An Everchanging Guide For This Life.
This my “CliffsNotes” to how I think my life (should) will turn out. It is complete with romance, adventure, places, mysteries ( I luuuuuuuuuv mysteries!!!), battles, demons, food, beer!!, cameras, CRAZY family members, even CRAZIER friends, words, paint, talking boxes, maybe a vampire or two….but most of all….finding out who I am suppose to be. All the workings of a great story. This story is not for the faint of heart, the weak stomached, or children.
Fasten your seat belts…it’s gonna be a bumpy ride!!!
1. Send a postcard a month to Tasha.
2. Find the most unusual bandaid in the world.
3. Kayak the Keys.
4. Backpack through Nepal.
5. Own my own house.
6. Read a book a month.
July: Justice Rules
August:
7. Learn religion. My own, of course…
8. Kiss a vampire.
9. See a hippopotamus in it’s natural habitat.
10. Be self-sufficient.
11. Brew awesome beer.
12. Run. A lot. And like it. 5k. 10k. 1/2 marathon.
13. Own my own business of something awesome, and it be successful.
14. Get a dog and name it Egon.
15. Watch at least one movie a week.
April: Alice in Wonderland, Solstice, Funny People, The Lovely Bones.
May: Chumscrubber, The Invention of Lying, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Leap Year, Daybreakers, The House on Telegraph Hill.
June: Letters to Juliet, Murder on the Orient Express, The Wolfman, Robin Hood, Valentine’s Day, The Spiral Staircase, The Machinist.
July: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Counterfeiters, Men Who Stare At Goats.
16. Make homemade pizza.
17. Find a maple bar in the South.
18. Fly fish in Hemmingway’s Pyreness.
19. Hike the Road to Santiago.
20. Backpack internationally. Alone. With a stranger.
21. Sail.
22. Deep sea fish.
23. Help build sustainable housing in underdeveloped countries.
24. Complete a sprint distance triathlon.
25. Change the world.
26. Watch all the Harry Potter movies. Wearing a cape.
27. More tattoos please!!!
28. Get into a bar fight.
30. Have a garden.
31. Bungee jump.
32. Live within my means.
33. Fall in love.
34. Build a house.
35. And a farm.
36. Own some chickens.
37. Learn to surf.
38. Drink the most delicious Hefeweizen in the world.
39. Read all of Charles Dickens.
Novels: Short Stories:
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Sketches by Boz
The Adventures of Oliver Twist The Mudfog Papers
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Reprinted Pieces
The Old Curiosity Shop The Uncommercial Traveller
Barnaby Rudge
A Christmas Carol
The Chimes
The Cricket on the Hearth
The Battle of Life
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Dombey and Son
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Hard Times: For These Times
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
40. Visit Istanbul and pray in the Hagia Sophia.
41. Drink beer with Monks.
42. View Paris from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
43. Read all of Hemingway’s literature.
The Torrents of Spring
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell to Arms
To Have and Have Not
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Across the River and Into the Trees
The Old Man and the Sea
Islands into the Stream
The Garden of Eden
True at First Light
44. Read all of Haruki Murakami’s books.
Hear the Wind Sing
Pinball, 1973
A Wild Sheep Chase
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Norwegian Wood
Dance Dance Dance
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Sputnik Sweetheart
Kafka on the Shore
After Dark
1Q84
There are 7 Comments to "An Everchanging Guide For This Life."
Jen’s little brother has “Devil Duck” bandaids. And I love the Ghostbusters reference. Oh, how we miss you in the ‘kan.
I must have one to add to my collection!! Please send!!!
I will check into that for you.
I will pay for the b jump after you run a 10k
deal.
I like #1. I think we should start that up again.
i know. i bought three. and a pack of postcard stamps. be expecting some soon…and your birthday present.