Life List update

 I have been working on my Life List and I have some new editions.

A few of you gave kind words that 34 was a very ambitious list for one of my age and I was content to stop at 34 and add more as the years progressed. However, my much younger friend Claud sent me her list which is MUCH longer than 34 and then I felt like I had to step up my game. Because no way is a sweet little 23 year old gonna top me. Nope, no way. That said, her list was full of the awesome sauce so I stole a few ideas and changed them to suit me.

Soooo (drum roll please) here are more items. More to come and I'll keep you updated as I go. I think I want to get the list to 50 for now.

1. Learn how to make sushi
2. Have sex in a public place
3. Learn how to play poker properly (I get the gist, okay, but I get confused with the betting part)
4. Learn how to pole dance (and then do it, maybe not in public though)
5. Spend a night (or more) on a private island
6. Take my girlfriends to a spa for a weekend and pay for the entire trip
7. Pet a tiger. Seriously. I so want to do this.
8. Go snorkling again (yeah, I went in Costa Rica, but it wasn't great. and I didn't get to snorkle in Hawaii. so this makes it on the list)
9. Wax my hooha into some crazy Hollywood-type pattern just for scuz
10. Learn how to play a video game (Okay, don't laugh, but I wasn't allowed to play ANY video games as a child. My mom was crazy, whatever. Shut up. So I have no talent for it and am subsequently terrified I'll make a fool of myself or kill my character so many times that I will never be allowed to play again. Isn't that how it works?)

First Stab at a Life List

This is my life list. Well, the start of it anyway. It's not a bucket list. These aren't things I want to accomplish before I die; this list will be comprised of 100 things I want to do in my life.

It is a work in progress. Some things I may accomplish in a year, some in 40, some maybe never. And I'll probably continually add things as I age and change and grow.

You'll notice I left some important life things off. There are several mucho important things that I absolutely want in this life, but are not necessarily within my control and more up to the will of the universe or whatever. I don't want to include anything on here that will make me feel like an utter loser if it doesn't happen. SO: only things I potentially have control over.

1. Visit one new place a year
2. Climb Machu Picchu
3. Re-learn French and find a human avec qui je peux parler en Français on a regular basis
4. Go on safari
5. Embrace my white skin for at least one summer
6. Start dancing again, doesn't matter what style
7. Learn a new dance style (maybe Belly Dancing or Capoeira or Tango, par example)
8. More actively pursue a career (or part-time career) in writing
9. Expand my exploration of photography (maybe with classes, new camera(s), lenses, processing, editing programs, or even just challenging myself to see the world in new ways)
10. Learn to sew (not cross stitch, not knit. SEW.)
11. Track down the international friends I made in Paris. Bei Bei, Vivi, Paula, Mikael, Latifa: où êtes vous maintenent?
12. Drive the west coast of the US
13. Tour Greece, Cypress, and Turkey in one trip
14. Find out my family medical history
15. Face my fear of cooking meat
16. Skydive
17. Swim in the Mediterranean
18. Take my future child(ren) to Paris and share my favorite places and foods (or someone else's children if that's the path life takes me)
19. Learn to bake
20. Buy a house (but I'd settle for renting) and NEST. (paint, garden, decorate. that baby will be gorgeous!)
21. And in that house, have a library. With a comfy reading chair and a rolly ladder, fireplace optional.
22. Go sailing. Even only once. I don't even care where. As long as it's on water. And there's wind.
23. Teach a child to swim
24. Get my bike fixed and actually ride it places (or get a cruiser and look adorable as I ride it everywhere)
25. Ride in a hot air balloon
26. Go on one of those amazing photo expeditions
27. Jump off a cliff into the ocean, maybe in Mexico, Greece, or Hawaii
28. Go river rafting again
29. Read my poetry in public
30. Find an excuse to wear a fantastically extravagent gown (and it better not be a high school prom)
31. Try 25 (new to me) international cuisines
32. Write a book. I have no clue about what, except that it will be non-fiction. Maybe travel writing or tales of retail survival or who knows what? The goal is just to write something. When that happens, we'll think about publishing.
33. Bungee jump
34. Read 50 classic novels I've never read before

Aaaaand this is where I ran out of ideas. I've been working on this for a week and couldn't get to 35. Clearly there are way more things I want to do than this. So at this point, I beg for your help, Internet. 

Help me make my Life List! What things would you put on your list? Give me ideas! Okay, so I might nix some. It is MY list, after all. But share yours anyway. Please please please PLEASE? Tell me.