My grandparents’ house.
Next month I’m going to Camp Mighty where I will share and focus on my Life List. That means it’s time to put it someplace besides in my brain. It also needs some fluffing and spicing up, so I’ll call this a sloppy first draft.
- Dancing lessons with Scuba (swing, maybe, or ballroom)
- Send holiday cards
- Start and complete the Couch to 5 K training app thing
- Volunteer at the NICU
- Move out of this house
- Into a house we own
- Make dinner with something I grew in the backyard (this should be at least 47 slots because I’m a plant killer)
- Organize the photos: analog & digital
- Give away a Polaroid camera
- Plan my funeral
- Adopt a dog
- Have another Meyer lemon tree
- Own an Airstream
- Take a surfing, diving, biking trip along the CA coast in the Airstream
- Make perfect crepes
- Take a Photoshop class
- And a photography class
- Sew a dress and wear it
- Outline the 2014 trip
- Plan the 2014
- Take the 2014 trip
- Write a book about the 2014 trip
- Publish a book about the 2014 trip
- Invite a documentary-type person to come on the 2014 trip with me
- Watch a film about the 2014 trip in a theatre
- Go see the space shuttle Endeavour at that museum in LA
- Surf well enough that all the other surfers don’t clap for me when I stand up and ride a wave in (nice, but I’d like to do better)
- Get the highest thread count sheets anyone’s ever seen
- Have a soaking tub in my bathroom
- Cook with gas (all the time with a gas stove in my kitchen)
- Make good corn tortillas
- Have a fantastic patio with a great big long table and eat breakfast outside whenever possible
- Coffee in Vienna with Scuba
- Beer in any German city with Scuba
- Croissants in Switzerland with Scuba
- Snorkel in Curacao while Scuba dives
- Walk the labyrinth at the UU church in San Jose
- Sell something I made on Etsy
- Restore a piece of furniture
- Take a glassblowing or stained glass class
- Write a book (another one after the 2014 book)
- Sleep on the beach
- See Citizen Kane on the big screen
- Visit Hearst Castle
- Visit Sylvia Beach’s bookstore
- Kite board
- Stand up paddleboard
- Get a massage in Palm Springs
- Take Scuba to New Orleans
- Take my family to a national park
- Learn to tie my shoes one-handed
- Answer questions for someone considering j-pouch surgery
- Drive a tractor
- Learn more songs on the ukulele
- Take voice lessons
- Snowboard
- Brew beer
- Frame and hang up the stack of unframed prints
- Ride a mule to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back up again
- Get married in Hawaii
- Go back to Spain
- Live in San Francisco for a year
- Watch newly hatched baby turtles make their way to the ocean for the first time
- Make a quilt
- Get a kickass washer, dryer, and dishwasher
- Put up a clothesline in the backyard and hang the sheets out to dry in the sun
- Purge 1/2 my closet
- Take the road to Hana
- Red cowboy boots
- Fluevogs
- Take Willow to a Giants game
- Go to another Friday night high school football game in Texas
- Get out of debt
- Invest in a piece of art
- Have a sofa with down cushions
- Own a Karmann Ghia (and a 23 window microbus if I have the cash)
- Learn how to use MovableType
- Build a minigreenhouse in the backyard
- Backyard hammock, the kind with a string you pull to swing back and forth
- Own a big giant world map
- And this map
- Hire a housekeeping service
- Take the kids to the snow
- Set up an earthquake kit
- Buy more latte bowls
- Get an album for photos of my dad and put it together
- See Jolie Holland perform live
- Learn how to tie five different kinds of knots
- Keep thinking of more things to do
I have to revise mine so much after this past year. I’m ready to do it, I think. I like yours so far…but lots of traveling and food make me happy.
See you so soon!