October 2013
So, the amazing Miss Abbie did this and it inspired me to think about my own to-do list. First, it's a work in progress and, rightfully so, always will be. It's all things, in no particular order, big and small that may bring happiness, realization, truth, faith, insight, outsight, or might just need to be done.
1. Find my bliss, so that I can follow it!
1. Find my bliss, so that I can follow it!
2. Eat fondue that is not cheese or chocolate - Beef, at Cafe Diva in Steamboat
3. Go to Fairyland
4. Learn to roll sushi - For Bryan's birthday in 2010 (repeated successfully for Karen's in 2011 as well!)
5. Learn an instrument
6. Go to Alaska
7. Climb a big wall that requires spending the night on the wall(if Jack Osbourne can do it so
can I) - In all honesty, as much as I hate to admit it, I am NEVER going to do this....
8. Adopt a dog - I don't actually have my own, but I have helped several friends with the selection of their furry friends, as well as adopting my kitty cat, Harlo (aka Muffin!)
9. Finish college
10. Decide what to go to college for(since I'm in college you'd have thought I did this - already....) - Hospitality Management....thought it did not assist in completion of #9.
11. Backpack in Europe
12. Learn how to fix my own car - I can't say it was with flying colors, but in the past year I have: replaced sway bar links, struts, strut mounts, changed oil and assisted in a full tire removal/change/mount/balance!
13. Knit socks - this has been attempted on several levels, thought completion still eludes me
14. Own a home
15. Read as many books as possible by the following authors: Tom Robbins, Paulo Coehlo, Hunter S Thompson, Edward Abbey, Ernest Hemingway, and many more
16. Take a summer long climbing/music trip all over the U.S.
17. Climb in another country
18. Give up television
19. Make the perfect margarita - I hate toot my own horn, but I am calling this one good because I am told how great they are every time I make them!
20. Speak a second language
21. Go to the Iowa state fair
22. Get married and have a family(no "settling down" though)
23. See a ghost
24. Put some pretty colored tape on all my climbing gear so Galo stops asking "is this mine or yours?" - Seeing as I don't have much climbing gear anymore, nor do I ever see/climb with Galo since we live 900 miles apart, this one might be a moot point.
25. Spend a summer in the southern hemisphere(so it snows in July!)
26. Do karaoke...sober. - "Don't Stop Believin', at Jade Summit In Steamboat
27. Find my birth mother(maybe....) - Found, but not contacted
28. Hitchhike, and Yellowstone doesn't count.
29. Stand on top of Grand Teton
30. Learn to telemark ski
31. Name a waterfall
32. Start a journal and actually keep writing in it for more than a few days
33. Crochet a hat - I didn't say anything about it actually fitting properly.....And I did make Jayne a balaclava that actually fit quite well.
34. Drive a UHaul - I was reminded last year that I had actually driven a UHaul when I was 19, so this was actually completed several years before this list was made....
35. Figure out what is so fun about disc golf
36. Soak in Mr Bubbles
37. Winter camp - Grand Canyon, November 2010
38. Run a marathon
39. Make my own clothes
40. Ice skate in Central Park
41. Join a polar bear club
42. Go to a Buddhist retreat - I didn't actually get to attend a "retreat" but I did get to visit and spend a day at the Rocky Mountain Shambala Center in Red Feather Lakes, CO
43. Protest something - SAVE OUTDOOR SCHOOL!! Many, many letters were sent to the Portland Public School Board.
44. Publish an article in a newspaper - I can't decide if my High School paper counts...if so then this one is just like the UHaul....
45. Read some poetry(other than good song lyrics!)
46. See as many live shows as I possibly can, even when I'm a senior citizen
47. Teach my niece and nephew something they will never forget
48. Be a bridesmaid - Ali & Nate's Wedding, June 2008
49. Learn to skateboard
50. Plant a flower garden and keep it alive
51. Become a good cook(good is a relative term) - By NO means complete, but definitely in progress
52. Celebrate the 4th of July on the wrong day
53. Deep fry a TurDuckIn
54. Touch a snake
55. Climb in Yosemite
56. Be the first one at a party/bar to start dancing
57. Beat Dirk at Tri Towers - Sadly this one involves 1) Living somewhere that I can even find TriTowers and 2) Living in the same place as Dirk so I can play him. Neither is true, so
another moot point.
58. Balance my checkbook - This is by no means done on a regular basis, but has been done to entirety at least once
59. Get a massage on a Caribbean beach
60. Wear my 1970s Broncos tee shirt to a Bronco game
61. Go to Africa
62. Go to as many different types of churches as possible, to learn firsthand what they're all about
63. Take my mom camping
64. Fly in a sea plane
65. Wear a coconut bra
66. Win a medal in the Rainer Olympics
67. Sail
68. Read neighbor Lori's books about past lives - Neighbor Lori is now 900 miles away too, so.....
69. Run the Race for the Cure, in memory of Adam's mom.
70. Live in the same city as Jayne for at least a season - We actually got 3! Winter 2006-07, Summer 2007 and Winter 2007-08 in Steamboat
71. Lead climb
72. Go on jungle expedition in Latin America
73. Stop biting my nails - Vast improvements, but no complete success as yet.
74. See the sunrise from the top of a fourteener
75. Go to lots more Panic shows, among others, because I'm finally understanding how it can be so amazing and addicting to so many of the people I love. I'm hooked.
To be continued......
A few additions - May 12, 2006
76. Wear fancy going clubbing clothes to the local bar in Steamboat or Boulder with Abbie - This has been done on my own many times in Steamboat and Gardiner, MT - unfortunately though, never with Abbie Lane :(
77. Go surfing
78. Have a pen pal - 2 actually, both from my online book groups!
79. Take a NOLS class
80. Ski in south America
81. Ride the subway all over NYC for a day exploring without looking at the subway map
May 15, 2006
82. Read the holy books of the great religions
83. Learn about meteorology
84. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity - the only drawback here was that while I did volunteer, I never got to do any actual work because they always worked on days I was at my actual job.