My List of Things I Want to Do (a.k.a The List)

In no particular order, with no timeline and no expectations, below is a list of things I want to do. For why and how this list got started, click here.

• Learn to make bread (and learn to not fear making bread!)  Made my first bread on August 3. You can read about it here. 
• Buy and use a funky, cool camera (like this one) Bought the Diana+ on April 23, 2008!! 
• Write 12 short stories
• Learn about aromatherapy
• Take singing lessons
• Go on a meditation retreat
• Camp out in California EJD and I car camped at Wind Wolves Preserve on 3/15-16. Camped at Bitter Creek in October 2008.
• Create a special camera project with Madison
• Volunteer for a month again somewhere overseas
• Write a letter to each person in my family telling them what I like about them
• Organize a girls' weekend with ALL my girls!! It happened! Nan, Steph, Heidi and I got together in June for a girls' weekend in Santa Fe! Too. Much. Fun. 
• Take a kayak trip
• Go to a shooting range
• Take a snorkeling vacation
• Get Hope's Flame into stores
• Volunteer for an animal sanctuary
• Submit three essays to magazines by the end of 2008
• Write my cookbook
• Snowshoe
• Snowboard
• Spend the entire day NAKED!
• Dually Noted - go for it! Totally going for it...check it out at http://duallynoted.squarespace.com
• Buy only local food for one week
• Give up booze and caffeine for one month...and ask myself why I'm doing this
• Hit every museum in LA Huntington Library, Art Collection and Gardens (Feb. 7, 2008), Getty Museum (May 2008), Santa Monica Museum of Art (June 5, 2008), Norton Simon Museum (October 10, 2008), Museum of Contemporary Art (November 14, 2008) 
• Take more pottery classes
• Learn to make lots of interesting cocktails - at least one new one a month
• Rent that big house on the cliff overlooking the ocean in Big Sur
• Visit all the botanic gardens in LA Huntington Gardens (Feb. 7, 2008), LA Arboretum (February 19, 2008) 
• Make Emmett a compilation CD
• Send in something to PostSecret.com
• Throw another tea party
• Write to friends more often like I used to - send a card to three people every week
• Create a treasure hunt for EJD
• Make a quilt by hand
• Take an overnight train trip Took the Southwest Chief from Santa Fe to Los Angeles in August 2008!
• Take a session at Esalen
• Participate in WDYDWYD
• Take a trip with Stephanie in 2008
• Keep a journal more consistently
• Go back to Ireland
• Go back to Australia
• Read the complete works of an author
• Make a collage. And then a second one. Check out the two Name Collages I made here. **Update: I just signed up for a 10-week collage course (April through June) at the Armory Center for the arts in Pasadena.)  **Update: The class was canceled due to low enrollment. I'll on the lookout for another one.
• Go to Santa Fe with Heidi It happened in June 2008! 
• Reconnect with a lost friend (Susan? Mark? Lynn? Ann?)
• Commit to Letter by Letter and its pursuit of creative activities and social networks
• Throw another big-ass party for ALL our friends
• Have a Saltistry party  Had a Saltistry Happy Hour with Loretta and Kelly in May 2008...and used all seven infused sea salts on different appetizers!
• Learn to surf
• Get into baking vegan treats Made my first vegan baked good on 3/1/2008: pound cake. It was awesome! Have made it several times since (great for spring/summer desserts). Took a vegan baking class at Spork Foods on 5/10! Made vegan brownies on 5/18 which were a disaster (but I'm not giving up!). Made a vegan chocolate birthday cake for Tamra on 5/25! I think I can check this one off my list...it's pretty much a way of life for me now.
• See the cherry trees in bloom in DC
• Project a Day blog
• Take a trip to New England
• Conceptualize and execute my Tribute to Granny project. Taking first step by creating a project to do list on 5/18/2008. Have been journaling about Granny memories throughout June. Have been writing short blocks of stories throughout July.