My little list

This is not a to-do-list

This is a become list, a dream list, and an aspire list.

I have no pressure to cross things off--let things happen as they may.  Life is already too busy to worry about getting everything done all the time.

But here is a little list of my dreams, hopes, and things I think about doing one day:

• Get my PhD
• Run a marathon
• Have a baby
• Buy an old house with character  (28 Rohde, December 2009)
• Have a sleeping porch
• Plan a weekly menu on a chalkboard
• Run 5 miles with my dad on the beach
• Take piano lessons
• Speak French
• Make pottery using a wheel
• Practice daily yoga (Bikram yoga in Boulder 2010)
• Take up photography (bought the Nikon December 2009--photos are posted on this blog)
• Do a split
• Have a flourishing herb garden (window herb garden at 28 1/2 Rohde)
• Own a cool bicycle
• Write a book
• Have an awesome blog
• See the sunrise daily
• Go on an African Safari
• Send cards to my loved ones on a weekly basis
• Cook Thanksgiving dinner  (Ophir Thanksgiving 2009)
• Go on a road trip with my brothers
• Have a well read library
• Have a weekly date with my mom (weekly Goodwill hunt 2010)
• Paint a picture to give as a gift (painted pics for babies Mathilda, Harry, and Anastasia in 2010)
• Document my life on film
• Play in sprinklers
• Go to Disney World with Dirk
• Eat oysters together with my family  (December 2009)
• Get a small tattoo
• Stay in the Alps for a summer
• Have a picnic with Dirk on an island
• Go SCUBA diving with Dirk
• Swim 5k (with flip-turns)
• See Minorca
• Do cartwheels with kids
• Bake bread from scratch (baked lots of bread in 2010)
• Own a pair of low-top Converse  (bought blue Converse December 2009)
• Bake a pie with my mom
• Play a game of football
• Have a sleepover
• Play cards with Grandma
• Build the perfect sand castle
• Write a love letter
• Plan a birthday party with games
• Take a wine tasting course
• Mow the neighbor's grass
• Learn Tai Chi or Qigong
• Have a girls only dinner party with every detail planned
• Snowboard effortlessly
• Do a detox week
• Play a round of golf with Dirk
• Prepare a candlelit dinner with a live violinist on a porch
• Have a recipe book (have a few by now)
• Give blood
• Make a time capsule
• Sew my own outfit (sewed lots of clothes with my sewing machine in 2010)
• Change a tire
• Own an airstream
• Go camping in a tent
• Go to baby swimming lessons with my baby
• Help my mom have a yard sale
• Learn to whistle as loud as mama
• Go on a wine tasting tour of California
• Go skinny dipping
• Have a spa day with mama (mani-pedi mother's day spa present in 2010)
• Go ice skating
• Go sailing
• Teach an undergraduate course
• Can homemade jam
• Make my own Nutella
• Make Datil Pepper sauce with my mom
• Have a scavenger hunt
• Learn how to play tennis
• Be one of those people who carries around sunscreen all the time
• Find a mentor/guru
• Memorize some knock-knock jokes
• Give my Grandma a manicure
• Have a cross-country team reunion
• Join the Minorcan Heritage club (Signed up January 2011)
• Watch a Fraggle Rock Episode
• Build a proper snowman (with a carrot nose)
• Have a daily tea time  (complete with cookies--December 2009)
• Make a “reasons I love you” list for people I love
• Have a tea party and invite at least one teddy bear
• Create a vision board
• Make homemade ice-cream
• Have a snowball fight
• Make an origami crane
• Have a jump roping contest
• Achieve a PB in 10k
• Go oysterin’ with my daddy
• Chase fireflies
• Have a star watching evening
• Make a snow angel  (Ophir Pass, Colorado November 2009)
• Watch an eclipse
• Learn to knit  (November 2009)
• Sew my own handbag out of old t-shirts
• Have a breakfast nook (the best ever breakfast nook at 28 1/2 Rohde)
• Speak Luxembourgish
• Have a fire pit
• Fall asleep on a hammock
• Write German without a spellchecker
• Paint a wall a fun bright color
• Stand-up-paddle
• Make an affirmation pledge for 40 days
• Have a knackarsch
• Own an beautiful and inspiring outdoor seating area
• Write a book
• Go on a photography road trip
• Cultivate discipline