The Full Catastrophe

Apr 20th, 2008 by Anna

What the @#$% is Clara doing on the table? Who could ever know what goes on in her feeble little mind?

Hear that? Yea, that’s the sound of our friends turning down our future bbq invitations!

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1. ~~Go to the desert to see the winter wildflowers~~
2. Canoe around Catalina
3. Have a haircut that doesn’t need to blow dried and still looks good
4. Teach my dog not to bark at everything
5. Feed a giraffe
6. Scan all of my old pictures
7. Run a 7 minute mile
8. Join the Y Adventure Guides
9. ~~Join a Board of Directors~~
10. Go on a multi-day river rafting trip
11. Earn a graduate degree
12. Take my kids to Washington DC
13. Go to South Africa
14. Go to South America
15. Learn to cut my kids’ and husband’s hair
16. Organize a girls trip with my mom & sisters in the next 6 months
17. Keep girls trips going so that my daughter and niece can legally join in the fun one day
18. Speak more Spanish
19. Serve on the pit stop crew of the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk
20. ~~Figure out why people wear tshirts that say “College”~~
21. Own an electric car
22. ~~Become a more comfortable snorkeler~~
23. Finish the green scarf I’ve been knitting for 10+ years
24. ~~Do a backyard camp-out with Oscar this fall~~
25. Do a night of camping at the Wild Animal Park with Oscar and Laurel
26. ~~Eat more fish~~
27. Go to all of the Balboa Park museums
28. Take the kids to the drive-in
29. Go to Murphys at least three times per year
30. Live in a house with a wrap-around porch
31. Spend a lazy summer at a lake house
32. Complete a ropes course
33. Bake excellent bread
34. Have a complete wardrobe
35. Be an educated bird watcher
36. Join the Talmadge/Kensington trash volunteers
37. Buy only original art
38. Fix our house’s 80 year old mailbox cover
39. Go to more tidepools
40. Fly 1st class
41. See the Northern Lights
42. Watch Born Into Brothels
43. Go to obedience training and train an obedient dog
44. Own a cat
45. Teach cat to use the toilet
46. Renew CPR
47. Learn how to use a defibrillator
48. Go to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
49. Go on a horseback riding trip with Uncle Terry and Aunt Peggy
50. ~~Whisk Brian away for a surprise vacation~~
51. Go to the Hayden Planetarium
52. Go to the Rose Bowl Parade
53. Learn to play guitar
54. Try golfing
55. Play beach tennis
56. Learn to play chess
57. Learn to play bridge
58. Hike the Napali Coast
59. Hike Mare a Mare Centre in Corsica
60. Go to Bran Castle in Romania
61. Drink a prestige cuvee champagne
62. Grow enough tomatoes and strawberries to share with friends
63. Try a new restaurant once a month
64. Create 10 good playlists for my ipod
65. Finish our state quarter collection
66. Fly on a glider
67. Improve my posture
68. Build a haunted house with my kids
69. Pull off a complicated practical joke
70. Repair that family heirloom clock and put it on the mantle
71. Read Moby Dick
72. Start composting again
73. Call my sisters more often
74. ~~Buy a rolling pin~~
75. ~~Buy a cast iron skillet~~
76. ~~Buy a pancake griddle~~
77. Clean my back teeth better
78. Celebrate Christmas without gifts
79. Hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
80. Teach my kids how to play cat’s cradle and Chinese jump rope
81. Try acupuncture
82. Wear red lipstick
83. Buy a beer for Oscar’s soccer coaches
84. Plant a camellia in my garden
85. Write a letter once a month
86. See Barack Obama speak
87. ~~Make a Christmas wreath~~
88. Enter something in the San Diego County Fair
89. See the fall colors in New England
90. Be a grandma
91. Keep my desk cleaner
92. Eat more vegetables
93. Go to Black’s Beach
94. Try offal
95. ~~Explore Los Angeles~~
96. Get a job that pays enough for me to follow through on all of these ideas
97. Be a big tipper
98. ~~Coin a phrase~~
99. ~~Witness a bad driver getting pulled over~~
100. ~~Recognize my good fortune everyday~~

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