The List...  These are all things I want to do, see or experience at some point in my life... A sort of life list, I suppose!  As I accomplish the items on this list, I'll post about them and link to them here.

I reserve the right to add, delete, or adjust the things on this list, ahem.  :)

CHICAGO RESTAURANTS

• Go to Topolobambo (Accomplished!)
• Go to Spiaggia
• Try Ethiopian food (Accomplished!)
• Go to Table 52
• Have a cocktail at The Signature Room
• Go to Smoque
• Go to Hot Doug's
• Go to Xoco (Accomplished!)
• Eat something from a food truck

SPORTS

• Complete a triathlon - any distance
• Complete a 75 mile bike ride
• Run a 27 minute 5k
• Complete the Chicago Marathon
• Complete an Australian Marathon
• Complete a Hawaiian Marathon
• Complete a Half Ironman triathlon
• Complete an Ironman triathlon

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Take a photography class or seminar
• Buy a 35mm lens
• Buy a camera/purse combo bag
• Make a Blurb photobook

SCARY STUFF

• Go ice skating and don't hang on to the wall

TRAVEL

• Go to Japan
• Go to Australia and/or New Zealand
• Go to Fiji
• Go to India
• Go on an African safari

COOKING

• Make a pasta noodle dish from scratch
• Take a cooking class for a cuisine outside my comfort zone
• Make an Indian curry
• Can something
• Make mac n cheese from scratch
• Make doulmas
• Make homemade ice cream

GARDENING

• Grow a tomato that I eat
• Grow an herb garden with basil and rosemary
• Grow a strawberry that I eat
• Grow a flower from a seed

SPECTATOR SPORTS

• Go to a home Dallas Cowboys game
• Go to a Blackhawks game
• Go to a Bulls game
• Go to a home Red Sox game

PERFORMANCES

• Go to the Joffrey Ballet
• Go see Carmen (the opera)
• Go see Death Cab for Cutie in concert

MIND AND BODY

• Go to a bikram yoga class (Accomplished!)
• Get a facial

BOOKS

• Read To Kill a Mockingbird
• Read War and Peace
• Read Lolita
• Read American Pastoral
• Read Atlas Shrugged
• Read A Clockwork Orange
• Read Blood Meridian

FUN STUFF

• Picnic in Millenium Park
• Go to a fancypants movie theater
• Paint a watercolor
• Buy great sunglasses
• Go on an architectural tour
• Learn to play poker
• Learn one formal dance style

ADVENTURES

• Go apple-picking
• Gamble on horse races
• Go camping… in a tent
• Climb Mt Kilmanjaro

REACHING OUT

• Make a micro-loan
• Complete an Operation Baking GALS assignment

ADULT STUFF

• Write a will
• Have 8mo emergency fund at the ready
• Buy a couch (Accomplished!)
• Get a dog
• Pay off my student loans
• Buy real estate of some sort
• Learn to fix a flat

NECESSARY

• Restore my antique dresser
• Set up a studio/office for myself
• Set up a solid digital backup system
• Set up a specific place to keep my keys
• Take a self defense class