Life list
At the end of 2007 I wrote a life list in my journal and then published it to my blog at the beginning of 2008. It is a list of things I want to do in my life in no particular order. I am continuously adding to the original copy and will update this every so often!
- 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(mar 2008)- 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 (In progress)
- 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 (In progress)
- Tell someone I love them everyday (In progress)
- 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(Want to continue this in Aust but was successful living in Nakano)- Do some volunteer work
Go to Disney sea with Shun(April 2008)- 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 (In progress)
- 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(Feb 2008)- 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 (2/3) (Pumpkin, burdock)
- Visit Hokkaido and Shikoku
- Learn to belly dance, pole dace and
hoola hoop(Mar 2008)- 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(April 200)- Go camping on the beach again
- Meet another 10 more bloggers in RL (3/10)
- Write a poem
- Go snorkeling on Great Barrier Reef
- Attend my high school reunion
- Visit Nara
Revamp my blog or start a new one(moved to wordpress Jan/Feb 2008)- Complete the two reading challenges I am doing at the moment (
Japanese lit challengeand 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
- T
ry 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(Jan 2008)- 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
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