Wednesday, December 17, 2008

My Wish List


I'll keep adding items... but for now...


  1. A ring with 4 stones... one for each of my children

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

My Bucket List

  1. Learn Jujitsu
  2. Write a cookbook
  3. Learn ballroom dancing and go to a ball
  4. Run a marathon
  5. Go to Madagascar
  6. Learn to fly a plane
  7. Become fluent in French
  8. Get my drivers license
  9. Find "my" job
  10. Go to the Oktober Fest in Germany
  11. Go swimming in the Great Barrier Reef
  12. Go to Russia and see the Kremlin
  13. See Stonehenge
  14. Go to the Natural History Museum in London
  15. Go on a Cruise
  16. Buy a car
  17. Buy my dream house
  18. Get a dog
  19. Go back to college - done
  20. Stop smoking
  21. Buy a plasma TV
  22. Buy a surround system
  23. Have a collection of 1000 movies
  24. Kiss my hubby on top of the Eiffel Tower
  25. Go scuba diving
  26. Do volunteer work
  27. Take a 3 month vacation in around Africa
  28. Take a cooking course - done
  29. Go to a live Jazz concert
  30. Watch a movie premiere
  31. Get laser hair removal
  32. Paint my house and paint murals in my kids bedrooms
  33. Make a blanket
  34. Buy combo bed's for my children - done
  35. Go to the Opera and Theater
  36. Go to Napa Valley for a wine tasting vacation
  37. Go to the Niagara Peninsula
  38. Learn to sign
  39. Draw a painting and hang it on my living room - done
  40. Be free of debt
  41. Have a 200 book library
  42. Open a savings account
  43. Make a speech in public
  44. Help someone in need... with money or solve a problem - done
  45. Make loans at kiva.org
  46. Become a blood donor - done
  47. Recycle efficiently
  48. Go on a Hot air balloon
  49. Go to the Congress Library
  50. Own all the James Bond movies
  51. Close my blog
  52. Create what I call home
  53. Grow a garden, with flowers, vegetables and herbs
  54. Read the Bible
  55. Have a weekend where I do... nothing - done
  56. Touch the pyramids in Egypt
  57. Walk on the Great Wall of China
  58. Go wild camping for a week - done
  59. Say what I feel to everyone I know
  60. Go skinny-dipping at midnight on an Island
  61. See Europe, Russia and India by train
  62. Give flowers to a stranger
  63. Send a message in a bottle
  64. Plant a tree every year
  65. Write a letter to Sean Connery and Morgan Freeman
  66. Shower in a Waterfall
  67. Write my will - done
  68. Overcome my fear of failure - done
  69. Visit the Holy Land
  70. Make love on every room of my house - done
  71. Visit Easter Island
  72. Visit my father's birthplace
  73. Visit my mother's birthplace
  74. Photograph an elephant, a lion, a giraffe, a whale, a rhino and a hippo
  75. Make a kite with my children. One for each of them.
  76. Go to Disney World with my children
  77. Write a letter for each one of my children, telling them what I want them to know about me and share my life experiences
  78. Read one book of the following: Shakespeare, Plato, Aristotle, Dickens, Saramago, Garcia Marquez, Thoreau, Rousseau, Conrad, Hemingway, Twain, Burroghs, Talmage, Tolstoi, Longfellow, Keats, Poe, Bacon, Whittier and Emerson
  79. Read for 20m each day - done
  80. Ride an elephant
  81. Swim with dolphins
  82. Go fishing and eat my catch
  83. Meet and listen to a lecture by Dr. Michio Kaku
  84. Ask money for my kids from the government - done
  85. Take a helicopter ride above NY or San Francisco
  86. Watch Cirque du Soleil live
  87. Create a weekly family tradition
  88. Achieve the quality of life that I want with my family
  89. Have lunch in Japan
  90. Reach 63kg and keep it
  91. Have emergency bags at home
  92. Invest
  93. Get enough stability to be able to spend 2h per day with my family - done
  94. Create a family Album
  95. Know the names of all Constellations
  96. Make wine the traditional way (stepping on grapes)
  97. Learn to say Hello, I love you and Goodbye in 100 languages
  98. Buy a PDA
  99. Watch the launch of a Space Shuttle
  100. See Comet Halley in 2061
  101. Own a Ballroom dress
  102. Drink piƱa coladas in the Caribbean
  103. Drive a convertible with the top down and loud music
  104. Learn to play a musical instrument
  105. Go dancing in the rain
  106. Travel around my country and see it all
  107. Wrap myself as a present for my hubby
  108. Visit a Blues bar in Chicago
  109. See a volcano
  110. Own an Encyclopedia
  111. Visit all European Countries