Meaningful Monday - Life’s To-Do List

Just One More Thing I’d Like To Do Before The End of Time

Start a family: achieved 05/50/05 and 09/02/07

Have a hero that I adore, admire and look up to

Have a mentor

Be a mentor

Get back to my roots

Visit my grandparents’ birthplaces

Build something that lasts

Learn to fix my own car

Learn to drive a manual transmission vehicle

Learn martial arts

Be a good role model: ongoing

Learn the meaning of ‘my’ life: ongoing

Write a novel

Become a grandparent

Visit one other first world country

Visit a second world country

Visit a third world country: achieved 03/2003

Watch a tornado

Learn to play a musical instrument

At least ‘try’ to sing: ongoing

Volunteer

Backpack: achieved 08/2000

Touch a mountain

Drive cross-country (preferably Route 66)

Save a life

Find a religion

Learn to sail

Ride a horse, again

Build or buy a home

Invent something

Buy a brand new car: achieved 04/2008

Live in a big city

Live in the country

Have animals: achieved 05/2005

Learn a foreign language

Learn photography: achieved 08/2002

Make an out of state or out of country friend and never meet them, just talk like best friends via the Internet

Swim with dolphins

Go on a safari

Play with monkeys

Visit a rainforest

Without thinking twice, buy a pair of cowboy boots and a hat, maybe even some Wrangler’s and a country shirt

Visit Vegas

Visit Niagara Falls: achieved 06/2005

Visit Eiffel Tower in Paris

Visit Empire State Building in New York City: achieved 06/2005

Visit The Statue of Liberty: achieved 06/2005

Visit the Grand Canyon

Whale Watching: achieved 03/2003

Own a Jeep Wrangler

See an ocean: achieved 03/2003

Go shopping at United States biggest mall: http://www.mallofamerica.com/

Have a garden, vegetable and flowers

Ride in a hot air balloon

See the Aurora Borealis

Go white water rafting

Go canoeing, again

Be passionately kissed in the rain, again

Celebrate New Years Eve in Times Square

Donate blood: (plasma) achieved 2/2003

Learn yoga: achieved 01/2002

Learn to meditate: achieved 08/1999

Learn to self-hypnotize: achieved 08/1999

Learn to do pilates

Explore my spirituality

Finish college, get a degree

Fall madly in love: achieved 05/2004

Go snorkeling

Learn to dance

Lose weight: achieved 06/2008

Take mom to Nashville: no longer possible

Ride a motorcycle

Ride a trolley: achieved 03/2003

Ride in a plane: achieved 03/2003

Ride on a train: achieved 03/2003

Ride on a bus (Greyhound): achieved 03/2003

Go to a horse race

Go to an auto race

Go to a pro basketball game: achieved 04/2006

Go to a pro hockey game

Go to a pro baseball game, again

See a solar eclipse

See a volcano

Sleep on the beach

Sleep under the stars

Visit Hawaii

Visit Alaska

Visit Mt. Rushmore

Visit the Smithsonian Institute

Trace family tree as far back as I can go: achieved 1/2006

Try to ski

Decorate my own home: achieved 06/2004

Take a wilderness trip

Go to Mardi Gras

See the Northern Lights