Self-Satisfied Smirk
This is my life list.
It's about seeking out opportunities to keep learning, exposing oneself to new cultural influences and fresh experiences, looking at life from new angles. It's about doing what you want to do. It's about taking the chance when that door opens and stepping through it.
It's about not wasting opportunities.
"No Opportunity Wasted is about learning how to live while you still have the chance, about letting go of the handrails, taking off your tie (and maybe taking off a lot more, while you're at it), and swerving off that predictable road you've been following for years--onto a strange and bumpy path that just might, with a bit of luck, get you lost. It is about taking the time to enjoy experiences you've denied yourself. It's also about sharing experiences with other people you know and connecting with people you don't know - beginning with yourself." -- Phil Keoghan
If you can/want to help me achieve one of the items on my list, please send me an e-mail and let me know what you can do to help!
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams. Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. - Erna Bombeck
To Experience
- See all the capitals of Canada
- Take a photography classe
- Go winter camping
- Fly a helicopter
- Volunteer
- Get over my fear of failure
- Bike 100ish KM (Moncton - Acadieville)
- Sleep under the stars (no tent)
- Join an improv group
- Have a full body massage
- Take painting lessons
- Carving on lenolium
- See an iceburg
- Visit Louisiana - mostly New Orleans & Lafayette
- Beat Billy at Monopoly
- Drive across Canada
- Be able to do at least one chin-up
- Learn how to sew
- Be an extra in a movie
- Learn how to drive standard
- Build my own storage unit (shelves, entertainment centre...)
- Learn sign-language
- Improve my Spanish
- Read the dictionary (french or english)
- Read 99 of the iRewards Readers' Choice top 100
- Own a copy of all the 99 books I'll be reading.
- Rapelling
- Kayaking
- Take Billy deep sea fishing
- Meet Beatriz
- Get a B.A.
- Take Billy to an NFL Game
- Stand on a mountain top
- SCUBA dive
- Buy a canvas - paint it - display in the house
- Reach 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 blood donations
- fold 1000 paper cranes
- write every day for a year (min 50 words)
- catalogue my postcard collection - step two: log the mailed cards in a database (that I have already built)
- find 50 geocaches
- See Bruce Springsteen in concert
- get a postcard stamped from every country (progress)
- Complete the 100 pushups challenge
- Run another 5K and beat my previous time
Experienced!
- Traveled to Yellowknife, NWT. Went for a helicopter ride. Went dog sledding (April 1992)
- Own a digital camera - May 2003
- Win the lottery - 400$ May 2003 / $649 November 2005
- Run a 5K - May 23 2004
- Learn how to knit - Winter 2005 (Learned Purl in Feb 2007)
- Jump off a wharf - June 26 2006
- Convince at least one other person to do up a "life list" and ask them to pay it forward. (Way to Go, Mike!)
- See BonJovi in Concert! - July 27, 2006, July 2007, December 2007
- Volunteer - signed up for Table Cleaning Duty during the Acadieville Picnic! - September 2006
- Volunteer - am a regular(ish) volunteer with the Calgary Public Library's computer programs (started 2009)
- Learn how to french braid my own hair
- Rock / Wall Climbing - March 11, 2007
- Stack Dice - April 10, 2007
- Walk on a glacier - May 7, 2007
- Meet Phil Keoghan - May 15, 2007
- Climb Hoodoos - June 2, 2007
- Applied to be on N.O.W - Canada - May 2007
- Give blood - June 29, 2007 (I am O-)
- reached 5 blood donations
- Hiked 22(+/-)km on the Burgess Shale Trail in Field, BC - July 21, 2007
- Walk on a glacier (again!) - Oct 10, 2007
- Own a digital SLR camera - Nov 15, 2007
- Complete a 365 days picture project
- Stand on a mountain top - May 19 2008
- Rappelling - Mexico - May 7 2008
- Buy a house - August 2008
- Get published - September 26 2008
hike once a month for the rest of 2008 - starting May- missed an August and a December Hike. see 2008 hikes here- Send 50 postcards on postcrossing.
- Receive 50 postcards on postcrossing.
- catalogue my postcard collection - step one: sort by mailed / not mailed
- Go to an all-inclusive resort (May 2010)
- open my eyes under water / snorkel