Life list

So, I asked myself, what do I want to do in this life?

In no particular order. Some are stolen from Birthday letters (3): the best of intentions, a little life list I wrote on my 27th birthday.

1. Ride a horse and dismount in a controlled manner. Done in January 2012 at Disney World.
2. Wrap my hands around a steaming cup of coffee while staring at St. Basil’s in the snow.
3. Finally tour New England. Done in autumn 2011. Taking a job with a Boston-area company helped.
4. See the Carolinas. Done in April 2013, on a sewing retreat with Jacob.
5. Successfully complete a Mariner’s Compass quilt.
6. Learn to read music.
7. Finally take that decades-delayed trip to London. Stayed there for two weeks in September 2012.
8. Go back for a master’s degree.  But in what? Not sure I really want to do this.
9. Finally, actually, really, and truly — write the novel.
10. Then write the next one.
11. Visit China.
12. Camp overnight within earshot of the ocean.
13. Learn to drive on snowy roads.  2011, we had a snowstorm. I learned.
14. Learn to make the perfect biscuit.
15. Skydive.
16. Successfully order beer. In German. In Germany. August 2012, DrupalCon Munich, in a beer garden. 
17. Learn to blow glass. November 2009.  Learned the basics, at least.
18. Learn to juggle.  July, 2009.  Thanks, Jacob.
19. Go intercontinental. August 2009. France.
20. Stand on top of Great Wall. Turn to $traveling_companion and say, “Once upon a time, a random raging Mongol horde looked at this and said, ‘Hmph. We’ll just climb over it.’”
21. Finish off seeing all 50 states.
22. Figure out why in the world I’d go to North Dakota.
23. French Laundry. Dinner for one if necessary.
24. Now that I finally have contact lenses again, go snorkeling.
25. Drive across Canada.
26. Find some way of making the drink-and-snarkfest with Matthew a yearly event. We’re managing.
27. Spend at least half of dragon*con in costume. Did it a couple of years ago.
28. Without embarrassment or shyness.
29. Find out how billboards are put up.
30. Continue to avoid going on a cruise of any kind. This is sort of an ongoing thing.
31. Be a bit more forgiving of others. (Except when I’m talking to Matthew.)
32. Stop getting quite so twitchy when other people in the same room crunch ice.
33. Make the perfect mix CD.
34. Find out what the contents of a >$100 bottle of wine taste like. October 19, 2007. See the twitterlog.
35. Occasionally buy a piece of clothing not because I’m replacing something similar that I just wore out, but because it was pretty and I liked it. I think I’ve finally hit that point.
36. Finish Quarto. Done - and moved on to Drupal.
37. Make fewer lists. Live more.
38. Attend the Epcot Food & Wine Festival.
39. See aurora borealis in person. Extra credit: aurora australis.
40. Photograph the Alhambra.
41. Do a work stint in Australia and/or New Zealand. (Preferably ‘and’!)
42. Taste a real Kouign-amann in Brittany.
43. [Open for suggestions. Tomorrow’s another day.]