I bring to you...The List. Writing the list each year brings so many laughs. Some items I know from the get go, they're getting done. Others I know are strictly a pipe dream. But dreaming is good. It expands our minds and lets us discover how much we truly can explore the edges of our comfort zones. I often look back and think, "Man, I should've added this to my list. I could have knocked another item off." Just because it's not on the list, doesn't make it any less magnificent a memory. I jumped off a boat into a swarm of about 40 sharks without one iota of fear. It was amazing. Swimming with sharks was something I never would have considered putting on my list, yet I didn't hesitate when the opportunity arose. The List is not about limiting what we can do, but expanding what we perhaps didn't think ourselves capable of, and most importantly, dreaming and having fun.
And this will happen at some point...
Slide down a firepole
- Go to a teddy bear toss game
- Fill a little free library outside a Seniors' Home or church with erotic literature
- Swim in a mermaid tail
- Spend another 3 days in a naked city
- Cook or bake something from every country in the world
- Be able to locate every country on a map and learn every capital of the world
- Learn how to say, "Make me a pie!" in 10 languages
- Make a Serge Ibaka scarf
- Learn how to pick a lock
- Go solo camping
- Have a picnic and watch the planes land
- Eat a pot brownie
- Have a bust of my bust made, then cover it with flowers
- Go dog sledding
- Ride a merry-go-round in a ball gown
- Rappel out of a helicopter
- Make as much as you can from scratch
- Buy something you've never tried every time you grocery shop
- Swing on a swing, embracing your inner 6 year old's glee
- Read a book in another language
- Go Christmas caroling
- Make a dessert a la Turducken
- Visit every official park in Vancouver (thank you Justin McElroy!)
- Watch every James Bond movie
- Starting at 1, add a single squat and push-up each day, ending with 365 of each
- Take a trip with no luggage, buying everything you need at your destination
- Challenge a bus driver to a race
- Go to an auction or estate sale
- Do 12 Sun Salutations daily
- Run around a horsetrack
- Finish Knee Knacker with a number that starts with 8
- Pull off a skateboarding trick without breaking anything
- Participate in a food eating contest
- Repot my newly created jungle of plants
- Raid a mango tree
- Learn to stretch and toss pizza dough like an Italian master
- Steamroll an unsuspecting victim
- Find all 12 obelisks on Ontario Street
- Plan an extraordinary 2 week backpacking walk
- When you see something cool, don't just pass by. Go down the rabbit hole of learning about it (i.e. obelisks, street names, numbers etched into sidewalks, buildings at Wreck Beach, etc.)
- Create a shelf full of candy
- Make 52 versions of a s'more and document them in all their glory
- Go grape stomping, then make an angel in all the smush
- Run all the trails at UBC, including the 4 sets of Wreck stairs, in the dark
- Get rid of the futon mattress that's been rolled up on your living room floor for over a year
- Get a hold of Chef Wasabi's gear, then run the bases in his place, taking out all other mascots in an extraordinary manner
- Get a remote control sailboat, put snacks on it, then sail it up to people on the water
- Find a massive flower maze and spend all day getting lost in it
- Eat a meal so spectacular, it teaches you that you know absolutely nothing about food
- Spend a week eating only convenience store food
And this will happen at some point...
Slide down a firepole
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