After reading about Life Lists here and here, I decided to make one of my own. I’m in good company, as this google search shows. I worked on it yesterday morning until I had 100 items in the rough draft. I’m not quite sure how many that will make in the final, but here goes, in no particular order except that this is the way I thought of them. And because I loooooooove to talk, some of them will have commentary.

1. Have in my yard at least one of each of the following plants: hydrangea, peony, lantana, butterfly bush, hibiscus, mandevilla, lilac, mimosa and that thing that blooms in little balls, I think it’s called a fuschia. These will most likely be in containers, because I have sand for dirt, and also because of an item that occurs further down on the list at #13.
hydrangea June 17, 2010 lantana July 21, 2010

2. Make 100 pretty things, and to do this over and over until I die or cannot see.
July 2010 1. BSJ 2. Insatiable Hat
August 2010

3. Try 100 500 fruits. I basically lifted this one right from Mighty Girl, only she said 1000. Except that I am not sure there really are 1,000 fruits, at least not that I can buy within a 100 mile radius. I suppose I could say 500 and just look for the ones she finds, right? Okay, 500.

4. Read 1,000 books. Cookbooks and pattern books don’t count.
July 2010 1. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey by Audrey Niffenegger 2. Bad Mother by Ayelet Waldman 3. Dear John by Nicholas Sparks 4. Time of My Life by Allison Winn Scotch
August 2010 5. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

5. Publish 3 magazine articles.

6. See the Grand Canyon in person.

7. Drive fast, really fast, like about 120, just one more time.

8. Take a bus trip across the US. Going in the truck would be an acceptable substitute, provided it’s coast to coast.

9. Go to Scotland.

10. Complete my genealogy, as far as I can using the resources I have without spending a buttload of money or joining ancestry.com.

11. Do five really scary things with That One, and by this I mean that if he suggests something, I purpose to say yes instead of “no, I’m afraid”. And I might suggest a couple, too. 11a: Snowboarding, but going skiiing first 11b: lean off a building 11c: spend the night in the morgue under the sanitarium, sleep optional

12. Catch a baby, and it has to be human to count.

13. Move to the farm.

14. Own, at one time, 40 pairs of kickass heels. No, I mean really kickass.

15. Own, at one time, 10 dress hats.

16. Own, at one time, 15 really cool handbags. I get to define “really cool”, but color, texture and style all come into play. As does my sheer love of it.

17. Own and agility train an Australian Shepherd.

18. Visit 15 vineyards.

19. Write a book, publishing doesn’t matter, just the writing.

20. Dye 100 beautiful yarns, that is create 100 appealing colorways, but I can repeat colorways I already developed that I still love.

21. Be financially able to quit my day job.

22. Get a degree of some sort.

23. Memorize 10 personally significant passages of scripture. I can start with Proverbs 31 and I Corinthians 13.

24. Sing the Star Spangled Banner in public. Not an “interpretation” like so many people do today, but actually sing it.

25. Learn to play a musical instrument.

26. Blow bubbles with DaBaby and Drama while it still fascinates them June 2010

27. Rebuild my kitchen, doing part of the work myself

28. Paint the inside of my house

29. Buy the fluffer phone June 2010

30. Go to the park and play by myself

31. Buy myself flowers

32. Buy myself pearls

33. Go blonde, just once

34. Go silver/grey/white just once

35. Do the the thing I said I would do when pigs fly. This is the scariest item on my list.

36. Get laser treatments for my face

37. Subscribe to Cosmopolitan

38. Wear, in public, fishnet hose at least once. Also, seam up the backs.

39. Develop my film pictures

40. Print my digital pictures

41. Scrapbook my pictures

42. Put together my puzzles

43. Learn how to take an hour long bath again

44. Play chess with That One

45. Beat him

46. Teach all of my children to play chess and beat me

47. Get a poem published

48. Get a spiral piercing

49. Visit all 13 original colonies

50. Visit 5 foreign countries, which I have not visited before, not contiguous to the US

51. Spend a month in Europe

52. Spend six months not in the US

53. Spend a year not in the US

54. Relearn French, Italian and German, all by immersion

55. Learn to speak one of the languages That One speaks, that the kids don’t know, so we no longer have to communicate via military shorthand, even though that’s kind of fun

56. Learn to fire a handgun with reasonable accuracy

57. learn to shag, salsa and samba, charleston and jitterbug

58. Visit Ang. several times

59. Watch 500 movies
July 2010 1. Monty Python’s Holy Grail 2. Apocolypto 3. Secret of Roan Inish 4.Percy Jackson and the Olympians The Lightning ThiefAugust 2010 5. Dr. Doolittle (original)

60. Visit all 7 continents

61. Be able to trust people again

62. Have sex in the rain

63. And on a trampoline

64. And on the beach

65. Take a walk on the river front, holding hands and talking

66. Camp at 15 state or national parks or forest

67. Go hunting–kill it, skin it, dress it, cook it, eat it

68. Go fishing alone, all day

69. Take a walk on the beach at night, marvel at the sound of the waves, the sight of the stars and the feel of the sand under my feet and stop to kiss under the pier

70. Go to a theme park

71. Find a mentor

72. Be a mentor

73. Find out why I don’t remember stuff

74. Camp with nothing but a sleeping bag

75. Learn to operate a gas grill without being afraid of it

76. Have my entire house clean at one time, just once, before the kids leave home

77. Get rid of the possessions I have that serve only to bring me pain or remind me of loss

78. Have chickens

79. And goats

80. And sheep

81. Spin yarn from my own animals

82. Make one fibery garment from shearing to wearing

83. Start and continue the tradition of a big ass annual party at my house, on or around June 3rd

84. Visit an adult store by myself, to satisfy my curiosity, refuse to be embarrassed, and buy the biggest toy there just for the shock value. I’ve been told I need an escort for this one, so it won’t be alone. Apparently the toy stores here in the US aren’t as safe as the ones in Germany were 20 some years ago, when I was too embarrassed to look.

85. Knit hats for Shirley and Angie, because I said I would and they think I have forgottenFinished Shirley’s on the truck in July 2010

86. Tackle lace and win

87. Bowl a 300 game

88. Post this list on my blog, in it’s entirety with the exception of one item, despite those who will be scandalized by it or ridicule itDone June 16, 2010, and I even coded the one item

89. Make a collage frame of my kids and hang it in my bedroom

90. Go around the world

91. Get an eye exam and new glasses

92. Get a physical and address my health issues

93. Test drive a sports car with no intention of buying it

94. Tour a million dollar home with no intention of buying it

95. Lean my head into a milking cow one more time, just to breathe in the smell of her

96. Take a picture every day and then tell it’s story

97. Ride a horse…in Montana or some other wide open place that looks like a Marlboro commercial

98. Present those hats personally

99. Have hair down to my waist

100. Perform at a club on amateur night

101. Go to a ballet

102. Go to an opera

103. Take 500 pictures of hands
12 pictures of 14 hands published on July 13, 2010

104. Build a firepit in my backyard

105. Scrapbook the life list

106. Work through a few Bible reading plans

107. Work through the history curriculum of Ambleside Online

108. Complete Year 7 of Ambleside Online

That One’s list for me: go to a male revue, go to a female impersonator show, shower under a waterfall, go snow sledding, zipline

Test with pic

Just checking

Do I really need words here? How about….it sure is nice to end my blogging session on a happy note?

So, the kids play ball now. And that means practices. And that means extra reading time. This is how I spent the freezing evening of the 16th: in my car, prepping a Schwan’s order and reading girlie magazines. Fun times!

Wow, I got a little behind, didn’t I? It’s been one of those crazy weeks. Again. Sometimes, life just seems like a series of treadmills: constantly walking, never really getting anywhere. I spent my regular blogging day on the phone with Sprint Tech Support, but it was almost worth it to get the new crackberry working. And then another hour on Wednesday to get That One hooked up. I’m figuring at this point, Sprint owes me, don’t ya think? A girl’s time oughta be worth something, after all!

Unfortunately, I am all set up to blog here, and can’t find my pictures. I am sure I took them, but……they aren’t on the old phone, the new phone or the card in my camera. I suck. Sorry.