced but I loved mine and everyone else was eh. 1 thumb up, 3 down.  5.) Babe's - 4 thumbs up. 
  32. Go skydiving.
  33. Go skiing.
  34. Go kayaking
  35. Go zip lining.
  36. Watch Casablanca.
  37. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
  38. Drive a car worth more than $100,000
  39. Sleep in a castle
  40. Create a YouTube video
  41. Swim with dolphins
  42. Spend a weekend in a cabin with no tv, phone or internet
  43. Catch a fish.
  44. Participate in a road rally
  45. Write my name in wet cement
  46. Host a game night
  47. Have laser hair removal.
  48. Enter a bike race
  49. Go windsurfing. 
  50. Get my palm read. 
  51. Learn to do a backbend.
  52. Go to a Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  53. Ride a camel in the desert
  54. Go on a multi day biking trip. 
  55. Cross the Canadian border.
  56. Climb a mountain.
  57. Stay in a tree house overnight.
  58. Go clamming.
  59. See a glacier.
  60. Finally visit 3 old friends.   
  61. Go snowshoeing.
  62. Experience zero gravity.
  63. Successfully donate blood.
  64. Ride a mechanical bull.
  65. Drive an 18 wheeler.
  66. Ride a roller coaster in 20 different states.
  67. Go on the Amazing Race. 
  68. Travel in first class.
  69. Ride in a limo.
  70. See Madonna perform live.
  71. Ride on a private jet.
  72. Attend a black tie event.
  73. Ride in a helicopter.
  74. Go to the Super Bowl  
  75. Go to a Grand Slam tennis tournament
  76. Get paid to write something.
  77. Take my kids swimming in the ocean.
  78. Take my kids to a Broadway show on Broadway. 
  79. Take my kids to FAO Shwartz.
  80. Give my daughter a copy of The Bell Jar when she's old enough to appreciate it.
  81. Ask my daughter what she thought of The Bell Jar when she's done reading it.
  82. Zip up my daughter's wedding dress.
  83. Tie my son's tie on his wedding day.
  84. Learn to tie a tie in preparation for being capable of tying my son's tie on his wedding day.
  85. Dress up with my kids for Halloween until they refuse to do it anymore.
  86. Do family game night at least once a month. Every month for a year.
  87. Do family movie night at least once a month. Every month for a year.
  88. Have my picture taken next to a guard at Buckingham Palace while I try to make the guard laugh.  
  89. Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
  90. Eat pasta in Italy.
  91. Eat a beignet at Cafe Dumonde.
  92. Go down into the Grand Canyon.
  93. Go to Hawaii and have someone put a lei around my neck.
  94. Watch a volcano erupt.
  95. Visit all 50 states.
  96. Go whale watching.
  97. Take a cross country road trip.
  98. Take my husband to the NFL Hall of Fame
  99. Take my husband to see every NFL football stadium.
  100. Visit Yosemite.
  101. Tour the White House.
  102. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.
  103. Visit the Blue Bell Ice Cream Factory.
  104. Visit Alcatraz.
  105. Visit Dollywood.
  106. Visit Coney Island.
  107. Ice skate at Rockefeller Center during Christmas time , 
  108. Ride in a gondola in Venice.
  109. Run across the Golden Gate Bridge.
  110. Go to Pike Place Market in Seattle.
  111. See Mount Rushmore. 
  112. Go to Alaska.
  113. Go on a safari. 
  114. Drink beer in an Irish pub.
  115. Visit a pyramid.


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