Mighty Life List

Taking my inspiration from Maggie Mason at Mighty Girl, with no further ado, my Life List*:

1. Drink Absinthe, the right way
2. Travel to Morocco
3. Travel to Africa (other than Morocco&Egypt)
4. Travel to Egypt
5. Travel to Argentina
6. Travel to Cuba
7. Send Mom to Hawaii
8. Live abroad for at least three months
9. have at least one squishy baby
10. take the hill on the bike path at UCSC again
11. settle in a place where the seasons are less pronounced
12. Travel to Israel
13. Take a road trip across the U.S.
14. Take a road trip punctuated by East Coast diners (especially oceanside ones)
15. Start a business 
16. fund a scholarship
17. finish my PhD
18. Write a book
19. Take a photography class
20. Have enough
21. Take a fabulous vacation with my BFFs
22. Take my mom on a spa holiday to Calistoga
23. Take my mom wine tasting in Napa
24. Have a wedding/commitment ceremony in a public park at dusk  10.24.2009
25. Take Mom, Aunt Billye and Granny to Dinner in 2010, the banner year and raise a fabulous toast to the matriarchs
26. Travel to India
27. Travel to Iceland
28. Run a Marathon 
29. Obliterate my credit card debt   5/2010
30. Build a stock portfolio
31. Learn European knitting  Yay!! 8/2008
32. visit Brazil
33. Have a flower garden
34. Skinny dip in warm tropical waters
35. Have business cards made with the text 'Cocktail Enthusiast' 3/2010
36. Pay down student loan debt by half before I graduate
37. Throw a party to meet my neighbors
38. Do fun things that make me happy (ongoing)
39. Spend more time creating things in my creative space and less time wondering what I'd be watching if I had a TV
40. learn to sew 
41. learn an aerial dance
42. learn to make croissants
43. vacation in the French countryside
44. knit/crochet a blanket  2/2011
45. compile a book of family favorite recipes
46. get my Etsy business spinning
47. Visit Indonesia
48. Be a tourist in Boston
49. Be more photodocumentary
50. Learn to can/preserve produce well
51. Go back to camp in Tahiti
52. Throw impromptu summer and autumn dinner parties
53. Get back to piano lessons (probably after graduate school)
54. Continue to throw Ashkenaz Spice Fabulous Birthday Parties
1. 2008-- BBQ and Bowling Surprise Party with Birthday Pie 
2. 2009-- Kickball Classic 
3. 2010--Birthday Beer Dinner for Men
4. 2011--
55. Embrace my friends
56. Grow a larger social circle
57. 52 Cheeses in 52 weeks! 
• chevre
• taleggio
• cheddar
• oma
• blue cheese
• parmigiano reggiano
• shy brothers hannahbells--which are FABULOUSLY DELICIOUS!!! and deserving of their own blog post coming soon
• lavender
• shallot
• St. Agur Blue
• Triple Cream Goat Brie 
• Ewe's Blue
• Midnight Moon 
• fig burrata 
• mozzarella
• gouda
• colby
• ricotta
• paneer
• panquehue
• boucheron
• raschera
• summer snow, soft like camembert--Woodcock Farm
• Lake's Edge, blue--Blue Ledge Farm
• Brillo di Treviso 
• Bayley Hazen Blue--Jasper Hill Farm
• Minolette...it's conditioned by cheese mites. not sure how to feel about this
58. Organize a girly retreat in the Vermont or NorCal woods
59. High Tea at the Russian Tea Room
60. Visit the Musée Dupuytren whilst on a leisurely trip to Paris
61. Accupuncture for my trick wrist
62. Write at least one first author paper
63. Go whale watching
64. Eat like a Pilgrim
65. Make a paper garland
66. Make a picnic blanket and gift it in a picnic basket!
67. Start a handwriting journal! (added: 11/2012)

*This list is in no way exhaustive.