The list is in no particular order
Create a blog of 'My Life List' and regularly update it (and hopefully more than little old me reads it) DONE... I just now need to make it look much better than it does currently- Explore more Greek Islands. Go back to Santorini and see the sun set again. Go back to Naxos and have lunch and dinner at Kontos, Mikri Vigla (many times) Explained
- Live in Italy for 6 months (preferably near Tuscany/Siena)
- Visit Positano/Amalfi Coast
- Go on a safari in Africa
- Take my husband to Bangkok and show him why I love it
Go see the Formula1 in Melbourne DONE- Go see the Formula1 in Monte Carlo
- Visit the Taj Mahal
- Go see Japan in Cherry Blossoms season
- Renovate a terrace in the inner west of Sydney Explained
- Create a blog about said renovations
- Have my current home/renovated home appear on Apartment Therapy/deecor8/or similar
- Publish my city travel guides for my friends (so far I have New York, Bali, Bangkok)
- Help my husband write and publish ‘Sir Drinks-a-lot’ children’s book (hopefully it's as big as Harry Potter!)
- Learn how to take great photographs
- Escape to the country (when I am over living in the city)
- Set up a greenhouse in the back yard to grow phalaenopsis orchids Explained
- Grow a veggie patch/orchard in back yard A start
- Live in a house with a conservatory
- Retire and open up a Bed and Breakfast (preferably in the country)
- Go on a global U2 pilgrimage for their next/any tour Explained Started
- Have Bono take me up on stage (might as well dream BIG) Explained
- Get U2 to play Love is Blindness at a concert we are at Explained
- Put together my family tree (the Italian side)
- Get to my ideal weight and stay there (10kg less than what I am currently)
Started
- Be completely debt-free (mortgage included)
- Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary
- Have a wall to ceiling library in my house with a rolling ladder
- Choose a good cookbook and cook every recipe in it
- Learn how to bake cakes (and not blame the oven) Explained Started
Renew our wedding vows in Las Vegas (Elvis style) Explained DONE- Buy a real Eames/Hand Wegner piece of furniture Explained Sorta DONE
- Visit/snorkel over the Great Barrier Reef/Helicopter over the love heart island
- Climb the Great Wall of China
- Take a road trip through the South of France
Take a road trip through California and visit the Joshua Tree National Park, Palm Springs, San Francisco just to name a few DONE... but we are so going back- Do a floristry course and add more flowers to my life Explained
- Watch the 100 Movies to See Before You Die
- Read Top 100 Books Of All Time
- See a real Banksy on the street Explained
- Go to the Carnival in Brazil
- Live and work overseas for a year (plan for 2012 is New York) Currently doing in Wellington, New Zealand and been here for over 3 years
Decide whether or not we want to start a family- Show people the amazing things about Sydney, Australia Ongoing
Show people the amazing things about Wellington, New Zealand 2013/2014/2015/2016
Pay off my credit cards in full and manage my funds a lot better than I have in the past DONE- Go to Egypt and see the pyramids
Write a letter to Mrs. Kahler (my school careers advisor) DONE- Go to Disneyland
- Sing Karaoke in front of a crowd
- Eat much better (ie. less sugar, carbs and chicken and more fish and red meat)
- Wear Lipstick over consecutive days (preferably a shade of red)
- Master my mother's eggplant Parmigiana
- Master all my mum's Italian recipes Ongoing
Try absinthe DONE- Buy a real Norman Lindsay artwork
Make up for a regret and buy that Marc Chagall print Explained DONE- Perfect my spoken Italian
- Experience a white Christmas
- Try not to judge people too early
- Be more tidy and organized (may have slight hoarder tendencies)
- Visit all the wine regions of Australia (the Hunter Valley has been done to death)
- Live more sustainably (stop throwing food out)
- Learn to stress less over unnecessary things (and consequently save on massage/physiotherapy bills)
- Become more organized and stop focusing on doing the fun things first
- See the emperor penguins in Antarctica
- Get a tattoo Explained
- Become someone that regularly exercises
Started - seeing a PT twice a week
- Find the perfect 'little black dress' Explained
Skinny DipGo back to Central Park in NYC and see the Alice in Wonderland statue DONE- Eat a pizza in Naples
- Buy an antique worthy of the 'Antiques Roadshow'
Go to the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles Explained DONE- Go back to Paris
Go back to the Getty museum in Los Angeles Explained DONELearn how to put a full face of make up on- Live in a house with Gargoyles
- Find the perfect Fajitas
- Visit Morocco
- Search for the perfect Margarita Adventure commenced
- Donate blood regularly Started
- Read all the books on my bookshelf Started
See Bill Cunningham at work/on his bike in NYC Alas I have to remove this from the list as Bill passed away in June 2016- Finish the cross stitch project (that I have been working on for the last 15 years) Explained
- Be able to afford a pair of authentic designer shoes and/or hand bag
- Own an original Fabergé egg
- Stay a night at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok
- Visit the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia
- Live in a house with a Jacaranda tree
- Take a tour of the Eames House
- Hear Bono sing live the 'Shine like Stars' coda in With or Without You
- Go to Palm Springs and attend Modernism Week
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- Accept myself for who I am
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