1. Learn to speak French fluently. I am studying via pimsleur cds and even use the French Coach game for my Nintendo DS. I think French is the most romantic language on earth, so I can’t wait to be able to whisper sweet french ‘somethings’ in my beloved’s ears, preferably as we cross Le pont neuf in Paris.
2. Spend a leisurely weekend in a lighthouse off the coast of Maine in the summer. It will be nice to sit in the watch room with a cup of coffee watching the seagulls perform a graceful ballet around me.
3. I want to cultivate more friendships with women. There is a blessing in surrounding yourself with good girlfriends who will stick by you through all of the heartbreaks, joys, losses and victories. Their value is immeasurable.
4. I want to walk all the way up to the observation deck of the Statue of Liberty and look out on NY Harbor.
5. I want to experience my first safari in Kenya. There are walking safaris and I think I’m brave enough to try it.
6. I look forward to becoming a grandmother; on my daughter’s own schedule, of course!
7. I want to learn how to ball room dance. My love of ball room dancing pre-dates Dancing with the stars, but I’m happy to see that it contributed to its popularity.
8. I want to rescue a Welsh corgi.
9. I’d like to become a bonafide rosarian. I’m a newbie when it comes to growing roses, so I look forward to learning as much as I can about them.
10. I want to read more. Thankfully, Open Salon helps in this journey, but I mean I want to find (no, make) the time to delve into some serious, gut-wrenching pieces of literature. I want to become so lost in the pages of a good novel that I will refuse to come up for air.
11. I want to learn how to swim. I want to conquer my fear of drowning and perhaps swim with the dolphins one day.
12. Despite my fears, I wouldn’t mind trying parasailing….after I learn how to swim of course.
13. I never learned how to fish despite my father taking every other sibling to the lake for lessons when I was a child. This time, I’d like my father to join me in spirit.
14. I’d like to learn how to draw or sketch. As a kid, I was so proud of being able to freehand the deer that looked like Bambi that was found in the back of magazines so accurately.
15. If I ever decide to move, I’d like to build my next house. The only thing is that I can’t decide between a victorian or a log cabin.
16. I’d like to learn to sing Opera. The only song that I know or can sing is Ave Maria.
17. I would like to write a budget travel column for a magazine, either online or print.
18. I’d like to finally put the finishing touches on my pond. I’m such a procrastinator!
19. I want to volunteer with an at-risk teen program. I want to make a measurable difference in some young person’s life.
20. I’d like to play a musical instrument. I don’t know which, but it probably won’t be a piano since I suck at that.
21. I wouldn’t be adverse to winning the Georgia Lotto.
22. I want to get in excellent physical health. Soon.
23. I want to continue to strive to be a better friend and an even better person.
24. I want to live each day that God grants me as if it were my last.
25. I’d like to learn how to fly a plane so that I will be able to relate to the fabulousness of the phrase “a bird’s eye view”.
26. I want to run up and down the emerald hills of Kilkenny, Ireland.
27. I don’t want to die until the previous 26 come true.