Life List
by Rebecca on August 10, 2010
Ever since Maggie at MightyGirl (one of my favorite blogs) posted her Mighty Life List, I’ve been working on my own. I’ve been actually making the list as well as accomplishing a few things on it. I’d like to get my list to 100 things. Along the way, I’ll update this post, adding new items and crossing things off. I’ll also post photos and updates when I complete an item.
Here’s my list so far:
- Go back to New Zealand
- Live abroad for 6-12 months
Go skydiving- See an Olympic sporting event
- Go to the Stanley Cup finals
- Safari in Africa, specifically the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania
- See the Northern Lights from Iceland
- See a moose in Alaska
- See the pyramids in Egypt
- Walk along the Great Wall of China
- Eat an omelet in Paris
- Snorkel in Hawaii
- Go to Rapa Nui National Park on Easter Island
- Sleep in a yurt in Mongolia
- Cross the street in front of Shibuya Station in Tokyo
- Eat pizza in Italy
- See a kangaroo in Australia
- Walk with the penguins in Antarctica
- Walk across the Mackinac Bridge
- Reach a healthy weight and maintain it
Write a novelBuy our dream home- See the mountains in British Columbia
- Do one pull-up on my own
- Take a portrait drawing class
- Learn conversational French
- Launch a blog
- Be an extra in a movie
- Run a 5K
- Watch the Academy Award red carpet arrivals in person
- Build a terrarium
- Go dogsledding
- Learn to drive a stick shift without swearing
- Go scuba diving
- Backpack on Isle Royale
- Keep a vegetable garden
- Spend a night on a train
Take a culinary knife skills class- Learn to bake bread from scratch
- Kayak with whales
- Learn to can
- Design and create my own font
- Learn to weld
- Learn to letterpress
- Design my own line of greeting cards and sell them online
- Go snorkeling
- Go for a ride on a zipline
- See a drag queen show
- Watch the space shuttle launch in person
- Complete a triathlon
Create my own recipe- Make everything on our things to cook/bake list
Get another tattoo- Take a pottery class at Pewabic Pottery
- Get rid of all the “junk” in the house
- Go on a spa vacation
- Draw every day for a year
Ride a Segway- Buy (and wear) a two piece bathing suit
- Grow blueberries and raspberries
- Put together a cookbook for friends and family
- Go horseback camping
- Be able to navigate Detroit really well
Sew my own pair of pajama pants- Make my own cheese
- Dye my hair a crazy color
- Find my passion
- Host a themed dinner party
- Hike the entire Potawatomi Trail in one day
- Learn to freestyle stroke
- Get a bingo in Scrabble
- Ride Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar Point
- Give Dave a haircut
- Read Pride & Prejudice
- Watch All of AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies
Go white water rafting- Learn to make French macarons
- Kayak in Milford Sound or Doubtful Sound
- Meet Tim Gunn
- Be on the Amazing Race (we applied!)
- Visit every National Park (Isle Royale, Cuyahoga Valley)
- Go kayak camping
- Visit Glacier National Park before the glaciers melt
- Go canyoning in New Zealand
- Go rappelling/abseiling
- Have a bonfire on the beach
- Hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
- Attend the Mighty Summit
- Go into outer space
- Identify twenty constellations
- Participate in a flash mob or lip dub
- Design my own fabric line
- Create an Internet meme with a photo of Pixel
- Make a TARDIS quilt
- Fly somewhere first class
- Visit the The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze
- Run in Detroit’s Run of the Dead 5K
- Take a walk through Forest Hill Cemetary
- Take a photograph of this barn during each season (spring, summer, fall, winter)
- Become a proficient bike commuter
How about you, do you have a life list? What’s on it? What have you done? What made you decide to create one?
