Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Get a Life {list}


I read the challenge from StephanieBond.com to create a life list. http://www.stephaniebond.com/create_a_life_list!.htm And decided it would be a good challenge for my blog today. I have a long list of “I always wanted toos” But I have never put them in print.
So here they are, in no particular order, just as the ideas occurred to me.

My Life List

Send my sons on missions for the LDS church
Witness my sons marriages in the LDS temple
Hold my grandchildren
Watch my children graduate from high school, then college
Go on an LDS mission with my husband
Take my children to Disneyland and Sea World
Take a cruise around the Greek Isles
Redecorate my house from top to bottom
Buy / refurnish my own furniture
Get all the laundry washed, folded, ironed and put away at the same time
Have one month of my life where I earn as much as a designer as I am currently earning in a year as a writer.
Write a novel
Write a children’s book and get it published
Have my scrapbook pages published in a magazine
Have a scrapbook magazine ask me to submit instead of begging them to take me
Spend $500 at one time on scrapbook supplies (can include totes, tools and storage equipment)
Own my own SLR digital ~ with lenses
Work on a DT for a scrapbook manufacturer ~ one that I love, of course
Meet some of my cyber friends (you know who you are!)
Attend CKU (Creating Keepsakes University)
Learn Spanish
Visit the Netherlands when the tulips are in bloom
See the works of the Dutch Masters
Visit the town in Denmark where my grandfather Sorenson was born
Visit the pyramids of Central and South America
Visit Nauvoo
Eat at a very expensive restaurant in an exotic location
Spend a week in Bora Bora in one of those bungalows built on the water
Rent a lodge big enough for my entire extended family to each have their own suites for a giant Christmas party week
Spend the night in a tree house
Pan for gold
Go geocaching
Take a trip in a steam engine train and spend the night in a sleeper car
Stay a night in the bridge room at the Atlantis Hotel
Tour a chocolate factory
Take a trip with my family to the Smithsonian museum
Meet President Bush ~ 43
Go skinny dipping at night in a warm spring
Get hypnotherapy for weight loss
Attend a semi-annual conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints
Take a class on web page design
Take a watercolor class
Own a car built in the 21st century
Find a cure for the eczema on my skin
Own a cabin in Star Valley
Grow a productive vegetable garden
Plant fruit trees in my yard
Own a custom made, not off-the-rack suit
learn how to quilt
Learn how to work a spinning wheel
Learn how to weave
Adopt a baby girl from China

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've seen the Dutch masters and the tulips in bloom. Taken a water color class, own a 2001 Durango, have a "cabin" in SV and...

Anonymous said...

... does an authentic scandinavian smorgisbord next to the Amsterdam train station count as an exotic location and skinny dipping in Crow Creek count? But You have done many things that I wish I could do some day.

Anonymous said...

LOVE your list!! I can relate to so many! How awesome would it be to heck off everything on your list!

Anonymous said...

Wow! Comprehensive indeed. May they all come to you! (Especially the Christmas with extendec family thing)

Anonymous said...

Oh wow, what a cool list! I am so boring compared to you. I'm afraid that you'd die of boredom reading my list. Either that, or it would be pitifully short. LOL.