Mighty List

I started off with a list of Forty Things to do before I turned Forty but now I want to think bigger.  I did proclaim myself to be “Notorious” after all.  So it’s time to get “Mighty” and live large!  This is my list of things I’d like to do before I do before I die.

Vivir en miedo es vivir una vida media! -Strictly Ballroom

1. Barcelona-I want to eat till I cry and see La Sagrada Familia
2. Visit La Alhambra-No explanation needed
3. Hike the Inca Trail on foot
4. Visit Antarctica
5. Live in a loft
6. Speak at a TED Conference
7. Grow a flower garden
8. Do 100 push ups
9. Do a Head Stand
10. Do a Break Dancing Move
11. Attend the Opening Ceremonies of an Olympic Games
12. Attend the Black and White Ball
13. Watch fireworks with Elian
14. Take 50 types of dance classes
15. Attend BlogHer conference
16. Eat at Topolobampo
17. Read the whole bible
18. Karaoke with my Dad in Manila
19. Get paid to publish something
20. Kiss Arnold under the Eifel Tower(Credit goes to Justy for that one)
21. Become competent in a new dance
22. Celebrate my 10th wedding anniversary with Arnold in NY
23. Start a successful business with awesome women.
24. Live in New York for a year
25. Eat Empanadas at the Museo del Oro with my parents and brothers
26. Buy a big weird house and fix it up Notorious MLE style
27. Give my baby boy a sibling
28. Compost
29. Attend a taping of So You Think You Can Dance
30. Dress on the outside like the person I feel I am inside
31. Walk a red carpet
32. Run a 7 minute mile
33. Visit all the landmarks I love from Amelie
34. Eat the Neapolitan pizza that Liz Gilbert described in Eat. Love. Pray.
35. Make one spectacular and amazingly delicious dish each year
36. Give my son the opportunity to be a serious dancer or musician if he so desires
37. Pay off our friggin student loans already
38. Become less critical of everyone. (Including me)
39. Just once buy the impractical/too expensive (insert item here)-credit to Allyn
40. Memorize a beautiful poem
41. Travel California’s El Camino Real and visit each Mission
42. Memorize 5 songs for the piano that I love and then perform them somewhere
43. Hike the Inca Trail
44. Landscape the front yard
45. Go on a hike every year
46. Eat at Delancey in Seattle
47. Do 100 push-ups in a row
48. Take a ballet class
49. Take an awesome family portrait
50. Interview 100 creative people
51. Remember that lists do not define success (credit to my Tia Carolina)
52. Visit Iguazu Waterfalls in Brazil
53. Backpack through Europe with Arnold
54. Sew something cool
55. Make chocolate cheesecake with Elian
56. Take my Mom to Savannah
57. Visit the City Museum in St. Louis with Elian
58. Read the Chronicles of Narnia with Elian
59. Read A Wrinkle in Time with Elian
60. Read Harry Potter with Elian
61. Convert the garage in the backyard to a “Writer’s Studio/guesthouse”
62. Switch to a custom made theme for this blog.
63. Design a blog header.

There is so much space for my list to grow!  Feel free to share your suggestions and lists in the comment below.

Thanks to the following bloggers for inspiring me to make my list and dream big: Mighty Girl, Making it Lovely and All Things Ami.