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The List

For the background on The List, read this post. Items in italics are in progress.

  1. Pick apples at an orchard.
  2. Grow out and donate my hair.
  3. Attend a performance of A Christmas Carol at Playhouse in the Park.
  4. Visit Sweden, the country of my ancestors.
  5. Watch all the movies on my compiled “Best of Film” list. (104/240)
  6. Pay for someone’s meal behind me at a drive-through window.
  7. Watch a World Cup soccer game at a local sports bar.
  8. Host a theme party for no reason (not a holiday, birthday, or special occasion).
  9. Visit Seattle (and Pike Place Market).
  10. Meet our new next-door neighbors (and take baked goods).
  11. Learn to knit and successfully complete three knitting projects. (0/3)
  12. Take a cooking class.
  13. Start a compost bin and use it for at least one year.
  14. Go to a drive-in theater.
  15. Travel to all 50 U.S. States. (20/50)
  16. Add a houseplant to each room in our house.
  17. Print/make a photo journal book of our trip to England.
  18. Go snorkeling.
  19. Find a spiritual mentor.
  20. Visit New York City.
  21. Ride in a hot air balloon.
  22. Serve a meal at a soup kitchen/homeless shelter.
  23. Start a family.
  24. Visit British Columbia.
  25. Clean out and organize the basement.
  26. Attend a dinner theatre.
  27. Start my own business.
  28. Explore all the major Cincinnati parks. (4/19)
  29. Visit a missionary that we support financially.
  30. Be completely debt free, including our house.
  31. Make homemade pasta.
  32. Read all the fiction books I own.
  33. Stay at Jake’s in Jamaica.
  34. Buy a big house and use it to shower people with kindness and love.
  35. Eat fish and chips in England.
  36. Can food.
  37. Visit at least 10 other countries. (3/10)
  38. Travel the Pacific Coast Highway.
  39. Increase blog traffic.
  40. Go ice skating at the outdoor rink at Fountain Square.
  41. Have a Lord of the Rings movie marathon.
  42. Get a professional massage.
  43. Eat crepes and drink tea at a cafe in Paris.
  44. Run a 5k (without walking a single step).
  45. Visit a castle in Britain.
  46. Take a canopy (zip line) tour.
  47. Make fresh salsa with ingredients from my own garden.
  48. Read every Jane Austen novel. (1/6)
  49. Visit the Art Institute of Chicago.
  50. Paint all the trim in my house.
  51. Attend City Gospel Mission’s Understanding Poverty Workshop.
  52. Make a kite and fly it.
  53. Go to a show in the West End.
  54. Don’t drink any soda for six months.
  55. Hike the Grand Canyon.
  56. Try a new type of ethnic food.
  57. Walk across the Purple People Bridge.
  58. Host a cookie exchange.
  59. Visit Boston in the fall.
  60. Sew something I can wear.
  61. Go berry picking.
  62. Make homemade bagels.
  63. Attend a taping of NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me.
5 Responses Post a comment
  1. Tanya Stevenson permalink
    March 15, 2011

    Hi Sarah! Wow, what a cool list. It really puts your goals into perspective and lets you see what you’ve already accomplished and what you still want to do. I might start something like this in the near future!

    By the way–professional massage, don’t wait too long on that…it’s a very amazing experience.
    Tanya

  2. October 3, 2011

    Hi Sarah! Wow, what a cool list. It really puts your goals into perspective and lets you see what you’ve already accomplished and what you still want to do. I might start something like this in the near future!
    +1

  3. Karen Stevenson permalink
    April 12, 2012

    Well I can help you with #38 and perhaps #59!  : )

  4. Karen Stevenson permalink
    April 12, 2012

    Well I can help you with #38 and perhaps #59!  : )

  5. April 14, 2012

    Cool list! I have walked across the Purple People Bridge while I lived in Cincinnatti for one semester!

    -Hannah

    http://blissfullyfeminine.blogspot.com

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