The Big List

So I decided to make a life list. Here it is. The items linked or marked off have been completed (yay me!).

  1. Run a 5k.
  2. Visit Europe again / take David to England
  3. Finish my dissertation/PhD
  4. Visit Key West
  5. Read every Pulitzer Prize for fiction award winner (began in 1948)
    1. 2011: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
    2. 2008: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
    3. 2005: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 
    4. 2001: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
    5. 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
    6. 1988: Beloved by Toni Morrison
    7. 1961: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    8. 1953: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  6. Take Molly camping
  7. Buy a Digital SLR and learn how to use it properly
  8. Learn to sew (here and here and here)
  9. Contact my half-brother
  10. Pay off both of our cars & pay cash for one later
  11. Buy a house
  12. See the Northern Lights
  13. Re-learn how to play the piano
  14. Take a trip with just my two sisters (no kids or spouses!)
  15. Present a paper at MLA
  16. Learn how to make awesome sugar cookies
  17. Sit in the fancy seats at the Kentucky Derby
  18. Attend The Nutcracker when it’s snowing
  19. Open an independent bookstore in Somerset
  20. Have a conversation with one of my favorite authors
  21. Watch every movie on AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list.
    1. Casablanca
    2. Gone with the Wind
    3. The Wizard of Oz
    4. Schindler’s List
    5. It’s a Wonderful Life
    6. Star Wars
    7. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
    8. To Kill a Mockingbird
    9. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
    10. The Sound of Music
    11. Fantasia
    12. Raiders of the Lost Ark
    13. Forrest Gump
    14. Dances with Wolves
  22. Attend the Democratic National Convention.
  23. Become fluent in conversational Spanish.
  24. Live in the Western half of the US.
  25. Attend the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games.
  26. Cycle in a century ride.
  27. Learn how to snap.
  28. Begin a tradition of throwing an annual party/dinner with (lots of) friends.
  29. Sing in a karaoke bar.
  30. Research my family tree.
  31. Milk a cow
  32. Visit Cuba.
  33. Build a Habitat for Humanity house with David &; Molly (and other hypothetical future children).
  34. Paint something that I would proudly display on my living room wall.
  35. Start an anniversary tradition with David.
  36. Be active in the PTA (or school equivalent).
  37. Leave behind money for an annual scholarship fund to allow students who can’t afford it to study abroad.
  38. Visit all 50 states.
  39. See Barbara Streisand in concert.
  40. Visit the Kickerts while they’re in Africa.
  41. Be able to live off of 50% of our income.
  42. Lay flowers on my Grandmother Colvin’s grave.
  43. Play Monopoly by candlelight with my husband and children during a power outage.
  44. Tell Ms. Dick (my 4th grade teacher) in person that she changed my life for the better.
  45. Teach Molly how to swing.
  46. Ice skate in Rockefeller Center with David.
  47. Build a bookshelf and then actually use it.
  48. Take Molly to a show on Broadway (or London’s West End).
  49. Study Latin.
  50. Be a vegetarian for Lent.
  51. Stand on the Great Wall of China.
  52. Knit a sweater and give it as a gift.
  53. Find and learn how to make a salad that David will love to eat.
  54. Make a quilt with my mother-in-law.
  55. Learn how to change a tire.
  56. Eat Sushi in Japan.
  57. Spend my birthday in Paris.
  58. Go two weeks without wearing jeans (inspired by Liz).
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