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