The List

(why yes, I am hopelessly derivative!)

live in a studio apartment with an elevator ◊ go to PAX ◊ master five cooking methods I’m afraid of: jam in actual jars, macarons, croissants, cassoulet and home-made ice cream ◊ finish a damn video game ◊ write a novel ◊ illustrate that picture book I wrote ◊ sew an entire outfit for regular wear ◊ throw five fabulous parties: a fancy dinner party, a fancy dress party, a backyard dinner, vow renewal and a party for Bunbun ◊ grow something ◊ grow something I can harvest ◊ 30 gifts for Wolfman’s 30th birthday ◊ have a tradition for Bunbun’s birthdays ◊ spend New Years somewhere isolated ◊ swim in a rooftop swimming pool ◊ drink a martini ◊ finish my a half sleeve ◊ get a facial piercing ◊ eat vegetarian for a week ◊ decorate Bunbun’s room in a theme ◊ go to a goth club ◊ visit Tasmania ◊ drive the Great Ocean Road ◊ see a volcano ◊ swim under a waterfall ◊ create a fanvid ◊ do the Ghan ◊ spend a week wearing fabulous clothes ◊ give my mother flowers I grew ◊ go to bellydance lessons with my mother on a regular basis ◊ write my family cookbook ◊ find out the real story behind great-great grandmother Hannah ◊ attend a religious retreat ◊ go snowboarding ◊ be able to do 100 push ups ◊ adapt 12 fairytales into a book for children ◊ bathe in milk ◊ have a place for everything ◊ go to midnight services on Christmas Eve ◊ watch the sun rise over a city with Bunbun in my lap ◊ grow my hair to my waist ◊ take a photo of something other than a person every day for a month ◊ learn AUSLAN ◊ write a letter a week for a year ◊ publish 5 articles in library journals ◊ spend a week unplugged ◊ eat nothing I didn’t cook myself for a month ◊ revisit the island I grew up on without fits of angst ◊ watch all the Harry Potter movies ◊ own a leather jacket ◊ read Beowulf