Tuesday, January 24, 2012

if He gives me the days

[PS. PLEASE COPY THIS IDEA.]

* will probably never have a check next to them because they are things I'd like to do continuously throughout all of life

and these are not in order of priority.

1. visit/stay at a monastery
2. finish my degree
3. become an esthetician
4. have a baby out of my crotch
5. adopt a child
6. have a dog
7. get a motorcycle
8. roadtrip/train trip out west
9. live in homer alaska with the hubby for a summer
10. mentor young woman *
11. Learn make my own shampoo and laundry detergent
12. make a large area rug
13. knit a blanket
14. learn to sew clothes
15. enter artprize
16. paint a masterpiece
17. get a good camera
18. (CHECK) Have sex with my hub
19. (CHECK. no comment. ) Have sex in weird fun places
20. Take a train to NYC, and then go to a Broadway in NYC
21. broadway: Lion King
22. Blog the gospel*
23. (CHECK) Go horse back riding (thanks Stef!)March 2012
24. (CHECK... though they weren't great.) Shoot my own engagement photos
25. love people intentionally *
26. #1. love God. *
27. (CHECK... at HsAP) Become an art teacher (maybe teach it college level someday)
28. Take a pottery class
29. (CHECK) become a cosmetologist April 2011
30. (CHECK) See Wicked in broadway 2010?
31. Broadway: Phantom of the Opera
32. Broadway: Les Miserable
33. Write the bible
34. Read Ahab's wife
35. Write Poetry Manuscripts *
36. Have a flower garden
37. grow my own herbs
38. (CHECK) dye my hair copper/red January 2012
39. (CHECK - 2013) Dye my hair platinum
40. (CHECK- the few underneath will be enough for me.) dreadlocks.
41. (CHECK... Sept 1, 2012) get married
42. (CHECK) skydive. Summer 09
43. Skydive with my husband
44. learn how to snowboard
45. more dark room classes
46. get a zoom lens
47. get a big computer with light-room
48. (CHECK,  a small one, for Nora English, 2011) knit a blanket
49. get a tattoo
50. Suffer a death of a close one well. Suffer well. (Ps 34:1)
51. Work out three times a week *
52. make music*
53. Become a carpenter of sorts
54. Memorize Scripture *
55. Cook kick-butt meals for people *
56. Become gluten free, really.
57. Get a massage table and love people this way
58. (CHECK) go cross-country skiing (with Max March 2012)
59. Travel, photograph, paint *
60. own a small cottage/cabin that other people can go to as well
61. (CHECK) Make really big pillows
62. Blog to 10,000
63. go to a bed and breakfast up in the Northern cold cold part of Michigan
64. Take criticism well *
65. get a sewing machine
66. love unconditionally *
67. work at a plant shop.
68. Great wolf lodge.
69. Paint sailboats, lots of them.
70. Work at founders
71. Be hot still at 65 years old
72. Make my hub and my kids feel good about who God has made them because of the love of God in me. *
73. Run a 5k
74. Study counseling
75. Counsel couples with Max
76. Corkboard: goals, dreams, personalities, how to love well - up in our house
77. See all of my brothers get married.
78. (CHECK, with Max, once Married, 2012) own my own house
79. (CHECK: Max bought me one in 2012 but it didn't live long... sadly) get a jeep
80. go to switzerland, Sweden, Ireland
81. Get a kick-butt bike
82. (CHECK: from rachel and jared moberg for our wedding) get a bike rack
83. get my belly button pierced after having a baby
84. (CHECK: thanks babe.) art room in my house for all my art crap
85. clean, organized, well lived in home
86. teach art to high schoolers (HSB?)
87. Share the gospel with a stranger
88. Muffin mission
89. Pray for someone every single day (like the lil old lady did for Max) *
90. Teach young women how to love their hubs
91. have a house that smells so good
92. share well. *
93. borrow well. *
94. Say sorry easily. But healthily.*
95. Learn more about painting.
96. learn more about photography (digital)
97. (CHECK, Oct 1, 2012) Pay off all school debt.
98. Make my besties a painting.
99. (CHECK, for Christmas 2012) paint my parents home.
100. be in love still at 65 years old, no regrets.
101. finish the house.
102. live in midtown.
103. be a barista
104. hospitable. *
105. write 25 really really good songs.
106. travel to every state
107. homeschool uniquely.
108. hike. hike. hike. *
109. Camp. camp. camp. *
110. Get two person tent.
111. learn to croquet
112. give away 1000 $ at one time
113. (CHECK, August, 2012) Meet Gidget
114. Learn to love my hub well
115. Disciple women in my living room.
116. own my own gallery/art space/hair salon/store
117. Women's center
118. paint a portrait of Max
119. (CHECK April 2013 with my man friend)go to hawaii
120. Take a group of kids out west
121. (CHECK) live in community SBR 2007-2009
122. (CHECK) Finish the SBR lion painting.
123. K Berry as my Neighbor
124. Go to europe and backpack and stay in hostels with the man friend and take pictures like crazy
125. Say thank you Abba, everyday.*
126. (CHECK, BEACH! Sept 1, 2012, Max Garter) get married in a field or on the beach.
127. (CHECK) art show that I am proud of at Madcap March - May 2012
128. write a book.
129. have a rust colored bathroom
130. enjoy being a Mom and Wife as first priority.
131. Paint a room puke green.
132. be satisfied with each area of my home. live and use each part of my home.
133. Keep only what I need. sustain this lifestyle.
134. Finish "8 minutes in the morning" straight through.
135. be unafraid what people think of me.
136. YWAM
137. make my own spicess
138. (CHECK) live in Alaska Winter 2010
139. Own a leather couch that you can sink into
140. (CHECK... Max Garter, hubba hubba) Be married to a man with manly hands and aspirations
141. hot tub in a hot spring
142. Make a loft in my house
143. go to ireland
144. get a wiener dog
 145. Take Max to Lake Tahoe
 146. start a womens blog with Jana
 147. go to england
 148. adopt a child with special needs
 149. live near water
 150. buy max a big leather chair
 151. have a happy husband.
 152. get a corkboard with our personalities, dreams, goals etc on it
 153. live in a yurt for a time
154. get these hormones balanced ( try by going to see a natural doctor)
155. take a mud bath
156. own an animal hide rug someday
157. go to yellowstone national park
158. go on a cruise
159. live in a bathing suit
160. grow wildflowers
161. be happy with my bodies health and fitness
162. become a personal trainer
163. venice italy
164. see Maxs hair in a poneytail again
165. finish a bible read through
166. ride a camel
167. get a white tattoo
168. see a bear in the wild
169. 10 ORPHANS
170. (CHECK 2013) cut my hair and love it
171. grow my own christmas tree
172. enter artprize
173. become an art professor
174. get a 250 engine motorcycle
175. (CHECK 2013) get hunter boots
176. be sunshine in this world *

2 comments:

Brooke Collier said...

i loved reading this. it's a unique peek at what you value and aspire to.
you listed switerzerland and dreadlocks twice each. does that mean you ESPECIALLY want to do those things? :)

Anonymous said...

I copied your idea. Don't hate me.