The Life List
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.
What's on your 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.
What's on your list?