40 Before 40
A friend of mine made a list of 40 things that she wanted to do before she turned 40. I think that I want to do the same thing and since you all seem to enjoy my more personal posts, I figured that I’d share that list with ya’ll today. Happy Wednesday! (Maybe I’ll make Wednesday posts always a bit more personal for ya’ll?)
40 Before 40
1. visit New York City
2. … Greece
3. … Germany (again)
4. … South Africa
5. run a half-marathon and then
6. run a marathon
7. get my Master’s degree and then
8. get a Ph.D. (be a doctor!)
9. learn to foxtrot or cha cha and then
10. dance the foxtrot or the cha cha in public
11. write a novel
12. sew something I can wear
13. learn to knit (something I’ve been trying to do for two years already … it may take another 15!)
14. read War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
15. … Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
16. … Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
17. … The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and
18. … Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
19. … all of Ernest Hemingway’s books and
20. … all of John Steinbeck’s books
21. learn to rollerskate backwards
22. bake a cake from scratch
23. get married
24. buy a house
25. have a baby
26. buy a brand new car
27. dance on a bar
28. ride a mechanical bull
29. celebrate my Golden Birthday (29 … because my birthday is on the 29th) with something original and fantastic (ride a rhino through downtown Portland?)
30. meet someone famous
31. take a cruise
32. give a speech in public
33. change a tire on my car
34. perfect a sweet bread recipe
35. grow my own tomatoes
36 … cucumbers and
37. … pumpkin.
38. grow my hair out past my shoulders
39. turn 39 years old and love my 39th year of live
40. make another 40 in 40 (more years) list
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May 23rd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
This is a fabulous list!
May 29th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Change a tire on your car! You’re so funny.
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 am
See mine “Forty Before 40″ at
http://www.before40.co.uk
- We can do this!