Summer's List...Things I Wanna Do 

italics = doing it; strikethrough = done it

1. make a quilt
2. get a poem published
3. see a bear in the wild
4. brew my own chai
5. call my grandmas regularly
6. become one of those people who sends snailmail cards on birthdays and holidays
7. make a mosaic - a big one like a table or patio
8. stay decaf
9. pay off credit card debt
10. once credit card is paid off, reward myself with a cash-bought DSLR and macro lense
11. make recipe boxes for sis and cousins, give them new recipes every year
12. learn Spanish
13. own a house. make it a home.
14. build a greenhouse and grow orchids
15. tackle my fear of pastry and make to-die for pie crust
16. really learn guitar
17. get a couple of my best photos printed big, framed, and hung up
18. frame Grandma's intaglio prints
19. sew Christmas stockings
20. use that spa gift certificate!
21. make great grandma's yeast rolls
22. backpack Glacier National Park
23. hike Machu Picchu while chewing coca leaves. buy colorful handmade fabrics and share smiles with indigenous people.
24. run my toes through black sand beaches in New Zealand
25. make tamales
26. have a family
27. have an Australian shephard and a Lab and take them camping
28. garden
29. grow a huge pumpkin (in time for Halloween)
30. donate money to a worthy cause every month
31. buy a rug in Turkey
32. get a new tattoo
33. set up a college fund for my niece
34. hula in Hawaii. go fishing and catch a mahi mahi.
35. see fall leaves in Maine and eat lobster and snuggle with Ken by the sea
36. paint pottery. give some away. and keep some.
37. visit Spain. eat tapas and paella. see La Sagrada Familia.
38. swim in the Meditteranean Sea
39. wander through Rome. listen to rock-n-roll on my IPOD while inside St. Peter's Cathedral. see the Sistine Chapel. 
40. stroll the streets of Pompei
41. practice yoga
42. cherish each day
43. write a haiku every Friday
44. pray before ancient Buddhas in southeast Asia
45. take mopeds to see the valley of the butterflies on the Greek Island Rhodes
46. pick peaches and make jam
47. learn to rock climb
48. start a cooking club
49. eat locally, eat seasonally
50. organize a week-long Yosemite trip with family and friends
51. learn more about my Native American heritage
52. photograph tropical birds in South America
53. catch (and release) a marlin in the Gulf of California
54. get one of those Japanese hutches I love
55. design and build a waterfall and koi pond
56. buy beads in Bali
57. catch salmon and smoke it in our backyard.
58. raise awareness about ocean protection (whales, coral bleaching, loggerhead turtles, overfishing)
59. through-hike the John Muir Trail, finish by peaking Mt. Whitney
60. attend a day of track-and-field at an Olympics in a foreign country
61. create a family tree using Grandma's geneology research. make it pretty. give framed copies to sis and the cousins.
62. take my mom to Tuscany. rent motorcycles and visit castles.
63. work a project with Water for People
64. make my own prayer flags. fly them from trees when we go camping.
65. find a carved stone Guan Yin statue and find the perfect place for it in the garden
66. plant a garden for butterflies and hummingbirds
67. study for and pass the last part of my engineering exam
68. see Mom and Sis at least once a month
69. have an art studio
70. make really good paella
71. Travel to Trinidad to See the Nesting Of the Giant Leatherbacks
72. batik some fabric
73. make my own soap
74. build a mason bee house
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