It's birthday list renewal time!
Actually it's a month beyond birthday list renewal time, but I was traveling much of May (checking items off the list!) so I'm just now getting this up on the blog.
You can read all about my lists, and the former ones, here. And how I did on last year's list here. (Bottom line, I love to try new things, and formalizing the process has helped me do more of them than ever.)
Take a gander at my list and let me know what would be on yours in the comments. (And, more importantly, what's keeping you from moving on them!)
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Visit Greece — This is where I was for a couple weeks in May, teaching yoga on a Star Clippers sailing ship (pictured above) and falling in love with all the cats. That was a big and longtime travel bucket-list item checked off!
Watch every episode of MASH — A rollover from last year. My hubby and I are watching together and we've just started season six.
Read at least 90 books — Last year I hit 81 so I've upped it again. To date, I've read seven books, with three in progress.
Refine Project 333 to my own version of a minimalist closet project — I came home from Greece and spent a heavily jet-lagged day cleaning out my closet again. I'll blog more about this later, but I'm shifting my process, based on what I've learned doing Project 333 for a couple years now.
Get will and living will in order — Found a lawyer. Taking the next steps.
Attend a Switchbacks match — Determined not to miss this one this summer.
Attend the Santa Fe Opera — Same goes for this. Already talking with the hubby about when we can go this summer/fall.
Do a Georgia O’Keeffe tour around New Mexico (Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, etc.)
Hike to Hanging Lake, as part of a larger summer/fall hiking goal (see No. 10)
Stay at the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray ... and hike Blue Lakes while there
Attend Judith Lasater’s Advanced Restorative Yoga teacher training — It's in August, so we'll see...
Be involved with a stage show (maybe a play, maybe a fashion show) in some way — I responded to a call for models for a local runway event. Crossing my fingers I get picked!
Choreograph a country line dance (and see if Barb will teach it at Cowboys)
Attend a Soul Mechanics session at Ormao
Take a birding and/or bird banding class
Take French language lessons
Try surfing
Nurture a green thumb into existence (re: learn how to properly care for my indoor plants)
Learn to make pizza, Roman Villa-style
Learn to bake (not-just-quick) bread
Learn to make my own maraschino cherries (and a fancy cocktail to go with them)
Renew my #newrecipeaweek commitment
Perform at a poetry slam/open mic
Learn to play an entire song on my ukelele
Remember to use reusable bags when grocery shopping
Plan my next trip to France (perhaps running a retreat at Little French Retreat)
See the sandhill crane migration in March/April 2017
Go storm chasing
Go on a train trip
Visit a new-to-me national park
Visit Best Friends Animal Society in Utah
Snail mail cards to six friends for no reason
Share a bottle of bubbly with a friend once a month
Play Settlers of Catan with friends
Try out a new hair color (or highlights, or a streak)
Have a new pair of jeans tailored to fit
Find a new go-to layerable dress that accentuates my fabulousness
Wear grown-up clothes to bed (or no clothes — TMI?)
Plan for a fun photo shoot
Launch a new website
Interview at least one of my bucket-list celebrities
Place freelance writing with at least five new publications (a mix of print and online)