It's funny, when I started this, I felt a bit stuck and became anxious that I wouldn't be able to finish something that I had started. However, once I started this list, the ideas have been rolling in and I am now concerned that I will have to revise this to "218 Things to Do before I leave this Earthly World".
Here are the next ten:
11. Jungle safari to see the Mountain Gorillas in Uganda;
12. (OK, blatantly copying my brilliant bud Steph but the truth is, I really, really, really want this) Own Vespa Scooter and have it pimped out with customised paint job;
13. Have Ami James (of Miami Ink fame) cover my current tattoo with something more mature, artistic and symbolic;
14. Give a person or a group a life changing gift;
15. Design, build and live in an eco-friendly house with a view of the sea;
16. See the sun rise over the dunes of the Sahara;
17. Design and have made a platinum ring set with my birthstone (Aquamarine);
18. Own a pony;
19. Have family sit for formal painted portrait; and
20. Order dessert for dinner.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
THE MASTER LIST
I am a denialist. This means that if I don't think about things that upset me, they don't exist. This is how I avoid being heavily medicated and/or paying obscenely large therapy bills.
Aside from being a denialist, I am also a lover of lists. I do love, lurve, loooove lists, right up there with fine chocolate, beautiful linens and the smell of lavender and...well...I like lists, not because I am particularly organised but because I like the symmetry and beauty of everything being so prettily summarised on a page and of course, one needs innumerable and delightful books in which to write lists, so it's really like the whole , "coming full circle" thing.
So, when I saw that Mighty Girl had completed a list of the 100 things to do before, errrm, leaving the earthly world, it combined something I want to deny - mortality, with something that I love - lists. Who was I to refuse to participate in something that would simultaneously terrify and delight me.
My list is at once realistic and fantastical; I make no apologies. Here are the first ten:
1. Shoot skeet - preferably in Barbour jacket, dark green wellies and a tweed cap;
2. Complete a keepsake family tree complete with calligraphy and bound in leather. Pass it on to my daughter and hope that successive generations of women continue to add to it;
3. Drink a Bellini at Harry's Bar in Venice;
4. Kiss a Pope's ring;
5. Play baccarat at the Monte Carlo Casino dressed in a floor length lipstick red couture gown;
6. Walk on the Moors;
7. Watch my daughter be the third generation to marry at the church where I was married and where my mother was married;
8. Live in an ashram in India for a month and take a vow of silence for the full month;
9. Master the fabulous Bollywood dance by Madhuri Dixit in the film Aaja Nachle; and
10. Have a "last" completed by John Lobb shoemakers in London - get a pair of knee high, bespoke leather boots made.
Aside from being a denialist, I am also a lover of lists. I do love, lurve, loooove lists, right up there with fine chocolate, beautiful linens and the smell of lavender and...well...I like lists, not because I am particularly organised but because I like the symmetry and beauty of everything being so prettily summarised on a page and of course, one needs innumerable and delightful books in which to write lists, so it's really like the whole , "coming full circle" thing.
So, when I saw that Mighty Girl had completed a list of the 100 things to do before, errrm, leaving the earthly world, it combined something I want to deny - mortality, with something that I love - lists. Who was I to refuse to participate in something that would simultaneously terrify and delight me.
My list is at once realistic and fantastical; I make no apologies. Here are the first ten:
1. Shoot skeet - preferably in Barbour jacket, dark green wellies and a tweed cap;
2. Complete a keepsake family tree complete with calligraphy and bound in leather. Pass it on to my daughter and hope that successive generations of women continue to add to it;
3. Drink a Bellini at Harry's Bar in Venice;
4. Kiss a Pope's ring;
5. Play baccarat at the Monte Carlo Casino dressed in a floor length lipstick red couture gown;
6. Walk on the Moors;
7. Watch my daughter be the third generation to marry at the church where I was married and where my mother was married;
8. Live in an ashram in India for a month and take a vow of silence for the full month;
9. Master the fabulous Bollywood dance by Madhuri Dixit in the film Aaja Nachle; and
10. Have a "last" completed by John Lobb shoemakers in London - get a pair of knee high, bespoke leather boots made.
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