About a week before I turned 24 (a month and a little bit ago) I began working on a list of things I wanted to do while I was 24. Four weeks later, I made myself focus on my list and have now finally finished it.
Drumroll please . . .
The list!
- Read Harry Potter 1-7 in French. And understand it.
- Read 200 books I haven’t read before. (I’ve got about 70 stacked by my bed. Just need to find another 130. Suggestions encouraged. )
- Run a 5k in less than 30 minutes
- Be able to wear all the skirts I could wear two years ago and still have but can’t wear anymore cause I was exploring new shapes.
- Read the entire Bible beginning to end, Old and New Testament.
- Get one of my novels in good enough shape so I can start looking for an agent.
- Take art lessons.
- Conquer my fear of yeast breads.
- Fall in love with something I didn’t know existed.
- Visit at least five amazing, natural places (e.g., Grand Canyon, Redwood Forest).
- Make a jean quilt.
- Try a food I have never eaten before.
- Do something disgustingly touristy.
- Have an amazing conversation with someone I don’t know and will probably never see again.
- Watch the sun rise from the top of Mount Timpanogos.
- Build a kite from scratch and fly it.
- Make homemade butter.
- Fill a family cookbook with all our favorite recipes.
- Buy a gorgeous, impractical dress that I have no reason to own let alone wear, and then wear it.
- Acquire a complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach and listen to each piece.
- Place 500 pennies strategically where they will either grant wishes or bring good luck.
- Learn how to fly down the mountain on one fat stick or two thin sticks.
- Make a three-course dinner and a dessert meant to be eaten with fingers only.
- Go somewhere awesome I have never been before to celebrate making it to year 25.
Basically this year, er, eleven months, is going to rock!