Life List,

I'm doing something kind of bold here. This post may not seem so out of the ordinary for bloggers, but it is for me. I'm about to tell you a part of me! Things that matter in my heart! Aren't you lucky? But really, the following post is my life list. My own "Buried Life" that I not only hope to achieve but will accomplish in full. So here she goes:

*Some items have been omitted and more are to come.

1. Hike the Appalachian Trail
2. Go to Yosemite National Park and climb halfdome
3. Complete a marathon--no make that a triathlon
4. Learn to climb, propel, and belay (that last one's kind of necessary for the other two)
5. Go spelunking (October 7, 2010: Raccoon Mtn., TN)
6. Learn to spin pottery
7. Write a book
8. Live in New York for at least a year
9. Learn to play an instrument
10. Have a kid
11. Road trip across the States (in part, my family has done so up the east coast to Maine)
12. Write a song
13. Fall in love
14. Write a blog (my own, I mean)
15. Explore the jungle, ride an elephant, zip line through a canopy of trees
16. Go on an archaeological adventure
17. Star in a play
18. Watch the classics (i.e. Casablanca and Gone With the Wind)
19. Bask in a field of sunflowers
20. Live my own year in Provence
21. Ride on the back of a Vespa with a European boy
22. Swim in a public fountain
23. Volunteer at a hospital
24. Go to the Pacific Northwest
25. Hike Machu Picchu
26. Learn to sew
27. Plant a garden (preferably an urban garden)
28. Go the Pearl Harbor Memorial
29. Scuba Dive
30. By Mom a beach house
31. Have a lousy waitressing job
32. Make Meme (my grandmother) a published book of all her and my grandfather's travels
33. Find a cure for Alzheimer's
34. Own a bookstore
35. Learn to shoot a gun (once is scary enough!)
36. Smoke a pipe (or cigar)
37. Learn to tango
38. Give away my possessions
39. Backpack all over the world
40. Get married (notice how this is late on the list)
41. Roller derby!
42. Get a tattoo
43. Sing at the Grande Ole Opry
44. Open up a bakery and coffee shop
45. Go to culinary school for fun
46. Go to Turkey (and just about everywhere else I can think of...)
47. Go hunting
48. See the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)
49. Farm my own food
50. Learn sign language
51. Go to Bonnaroo!
52. Be in a band (a girl band would be cause for bonus points)
53. Spend the night in Ikea

any suggestions?