dreams

michele's list

☑ find and marry the love of my life – 08.07.2010
☐ go back to london with mark and speak in a british accent the entire time we're there
☑ learn to forgive – 08.03.2007
☐ have a happy, healthy chlid
☐ to do everything in my power to eat healthly and be good to my body
☐ volunteer at a pet shelter
☐ explore hawaii and maybe even live there
☐ always find quality time with mark/family
☐ make a hallmark card that is sold in stores
☐ complete a marathon
☐ learn to sail
☐ become more fluent in polish
☐ cook traditional polish dishes as well as my mother—golopki, pierogi, bigos, barscz
☐ take ballroom dance lessons
☐ learn yoga and be strong enough to do all the moves
☐ ride in a hot air balloon
☐ set foot in every state of the u.s.
☐ own a sea green vespa
☐ go on a fabulous train ride across the country
☐ not be in debt
☐ visit the white house in washington D.C
☐ finish a 365 photography project
☐ go backpacking through europe and document rick steve's style
☐ write a book—we'll start with a child's book
☑ learn not to take what others do or say personally – 05.16.2007
☐ paint 10 paintings that are from the heart
☐ volunteer at a soup kitchen
☐ ride and elephant in a foreign country
☐ skinny dip in a hot spring... or just experience a hot spring in general
☐ own a second home by a body of water and beach
☐ own a boat
☐ join a bible study group
☐ see bora bora and stay in one of those room right on the water—think couples retreat.
☐ design and build our own house, or buy a charming cape cod and update it
☐ dance with mark in the rain
☐ help build a house with habitiat for humanity
☐ go behind a waterfall
☐ watch the sunrise on a beautiful beach
☐ go to rome and have authentic pizza with mark
☑ adopt a pet from a shelter – 07.11.2009
☐ climb a lighthouse
☐ take a random road trip to someplace new
☐ go back to school strictly for art
☐ own a small cafe with mark
☐ build a personal web site and blog for a year
☐ learn to play golf
☐ experience mardi gras in new orleans
☐ go to the pike place market in seattle
☐ live in a foriegn country for 6 months
☐ make a quilt
☐ learn how to make jewelry
☐ become an early riser
☑ do not be dependent on TV – 05.25.2006
☑ recycle and be green everyday – 01.01.2008
☐ meet martha stewart
☐ make a difference in at least one person’s life
☐ donate a million dollars (or a signifcant amount) to a charity
☐ be an extra on a tv show or film
☐ write or create a personal cookbook
☐ have “high tea” at the plaza hotel in new york, or at fortnum & mason in london
☐ invent something
☐ sell original artwork or craft
☐ invest in the stock market and understand what the heck goes on
☐ become a vegetarian for three months
☐ have a house with a big wrap around porch
☐ have a yard full of fruit trees
☐ go to the kentucky derby and wear a ridiculously big hat
☐ watch a match at wimbledon
☐ hang out in an olympic village
☐ try oysters as much as i do not want to
☐ achieve my ideal weight and keep it there
☐ perform a kind deed to at least five strangers without expecting anything in return
☐ make exercise a regular habit
☐ tour the ben and jerry's factory
☐ ask for a raise
☑ see wicked – 01.24.2009
☐ be happily married for many many years
☑ eat crepes in france – 03.19.2009
☐ earn a six-figure income
☐ fast one day a month and give the money saved to charity for a year
☐ have someone (mark) write me a love song and perform it hahahaha
☐ pray daily
☐ eat at topolobampo
☐ to be remembered as a kind person, to do things and be there for others and to be excited for special moments in their life