Happy Friday friends! On Sunday I turn 38. If you’ve read this blog for more than a minute, you know I love to make lists and set goals. Some are monthly, some are seasonal, and some reside on what I call my life list.
I never regret one day of getting older because too many people are denied the privilege. But I do look around and reflect during my birthday month. What experiences do I want to have next? Where do I want to go? What skills can I pick up? Big or small, it gives me something to look forward to.
Some
things that I’ve crossed off my life list so far:
Get
Lasik if I qualify, shoot a gun, buy a play pack for a season, take graphic
design courses, get married in a way that fits us, work on a political
campaign, swim with dolphins, see the sun rise over the ocean at the shore in all four seasons, try foie gras, host
Thanksgiving/Christmas/Easter, do the Polar Bear Plunge, visit Bushkill Falls,
spend the day at Walden Pond, drive across the Golden Gate Bridge, ride a
street car, drink a Guinness in Ireland, take two weeks off in a row and spend
them at the beach, make homemade pasta, touch a redwood tree, stand in Lake
Michigan, perfect the turkey, see the sun rise on the east coast and set on the
west coast of the US in the same day, take the elevator to the top of City Hall
in Philadelphia, buy a house, tour Pennsylvania covered bridges.
If I had a fat bank account and unlimited days off, this list would basically be travel-related only. But I have neither, so I had to supplement with real life things. I'm also sharing this early because some are large travel goals that require time, planning, and cash money.
My list of 40 things I'd like to do by my 40th birthday on March 15, 2017:
My list of 40 things I'd like to do by my 40th birthday on March 15, 2017:
- See a play on
Broadway
- Walk over the
Brooklyn Bridge
- Skydive
- Go tubing on a
river
- Volunteer at a
soup kitchen
- Eat a lobster roll
in Maine
- Stay in a Falls
View room at Niagara Falls
- Write a novella
- Tip 100% of the
bill at a restaurant
- Go whale watching
- See Mt. Rushmore
- Take a spontaneous
weekend trip –deciding to go and leaving that same day
- Watch Old Faithful blow
- Stroll along the Seine
- Go to high tea
- Learn conversational French
- Adopt a family in need at Christmas
- Witness the
changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace
- Go to a college
football game
- Eat at a farm to
table restaurant (stole this one from Jana, thanks friend!)
- Read two Agatha
Christie novels – a Marple and a Poirot
- Participate in a
walk to raise money for pancreatic cancer
- Get the tattoo on
my back touched up
- Stand on the
Cliffs of Moher
- Buy a pair of Frye
boots
- Go to the opera
- See the Mississippi River
- Beignets at Café du Monde
- Conquer my fear of the grill
- See the Chincoteague Ponies
- Have dinner at Vetri
- Cheesesteak tour in
Philly
- Visit the Morris Arboretum
- Go to the Mutter Museum
- Attend an author event at the
Philadelphia Free Library
- Get something published on HuffPost
- Take a cooking or
baking class
- Learn how to use a drill
- Pick strawberries and make a strawberry
pie from them
- Bake French bread
What about you? Do you have any must dos?
Birthday weekend coming up! Happy birthday to my first roomie Peter on Saturday. Our moms were in the same hospital room when we were born, and we ended up going to school together and becoming friends. I love that story.
Enjoy your weekend and go ahead, have some cake for my birthday Sunday because
Birthday weekend coming up! Happy birthday to my first roomie Peter on Saturday. Our moms were in the same hospital room when we were born, and we ended up going to school together and becoming friends. I love that story.
Enjoy your weekend and go ahead, have some cake for my birthday Sunday because
