The Life List — Elan Morgan

I wrote me a life list!

This is a list of 100 things I'd like to accomplish. As I grow and change, so might this list, so I am less beholden to each item and more endeared for the time being.

Write a short story.
Get an article published in a print magazine.
Publish a book of non-fiction.
Publish a book of poetry.
Publish a book of fiction.
Get a new mattress that kicks all the other mattresses' asses.
Sleep overnight in a big museum.
Invent the best chocolate chip cookies of all time.
Accrue living room furniture I enjoy.
Ride in a hot air balloon.
Pay off my last outstanding debt.
Garden my own vegetables.
Get all my laundry completely done at the same time.
Drive a paddle boat with the Palinode at Waskesiu.
Add to my Kiva donations until I have $1000 in continual circulation.
Ring a real bell in a real belfry.
Be an extra in a Hollywood movie.
Create a reading corner for myself that is not within eyesight of a television.
Live in another country for at least six months.
Go through my mother's photo albums and scan my childhood photos.
Fire a gun.
Have all my leg hair lasered off.
Build a really cool kite and fly it.
Visit or go so far as to move to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Learn to bake great savoury bread.
Knit myself a pair of armwarmers.
Make homemade cheese.
Interview and photograph 1000 strangers.
Witness the ins and outs of a crematorium.
Climb a tree.
Take up yoga as a regular practice.
Design my own small house.
See fireflies while sober.
Go to a Jewish synagogue.
Spay our cat Lula.
Have sex outside again (and it doesn't count if I'm inside a tent).
Stay in an underwater hotel.
Guest star in a soap opera.
Stay sober for a minimum of five years.
Move to a new city.
Go to outer space.
Hear my nephew, born on 10 August 2011, call me by name.
Witness and photodocument the birth of a baby.
Be able to do 50 push-ups in a row.
Finally go on a honeymoon with the Palinode.
Hone my tarot reading skills.
~~Be on television~~.
Own a collection of fabulous eyeglasses to choose from.
Sleep in a yurt.
Go to Portugal.
~~Write and perform a song~~.
Explore my end of the metaphysical/paranormal activity that apparently populates my life.
Learn to paint.
Have a font made of my handwriting.
See the inside of a stone castle.
Use my skills to help others realize their abilities and possibilities.
Go through a corn maze.
Hold a live chicken.
Attend the World Domination Summit.
Attend a huge celebration like Holi in India.
Post a photograph every day for a year.
Have enough money to live without financial worry.
Take a road trip around North America.
Learn to make stop-motion videos.
Own and learn to play a theremin.
Learn to play the ukulele.
Never get cancer again.
Go on a cruise.
Start smoking again when I'm 85 years old.
Change a stranger's life.
Get an in-person psychic reading.
Go on a small retreat with other bloggers.
Photograph my parents' hometown where I spent time as a child.
Go on a ride-along with a police officer.
Finally get my second tattoo.
See the east coast of North America in the fall.
Write a personal manifesto.
Ride a train.
Cancel our cable and give up commercial television.
~~Deliver a TED Talk~~.
Cook a traditional turkey dinner with stuffing and mashed potatoes.
Attend a slam poetry event.
Ride on a float in a parade and wave at all the people.
Learn how to shoot and edit my own videos.
Win a trophy.
Help build a house with Habitat for Humanity.
Speak in front of 500+ people.
Learn to make homemade ice cream and invent my own flavours.
Ride in a real submarine.
See Big Muddy.
~~Go to the dentist~~.
Have tea with royalty.
Eat turducken.
Read Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, the first book the Palinode ever told me to read.
Watch Daniel Johnston play a song live.
Set up an office/creative space for myself that I love.
Find a good full spectrum lamp and test it out to see if it helps with my winter depression.
Own a little shop that sells whatever I happen to like at the time.
Save a life.
Invent a self-cleaning house.