100 things

Fashioned after a life list posted by a blogger much, much, much, much more fancy and accomplished than I will ever be..

I am NOT going to be intimidated by my smallness, my lack of special talents, or my lack of imagination... I'm going to plow ahead and make my OWN life list. I believe firmly in learning from others, and don't mind at all taking a great idea and using it for myself! (And I don't expect Intel will foster my life list, either...but luckily I have Bill Lucken for that.)

So here we go:

1. Have a garden that is so nice, someone will want it to be on a garden walk
2. Run a half marathon
3. Do a triathalon
4. Start a garden club...and with it
5. Host a perennial exchange
6. Become a rower again
7. Redesign my front yard garden
8. Make a butterfly garden
9. Go hiking in Kauai
10. Learn how to windsurf
11. Spend a month living somewhere else with my family
12. Go back to school for something useless
13. Go back to school for something useful
14. Finish my basement, myself
15. Have a black cat
16. Volunteer for something I believe in...
17. Teach myself how to swim...or take swim lessons
18. Refrain from eating chocolate for one week (so hard!)
19. For one week, wake up early to exercise (so hard, too!)
20. Build a pond myself
21. Find gainful employment
22. See my children graduate from high school
23. See my children graduate from college
24. Help someone buy their first house (or renovate it)

Not very imaginative yet...but I'm going to keep working on it! Can you tell I am recently so excited about home improvement projects, and gardening...and wanting to exercise more? (but the home improvement projects and gardening are taking up all the time. For the past 3 days I have been helping Bill install and clean our *free* hot tub...and making a creek bed with all of the rocks and concrete we have had to move in the process. And I have fallen in love with power washing.