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
mental and emotional health, personal, lists, 40 in 40
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!