First written 2005; last updated December 2012
Highlighted items already done or presently being worked on.
- Own a home.
- Furnish our home with a private library.
- Make a stunning a photo wall. Stunning, i.e., not so-so.
- Have a painting studio at home.
- Tour the Philippines. [Working on it every now and then]
- Have at least two children. Biological would be preferred, but I have no problem with adoption.
- Create a time capsule for my kids.
- Reopen aforementioned time capsule with the kids, or gift it on their wedding day.
- Have my name changed legally.
- Work on a 365 Project yearly. [Did it for 3 years. Eventually got tired]
- Sponsor a less fortunate child's education for a year.
- Make a successful kaleidoscope.
- Write a novel. [Currently working on it in my head, but I don't have the courage to commit it to writing]
- Write a nonfiction book and see it published.
- Publish a volume of poetry.
- Be a contributor to a publication.
- Open an artsy café or resto of sorts with a group of friends.
- Disciple twelve. [ongoing ]
- With the hubby, mentor a younger couple.
- Write a script for a little play.
- Direct or co-direct a small production of sorts.
- Capture a night sky event, like a meteor shower, in a satisfactory if not excellent photograph.
- Witness a curious natural lightning display, like ball lightning, upward strikes, sprites or purple-blue St. Elmo's fire; preferably photograph it too.
- Photograph the aurora.
- Pat or feed a killer whale. Or dolphin.
- Hold a Geek Party.
- Go on an African Safari.
- Teach Filipino to a foreigner who can't speak the language but wants to learn.
- Preach to large-ish [500 or so] congregation. [December 2006]
- Preach to a crowd of a thousand or more.
- Skydive.
- Write lyrics that will be set to music.
- Write lyrics that will be sung and recorded, preferably by someone famous. Like Bono. I like Bono. I had a dream about that once. But alright, someone semi-famous will do.
- See something I made in a magazine, an ad, on television or some other visual medium.
- Create an online gallery of my works.
- Open an online shop. [Opened November 2007. Got tired of it December 2012.]
- Open an actual shop.
- Learn French. [Working on it now]
- Learn German. [Working on it now]
- Learn Nihongo.
- Translate a publication, program, or piece from English to Filipino.
- Visit and photograph the Seven Wonders of the World (any seven of any list)
- Visit and photograph the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
- Tour the Holy Land.
- Hold an art exhibit with a few friends.
- Write text for a children’s book.
- Illustrate a children’s book that gets published.
- Fire a real gun.
- Be instrumental in saving a life, solving a crime or creating a solution to a major problem.
- Walk along Hyams Beach, New South Wales, and maybe bring home some of the whitest sand in the world. I mean, if it's not illegal to scoop the sand and put it in a bottle.
- Scuba dive off the Great Barrier Reef.
- Learn to play the harp.
- Donate blood. [almost happened a couple of times; always got rejected]
- Pilot a plane, even just for a few seconds. Okay, I'll settle for sitting in the cockpit
- Tour Europe and take amazing photos.
- Visit Paris.
- See the historical objets 'dart at the Louvre.
- Tour Rome and do the whole touristy thing.
- Tour Vatican City.
- Eat Neapolitan pizza - the best pizza in the world - in Naples.
- Visit the galleries in Florence.
- See the gigantic pink bunny.
- Take a cliche-ic gondola ride through Venice. I mean the real Venice, not the one in Vegas. [Already did the Vegas thing though]
- Have a drink at Oktoberfest in Munich.
- Photograph a medieval castle.
- Photograph a medieval castle from the inside. I've been told this is isn't permitted, but I still want to do it anyway.
- Visit my friend Paul's castle. He said he'll have one someday.
- Tour Turkey.
- Eat lobster. [Done. i don't get what the fuss is about.]
- Own a ridiculously expensive but utterly wonderful leather bag or pair of shoes.
- Own a piece of ridiculously expensive, real jewelry.
- Make love under the stars.
- Go up in a hot air balloon.
- View some planets and deep space objects through a telescope.
- Visit Japan.
- Visit South Korea.
- Tour the U.S.
- Shout “life!” from the top of [or somewhere high up on] the Statue of Liberty.
- See and photograph the Grand Canyon.
- Experience a sub-zero environment. [Done. Las Vegas, December 2012. Not fun. Not fun at all.]
- Grow our own herbs-and-spices garden.
- Spot all the constellations. [Identified 32/88 so far. ]
- Walk through a butterfly farm.
- Create a series of several large-ish paintings.
- Work on a mural.
- Watch a play at Broadway.
- See a Cirque Du Soleil show.
- See a Cirque Du Solien show in Las Vegas.
- Pet a lion, tiger or any large, wild cat.
- Ski. Or water ski.
- Be close friends with a gay couple.
- Visit every continent, Antartica not necessary.
- Sing in public.
- Sing at a friend's wedding.
- Officiate a wedding.
- Be a Samuel to a David, and see that David in a position of great influence.
- Pull a Daniel.
- Be used for a clear-cut Jesus-lifting miracle.
- Raise a pair of rabbits.
- Get my rabbit to star in a video, ad or something of the sort.
- Shear a sheep or some other wool-producing animal. Even just partially.
- Bake a successful, presentable cake from scratch, with frosting and everything, and serve it.
- Make homemade cheese or butter.
- Cook sinigang the old-fashioned way - with real sampaloc.
- Experience flying first class.
- Complete an interesting installation of various white objects.
- Get interviewed for something on television.
- Birth a non-churchy church.
- Help establish and sustain a functioning ministry for overchurched jadeds.
- Speak at a conference of sorts about bipolar mood.
- Earn a degree in history, art history, psychology or some enjoyable left-brained discipline.
- Take a course in interior design, culinary arts or some other enjoyable right-brained practice.
- Gather the guts to see if I qualify for MENSA.
- Live in another country for at least / around a year.
- Photograph an enigma or a fascinating illusion.
- Have a best friend I deem worthy of the title.
- Throw a huge party and invite everyone I love.
