I'll show you mine if you show me yours...

Me, Dawn and Irka feeling happy at Oktoberfest in Germany ~ 2005

I haven't seen the movie The Bucket List, but was intrigued by the idea of creating a list of 100 things I'd like to accomplish before leaving Earth. When Maggie posted her list a while back, she inspired me to create my own life list.

While reading hers, I noticed that I had actually completed some of the items that were on her list and realized that part of the fun is seeing and hearing about what others have already experienced and wish to do. It all becomes part of writing and telling our own stories.

So, I finally finished my list and decided to post it for fun, but also for accountability. I included some items that had I not already done, would certainly be on this list. So, yes, there are a few items that are already checked off, but it's a motivating way for me to keep crossing off items as my life progresses.

So, here is my life list. If you have yours posted somewhere, please leave your link here in my comments. I would love to see what awaits you...

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1.      Eat roast chicken in Paris
2.      Have a garden where I grow my own herbs and vegetables
3.      Eat a meal prepared by one of the Iron Chefs
4.      Share a meal with Nigella Lawson
5.      Eat at the French Laundry
6.      Eat a meal prepared by Alice Waters in her kitchen
7.      Go dog sledding in Alaska
8.      Design, build and live in a house that I own with my husband and daughter
9.      Remodel a kitchen
10.    Paint a series of paintings that are shown in a gallery and actually sell one of them
11.    Have an article that I have written published in a magazine
12.    Write a book
13.    Publish a book
14.    Have an ancient tree in my backyard that I can hang things off of like lanterns and twinkling lights
15.    Become conversational in French
16.    Live in France for one year
17.    Take a cooking class in Italy
18.    Snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef
19.    Finish reading The Art of Eating
20.    Jump seven waves in Brazil on New Year's Eve
21.    Pay off my student loan debt
22.    Be financially independent
23.    Meditate without my thoughts taking over
24.    Zip line somewhere exotic
25.    Take a trapeze class
26.    Take a belly dancing class
27.    Take a Thai food cooking class
28.    Visit Thailand and Vietnam
29.    Own a vacation home somewhere near the ocean
30.    Settle down somewhere other than Los Angeles
31.    Teach a class/facilitate a workshop
32.    Write handwritten lengthy letters to my closest friends and family members
33.    Ride a horse on the beach
34.    Adopt an elephant
35.    Rescue a dog
36.    Publish a cookbook
37.    Ride a train across Canada
38.    Jump in the ocean… naked
39.    Fly in a hot air balloon
40.    Take Isabella to Hawaii
41.    Be proposed to under the Eiffel Tower
42.    Eat sushi in Japan
43.    Have a claw foot tub in my bathroom
44.    See my name on a film screen
45.    Learn to play a song on the piano that isn’t chopsticks
46.    Swim with dolphins
47.    Go Christmas caroling door to door while wearing appropriate caroling attire
48.    Apologize to Kevin Spacey for interrupting his breakfast that one time because I was having a moron moment
49.    Illustrate a children’s book
50.    Write a children’s story for my daughter
51.    Visit the Louvre
52.    Attend a taping of Saturday Night Live
53.    Hug Barack Obama
54.    Go for a walk with Elizabeth Gilbert
55.    Host a dinner party on the beach
56.    Learn to say I love you in 25 languages
57.    Experience Oktoberfest in Germany
58.    Try the pizza in Chicago
59.    Visit Anne Frank’s home
60.    Overcome my fear of ferris wheels
61.    Make a hardbound coffee table book from our wedding photos
62.    Learn to juggle
63.    Get one more tattoo
64.    Take Isabella kite flying
65.    Learn how to play Texas Hold Em'
66.    Learn the tango
67.    Remove the bump from the side of my nose
68.    Help someone achieve their dream
69.    Audition for a small role in a local theatre production
70.    Spend the night in a castle
71.    Makeover my website
72.    Write monthly letters to Isabella
73.    Pet a Koala bear
74.    Help sea turtles hatch from their eggs and run to the ocean
75.    Help save the honey bees
76.    Have a home library with a ladder
77.    See a Broadway play
78.    Attend TED
79.    Shop at a flea market in Paris
80.    Sit in on a drum circle
81.    Help someone financially start a business
82.    Become incorporated
83.    Attend an artist retreat
84.    Attend a writers convention
85.    Complete all twelve steps of The Artist’s Way
86.    Master the perfect martini
87.    Speak fluent Spanish
88.    Watch all the movies in my Netflix que
89.    Read 100 books over the next five years
90.    Have my signature gift for newlyweds be photos I have captured of their special day
91.    Document Isabella in candid photos throughout her childhood and turn it into a book for her.
92.    Write a gushy smushy love letter to my husband each year on our anniversary
93.    Be a part of a community art project
94.    Completely remove white sugar from my diet
95.    Spend one month on a houseboat
96.    Meet all of the bloggers I have connected with on the internet
97.    Take a Photoshop course, one that focuses solely on photo processing.
98.    Make a piece of pottery with my own hands
99.    Create my own signature scent
100.    Grow olives and press my own olive oil

Your turn...

Comments

[Jena]

Loved reading this list. It's like a love letter to your life.

And I had a little tickle realizing that meeting you got you one person closer to #96!

xo Jena

[Suzanne]

Fun, fun, fun. And now I will work on mine :)

Can't wait for #40! House on a beach somewhere in Kaui -- little Bella Boo Bear (and maybe a little one of my own) running around, making castles, collecting shells and sea glass -- yes.

xo

[kathygrace]

this is so inspiring! THANK you. i can't wait to get started on my own list!

[PixieDust]

Ooooh, I will have to think about this... loved reading your list!

Dog-Sledding? How exciting!

:-D

(((HUGS))),
Love,
Me

[sueberry]

Mmmm....can I have some of your olive oil once you make it?? :) I've done #98, but it did not turn out that great. ha ha! Good luck w/ #23. I always wander in yoga when I am supposed to be focused on breathing. Whatever. xoxo

[Belinda]

Here's mine half-finished!

1. Learn to live without electricity
2. Grow better vegetables and MUCH better herbs.
3. Grow everything from seed rather than cheating and buying small plants!
4. Become fully vegan.
5. Work or own an indie bookstore for a time.
6. Become better at making remedies from the garden- make that alembic.
7. When retired, sell everything and live in a horse-drawn caravan.
8. Dye my hair with blue streaks.
9. Learn to play the guitar and perform on-stage in a small place.
10. Travel all over Europe using only my wits.
11. Learn to make good stained-glass art.
12. Write a children’s book about forest folk.
13. Build or renovate my own house
14. Learn to identify every single tree and plant that I pass in the morning.
15. Quit my job.
16. Stop being afraid.
17. Get dreadlocks at some point (before the blue streaks preferably!)
18. Do a road-trip from San Diego to Vancouver in a VW camper.
19. Hang out in Mendocino for a while.
20. Work on environmental projects which actually help.
21. Learn a different language and be able to use it rather than forget it.
22. Roast my own coffee.
23. Set up a food co-operative in the community.
24. Move to the forest.
25. Volunteer at the Lifeboat Institution
26. Be able to identify and live off wild food.
27. Have a wood-burning stove.
28. Own my own woodland.
29. Have a child.
30. Treat others with genuine respect and complete tolerance/unprejudice.
31. Make a positive difference to someone else’s life.
32. Take part in the local medieval re-enactments in August.
33. Knit and make my own clothing from raw products.
34. Live in a commune for a while
35. Learn Poker.
36. Own a dog.
37. Drive a pick-up truck.
38. Pick walnuts from the forests in Kyrgyzstan.
39. Swim in the ocean and rivers.
40. Spend 2-3 years living on an sailing boat and bobbing from place to place.
41. Sell my own photography
42. Become confident about myself.
43. Have a 5 minute commute each day rather than 4 hours(!)
44. Go to the squam art workshops.
45. Own chickens.
46. Go to Nova Scotia.
47. Win one game of chess one game.
48. Meet a man with whom I feel equal to on a spiritual level.
49. Walk barefoot when possible.
50. Stop making excuses for myself.

[Patricia Dolan]

Stacie,
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[Jeanne]

this is great! I was starting to think I hadn't really done much and then realized I can cross quite a few of those things off your list!!! I need to make my own list now!! MUCHO HUGS

[pixie]

pure wonderment. i love that you created this!!!

[Marianne @ Zen Peacekeeping]

Brilliant!

[jessamyn]

this is fantastic!
i have some of those very things on my list...hee hee!

you are love. joy ignited. pure and absolute passion.

[doorways traveler]

highly recommend 38 and would like to be a fly on the wall for 48.

love this. got my wheels spinning...

xolisa

[jana]

so very inspiring; your list shows the vivid colors of your spirit.

I haven't ventured to make mine, but you are inspiring. thank you for sharing. your blog is so lovely. ever visit proves so for me :)

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This inspiring, Bella! I'm gonna make my list as soon as I'm done with this comment. We're certainly on the same page on #21. I apply for cash loans, and need to pay 'em back next week. So it'd be fist on my list. I would love to go to France and Canada as well. And for designing, our house is scheduled for a renovation by next season. I'll be the one to redesign the bedrooms and kitchen, of course. Keep us posted with your progress. Well, good luck!

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