Image via WikipediaJolie at Jolie Guillebeau: Paintings and Musings apparently mentioned to Havi at The Fluent Self a ritual in which one makes a list on one's birthday of x items one wants to do in the next year, with x equaling one's age on the birthday.On Monday, I turn 27. Here are some things I'd like to do by the time I'm 28.
- Learn to ride a bike.
- Get my driver's license
- Get my own domain and move my blogs there.
- Obtain at least one new pen-pal
- See one of the American sites on my list of Things to Do Before I Die
Go somewhere I've never been before (the above does not count)- Read one of the books on the same list.
Watch one movie from the AFI 100 Watch a second movie from the AFI 100Watch a third movie from the AFI 100- Come up with an idea for an ebook. Not necessarily write the thing, but come up with the idea.
- Actually win NaNoWriMo
Read a book off my reading list (Not counting #7)Read a second book off my reading listRead a third book off my reading listRead a fourth book off my reading listRead a fifth book off my reading listRead a sixth book off my reading listRead a seventh book off my reading listRead an eighth book off my reading listRead a ninth book off my reading listRead a tenth book off my reading list- Submit a piece of writing for publication
- Buy an outfit that makes me look amazing, and not freak out about the price
- Attend a Flyers home game.
- See the Pacific
Join something: a club, organization, or team
- Attend a cherry blossom festival
3 comments:
Good luck with your list!! My 30 things when I was 30 was amazing. I had lots of small things (learn to jump rope, make a cheese danish, have a fondue party) and a couple of huge things (a hot air balloon ride, a trip to NYC, seeing the Grand Canyon) and they all came together marvelously. So I'd challenge you to put something really big on there as one of those last two things. I'll be cheering for you!
Thanks, Jolie! Actually, I already had two sort of daunting tasks on there: I've lost at NaNoWriMo several years running, and seeing the Pacific may well not happen because our vacation plans are completely up in the air.
Hooray for birthday lists! And happy year of things you want!
And I second Jolie's wise words about the power of things that seem unlikely.
Cheering you along too. Count me in as one of the symbolic fairy godmothers!
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