I’ve been inspired by SF Girl by Bay and others to create a mighty life list: 100-ish things to make happen in a lifetime.  I tend to be very deadline and goal oriented so I find these type of lists to be a helpful outlet for my neurosis.  Years ago I created a list of things to accomplish by 30 that I have slowly been ticking off, and I think I will actually make it.  This list was a little more fun to make, more aspiration and less pressure.  It makes it all the more fun because going on safari has long been one of my life goals and I am checking that box AS YOU READ THIS!  In fact, I have preemptively crossed “go on safari” off the list. [Yes, I am the type of person who adds something to a to-do list that she has already done just so she can cross it off.  It is shameful, I know.]   

So, without further ado, here is my mighty life list.  I haven’t hit a hundred yet [either I am not ambitious enough or not creative enough], but that just means I have room to grow.  I think I will also add it as a page on the blog to serve as a daily reminder.

My Mighty Life List 

Go on safari • Speak Spanish fluently • Learn conversational French • Live in Africa • Visit Machu Picchu • Have a bulldog • Adopt a child • Road trip across the USA • Be invited to the White House • Live in Paris for a while • Commute via Vespa • See the ballet at the Bolshoi (again) • Go skiing in Argentina • Visit Tierra del Fuego • Swim in the Dead Sea • Foster rescue dogs • Live on a ranch • Decorate a ranch house • Take a photography class • Know how to take amazing photos • Sit courtside at an NBA game • Meet Hillary Clinton • Meet Bill Clinton • Vote for a female president, who is elected • Spend time in Colombia • Make a million • Give away a million • Show my grandmother around Mexico City • Ride in a helicopter • Learn to make tamales • Donate money to ASPCA • Work to end hunger in America • Work to empower women in the world • Retire early •Run a race at 50 • Travel without a laptop • Own property outside of the US • Study paleontology for fun • See the Grand Canyon • Take a ballet folklórico class • Visit a free Cuba • Take surfing lessons in Costa Rica • Live in Austin • Work abroad (not from home) • Take the Queen Mary 2 across the Atlantic • Be a mentor • Belong to a book club • Learn all the words to Las Mañanitas • Have a pied-à-terre• See the pyramids of Giza • Own a Chanel jacket • Be a subject matter expert • Stay close with my cousins • Dance at my sister’s wedding • Dance at my brother’s wedding • Re-watch the entire West Wing series • Watch every I Love Lucy episode • Climb Chichen Itza (apparently you can’t climb Chichen Itza anymore so I am giving myself this one for just visiting Chichen Itza) • Read García Márquez in Spanish • Find good Mexican food in DC • Advise a presidential candidate, on something • Grow my hair long again • Wear cowboy boots • Teach someone to read • Fly in an A380 • Go to Barcelona