This will be my Life List (aka Bucket List). Not a plan, not an agenda, not even a set of well-thought-out goals, just stuff I want to do or be someday. At first, the order will be random, as I think of them, not prioritized. (Might change that later.)
Works in progress will be in bold type, with a [start date]. Completed items will be struck through (if I can figure out how to do that in WordPress editor) with [start date/finish date].
Update 2011-12-15: Just upgraded to WP3.3 and upgraded to the latest version of my parent theme. Houston, we have STRIKETHROUGH!
Learn
- Join the Audubon Society and go to their meetings
- Take horseback riding lessons
- Finish what Mom started, exploring our family geneology
- Grow a bonzai tree
- Play chess
- Play Go
Experience
- Win a photography prize
- Have an aquarium
- Own a town or an island
- Go into outer space (should this be under Travel?)
- Spend a week on a silent retreat
- Invent something other people find useful
- Get to be a Recommended Blog on BlogHer and/or ScienceBlogs
- Mentor someone again
- Write and publish a book of essays
- Write and publish a travel book
- Sell my photographs
- Buy something for myself at Tiffany’s (not a gift)
- Celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in Europe or Hawaii
- Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in someplace even more exotic
- Sing American colonial music with a quartet in Williamsburg
Travel
- See at least 5 of the world’s great deserts, one on each continent
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deserts_by_area)
- See the Egyptian Antiquities museum in Cairo
- Walk in the Parthenon in Greece
- Sleep in a medieval castle
- Vacation in a villa
- Go on a photo safari in the Serengeti
- Ride into the Grand Canyon or Death Valley
- Go on a canopy tour in a rainforest
- Visit the caves in Lascaux and Altamira
- See favorite animals in their natural habitat
-Koala
-Penguins
-Wild horses
-Komodo dragon
-Wombat
-Tasmanian devil
-Hedgehogs
-Lynx - Live for a month somewhere with a completely different culture
- Sit on the top of a really high mountain (not necessarily climb)
- Get to the top of the Eiffel Tower
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- See the terra cotta warriors in China
- Visit Angkor Wat
- Visit the Acropolis
- Visit the Alhambra
- Visit Ayer’s Rock
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Show Andy Lima and Cuzco and the Nazca lines
- Visit Istanbul
- Visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
- Show Andy the Art Institute, the Field Museum, and both zoos in Chicago
- Visit Mt. Rushmore
- Visit the Statue of Liberty
- Ride a steamboat down the Mississippi river, reading Twain
- See the Aurora Borealis at its height
- See the statues on Easter Island
- Visit the Galapagos Islands
- Visit Aztec and Mayan ruins
- Visit Stonehenge and Avebury when there aren’t any crowds
- See inside the cathedral on Mt. St. Michel
- Ride a camel, not in a zoo or theme park
- See the worlds greatest zoos
- Visit Petra
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad
- Ride the Orient Express
- Ride a train through the Canadian Rockies
- Visit all 7 continents
- Ride one of the world’s largest ferris wheels
http://inventorspot.com/articles/my_ferris_wheel_is_bigger_than_your_ferris_wheel_18732/ - Visit more of these places:
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list
Improve myself
- Figure out what makes me happy, and do more of that. [2011-12-03]
- Figure out what makes me unhappy, and do less of that. [2011-12-03]
- Take voice lessons again
- Act like a morning person again (used to be, not so much now)
- Make a 5-figure income again
- Create enough passive income so I don’t have to work unless I want to
- Become debt-free
- Learn to get angry without crying
- Learn to say NO without feeling guilty
- Become fluent in Spanish again
- Learn French
- Pass a civilian firearms training course (if I feel competent with a gun, I might stop being afraid of them)
- Be able to do two real pushups without hurting something
- Do some sort of exercise for 30 minutes a day (doesn’t have to be consecutive minutes, does it?)
Do for others
- Make a regular monthly donation of the stuff I declutter to a nonprofit, instead of throwing it out or letting it pile up in the attic
- Go on a disaster relief trip
- Volunteer at a Food Cupboard again