Life, Revised

Last year I wrote my Bucket List. I thought at the time that it was pretty concise, but that's the thing with lists - they're never really done.

Ashley over at The Accidental Olympian just wrote her first "Life List" (a term I like better than Bucket List for sure, which was coined by Mighty Girl, who has a kick-ass list I might add) and so I've revisited mine and changed a few things.   

See Live:

• Flogging Molly on St. Patrick's Day
• Handel’s Messiah at Christmas
• Jimmy Buffett
• Penn & Teller
• A Seahawks game
• An NHL game (no team preference at this point)
• A bluegrass festival
• An honest-to-god Highland Games

Travel to:

• The Outer Banks, NC
• Walt Disney World/Orlando (again)
• Epcot Beers & Wines of the World Tour
• Greece, Italy, Paris, British Isles (Art History Tour)
• New Zealand
• Every National Park:  Acadia, American Samoa, Arches, Badlands, Big Bend, Biscayne, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Carlsbad Caverns, Channel Islands, Congaree, Crater Lake, Cuyahoga Valley, Death Valley, Denali, Dry Tortugas, Everglades, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier, Glacier Bay, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Great Basin, Great Sand Dunes, Great Smoky Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, Haleakala, Hawaii Volcanoes, Hot Springs, Isle Royale, Joshua Tree, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kings Canyon, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Lassen Volcanic, Mammoth Cave, Mesa Verde, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Olympic, Petrified Forest, Redwood, Rocky Mountain, Saguaro, Sequoia, Shenandoah, Theodore Roosevelt, Virgin Islands, Voyageurs, Wind Cave, Wrangell – St. Elias, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion
• All the lakes Dad liked to go or wanted to go, including Christmas Island (Fly Fishing Tour)
• Boston – Sam Adams Brewery Tour
• San Francisco – New Belgium Brewery Tour
• Cape Cod (this summer!!  Which will be another post when we have it all figured out!)

Try:

• Snowboarding
• Sea kayaking
• Hike-in camping
• Cooking a turkey
• A new food or recipe once a month at least
• Writing short stories

Learn to:

• Cast a flyrod (better)
• Ride a horse again
• Quilt  
• -- Hand-quilt
• -- Applique
• Crochet
• -- Granny Squares
• Make cheese
• Sew clothing, not just handbags

Do:

• Collect furniture from yard sales & thrift stores, and refinish it
• Throw an honest-to-god dinner party that doesn’t involve chips & salsa
• Design & build our own energy-efficient & eco-friendly house
• Use my camera more
• Try selling photos & other crafty things on Etsy
• Be in shape enough to run for an hour at a steady pace
• Run an animal sanctuary for pets that wouldn’t be adopted otherwise
• Own & operate a gift shop in a touristy town, selling my handmade items
• Stop drinking pop
• Start drinking more wine
• Work for a college/university in the art department, event coordinator, sustainability, whatever
• Have a self-sustaining homestead/hobby farm
• Have a booth at a farmer's market
• Have a big, sunny, airy studio in the upper story of B's shop
• Take a pottery class
• Take a stained glass class
• Get at least one meaningful tattoo