Quest 49!

The winds of change are blowing – Fall is in the air!  I turned 49 this week and I’m feeling compelled to do some cool things in this last year before I turn 50. While I still feel 35, I’m realistically on the precipice of entering the fall of my existence. Summer’s almost over, but before it ends, I have a few things I want to accomplish.  When it’s time to write “what I did this summer”, I would like to have more things than I can count to choose from.

While I have started the list, it is not quite complete – I need your suggestions. I’m close to adding Scuba Diving on the list, but am frankly scared just a bit. I will give it strong consideration though. Also, I had many suggestions to add Sky Diving. Good news! That’s what I plan to do on my 50^th birthday, so it’s officially number 50 on the list of 49 items J. 

While I’m not sure I can guarantee I’ll get a Hole In One, or will be able to attend the Masters (golf tourney) in Augusta in the spring of 2012, if I didn’t put them on the list, I wouldn’t try as hard to get there. If you have any thoughts about how I CAN get to the Masters, I am open to suggestions. We tried to get tickets to the practice round through the lottery, with the help from friends and family, but came up empty handed.

Here's the 'proposed' list so far...

1.       Start a blog (CHECK!)

2.       Volunteer work with disabled/horses

3.       Have a hole in 1 (golf)

4.       Walk 100 miles this year (9/4/2011 – 9/4/2012)

5.       Go inner tubing and/or skiing with my boys

6.       Plan a getaway with my sisters (yes, all of them!)

7.       Paint a picture

8.       Play in a golf tournament with my mom

9.       Enter Fiddlesticks Women’s Club Championship (Golf)

10.   Spend 3 days with Kerri Dowd (college friend)

11.   Perform 30 day rice test (more to come...)

12.   Return to Montana and Yellowstone National Park

13.   Attend a multiple day silence retreat

14.   Fly Fish out west (location of choice – Montana or Alaska)

15.   Attend the Masters at Augusta National

16.   Whale Watching off coast of California (Catalina?)

17.   Spend time with Nic (oldest son) at his college

18.   Get a dog

19.   Sing in a Christmas caroling group

20.   Read the New Testament (again)

21.   Return to the Grand Canyon Lodge on the north rim

22.   Learn Spanish (I'm registered with Rosetta Stone as of 9/1)

23.   Finish family photo picture wall

24.   Go rock climbing

25.   Take a 30 mile bike trip

26.   Commit 49 anonymous acts of kindness (submitted by Connie Crosby)

27.   Paddle boarding

28.   Hold a newborn baby (no more than 1 week old)

29.   Sing in an ensemble group

30.   Try Zumba

31.   Take a Tai Chi Class

32.   Closet purging (all) donating excess to charity

33.   Make Barefoot Contessa’s coconut cake/cupcakes

34.   Host a house party this fall

35.   Make a standing rib roast

36.   Explore an unvisited national park

37.   Play the TPC Sawgrass course (golf)

38.   Read “The Presence Process”

39.   Have sex at least once a week

40.   Attend a Christmas eve church service

41.   Spend 5 consecutive days with no TV

42.   Take sand trap lessons (golf)

43.   Go skinny-dipping

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50.   Sky Dive (50^th birthday)