{"id":227,"date":"2012-07-13T03:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T03:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:37:07","slug":"my-life-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/my-life-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life List"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve recently started compiling my goals, both big and small, in to a life list (more commonly known as a bucket list). \u00a0Creating this list has allowed me to focus on my goals in order to accomplish them.<\/p>\n

1. Start up yoga again and don’t stop
\n2. Start biking long distance
\n3. Get through 1001 movies you should watch before you die<\/a>
\n4. Embroider a self-portrait
\n5. Unplug entirely for one week (phone only for emergencies)<\/del>
\n6. Own 50 original pieces of art from 50 different artists
\n7. Create how-to manuals for book structures
\n8. Publish a book
\n9. Send birthday & anniversary cards every year
\n10. Write letters to friends, family and acquaintances
\n11. Take a road trip across the country
\n12. Go on vacation once a year (suggestions: Hong Kong<\/del>, Grand Canyon, India, Paris<\/del>, Germany, Brussels)
\n13. Grow herbs in kitchen (basil, parsley, cilantro, rosemary, chives, thyme)<\/del>
\n14. Start a garden and then eat from it<\/del>
\n15. Get personalized stationary<\/del>
\n16. Go to Las Vegas<\/del>
\n17. Attend a rodeo
\n18. Take a hot air balloon ride
\n19. Get to know mine and Jason’s grandparents
\n20. Write in a journal on a daily basis
\n21. Buy a home and decorate it
\n22. Go horseback riding
\n23. Go kayaking<\/del>
\n24. Learn how to row<\/del><\/p>\n

25. Go to a real Haunted House
\n26. Join a CSA
\n27. Milk a cow
\n28. Own a dog
\n29. Host a dinner party<\/del>
\n30. Start a tradition
\n31. Learn mandarin
\n32. Ride an elephant
\n33.<\/del> Start and finish a 365 project<\/del><\/a>
\n34. Own and lay in a hammock
\n35. Plant a tree
\n36. Bury a time capsule (again)
\n37. Start eating locally raised meat
\n38. Create a successful blog<\/del>
\n39. Have 10 books in special collections or privately owned<\/del>
\n40. Make paper thread
\n41. Make homemade condiments (mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise<\/del>)
\n42. Try out different ethnic cuisines (restaurants in Boston)
\n43. Send Jason cards in the mail<\/del>
\n44. Sew an outfit<\/del>
\n45. Subscribe to a small press<\/del>
\n46. Learn how to dive and swim without plugging my nose
\n47. Go snorkeling
\n48. Learn how to play the accordion
\n49. Ride a mechanical bull
\n50. Learn how to dance<\/del>
\n51. Make biscotti with Aunt Debbie
\n52. Make sugu like Nana<\/del>
\n53. Participate in a charity walk
\n54. Buzz off my hair
\n55. Raise a family
\n56. Dye my hair a wild color (like lilac or mint blue)<\/del>
\n57. Read every book in my bookcase<\/p>\n

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I’ve recently started compiling my goals, both big and small, in to a life list (more commonly known as a bucket list). \u00a0Creating this list has allowed me to focus on my goals in order to accomplish them. 1. Start up yoga again and don’t stop 2. Start biking long distance 3. 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