Taken from my purple notebook:
A little while ago, for the first time in months, Student Council actually contributed something positive to my life. It was in the form of an assignment to make a list of things I want to do before I die. I made an attempt at one of these over the summer when we were at the beach, but Kori got a hold of it and added the word “naked” to the end of most of them, and I got off task. However, I have decided to document this complete version as it stands at age 18, and entitle it the same way that my sweet Marquez entitled the original…
“Yarmy’s List of Brilliant, Amazing, and Life Endangering Tasks to Accomplish Before She Keels Over Dead...OF LIFE”
1.assist in the building of a backyard treehouse
2. go skydiving
3. get a college degree in a field I truly love
4. marry the love of my life in the temple
5. live in a foreign country for more than a month
6. go on a mission
7. make babies
8. learn how to cook
9. own my own home
10. witness Konstantine played live
11. perfect the art of making homemade bread
12. have a small garden
13. be a vegetarian for a month
14. ride my bike in a race
15. start my own small graphic design company
16. engage myself in a meaningful charity
17. go on a hike that takes more than a day
18. speak Spanish in Spain
19. eat cotton candy at Disneyworld
20. get kissed on a ferris wheel
21. study abroad
22. go on a cruise
23. learn how to sew cool stuff
24. learn to take better pictures
25. go to Africa on a humanitarian trip
26. plan the best class reunions ever
27. go to Lake Powell with all my best friends
28. watch the sun rise with someone I love
29. raft down a river
30. go to Alaska
31. find the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe
32. revisit the house on Puu Nanea
33. be at all of my best friends’ weddings
34. go to Atlanta
35. learn to be happiest with the smallest amount of material things
36. read all of the standard works all the way through
37. have a winning NCAA tournament bracket
38. spend the night on a sailboat
39. have a hammock in my backyard
40. learn how to can peaches
41. swing on a rope in the jungle
42. go snowboarding at 10 or more different ski resorts
43. drive on the Autobahn
44. catch a big fish all by myself
45. make a quilt
46. wear out a pair of rain boots
47. spend an entire day in an apron
48. walk on the Great Wall of China
49. spend multiple days at the Louvre
50. be in Germany around Christmas time
51. be the best mother I can possibly be
52. live to see my grandchildren married
53.learn to play one of my favorite songs on the piano
54. camp out on a beach
55. read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"
56. visit the place where my husband served his mission
57. plant a fruit tree
58. make picnics a regular part of my life
59. kiss someone on the ski lift
60. have a library in my house
Goals added by KB and Nicole that didn't quite make my list but surely made me laugh:
-keep the yarm species from becoming extinct
-climb a mountain with Bell (apparently Kori thinks this is my dog's name?)
-identify every sea creature in the ocean
-be the dolphin trainer that falls in during the Sea World show
-meet the 5 foot tall asian man who delivered Jessica
-make a "Grandma Yarm's Bedtime Stories" CD for children
1 comment:
i love your to do list before you die. its very inspiring(:
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