My Life List

1. Start a business

2. Publish a book

3. Get a passport

4. Visit Europe

5. Own a home in the mountains

6. Buy our dream house

7. Do a 365 project

8. Get my nose pierced done April 13, 2011. Still deciding if I love it.

9. See the pyramids

10. Ride in a hot air balloon

11. Go on an African safari

12. Practice yoga regularly

13. Create a greeting card line

14. Take my girls to see The Nutcracker Suite

15. Explore Hawaii

16. Swim with dolphins

17. Photograph a birth

18. Go to Bali

19. Visit all 50 states

	Alabama	Montana
	Alaska	Nebraska
	Arizona	Nevada
	Arkansas	New Hampshire
	California	New Jersey
	Colorado	New Mexico
	Connecticut	New York
	Delaware	North Carolina
	Florida	North Dakota
	Georgia	Ohio
	Hawaii	Oklahoma
	Idaho	Oregon
	Illinois	Pennsylvania
	Indiana	Rhode Island
	Iowa	South Carolina
	Kansas	South Dakota
	Kentucky	Tennessee
	Louisiana	Texas
	Maine	Utah
	Maryland	Vermont
	Massachusetts	Virginia
	Michigan	Washington
	Minnesota	West Virginia
	Mississippi	Wisconsin
	Missouri	Wyoming

20. Open a natural light studio

21. Go on a photowalk every week for a year

22. Hike the length of the Appalachian Trail

23. Be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune

24. Take a road trip across the US

25. Grow a garden - we grew our very first garden in 2011

26. Ride on a zip line

27. Learn to play the guitar

28. Make a million dollars

29. Organize a charity event

30. Be published in a magazine

31. Visit Rome

32. Have a girls’ getaway weekend

33. Make my own window treatments

34. Read 52 books in one year -> Doing this in 2011!

1. Blink by Malcolm Gladwell (highly recommended, as well as Outliers and The Tipping Point)
2. All Your Worth by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi (About getting your money in balance. Loved it.)
3. Blessings by Anna Quindlen (A rich and beautiful story of redemption)
4. The Art of Non-Conformity by Chris Guillebeau (One of those times where you want to say to the author, “get out of my head!”)
5. House Rules by Jodi Picoult (Heartbreaking narrative by one of my favorite authors)
6. Organized Simplicity by Tsh Oxenreider (I’ll be referring back to this one a lot, I think!)
7. ?The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin (Loved! I want to start my own happiness project…once I finish up a few other projects!)
8. Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens (we’ll see how this goes!)
9. Secrets to a Healthy Metabolism by Maria Emmerlich (life-changing, for me and my family)
10. The 17-Day Diet  by Mike Moreno (Down 5lbs so far! Really piggy-backs off of the Maria Emmerlich book in a lot of ways.)
11. How to Talk So Kids will Listen and Listen So Kids will Talk  by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Brilliant parenting advice & resource.
12. How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie. (A classic through and through.)
13. The Book of Ruth  by Jane Hamilton (Slow, but entrancing.)
14. Rise and Shine by Anna Quindlen (One of my favorite authors. A bit disappointing.)
15. Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks (Predictable but engaging.)
16. The Pact by Jodi Picoult (Love Jodi Picoult. I am always drawn to her characters.)
17. Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult (Another brilliant novel.)
18. Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi ( I see this one as a life-changer! Perfect piggy-back on How to Win Friends…)
19. Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner (eh.)
20. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (heart-breaking and hard to put down.)
21. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (loved, loved, loved)
22. Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner (much better than Best Friends Forever)
23. The Hunger Games  by Suzanne Collins (wow, so compelling! Mike is reading it now)
24. Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult (one of her earlier books)
25. Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner (terrible)
26. Room by Emma Donoghue (WOW. Amazing.)
27. Every Last One by Anna Quindlen (so very heart-wrenching)
28. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (not as good as The Hunger Games, but still awesome!)
29. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (loved it)
30. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling (yep, first time reading the series!)
31. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling (so glad I’m finally reading these)
32. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling (these are such fast reads)
33. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Such a great series! I’m sad it’s over)
34. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling (not my fave of the series)
35. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling (very good!)
36. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling (the movies make much more sense now!)
37. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling (so sad it’s over!!)
38. Content Rules by Ann Handley and C. C. Chapman (great info)
39. Mamarazzi: Every Mom’s Guide to Photographing Kids by Stacy Wasmuth (I give this book to my workshop students)
40. Made to Stick by Chip Heath and Dan Heath (wealth of knowledge)
41. The War of Art by Stephen Pressfield (just plain profound)
42. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet B. Schor (lengthy & data-heavy; interesting read)
43. EntreLeadership by Dave Ramsey (killer business advice)
44. Wildy Affordable Organic by Linda Watson (borrowed from the library, but going on my BUY list!)
45. Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (lots of stretching in this one, but still somewhat enjoyable)
46. Second Glance by Jodi Picoult (hard to follow at first, but decent-ish ghost story)
47. Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders (didn’t keep my attention very well)
48. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (didn’t live up to its hype)
49. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (slow at first, but a good read)
50. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (surprisingly, this one did live up to the hype!)
51. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (not as good as the first but still liked it a lot)
52. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (yay! I did it!)

35. Have my palms read

36. Watch the sunrise

37. Watch the sunset

38. Surprise someone

39. Learn to play chess

40. See the northern lights

41. Have a picnic

42. Go white water rafting

43. Go to the Olympics

44. Fly a kite with my girls

45. Teach a class

46. Create a new family tradition

47. Go geocaching

48. Have zero debt, including mortgage

49. Go to Australia & New Zealand

50. Donate $10,000 to an important cause

51. Ride an elephant

52. Make a difference in someone’s life

53. Hike along the Great Wall of China

54. Cook 50 new recipes

55. Take my girls to Disneyworld

56. Say hello to 10 strangers in one day

57. Buy a kickass pair of boots

58. Lose 20 pounds

59. Learn to drive a stick shift

60. Run a 5k

61. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans

62. Learn to knit

63. Watch every movie that has won an Academy Award for Best Picture

	Year	Movie
	1927	Wings
	1928	The Broadway Melody
	1929	All Quiet on the Western Front
	1930	Cimarron
	1931	Grand Hotel
	1932	Cavalcade
	1934	It Happened One Night
	1935	Mutiny on the Bounty
	1936	The Great Ziegfeld
	1937	The Life of Emily Zola
	1938	You Can’t Take it With You
	1939	Gone with the Wind
	1940	Rebecca
	1941	How Green Was My Valley
	1942	Mrs. Miniver
	1943	Casablanca
	1944	Going My Way
	1945	The Lost Weekend
	1946	The Best Years of Our Lives
	1947	Gentleman’s Agreement
	1948	Hamlet
	1949	All the King’s Men
	1950	All About Eve
	1951	An American in Paris
	1952	The Greatest Show on Earth
	1953	From Here to Eternity
	1954	On the Waterfront
	1955	Marty
	1956	Around the World in 80 Days
	1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai
	1958	Gigi
	1959	Ben-Hur
	1960	The Apartment
	1961	West Side Story
	1962	Lawrence of Arabia
	1963	Tom Jones
	1964	My Fair Lady
	1965	The Sound of Music
	1966	A Man for All Seasons
	1967	In the Heat of the Night
	1968	Oliver!
	1969	Midnight Cowboy
	1970	Patton
	1971	The French Connection
	1972	The Godfather
	1973	The Sting
	1974	The Godfather Part II
	1975	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
	1976	Rocky
	1977	Annie Hall
	1978	The Deer Hunter
	1979	Kramer vs. Kramer
	1980	Ordinary People
	1981	Chariots of Fire
	1982	Ghandi
	1983	Terms of Endearment
	1984	Amadeus
	1985	Out of Africa
	1986	Platoon
	1987	The Last Emperor
	1988	Rain Man
	1989	Driving Miss Daisy
	1990	Dances with Wolves
	1991	The Silence of the Lambs
	1992	Unforgiven
	1993	Schindler’s List
	1994	Forrest Gump
	1995	Braveheart
	1996	The English Patient
	1997	Titanic
	1998	Shakespeare in Love
	1999	American Beauty
	2000	Gladiator
	2001	A Beautiful Mind
	2002	Chicago
	2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
	2004	Million Dollar Baby
	2005	Crash
	2006	The Departed
	2007	No Country for Old Men
	2008	Slumdog Millionaire
	2009	The Hurt Locker
	2010	The King’s Speech

64. Be interviewed on tv

65. Donate blood

66. Write a children’s book

67. Sleep in a castle

68. Inspire someone

69. Build a screened porch for our house

70. Have a multi-family beach vacation with friends

71. Try okra

72. Throw a surprise party for someone

73. Have an outdoor tea party for the girls

74. Give someone a “just because” gift (I gave a friend a book that I thought she would enjoy. I loved doing this so much I’m going to make it a habit!)

75. Join a book club

76. Laugh until I cry (check out www.damnyouautocorrect.com…it’ll make you laugh until you cry too!)

77. Write my will

78. Buy a macro lens

79. Write a letter to a stranger that I admire

80. Learn to eat with chopsticks

81. Stand inside a giant redwood with my girls

82. Take an us-only vacation with Mike

83. Visit Greece

84. Go berry-picking with the girls

85. Ride in a helicopter

86. Make homemade ice cream

87. Take the kids camping

88. Save 6 months of living expenses

89. Write a haiku
we have spring fever
bubbling up in our bellies.
move along, winter!

90. See another show on Broadway

91. Trace my family’s genealogy

92. Pay for the person behind me at Starbucks

93. Make my own jewelry

94. Pay cash for a new (new-to-me) car

95. Host a Murder Mystery dinner party

96. Make a new friend

97. Plant peonies

98. Have tattoo reworked or removed

99. Go to a costume party

100. Foster a child