Unveiling the list

Almost a whole twenty days late in posting this - should have done it on my birthday on the 7th, but meh, small detail. I am just over 11 months away from turning forty, and I want to chronicle those months, spend them living the way I want to live the rest of my life, one moment at a time, smelling the roses, not sweating the small stuff, loving the wonderful people in my life, living in the now. I gave my friends the option of adding items to a list of 40 things to do by 40, and some of them are NUTZ, but I will incorporate them and see how they pan out. So, for post one, here's the list (in no particular order)...

1. Driver’s license – how sad is that?! Practice with Cam's car...lol
   
2. Complete dissertation – especially since it will mean I won't owe Sean a bottle of champagne…sometime in my 40^th year.
3. Take a canoe trip with Dorothy
4. Complete at least one marathon – since I have boinked on training for two so far. Will do Disney 2009 with Hanna since she'll be turning 30, and aiming for the rest of the TSs to join!
5. Do the midsummer night's run with Cam in practice for the marathon
6. Overcome my swimming issues – this actually concerns me, I keep taking lessons, but it seems the second I find myself in water where I can’t see the bottom, I panic
7. Get back to training 4-5 times a week – it seems without a training partner to keep me accountable, I’m not doing this one well (more like AT ALL)
8. Get at least one article published – will be necessary if I want to get a good job in a year or so
9. Learn scrapbooking – figured I’d have at least one “artsy” thing on this list although I’m anything but! (TL)
10. Fine art nudes – only if getting back to training works out!!
11. At least one more tat
12. Go snowboarding – been wanting to do this for 4 or 5 years, just haven’t had an opportunity
13. Sponsor a child in the developing world
14. Get on the job market – this includes looking at post-docs
15. Maintain eye-contact and actually listen – weird how you can go through life not noticing how little you pay attention to the person directly in front of you!
16. Develop a better relationship with Justis and his mom
17. Visit Marrakesh
    
18. Visit the desert – plan right now is Vegas, May 2-4 weekend.
19. Go horseback riding
20. Make better use of my time i.e. actually do more than a couple things in a day – set daily schedules and stick to them
21. Pay off LOC
22. Pay off credit cards – BMO Mastercard paid off December 20, 2007
23. Make a real effort to keep in touch with the people who matter
24. Be thankful
25. Stop taking cabs everywhere
26. Call my Gran once a week and write down the things she tells me – too late, she died December 16^th.
27. Go through my dad’s papers the next time I visit my mom’s place – the tales of the RAF enlisted who were in London before the Windrush are important.
28. Get back on a bicycle (Karen)
29. Polar bear swim (Craig)
30. Sky dive (Kelly)
31. Flying trapeze (crazy Hanna!!)
32. TS trip to San Fran to visit Hanna where we'll all learn something we've never done, like surfing (per Cris)
33. Re-discover my creative voice...start writing again
34. Do something about my slovenliness
35. Spend quality time with Nathan and Jillian
36. Spend some time with Sasha, Natasha and Joel
37. Visit Kelly and John down East
38. Quebec City (Cath)
39. Have sex (Sean)
40. Bob (boB) - who am I to argue?!