My Life List *Revised*

Welcome to My Life List

 Here is my *overly ambitious* list of things to accomplish during my lifetime. Some of these are total dreams of mine that may be far-fetched but others are quite possible and I am currently in the process of completing.

Things that would be Lovely

• Grow my hair long and thick *like when I was a child*

• Cook/Host an entire Thanksgiving dinner for 8 guests *served on beautiful Anthropologie dishware* 

• Plant a vertical garden like this

• Have a photo shoot with Pauline Darley in Paris
  

• Have our nursery/home featured on Ohdeedoh blog DONE  

• Learn to converse in French *go back to Paris with Olivia, this time speaking French only, and take the Amelie walking tour*

• Build my dream closet/wardrobe *edit my wardrobe to pieces I love/look amazing it*

• Give birth naturally *drug-free* Sadly I succumbed to 3 epidurals but I did give birth to our beautiful daughter Olivia Lily, June 2, 2010

• Redesign my blog layout by Lindsay Nicole  *when I get 100 followers, let's make it happen!* 

• Grow my own peonies, strawberries and herb garden *that the bugs don't eat*

• Read 12 Classic novels *Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre,  Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Glass Menagerie, The Great Gatsby, Atlas Shrugged, Oliver Twist, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick* italics are ones I have read

•  Go glamping with my friends

 

•  Create a blog dedicated to our life travels *turn all the yellow pins {places we want to go} into red pins {places we've been} on our map*

• Completely renovate our next house *My Dream House* and have it featured on Apartment Therapy

• Spend Christmas at a Bed & Breakfast in Canada *Montréal ideally* 

•  Add a lock with our names on it to a lock bridge

• Dress up and attend an opera/ballet *cities may vary; Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl or Walt Disney Concert Hall, New York Metropolitan Opera House, Royal Opera House, London, Palais Garnier, Paris or Sydney Opera House*

• Visit 50 of the 52 certified Los Angeles farmers markets *27 down/23 to go*

  Things that would be Rad

• Jump into a pool with all my clothes on    

• See Björk play live at Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK and in her hometown, Reykjavík, Iceland

• Be a contestant on The Amazing Race with Antz

•  Smash a pie in my BFF's face *she really wants me to*

• Attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics *I was planning to go to the 2012 London Olympics, but I made the adult decision to save the money for our Dream House*

•  See a narwal in person

• Build a photo booth in our house

Photo booth

• Attend the red carpet at a major awards show *Golden Globes, BAFTAs or Academy Awards*

• Own a Chanel handbag, a designer piece of furniture and invest in art from my favorite artists 

Nathan Ota 'Midnight Crooner'

• Start collecting vinyl LPs

• Meet Tom Waits and see him perform live

Glitter & Doom Tour

• Spend one year living abroad *London, Sweden or Paris would be dreamy*

• Live long *healthy & happy* to have a kick-ass, huge 50th wedding anniversary party in 2052  
• Attend TED

• Feature a guest blogger here and be a featured guest on someone else's blog *any takers?*

•  Attend Coachella, SXSW, Bonnaroo & Satchsquash Music Festivals

• Visit the 7 Wonders of the World *Great Wall of China, Beijing, Taj Mahal, Agra, India, The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Manchu Picchu, Peru, Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, Petra, Jordan and Christ the Redeemer Brazil* I'll be happy if I get to at least 3 of these

• Learn to ride a unicycle, juggle and how to bake without following recipes

• Throw an annual Holiday Soiree *hire a pianist, harpist, accordion player and a bartender*  

• Ride a camel in the desert *dare I say, in Egypt?*

• Attend a live taping of Saturday Night Live in New York at Rockefeller Center

• Drive a car on the left side of traffic *in any of the left-sided countries UK, India, South Africa, Japan, Indonesia or Australia/New Zealand*

• Have 1,000 followers *I love comments and feedback lovelies!*

• Drink Sangria in Spain, Sake in Tokyo, Ouzo in Greece, Chartreuse in Paris and learn to open a champagne bottle using le saberage    

• Own a pet goat

• Go to Buñol, Spain for La Tomatina *tomato throwing festival*

• Stay at W hotels around the world *these are my top locations*

W Silicon Valley
W San Diego
W Westwood

W San Francisco *maybe for Olivia's 2nd birthday*

W Paris *Spring of 2014 would be lovely*

W London
W Washington DC *for the presidential inauguration in 2013 *
W New York
W New Orleans *visit our friends Keith & Tina*
W Austin
W Montréal
W Mexico City *with Antz Mom for Christmas 2015*
W Istanbul
W Bangkok
W Hong Kong
W Singapore
W Marrakech
W St. Petersburg
W Athens
W Maldives *would love to go for our 25th wedding anniversary 8/18/2027*

Extreme Wow Suite W Maldives

Things to do with Olivia

• Teach Liv origami and calligraphy 

• Take our kid to a presidential inauguration *hopefully Obama will be re-elected in 2012*

• Teach her math in a fun way so when she gets older she enjoys it!!

• Purchase an Airstream *like this one by DWR* and road trip throughout North America

• Learn to sew and make this adorable pillowcase dress for Liv DONE

• Visit all 5 Disneyland Theme Parks *California, Florida, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong*

• Book a family photo shoot with Sarah Hoag annually

•  Take Olivia's photo every week with her Totoro plush until she turns 2, then every year until she's 18 *you can see her photos here*

• Take Olivia and several of her friends to an etiquette class and then to high tea at the Peninsula Beverly Hills  

• Host an exchange student 

• Serve Olivia all the foods I'm too chicken-shit to try and give her veggies and fruits like they are candy

• Have every one of Olivia’s teachers write a message to her in Oh The Places You’ll Go and surprise her at her high school graduation

• Send Olivia to the summer study abroad program at La Sorbonne Paris during her Sophmore year of high school

 Things that make me feel Awesome

• Volunteer at an Animal Shelter and serve Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner at a homeless shelter  

• Host Aimee's bridal shower *as her Matron of Honor*

• Help my Mom write her memoirs

• Renew our wedding vows in Hawaii for our anniversary

• Sponsor an animal

• Plant a tree

• Run for office with our neighborhood council

• Pay for the car behind mine's order at a drive thru  DONE *on Christmas Day at Starbucks*
  

• Officiate a gay wedding

• Attend alt. Design Summit

• Pay off our credit card debt *get off the plastic*

• Call my extended family more *not out of obligation* 

• Take Olivia to see the World Trade Center Memorial

• Hire a professional chef to cook dinner at our house for my extended family

• Take a vacation on my 65^th birthday with my BFF *PARIS!!*

• Watch less telly and go outside more often *on foot!*

The list is growing....as I am

**If you are interested in sponsoring an item on my list, please contact me  at sunkissis*at*aol*dot*com.