The list grows....

21. Grow hair long
22. Run across Golden Gate Bridge
23. Hike all day to get to a spot thats unspoiled and beautiful. Sleep there overnight with what you brought.
24. Visit one great spa each season. Stay all day.
25. Walk in the rain
26. Take a class
27. Pray each day
28. Plant something
29. Go on a picnic
30. Be sappy
31. Ride a train
32. Do sit-ups

Just Listed! The next 10

Continue mulling through the list of 40 things (big and small) that I will check off in my 40 th year (which commences in about 3 months)....

11.) seek out good health. This means make and keep ALL necessary medical appointments. Including, but not limited to: dentist, optometrist, dermatologist, gp, gyn...all of them.
12.) call my mom, grandfather and sister once a week.
13.) plan solo trips with each of my children...make it everything they want-their current dream days.
14.) find a way to make yoga class...at least once a week. Carve out the time.
15.) take myself somewhere, in Autumn of this 40th year, to take a walk, that has leaves for me to crunch as I go.
16.) write a letter at least once a month...mail it.
17.) compliment someone every day
18.) compliment myself every day
19.) define my signature drink. (so many choices)
20.) zip line through a rainforest

Beginning the 40 List

so here begins the list of 40 things I must do in my 40th year.
...in no particular order...yet.

1.) run my fourth marathon
2.) new tat
3.) sleep under the stars with my kiddos
4.) 5 star hotel stay
5.) send flowers to my best friend and my mom for no particular reason...lets say on a random date...like September 19th.
6.) swim more
7.) go to Ashland  for Shakespeare festival....one of my most favorite things
8.) have a party with great live music
9.) travel out of the country-use my passport
10.) float down a river-rafting, tubing, boating...any or all

I'm liking my list.  A huge fan of lists right here.
Another ten on the way, then I will start plotting the execution of 40!

Less than four months to forty

gasp. I need to get the dusty bucket list out and get going.
Here are a few I know for sure:
1.) I will run my fourth marathon in my 40th year....just need to decide which one...
2.) I will come up with 40 great things to do while 40 (service to others, experiences, dreams realized etc.)
3.) I will get another tattoo...maybe some modified four leaf clover?
4.) I will make amends..
5.) I will be a seeker of joy

I will...
I hated thirty...I am using a great deal of energy to attempt and embrace this next milestone birthday. I'm going to gush over it, use it as my excuse to do all the things I really want.
It'll be a good thing.