50x50

I'd like to take a commercial break before returning to my regularly scheduled blogposts of "fruits of my hands" and share an intriguing idea suggested by a friend's blogpost.  Cari, over at The Printed Peach, created a very ambitious list of things that she wanted to have accomplished by a certain age.  Cari sparked an idea in me.  I've struggled lately with knowing what direction to take next, what project to start, what skill to learn, what mountain to climb.  I was particularly impressed by her "strikethroughs".  Do I have anything that I can cross off my list?  Have I accomplished anything in my life?

The answers were indeed in the list!  Understand that I will turn 50 in a couple of years and have several more years on Cari, so don't judge either of us. I remembered being 21 and started my list there.  Some things are from that time in my life and some are from last week.  Laugh along with me as I celebrate with myself.

50 things by 50

1. Fall in love
2. Get married 
3. Get a full-time job with benefits
4. Have a baby
5. Buy a car
6. Buy a house
7. Visit a Europe.
8. Fly in a plane
9. Learn to ride a motorcycle
10. Get my motorcycle license
11. Learn to sew
12. Learn to quilt
13. Learn to crochet
14. Learn to tat
15. Learn to make baskets
16. Learn calligraphy
17. Wear jeans (again) 
18. Buy clothes off the rack (again)
19. Wear cowboy boots (again)
20. Line dance
21. Get my concealed weapon permit
22. Shoot a bow
23. Visit Florida
24. Visit California
25. Visit the Biltmore
26. Visit Alaska
27. Meet a celebrity
28. Compete in a 5k
29. Learn photoshop
30. Create my own brand
31. Develop the perfect logo
32. Make my own label
33. Be a successful blogger
34. Design the perfect line of purses
35. Write and market my own sewing patterns
36. Write a sewing book
37. Read a e-book
38. See a broadway show
39. Go to the opera
40. Zipline
41. Have a sewing/crafting/design studio
42. Have my own business selling homemade dog treats
43. Grow a garden. 
44. Buy & wear fancy lingerie in some color other than beige, black, white, or grey from Victoria Secret 
45. Own a designer leather bag
46. Learn to swim
47. Play a mandolin
48. Ride amusement park rides
49. Find the perfect "lost art" and learn it from a master craftsman to carry on the tradition.
50. Assist Max in creating his food product business and give tours through his factory.

Thanks, Cari.  That was fun and you've helped me think about a lot of things.  If I died tomorrow, I won't have left too many things undone.  And the only thing preventing me from completing the list is my lack of time or focus to sit down and do what matters to me.