Summer's List...Things I Wanna Do 

 

italics = doing it; strikethrough = done it

 

  1. make a quilt
  2. get a poem published
  3. see a bear in the wild
  4. brew my own chai
  5. call my grandmas regularly
  6. practice Lent each year (in my pseudo-Protestant pagan way)
  7. honor and cherish Ken; never stop telling him each day that I love him
  8. become one of those people who sends snailmail cards on birthdays and holidays
  9. make a mosaic - a big one like a table or patio
  10. stay decaf
  11. pay off credit card debt
  12. once credit card is paid off, reward myself with a cash-bought DSLR and macro lense
  13. make recipe boxes for sis and cousins, give them new recipes every year
  14. learn Spanish
  15. own a house. make it a home.
  16. build a greenhouse and grow orchids
  17. tackle my fear of pastry and make to-die for pie crust
  18. really learn guitar
  19. get a couple of my best photos printed big, framed, and hung up
  20. frame Grandma's intaglio prints
  21. sew Christmas stockings
  22. use that spa gift certificate!
  23. make great grandma's yeast rolls
  24. backpack Glacier National Park
  25. hike Machu Picchu while chewing coca leaves. buy colorful handmade fabrics and share smiles with indigenous people.
  26. run my toes through black sand beaches in New Zealand while kissing Ken
  27. make tamales
  28. become a mom and raise our children
  29. have an Australian shephard and a Lab and take them camping
  30. garden every year and journal the experience
  31. grow a huge pumpkin (in time for Halloween)
  32. grow our own tomatoes...and can them: 2007
  33. save and share seeds
  34. grow our own vegetables from seed. every year.
  35. practice using my words; stop being so snappy
  36. donate money to a worthy cause every month
  37. buy a rug in Turkey
  38. get that ocean/fish tattoo for my 33rd birthday
  39. set up a college fund for my niece
  40. hula in Hawaii. go fishing and catch a mahi mahi.
  41. join a CSA
  42. see fall leaves in Maine and eat lobster and snuggle with Ken by the sea
  43. paint pottery. give some away. and keep some.
  44. visit Spain. eat tapas and paella. see La Sagrada Familia.
  45. swim in the Meditteranean Sea
  46. wander through Rome. listen to rock-n-roll on my IPOD while inside St. Peter's Cathedral. see the Sistine Chapel. 
  47. stroll the streets of Pompei
  48. practice yoga
  49. cherish each day
  50. write a haiku every Friday
  51. pray before ancient Buddhas in southeast Asia
  52. take mopeds to see the valley of the butterflies on the Greek Island Rhodes
  53. pick peaches and make jam
  54. learn to rock climb
  55. start a cooking club
  56. eat locally, eat seasonally
  57. organize a week-long Yosemite trip with family and friends
  58. learn more about my Native American heritage
  59. photograph tropical birds in South America
  60. catch (and release) a marlin in the Gulf of California
  61. get one of those Japanese hutches I love
  62. design and build a waterfall and koi pond
  63. buy beads in Bali
  64. catch salmon and smoke it in our backyard.
  65. raise awareness about ocean protection (whales, coral bleaching, loggerhead turtles, overfishing)
  66. through-hike the John Muir Trail, finish by peaking Mt. Whitney
  67. attend a day of track-and-field at an Olympics in a foreign country
  68. create a family tree using Grandma's geneology research. make it pretty. give framed copies to sis and the cousins.
  69. take my mom to Tuscany. rent motorcycles and visit castles.
  70. work a project with Water for People
  71. volunteer in Nancy's classroom on a regular basis
  72. make my own prayer flags. fly them from trees when we go camping.
  73. find a carved stone Guan Yin statue and find the perfect place for it in the garden
  74. plant a garden for butterflies and hummingbirds
  75. study for and pass the last part of my engineering exam
  76. see Mom and Sis at least once a month
  77. have an art studio
  78. make really good paella
  79. Travel to Trinidad to See the Nesting Of the Giant Leatherbacks
  80. batik some fabric
  81. make my own soap
  82. build a mason bee house
  83.  

 

 


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