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I don't know how many of my goals I will accomplish - some of them may be loftier, and much more difficult to achieve than others. I may or may not finish everything (or nothing) that I aspire to in this list. In the future I may delete some of my goals because they do not appeal to me anymore. I may also add new things I would like to do in my lifetime as I discover new things to do and places to visit. I may forget all about this list like I did with my previous list. Only time will tell.
What is the point of this list, you may ask. Let me make this clear - this is NOT a bucket list. There are too many things to do and discover in the world, that I could never have a bucket list that was finite. I see this list as reflecting my place in life today. It is a collection of things that I want to, would like to, and can do, given the resources (time, money, energy) I have. Also, making the list has helped me discover a lot about myself - sometimes one doesn't know what they want, until they think hard about what they want.
Here is my list, in no particular order of importance
- Ice-skate without falling over
- Refurbish/ paint/ upholster at least one piece of furniture
- Learn how to swim
- Take the trans siberian train
- Go bowling
- Play a game of poker, and win it
- Visit the Museum of Modern Arts
- Bake a cheesecake from scratch
- Have an engagement style photo shoot done
- Read all of Leo Tolstoy's works
- Build a table from scratch
- Make a quilt
- Watch all the movies on Time's top 100 all time movies
- Go on a bike ride with Mr. Sunshine
- Adopt a child
- See a full solar eclipse with Mr. Sunshine (I saw one as a child with my family - it was the most beautiful thing I have seen in the world)
- Play the Violin
- Look over the Kremlin from the Red Square
- Wear a full length sequined evening gown, and rock it
- Shave my head
- See the aurora borealis
- Make flavored vodka
- Wallpaper a wall
- Write a book
- Make a 1000 origami cranes
- Backpack across China
- Get a peacock tattoo
- Own a home with a graden
- Own a Catherine Holmes bowl
- Have a baby
- And another
- And maybe one more
- Crochet a granny square afghan
- Visit Jerusalem
- Throw a birthday party for myself
- Teach our son (if we have one) to sew and knit
- And since I need to teach him, learn to sew and knit
- Go to a broadway show
- See a penguin
- Win an election
- Have a conversation in Norwegian
- See Peles castle in Romania
- Start a tradition with my future nieces and nephews
- Own an inspiring piece of art
- Renew our vows - what can I say, I love any excuse for a party
- Go to antarctica
- Fix a fixer upper house with Mr. Sunshine
- Own saris from different parts of the country
- Stay in a river boat in Kerala for a week
- Own an Eames rocking chair in yellow
- Give a year of my life to volunteer
- Wear a sari Maharastrian style
- Do a night tour of paris
- Go fishing
- Cook fish caught by me or Mr. Sunshine
- Learn how to walk properly while wearing heels - right now I walk like a penguin, when I wear heels
- Host a new years party
- Make a family tree
- Design and plan a wedding
- Move to a country in Africa
- Start and host a movie night
- Gift everyone a gift of homemade food gifts for a year
- Decorate a three tiered cake
- Meet John Stewart, Steven Colbert, Barack Obama, Ira Glas
- Write about the life of my grandmother and her sisters
See a fjordHost a christmas dinner- Start the tradition of doing one thing, one specific day, each year for the rest of my life
- Own all of the books from the Penguin Great Food series
- Get our pictures taken in front of the Taj Mahal
- Visit all 50 states in the US
- Eat a macron at a cafe in Paris
- Stay in a lighthouse
- Host a photo booth party
- Teach a child to read
- Open a book/ flower/ art/ crafts/ home store in a cafe
- Learn how to make rotis properly
- Go to Rio during Carnival
- Celebrate our 25th anniversary
- Walk around Prague
- Get another degree (in something)
- Make sushi at home
- Do more random acts of kindness
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