first exploration of the dessert...My Life List

So why the photo? I just liked it!

day 1

My Life List

I was inspired by a post at  Making in Lovely via The Mighty Life List

This is something that I have been thinking of doing for quite a while, but as I am a very good procrastinator, I need motivation and I do well when I put a list together and tick them off.

Therefore I decided that the last day of 2011 is the day to put these down and take charge of what I want to achieve in life. 

These things have been circling in my head for a very long time , I just needed some motivation to write them down... and what's better than putting them out there for all the world to see?

So here is my list:

Note: I want to get to 100, but so far this is what I have come up with.
The list is in no particular order
[the updated list can be found here]

1. Create a blog of 'My Life List' and regularly update it (and hopefully more than myself reads it)
2. Explore more Greek Islands. Go back to Santorini and see the sun set again. Go back to Naxos and have lunch & dinner at Kontos, Mikri Vigla
3. Live in Italy for 6 months (preferably near Tuscany)
4. Visit to Positano/Amalfi Coast
5. Go on a safari in Africa
6. Take my husband to Bangkok and show him why I love it
7. Go see the Formula1 in Melbourne
8. Go see the Formula1 in Monte Carlo
9. Visit the Taj Mahal
10. Go see Japan in Cherry Blossoms season
11. Renovate a terrace in the inner west
12. Create a blog about said renovations
13. Have my current home/renovated home appear on Apartment Therapy/deecor8/etc
14. Publish my city travel guides for my friends (so far I have New York, Bali, Bangkok)
15. Help my husband write & publish ‘Sir Drinks-a-lot’ children’s book (hopefully it becomes a series)
16. Learn how to take great photographs
17. Escape to the country (when am over living in the city)
18. Set up a greenhouse in the back yard to grow orchids
19. Grow a veggie patch/orchard in back yard
20. Live in a house with a conservatory
21. Retire and open up a Bed and Breakfast (preferably in the country)
22. Go on a global U2 pilgrimage for their next/any tour
23. Have Bono take me up on stage (might as well dream BIG)
24. Get U2 to play Love is Blindness at a concert we are at
25. Put together my family tree (the Italian side)
26. Get to my ideal weight and stay there
27. Be completely debt-free (mortgage included)
28. Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
29. Have a wall to ceiling  library in my house with a rolling ladder
30. Choose a good cookbook and cook every recipe in it
31. Learn how to bake cakes (and not blame the oven)
32. Renew our wedding vows in Las Vegas (Elvis style)
33. Buy a real Eames/Hand Wegner piece of furniture
34. Visit/snorkel over the Great Barrier Reef/Helicopter over the love heart island
35. Climb the Great Wall of China
36. Take a road trip through the South of France
37. Take a road trip through California and visit the Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Springs, San Francisco just to name a few
38.  Do a floristry course and add more flowers to my life
39. Watch the 100 Movies to See Before You Die
40. Read Top 100 Books Of All Time
41. See a real Banksy on the street
42. Go to the Carnival in Brazil
43. Live and work overseas for a year (plan for 2012 is New York)
44. Decide whether or not we want to start a family
45. Show people the amazing things about Sydney, Australia
46. Pay off my credit cards in full and manage my funds a lot better than I have in the past
47. Go to Egypt and see the pyramids
48. Write a letter to Mrs. Kahler (my school careers advisor)
49. Go to Disneyland 
50. Sing Karaoke in front of a crowd
51. Each much better (ie. less sugar, carbs and chicken and more fish and red meat)
52. Wear Lipstick over consecutive days (preferably red)
53. Master my mother's eggplant Parmigiana
54. Try absinthe
55. Buy a real Norman Lindsay artwork
56. Make up for a regret and buy that Marc Chagal print 

I want to use this list as inspiration to do things that I have always wanted. Things will be crossed off and things will be added. If things don't get done then that is OK. I just want to make sure that I have a compass that guides me in the right direction and keeps inspiring me.

This blog will serve as a place where I put my thoughts down as to why I chose these goals, but also somewhere were I can record my amazing experiences... and hopefully there will be a lot.

So Happy New Year! Here's to a fun and exciting 2012... who knows what this year will bring?

UPDATE: The list has since updated and can be found at this post