Life list
- Learn to swim, dive into a pool
- Complete home renovations (bathrooms, a library, entrance, kitchen)
- Visit Jamaica
- Volunteer with Marie-Hélène
- Design my blog’s header
- Write a book
- Own a dSLR
- Learn to take beautiful pictures
- Retrace my ancestor’s steps (which include Ireland, Maine and France)
- Teach
- Have letterpressed business cards
- Bake homemade oreos
- Journal (starting with a sentence a day)
- Attend a Banville & Jones evening with Christian (cooking and wine class)
- Do something scary with Christian (involving heights: ziplinning, parasailing, hot-air ballooning…)
- Visit 100 new places in Manitoba (including the 16 bilingual municipalities)
- Refurbish an old piece of furniture
- Have enough subscribers to host a giveaway
- Have and train a dog
- Publish 50-100 uniquely manitoban recipes
- Find the perfect tourtière recipe
- Learn to ride a horse
- Shoot a gun
- Bid at an auction
- Chart my geneology
- Write an e-book
- Learn how to interview people thoughtfully
- Organize a home binder (for emergencies, renovations)
- Create an inspiration board
- Learn how to re-upholster a chair
- Take a pastry class in Paris
- Launch a social-media website
- Attend a blogging conference
- Sing in public
- Visit Austria with Jasmina
- Visit Churchill as a family, see the polar bears, watch the northern lights
- Take a biking trip with Christian
- Ride a tandem
- Eat fresh peaches in Ontario
- Visit a winery
- Meet and converse with a celebrity
- Start a small business
- Give back
- Own a piece of prairie
- Bake 1000 things and take pictures of each recipe
- Create handmade gifts regularly
- Write an article for a canadian newspaper or magazine
- Expand my musical horizon (2000 songs), sing along to 50 songs, be able to recognize the great composers
- Celebrate a special occasion with Champagne
- Hang local art in my home
- Try sushi with Christian
- Go on an expedition with National Geographic
- Open an educational centre (like 826)
- Learn to sew
- Make a quilt
- Type 50 words a minute
- Organize an “Improv Everywhere” event with friends
- Become a wine connoisseur
- Read Don Quixote, watch the musical with my mom
- Read 100 biographies
- Read 50 classics
- Spend a wedding anniversary with Christian at the Banff Springs Hotel
- Spend a summer in a cabin along a river (or lake) in Quebec
- Spend a summer in the Maritimes, visit a lighthouse, eat fresh lobster
- Visit a Hutterite colony, swap recipes
- Take a course in Photoshop
- Speak German fluently
- Host a costume party
- Set up an outdoor event in a park (with food, games, decorations, pictures, and a white tent)
- Have a Winnipeg-in-Bloom worthy garden
- Take an art class at the WAG with a friend
- Throw a birthday party for Christian
- Learn to dance
- Paintball with John
- Canoe with Christian and the Princess
- French braid Marie-Hélène’s hair
- Find (and photograph) 25 reasons why living in Winnipeg is great
- Buy Christmas presents online
- Host a fundraising event
- Go sailing!
- Milk a cow (thanks Karen!)
- Operate a loader
- Discover what makes truffles so special
- Ride a train as a family
- Attend a writer’s conference
- Go berry picking with Marie-Hélène and wear a straw hat
- Make lavendar ice cream
- Have the means and space to invite people over often
- Simplify, simplify, simplify!
- Go camping (at least once!) as a family
- Take part in a treasure hunt
- Make paper cranes with Marie-Hélène
- Watch 50 movie classics
- Learn sign language
- Participate in/photograph a festival
- Attend a major sports event with Christian
- Enable someone’s dream
- Get my B.A. and B.E.
- Try riding a motorcycle, wear leather
- Make a habit of meditating
- Learn a poem by heart
- Make a terrarium, or two, and give one as a gift