This is my 7th year of creating The List. Every year, I try to find a balance of whimsical, attainable, and pie in the sky fantasy. But, just because you include some pipe dreams, doesn't mean you should pass them by and move on to the next "attainable" task. I believe everything on my list is attainable. It's just finding the gumption, finding the motivation, and finding the belief, that yes...I CAN do this, I just need to want to. And there's absolutely nothing wrong if I don't put a check mark next to every number. I still haven't run after an ice cream truck, yelling, "ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!" But every time I read that line, I imagine it and it makes me smile.
That is what this is all about. Find your joy. Find your daring, fearless heart and conquer some dreams. Tell that crazy monkey brain in charge of fight or flight that jumping out of your comfort zone isn't always a death sentence. It can be fun. It can be exciting. It can be so damned satisfying to see what you can accomplish when you try.
That is what this is all about. Find your joy. Find your daring, fearless heart and conquer some dreams. Tell that crazy monkey brain in charge of fight or flight that jumping out of your comfort zone isn't always a death sentence. It can be fun. It can be exciting. It can be so damned satisfying to see what you can accomplish when you try.
- Get one of those sneaky off-shore bank accounts
- Roller skate at Venice Beach
- Take a vacation based solely on visiting churches and ask the voices, "Why?" when they start screaming at you to get out
- Find a crazy law from every country
- Learn to think like a Ninja
- Stay in a Tokyo Love Hotel
- Visit the Island of the Dolls (Don't do that, Booby)
- Go on a butterfly and flower safari
- Try every flavour at an ice cream shop
- Conquer your fear of the ferris wheel
- Yodel in the Alps
- Drag race in cherry pickers
- Go storm chasing
- Play Where in the World is Booby
- Ride the rails like a hobo
- Start biking to the trailheads
- Channel your inner Joey Chestnut, but with pie
- Get inside the spooky Sugar Shack
- Master Yorkshire puddings
- Do a yoga squat every day
- Get a surfboard, with no intention to ever surf, but cover it in flowers to match the bust of your bust you still need to make
- Witness the Idaho Potato Drop
- Dance on a volcano
- Go to a Pancake & Booze Art Show
- Check out the big waves of Nazaré
- Make the perfect Manhattan
- Do the Limbo on a beach
- Eat through Potluck Hawker Eatery's entire menu
- Get a memorial bench for The Barge
- Ride up Cypress just to get an icy cold coke from the vending machine
- Find the hippie, flaky, crystal loving, oil healing, zen creature you used to be and introduce her to the cornucopia of others you've picked up along the way
- Get a tattoo of a Booby
- Do something so out of your comfort zone, you pee your pants, cry, and squeal with delight
- Remember races have aid stations and you're not required to carry so much food
- Make a lemon meringue pie with meringue so high, it's like you're eating your way through the snowy Alps
- Attend a gala event
- Take the VPD WPST's course in person
- Beat Chef Wasabi in a race
- Bake every pie in the Pie Hole's cookbook
- The absolute joy you experience when you see a dog? Put that same energy into every aspect of your life
- The Mile High Club. "I'm pretty sure the closest I will ever get to joining the Mile High Club is if I have sex in Denver." ~ Kevin Pryslak. Visit Denver.
- Do a rolling dive into a closing garage like James Bond
- Roll down a hill like you did as a kid. Or like you did as a chic in her 20's with idiotic ideas at the PNE
- Get Nuun Rootbeer made.
- Visit a Booby colony
- Have a Mr. Bentley sighting
- Flag down the BC Lions umbrella bike to see if they have ice cream
- Watch every Star Wars in chronological order
- See a Van Gogh in person
- Only swear in foreign languages
- Find a race for back of the packers with zero cutoffs
- Use an unconventional method to enter a country
And I will keep adding it until it happens:
- Slide down a firehouse pole