So my Stupendous Life List has been sitting around in a journal, but I thought I'd put it here! Don't we all have things we would like to accomplish? I know I do. Somethings are pretty average, some are exciting, and some are just plain silly! This is an ever changing list, you can find out a bit more on this post where I talked about my Stupendous Life List before.
I tried to break it up into some categories to make it easy to add to as I move along.
Find my path
Use my work to improve someone else’s life
Make a living only doing things I love
Fall madly in love and get married
Practice and learn equanimity/upeksa
Organize and beautify my bedroom, for REAL
Finish my Bachelor’s degree ** getting close! May 11 2013!!
Get my Master’s degree Underway FINALLY!! Aug 2013
See the N.M. hot air balloon festival
make a piece of art and place it in a public place when nobody is looking
See the Dalai Llama in person
Host Thanksgiving Dinner
Own land in excess of 20 acres
Move west, Wyoming, Montana, Oregon, WEST.
Start my own business
Write and publish a magazine article
Organize an event for charity
Be physically fit/healthy
Swim with dolphins
Grow peonies
Join an investment club
Pay off our house
Show my art at an actual art gallery
Pay off my schooling
Write a book and have it published
Pom-Pom a tree
Live in another country for a year
Have a front porch
Go paragliding
Float a paper boat full of dreams down a river
Create a peaceful living space in my home
Learn Tai Chi
Own a structure/home/pergola covered in flowering vines
Gamble in Vegas
Order dinner in French
Surprise my husband with a vacation
Ride in a hot air Balloon
Watch a trebuchet contest
Run a mile without stopping, walking, or resting
Go whale watching
Go White Water rafting
Snuggle an elephant
Do a looooong Zip-line
Become a puppy foster-mom
Write an academic paper about Art Therapy and have it published
Plant a backyard orchard
Sip wine at sunset in Napa
Save a life>>> a puppy counts right?
Participate in a Flash Mob
Volunteer my time to a local charity
Create a uniquely ME, wearable wardrobe
Design a line of fabrics
Advocate for someone/group of people
Cook every night for a month (31 nights in a row)
Give 29 things away in 29 days
Purge the excess of my living environment**in progress
Go snowboarding
Attempt to walk on fire
Compete in a Rally Race
Drive Route 66
See a tiger in the wild
Hug a Chimp
Attend an Art retreat
Host an art retreat
Make a perfect Mushroom risotto
Play Roller Derby
Take a ceramics class
Work on a political campaign
Recover from my sugar addiction**ALWAYS in progress
Get on the PRICE IS RIGHT!
Ride in a helicopter
Walk a labyrinth
Donate anonymously
PAINT a self portrait
Own a set of expensive, luxurious sheets.
Volunteer at a soup kitchen on Christmas, Thanksgiving and a random Tuesday
Buy a soldier's lunch
Leave a 100 dollar tip at a diner
Start a tradition
Milk a Cow
Teach an online class
Display my artwork and photography around my home
Start an authentic living interview series
Crash a party
Participate in a 5K
Eat a hotdog in NY(Gray’s Papaya), Chicago(Hot Doug’s) and L.A.(Pink’s)
Own a home with a carriage house for family and friends to stay and visit.
Teach at a Community College
Do a 365 Project**day 3655/365 on 26 Aug 2011
Leave 100 art cards that inspire, anonymously
Lose 10#
Lose 20#
lose 30#
Lose 40#
Lose 50#
Lose 60#
Lose 70#
Lose 80#
Lose 90#
Lose100#
Ride a horse
Put flowers on a strangers grave
Visit the baby Panda at the national Zoo
Hike the entire Appalachian Trail (even if bit-by-bit)
Go to a rodeo
Donate to the food bank at least once a month for a year Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun/Jul/Aug/Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec
Sponsor a microloan
Adopt a french bulldog
Adopt an english bulldog
Step foot in all 50 states
1 - Alaska
2 - Arizona
3 - Arkansas
4 - California
5 - Colorado
6 - Connecticut
7 - Delaware
8 - Florida
9 - Georgia
10 - Hawaii
11 - Idaho
12 - Illinois
13 - Indiana
14 - Iowa
15 - Kansas
16 - Kentucky
17 - Louisiana
18 - Maine
19 - Maryland
20 - Massachusetts
21 - Michigan
22 - Minnesota
23 - Mississippi
24 - Missouri
25 - Montana
26 - Nebraska
27 - Nevada
28 - New Hampshire
29 - New Jersey
30 - New Mexico
31 - New York
32 - North Carolina
33 - North Dakota
34 - Ohio
35 - Oklahoma
36 - Oregon
37 - Pennsylvania
38 - Rhode Island
39 - South Carolina
40 - South Dakota
41 - Tennessee
42 - Texas
43 - Utah
44 - Vermont
45 - Virginia
46 - Washington
47 - West Virginia
48 - Wisconsin
49 - Wyoming
50 - Alabama
**D.C
Visit Italy
See the Aurora Borealis
See the Taj Mahal from the edge of its reflecting pool
Visit Mackinac island
Attend the running of the bulls in Spain
Cross London Bridge
Go on safari in Africa
Go snorkeling in the Caribbean
Visit Bourbon Street
Visit Yosemite
Visit Jackson Hole
Visit temples in Thailand
Participate in Loi Krathongin Thailand the “festival of lights”
Visit the Eiffel Tower
Visit Yellowstone
Visit Pisa
Visit Bora Bora
Walk along the great wall of China
Visit the Salton Sea
Airstream around North America
Go to every U.S. territorial possession
See Angel Falls in Venezuela
Visit Stonehenge
Visit Pompeii
Visit Tijuana
View Iguacu Falls from two countries (Brazil and Argentina)
Visit Madagascar
See Niagara Falls from both sides
Go to the Galapagos Islands
Go to every continent
Visit the Inca city of Machu Picchu
Visit the pyramids and the sphinx
Ride a burro in the Grand Canyon
Stand on the edge of the Victoria waterfalls
Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
Stand on a sand dune of the Sahara
Visit the blue mosque in front of Hagia Sofia in Turkey
Visit Carlsbad Caverns
Visit Luray caverns
Stand next to a Moai statue of Easter Island
Visit the Vatican and the Saint Peter's basilica
Visit the coliseum, okay all of ROME
Visit the Parthenon and Acropolis
Visit the Courtyard of Lions in Alhambra Spain
Visit Cordoba Spain
Have lunch in a Moroccan Market
Visit Monticello
Visit Mt. Vernon
Visit Montpellier
Visit Prague
Eat Spam in Hawaii
Learn to take Great Photographs
Learn Bokeh techniques
Photograph 100 interesting doorknockers
Photograph the Nile river
Photograph the great redwoods
Publish a photograph
Photograph 100 individual flower species
Build a portrait wall of pictures I took of strangers
Do a friend’s family portrait
Do my sister’s family portrait
Photograph the Giants' Causeway in Ireland
Photograph the waters of the Jiuzhaigou River
Photograph the Kremlin and the Saint Basil Cathedral
Photograph Reims cathedral
Photograph my sisters and I as we are now for my parents
Photograph a self-portrait-a-day for a month
RE-Create a Childhood Photo
Photograph my husband every day for a year
1 - Alaska
2 - Arizona
3 - Arkansas
4 - California
5 - Colorado
6 - Connecticut
7 - Delaware
8 - Florida
9 - Georgia
10 - Hawaii
11 - Idaho
12 - Illinois
13 - Indiana
14 - Iowa
15 - Kansas
16 - Kentucky
17 - Louisiana
18 - Maine
19 - Maryland
20 - Massachusetts
21 - Michigan
22 - Minnesota
23 - Mississippi
24 - Missouri
25 - Montana
26 - Nebraska
27 - Nevada
28 - New Hampshire
29 - New Jersey
30 - New Mexico
31 - New York
32 - North Carolina
33 - North Dakota
34 - Ohio
35 - Oklahoma
36 - Oregon
37 - Pennsylvania
38 - Rhode Island
39 - South Carolina
40 - South Dakota
41 - Tennessee
42 - Texas
43 - Utah
44 - Vermont
45 - Virginia
46 - Washington
47 - West Virginia
48 - Wisconsin
49 - Wyoming
50 - Alabama
Visit Italy
See the N.M. hot air balloon festival
See the Aurora Borealis
See the Taj Mahal from the edge of its reflecting pool
Visit Mackinac island
Attend the running of the bulls in Spain
Cross London Bridge
Go on safari in Africa
Go snorkeling in the Caribbean
Visit Bourbon Street
Visit Yosemite
Visit Jackson Hole Wyoming
Learn Tai Chi
Visit temples in Thailand
Participate in Loi Krathongin Thailand the “festival of lights”
Visit the Eiffel Tower
Visit Yellowstone
Visit Pisa
Visit Bora Bora
Walk along the great wall of China
Visit the Salton Sea
Airstream around North America
Go to every U.S. territorial possession
See Angel Falls in Venezuela
Visit Stonehenge
Visit Pompeii
View Iguacu Falls from all two countries (Brazil and Argentina)
Visit Madagascar
See Niagara Falls from both sides
Go to the Galapagos Islands
Go to every continent
Have my picture taken on the equator
Visit the Inca city of Machu Picchu
Visit the pyramids and the sphinx
Ride a burro in the Grand Canyon
Stand on the edge of the Victoria waterfalls
Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef
Stand on a sand dune of the Sahara
Visit the blue mosque in front of Hagia Sofia in Turkey
Visit Carlsbad Caverns
Visit Luray caverns
Stand next to a Moai statue of Easter Island
Visit the Vatican and the Saint Peter's basilica
Visit the coliseum, okay all of ROME
Visit the Parthenon and Acropolis
Visit the Courtyard of Lions in Alhambra Spain
Visit Cordoba Spain
Have lunch in a Moroccan Market
Visit Monticello
Visit Mt. Vernon
Visit Montpellier
Visit Prague