MIGHTY LIFE LIST

Inspired by the Mighty Life List of Maggie Mason:

1. Build a Mighty Life List
2. Attend the Indy 500 (preferably while Paul Tracy is racing)
3. Attend an opera
4. Take an Alaskan Cruise
5. Have a vegetable garden
6. Make a difference in a child’s life
7. Go parasailing
8. Have zero credit card debt
9. Exercise for 45 days straight
10. Take an African Safari
11. See the Northern Lights
12. Visit the Blue Lagoon in Iceland
13. Walk a half-marathon
14. Plan Sandie’s wedding
15. Own a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes
16. Start a compost bucket
17. Build a playground
18. Try Kimchi
19. Attend the Austin City Limits Music Festival
20. Get Lasik surgery on both eyes
21. Lose my “bat wings“
22. Dance burlesque
23. Live in Detroit proper
24. Grow sunflowers
25. Complete a 21 Days of Gratitude exercise
26. Complete a 30 Days of Fun exercise
27. Attend a sweat lodge (again)
28. Bathe in an outdoor bath in Costa Rica
29. Visit Mugdock Castle in Scotland
30. Earn a graduate degree
31. Quit smoking once and for all
32. Replace my ceiling fans
33. Live in a home with two bathrooms
34. Drive Route 66 end-to-end
35. Own land/a home on the water
36. Visit Norway
37. Have a nice lawn
38. Wear a fresh-picked Hibiscus flower in my hair, in Hawaii
39. Learn how to play steel guitar
40. Join a CSA
41. Dig up all the Yucca plants from my front planter & replace them with gravel and a flowering tree
42. Paint my bathroom white and chocolate brown
43. Vacation on a house boat
44. Collect enough beach glass to make a pretty piece of jewelry with elMomo
45. Reconnect with my best friend from childhood, Gaby Prouty
46. Ride the Snow Train through Agawa Canyon
47. Participate in at least one Detroit Restaurant Week
48. Have 6 months of expenses in a savings account
49. Karaoke on Bourbon Street
50. Get remarried – preferably to my now-husband