I have been working on my life list for a couple of months now…and I wouldn’t`t say it is finished….It will be ever growing and changing I think but for now this is where it is at. It is a list of things I want to do before I die….some of them are big things and some are small! This will be a long post though….the list as over 150 things on it…I have a smaller list of personal goals also that are connected to this life list!
- Pass Level 1 of Japanese Language Proficiency test.
- Live in another city other than Brisbane or Tokyo
- Do a detox
- Have a baby
- Learn another language
- Visit all of the Australian states
- Become financially independent.
- Keep a decent journal for at least a year (Have done this before when I was younger)
- Find an exercise routine that works for me
- Own/work/or get involved in a bookshop
- Get back down to a comfortable size 12.
- Visit Vietnam
- Visit Korea
- Visit America
- Visit Russia
- Visit Egypt
- Visit South America- at least one place
- Go on a cruise
- Work in a job that i `love`
- Go off anti-depressants for at least six months
- Own own home
- Knit something successfully other than a scarf
- Learn to sew well enough to make things for my children (and bags for myself)
- Work on my creativity: Keep up knitting, jewelery and card making etc
- Go on a road trip
- Go to the ballet
- Own a really decent camera
- Learn to cook Japanese food properly- take lessons
- Learn how to ski properly
- Grow a successful vegetable and herb patch
- Go see sumo
- Take a hot air balloon ride
- Climb Mt. Fuji
- Start playing the piano again (Does not mean just once a year!)
- Get a dog
- Visit Ireland
- Learn how to meditate
- Have something else published (in paper form)
- Do all night karaoke with a bunch of friends at least once a year
- Teach Shun how to go crabbing
- Learn how to play Mahjong
- Give a large donation to charity
- Take a photography class
- Take a drawing class
- Take a course in massage
- Be able to read and understand a Japanese newspaper
- Keep a reading journal and read at least 100 books in one year!
- Get better at housework
- Learn to make soup (and like it!)
- Start an on on-line etsy shop (With what I don`t know!)
- Learn how to bake proper cakes/cookies/cheesecakes etc
- Go to Nagasaki
- Decorate my whole house with Christmas lights one year
- Learn how to do pilates or yoga properly…join a class
- Get in contact with at least 5 old friends who I am no longer in touch with
- Sponsor a child
- Wear a kimono and visit a shrine in it
- Get married
- Hold a successful dinner party
- Make pasta from scratch (Like Jamie Oliver!)
- Reread my favourite childhood books
- Start collecting books that I want to read to my children
- Tell someone I love them everyday
- Start writing letters again in particular to my Grandma.
- Make jam
- Learn how to bake bread and get a bread maker
- Buy new flowers for the apartment/house as often as possible
- Do some volunteer work
- Go to Disney sea with Shun
- Go to Paris with Shun
- Learn how to use photoshop
- Get a perm
- Learn to be able to drink red wine
- Go skinny dipping
- Go to a private onsen with Shun
- Worry less
- Make a will
- Learn to save money
- Stop using so many plastic bags
- Learn how to play the guitar
- Be a bridesmaid
- Improve at been a teacher
- Print photos from Europe/China and other trips from the last couple of years and make albums
- Go to the opera
- Try to see at least one concert or musical a year
- Make a quilt
- Stop biting my nails
- Go on holidays with my mum….and pay for her
- Take my dad to see the snow
- Live back in Australia again for a year
- Invent a recipe and publish it on the net
- Start eating at least three more vegetables
- Visit Hokkaido and Shikoku
- Learn to belly dance, pole dace and hoola hoop
- Write a book (even if it is short)
- Let someone read it
- Spend a day at a day spa…shout a friend
- Take Shun to meet my Grandma in NZ
- Learn to fly a plane
- Enter 50 competitions in one year to see if I win anything
- Watch the sunrise on the beach with Shun
- Clean out my closet and give away/throw away 25% of it
- Go camping on the beach again
- Meet another 10 more bloggers in RL
- Write a poem
- Go snorkeling on Great Barrier Reef
- Attend my high school reunion
- Visit Nara
- Revamp my blog or start a new one
- Complete the two reading challenges I am doing at the moment (Japanese lit challenge and triple 8 challenge)
- Join another soccer team
- Try Ikebana
- Try Calligraphy
- Stay in a five star hotel on my own money
- See the current seven wonders of the world
- Stop eating fast food for 3 whole months
- Learn to roll my `r`s
- Make a New Years Resolution and stick to it
- Encourage a friend to do something they have never done before
- Show my mum more of Japan and show my dad Japan in particular take him to Hiroshima
- Have my portrait painted (maybe a family one)
- Be more patient
- Achieve sleeping on airplanes.
- Knit a pair of socks
- Beat my mother at Trivia pursuit
- Start collecting something….maybe something old! Like old Christmas ornaments or something…
- Visit Prague
- Visit Berlin
- Get my Japanese drivers license
- Find the perfect pair of little black heels
- Try EFT again
- Watch less TV
- Try out coloured contacts
- Learn how to use illustrator
- Take lots more purikura
- Bake an apple pie from scratch
- Take a make-up class
- Wear outrageous makeup in the middle of the day and not worry about it
- Get properly prepared for earthquakes like get an up to date emergency bag
- Translate something from Japanese to English and get paid for it
- Track down the game bubble bobble and play it with my brother
- Crash a party
- Live back in Kichijoji
- Get flexible
- Go to the Olympics
- Take Shumpei sailing
- Participate in a yacht race (Done small boats but nothing that could be considered a yacht as such)
- Learn how to play didgeridoo
- Have a fruit tree
- Write a song
- See Kabuki
- Review first aid and CPR and get my certificates
- Go backstage of a concert
- Attempt to play shamisen
- Change a tire on a car by myself
- Try frogs legs
- Appear on TV for something
- Run 5km without dying
- Have a mud-wrap
- Live to 100 and get a letter from the queen
- Learn how to do self breast exams
- Invent something
- Buy a Polaroid camera
- Get my teeth whitened
- Smoke pot with my mum
- Go back to the Louvre
- Get up every day at 6am for a week
- Find my old journals and read them
- Leave a book somewhere, like book-crossing
- Go to a concert with my dad
- Learn to make soap and candles
- Travel somewhere with my little brother…not fight at all the entire time.
- Learn to be a light packer
- Give up coffee for an entire month
- Complete all the things on my life list
I am going to print this out and keep it in my diary and add to it overtime. I doubt I will add my additions to here everytime but who knows I might. This is my list as of January 7th 2007. Wish me luck!!!!
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I am just a twenty something Aussie girl living in Chiba, Japan with my Japanese husband trying to make sense of the crazy Japanese world we live in! We welcomed our first son in December 2009 (Noah) and a second son in January 2011, 2 months premature (Shion). I am working hard at raising them to be confident, bilingual, happy kids!
You’re from Brisbane? Did I already know that? We lived in Brisbane (first in Indooropilly and then in Nundah) for two years. If I had a Life List I would definitely put “Go back and visit Brisbane and the Gold Coast for at least a month.” and “Take daughters to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary” they would be in heaven!
Laura
That’s a good one! I should get on that one day… maybe soon?!
60 should not be too hard – I made gnochhi once when I was really hungover, and it was still pretty good.
In case you hadn’t noticed from my Facebook, I strongly recomend number 66.
106 would be on my list too, though I would scrap Pole Dancing… it just made me feel dirty! Though perhaps you could do it for your Hens Night when you cross off getting married
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Now would be a good time to start 116 – will be harder while you’re here I imagine, and New Years tend to bring New Habits.
And I have the perfect pair of little black heels – if you’re a size 8 I will send them to you as they just don’t fit!
I think you can get 161 off the net – and do you think 165 will happen?!
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165. Smoke pot with my mum
that one rocks.
i’ve made a list of things i want to do in my life, but it’s nowhere as creative or as adventurous as yours!! whenever you complete a task, you should blog it
ganbareee
That’s a good list
You did a great job!
I like the perm idea, if I had enough hair I’d get a big perm with lots of tiny, tight curls. I love really curly, wild hair, it looks amazing!
The competition thing is also pretty easy. A couple of years ago I made it my resolution to win a competition and it’s rather amazing how simple it is if you make a point of entering them
That is a great list! It’s a really good combination of big and small things.
I totally recommend climbing Fuji. I am the biggest wimp, and I really didn’t enjoy the experience much at all when we were doing it, but it’s beautiful at the top and I felt very proud afterwards.
Maybe you can do a post at the end of this year and report back on how you are going?
woah that is a long list…quality and quantity. I can help you with at least one of those things honey! You got the hula, I’ll get the hoops!
There are quite a lot of the things on your list that I want to do as well!! It’s quite scary actually!! I think we may be quite similiar…. lol!!
Wow what a great list… I have to admit you’ve give me some ideas as well!!!
I feel inspired!
I truly hope you can get to do all of them or more!
Glad to hear you had a good Christmas/New Years even though it was without Shun! Hopefully you’ll both have a great one together next year back home. You must be getting excited to go back for a year!!
When you get back I’ll probably be in Niigata and not toooo far from Kanto so we’ll def. have to try and meet up then!
HI Laura,
It was great meeting you the other day!
Your life list is cool! You’ve inspired me to want to do some of those things too! What’s No. 131? What does EFT stand for? The first thing that came to mind was Electronic Fund Transfer, but I have a feeling that’s not it! Agh! I’ve been at work too much!
Excellent list Lulu. I am particularly fond of #154! : ) I’d love to learn to play one as well.
A wonderful and inspiring list,Lulu. The world is your oyster – no need to ever stop. searching for its pearls however long it takes
Some of those travel locations are still on my list but I intend to make them still (apart from climbing Mt Fuji – looking at it would be enough for me
I loved this! I want to know how to make pasta like Jamie too. And see Ireland. And invent something. And take a photography class… okay. I will stop now.
Laura- Yep born and bred in Brisbane! I lived mainly on the south side though in the redlands and in the bayside area!! I took Shumpei to Lone Pine Sanctuary and he loved it! I am sure your daughters would love it too!!!
Enny- I think when I return to Japan I will get a bread maker….I have always wanted to make my own bread. The fast food thing will be hard, especially since If I work late I don`t cook every night. And I do think 165 will happen one day!
Yuki- It is going to happen one day!
Jen- I think I might try to do the competition thing when I am in Australia from July…I don`t really know how to go about it here. I have always wanted to get a perm…I adore curly hair….If my hair was longer I would get just the ends done…They do amazing perm type things here in Japan!
Thanks for inspiring me to write my life list Jen!
Suzy- I think I will do a six month update or something perhaps?!?!?! It is going to take me a while to do everything on the list though!!! Plus I keep adding to the original in my diary! Maybe next time im in Sydney you can help me with number 23?!?!?!
Sushi- I am so going to take you up on your offer! You and Jen are my inspirations for hoola hooping! Will mail you!
Nay- You should write one too! It was a lot of fun writing it! I think because you me and Sara are in similar situations that we have similar dreams!
Sara- Thanks! Definitely on for the meet up! I totally recommend writing your own list it was great!
Katie- Was great meeting you too mate. It was a shame we couldn`t chat longer, but next time I am in Aust. I will bring Shun and we can go out for dinner somewhere! EFT stands for emotional freedom tecniques. I first read about it here http://galadarling.com/article/eft and some of her follow up article…you should definitely check it out.
Gina- I know I would love to learn! But I would settle for holding one and having a go!!! I love them!
Sueblimely- I have so many other places I want to travel but I will stick with the ones of the list to begin with! It all comes down to money!!!!!
I have seen MT Fuji several times and I know a lot of people have climbed it. I want to try, even though I will probably die going up! Maybe summer in 2009 I will give it ago!
Brandy- You should write a list too! It was super fun! I read around on some other peoples list too which gave me a lot of inspirations!!!
Crikey that list makes me exhausted just reading it LOL.
Good luck with it
WHOA Nelly! lol.
Good luck with all that!
Awesome lists! I’m just compiling my first 101 in 1001. I noticed your #66 – learn to make bread and get a bread maker – it’s just as easy (if not easier!) if you just do it the “old fashioned” way. There’s a great recipe here: http://www.recipezaar.com/186017 but remember to read it first – it makes 5 or 6 loaves – just try one for starters.
Best of luck in all you pursue.
Erika