Muiche recently sent me a link to this blog, which has been incredibly inspiring. I too would like to create a Life List, made up of one hundred things I want to do throughout my life. So here goes...
Things to do/make:
- Marry Pete
- Get certified to teach
- Learn Russian
- Knit myself a pair of stripey socks
- Knit Pete a sweater. I've been holding off on this because of the sweater curse, but now that we're married, I think it's safe...
- Knit a Russian shawl that is fine enough to pass through my wedding ring
- Figure out colorwork knitting
- Sheer a sheep
- Learn to spin on a spinning wheel, and become proficient at drop-spindle-ing
- Make an aran sweater
- Make a crazy quilt
- Keep a yarn-yielding animal--maybe an alpaca!
- Write a knitting pattern
- Have some babies
- Make my own Christmas ornaments
- Learn how to milk a cow
- Compost
- Bake bread without a bread machine
- Have a garden
- Make a pear-with-gruyere pie a la Pushing Daisies
- Keep chickens
- Set a lobster free
- Visit every continent
- Swim in each ocean
- Go to Turkey
- Go to Russia, but with Pete this time
- Go to Mount Sinai
- Live in Alaska
- Live on a houseboat
- Go to Jerusalem
- Learn how to drive for realz
- Go on a road trip across the country
- Live in the country
- Study iconography
- Learn how to make vestments
- Memorize my prayers
- Read the entire Bible
- Organize another Orthodox Women's Conference
- Memorize more poetry
- Read the complete works of Jane Austen
- Read the complete works of Nabokov
- Read the complete works of Whitman
- Read the complete works of Dostoevsky
- Read the complete works of Michael Ondaatje
- Read the complete works of e.e. cummings
- Record something for librivox.org
- Learn how to play harmonica versions of Amelie songs
- Or learn to play the accordion
- And the ukelele!
- Finish this Life List later...
The honeymoon is drawing to a close, but not before Saturday morning pancakes and bacon. (And eggs--Pete's contribution. I think the famous Jersey diners have made an impression on my California boy.)
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