I’ve tried any number of lists, things designed to have me reach a goal or goals in 41, 365, 1001 days. Lists I’ve ultimately forgotten about and failed, because I’m really quite bad at deadlines. Well, here’s a deadline you can hardly avoid — YOUR WHOLE LIFE.
Some of these goals are gonna have to be a lot grander than before.
- Roadtrip Route 66
- Stay at both remaining teepee motels in the US (California and Kentucky)
- Visit Italy
- Visit Greece
- Revisit France
- Visit Germany
- Visit Niagara Falls
- Travel to all of the Canadian Provinces (NFLD, PEI, NS, NB, QC, ON, MAN, SK, AB, BC) and Territories (YT, NWT, NVT) I have yet to see
- Take my own family on a road trip to Florida like we took when I was a child
- Visit Portland, Oregon
- Visit Spain
- Visit my hometown
- Revisit Westport, Ireland
- Revisit New Orleans
- Stay at the Shady Dell in Bisbee, Arizona
- Visit every Margaritaville with my sister (Beachcomber Hawaii, Mohegan Sun Casino, Key West, Las Vegas, Glendale AZ, Myrtle Beach, NOLA, Panama City Beach, Orlando, at least one Caribbean location, Niagara Falls, Cancun, Nashville)
- See the neon light graveyard in Vegas
- Get in the car with our ID and $1,000 and just drive for a week
- Cross the Equator
- Visit every UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canada (Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Historic District of Old Québec, L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Old Town Lunenburg, Rideau Canal, SGang Gwaay, Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Gros Morne National Park, Joggins Fossil Cliffs, Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek, Miguasha National Park, Nahanni National Park, Waterton Glacier International Peace Park, Wood Buffalo National Park
- Visit 10 more UNESCO World Heritage Sites
- Eat at the French Laundry in Yountville, CA
- Eat 5 new things (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Cook 10 recipes from 10 different cookbooks (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- Complete a roadtrip that is entirely food-oriented
- Bake and decorate a cake, from scratch, successfully
- Double my current michelin-star count (7)
- Double that michelin-star count
- Complete a wine-tasting course
- Complete a microbrewery tour of an area (province, region, etc)
- Make kook (my grandma’s weird bread dessert thing)
- Host a miracle fruit party
- Complete a wine tour of an area (province, region, etc)
- Eat dinner with someone relatively famous
- Discover the best General Tao’s in town
- Host a Halloween dinner party
- Host a Christmas dinner party
- Host a Thanksgiving dinner party
- Have a painting shown somewhere
- Finish the painting of Chris
- Complete a painting of Ophelia
- Paint a picture of everyone in my immediate family
- Paint a picture of every pet in my family
- Design and obtain a half-sleeve tattoo
- Make a piñata
- Write a novel
- Get a really nice camera (maybe Shayla will give me one of her old ones)
- Photo-document 5 family trips and put them in a book
- Learn how to sew
- Sew something for everyone in my family
- Make and sell something online
- Learn all the words to “It’s The End of the World as We Know It”
- Sing Karaoke again
- Finally learn the rest of “Dust in the Wind” on the guitar
- Learn how to knit or crochet
- Write a poem about each day for 1 year, make a book of it
- Create a “teenage” box for each child
- Breastfeed Ophelia for 6 weeks
- Breastfeed Ophelia for 6 months
- Have another baby
- Breastfeed that baby for 6 months
- Have another baby
- Breastfeed that baby for 6 months
- Develop a solid cloth diaper stash
- Help someone else successfully breastfeed
- Get to a comfortable weight and size (i.e. my 2003/2004 size)
- Do a headstand
- Do an entire yoga program (package of visits, or otherwise)
- Take a dance class
- Grow my hair out again
- Get a Brazilian wax
- Take a family camping trip
- Improve my French to a solid conversational level
- Begin to learn another language
- Have a garage sale
- Move to the country, own some acreage
- Become 50% debt-free (credit cards, line of credit, etc)
- Become 100% debt-free (mortgage, car loan, etc)
- Homeschool
- Create our wills
- Help Chris achieve one major career goal
- Save up a 6 month emergency fund
- Buy/restore a classic car
- Own an airstream trailer
- Meet Twwly
- Pay for the next car’s order at Tim Hortons
- Donate blood
- Become someone’s mentor
- Find a career that is meaningful to me, even if it’s only part-time or if it’s not a career at all
- Refinish the wood floors in our house
- Build a backyard worthy of a summer BBQ dinner
- Finish our basement
- Do something completely crazy and out of character
- Do something anonymously to change someone’s life
- Build a treehouse
- Go camping on a beach
- Answer “50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind“
- Make a list of 100 things I will never do again
- Make a list of 100 things that make me happy
- Make a list of another 100 things to do before I die
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