I actually haven’t done resolutions for years. The last two or three year, I have written out a goal sheet and reexamined it at the end of the year. After reading my friend Traca’s life list over at Seattle Tall Poppy, I was inspired to write one of my own. This is a great idea and if Traca is doing it, I should give it a try, as she has yet to steer me wrong!
There are some things on the list that will have some people who know me saying “What the hell?!” and even I have added things to the list I never thought of before or haven’t thought of in a long time. I also borrowed some from Traca, because they were too good.
This list will certainly grow (it actually grew while I was typing it...!) and I will update as I do the things on the list...so, what's your life list look like?
Special thanks to my friend Kelly, who made me do this a few months ago, but I only took it half seriously.
1) Get passport
2) Start my Cookies & Comfort Biz
3) Restart my jewelry biz
4) Visit New York
5) Eat at French Laundry/Ad Hoc
6) Go to France
7) Eat Crawfish in Louisiana
8) Visit chocolate museum in Spain
9) Attend Star Chefs Chefs congress
10) Attend a dinner at James Beard House
11) Make bean to bar chocolate
12) Hold a chocolate dinner
13) Learn to make cocktails like this guy
14) Eat dessert at Pierre Herme
15) Attend a tea class at Mariage Frere
16) Become a master tea blender
17) Catch & cook my own crab
18) Visit a tea plantation
19) Eat at Mystic Pizza
20) Learn to forage
21) Make my own extracts (not just vanilla!)
22) Attend a beekeeping class
23) Learn to make cheese
24) Travel to Greece
25) Eat street food in Barcelona and Madrid
26) Eat and drink in the South of France
27) Drink Tokay in Hungary
28) Get back into yoga
29) Learn (better) French
30) Visit Japan: go to food mall in Tokyo and Eat in Kyoto
31) Go to Ireland
32) Eat lobster rolls on the East Coast
33) Meet the Cake Diva
34) Eat my way through Portland
35) Revisit Seattle and actually go where I want
36) See the tulips in Amsterdam
37) Visit Santa Fe
38) Visit the Caribbean
39) Become proficient in Hungarian pastry
40) Learn to make Indian food
41) See the Pyramids
42) Visit the Hermitage
43) Make my own liqueur/Make my own bitters
44) Learn to play piano
45) Record an album of my music
46) Publish a cookbook (or two. Or three)
47) Meet Letha Hadady
48) Take a train trip
49) Create a clothing line for female chefs
50) Start a nonprofit teaching girl’s to cook
51) Publish “Biracial in Purgatory”
52) Own my own tea and Dessert shop
53) Be a lounge singer
54) Eat at August/meet John Besh
55) Eat at Herbfarm/meet Ron
56) Learn to make tortillas
57) Learn to knit
58) Start a shoe line for women with longer feet.
59) Visit Savannah and eat fried shrimp (Thank you, Patricia!)
60) Eat offal with Ryan
61) Host my own TV show "Lost Desserts of the World"
62) Visit Austin, Tx. Thanks for the reminder Kristi!
63) swordfighting/knife throwing (my friend Justin was really shocked I forgot this one!)
64) Take up Archery
65) Learn more about photography
66) take a sculpture class/make more chocolate sculptures
67) bake with Zoe!
Ms. Luna, I do not see visit Austin TX on this list, unless you are presumably eating offal with Ryan in Austin. You might need to add one more bullet to your life list. I owe you an afternoon of food touring Austin-style.
ReplyDeleteLuna,
ReplyDeleteWhat a great list! I think mine needs some revising thanks to you!
I say you plan to visit Seattle. Come in the spring and I can take you to see tulips as far as the eye can see or, come in the summer and we'll hit up the Seattle Luxury Chocolate Salon. :)
I make my own liqueurs and infusions. If you need recipes, give me a shout!
xoxo-
T