No. 2: Blog regularly

Last weekend over expensive coffee, I made a list of forty things to do before I'm forty. FORTY! Fortunately I'm not quite 37 1/2--so I have enough time to accomplish many of the things on the list. Some of them will take no more than an afternoon--others are probably too expensive to be realistic. Big, small, silly, sentimental. All kinds of things. Things that will enrich my life.

I put them in alphabetical order, because in this list none is more important than the others...

1. Apply yearly for Artist Trust GAP grant (for The Artist)
2. Blog regularly (at least 1x week)
3. Buy a house
4. Commute to work by bike
5. Create a Web site for The Artist
6. Eat a pancake breakfast at the Sons of Norway lodge
7. Eat at one of Mario Batali’s restaurants in New York
8. Eat more vegetables, less meat
9. Exhibit my artwork at least once per year
10. Finish Ilmatar quilt
11. Get off antidepressants
12. Get on a debt management plan
13. Go back to Finland
14. Go back to VanIsle and see Fiona
15. Go river rafting
16. Go to Montreal
17. Hike Ape Caves again
18. Join a food buying club
19. Make homemade fortune cookies
20. Make my mom an urn and scatter her remaining ashes
21. Make snowflake cookies
22. Never pay late fees/overdraft charges again
23. Organize all sewing and crafts
24. Organize bill paying system
25. Participate in NaNoWriMo
26. Raise credit score to 700
27. Raise household income to $50,000/year
28. Refinish/upholster corner chair
29. Ride the Portland Tram
30. See an active volcano
31. Set up worm composting
32. Sew 1950s dress and host a mid-century cocktail party
33. Shop off the rack at Ann Taylor
34. Start my Masters degree
35. Subscribe to two favorite magazines (only), read and apply info
36. Take a vacation with each kid alone
37. Take a wine appreciation class
38. Take The Artist on a couples vacation every year
39. Unpack all my cardboard boxes
40. Write a letter every month

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PREVIOUS COMMENTS

Bring on no 14! You'll love no 16; I'd like to come to no 32; and I too would like to take a wine appreciation class (no 37). I have just been back to UK for two weeks - alternative to Prozac. Reconnected with some 'old' friends, which made me feel better!

fiona mackey 02.12.07 - 6:46 am #