review my "Life List"

I have 174 goals, broken into 3 subcategories: 129 actual goals, 31 I’ve given up on but keep around for comparison and history, and 14 I have already done but listed for history as well.

While I was at it, I tidied up this list, too.

I feel good about doing this. I only needed one good stretch of time where Gabriel wasn’t trying to pull my notebooks out of my hands. (“Yes, Gabriel, some of Mommy’s goals are about you, sweetie. Now give me back my – NO! Don’t rip apart the – ...pages…” :P)

Wow. I originally had 102 goals… I completed 15! so I crossed those off. In disgust, I knocked off another 25 or so that somehow I had put on there… and have no desire now to do. Twenty-five goals! How did they make it on there in the first place? Was I really that different? I remember I told myself that the catch was I could dream as big as I wanted, and if I never accomplished most/some/all that wouldn’t make any difference, but still! I read them all back and could hardly believe I’d written those down!

I have also brainstormed with all the things I’d like and need to do over my lifetime. It’s surprising how many of them are my current 43things things!

I’ve got a list of the 5 senses, too: see bluegrass, taste wild cherry wine, hear a whippoorwill, smell plumeria and touch a tiger. It’s kind of a novelty list.

I don’t actually know how many I have total, because I haven’t had the chance to write it all out completely yet.

At the end of the list, I’m going to include the orignals that I completed or knocked off, just to remember and to look back.

As in the one I wrote out on paper when I was 17, revised in 2005, due to be revised now, and is currently sitting in my lap.

I can already think of a few things I want to add to it… and a few I know I can cross off!