Mama's Alright: change

40 by 40

~~1. Run a 5k~~
2. Bake a pie from scratch
3. Eat Joel Robuchon’s 16-course tasting menu in Las Vegas
~~4. Visit Hawaii~~
~~5. Have a personal essay or short story published~~
6. Learn to play guitar
7. Stop second-guessing myself
8. Tour the coasts of Ireland
9. Do Pastry Boot Camp at the CIA
10. Visit Italy
~~11. Drive the Pacific Coast Highway from Seattle to LA~~
~~12. Learn to decorate a cake~~
13. See the glaciers in Alaska
14. Go to Paris with my husband
~~15. Sing karaoke~~
16. Eat Thanksgiving dinner in a fancy restaurant
17. Get another tattoo
18. Find a form of exercise I like
19. Make exercise part of my life
20. Take a cruise
21. Find a job that I love
~~22. Learn to make and appreciate a good martini~~
~~23. Finish scrapbooking my boys’ childhoods (at least through age 5)~~
24. Give only homemade gifts for Christmas one year
25. Eat key lime pie in Key West
~~26. Visit the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum~~
27. Wear a ball gown
~~28. Learn to do “smoky eyes”~~
~~29. Participate in a treasure/scavenger hunt in another state or country~~
30. Plan another treasure/scavenger hunt
31. Go on a two-week (or longer) vacation
32. Spend Christmas somewhere warm
~~33. Give up dairy for a week~~
34. Read “Ulysses”
35. Write each one of my friends a letter saying what they mean to me
36. Eat at Per Se
37. Do my own taxes
38. Learn to change a tire
39. Go back and read all of my journals
~~40. Join the bone marrow registry~~

Mama's Alright

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

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