50 by 50 / part 3 of 3

Julie will turn forty in about a year, and she can see the darkness at the end of the tunnel, (she has already had a mid-life crisis.) As a result she decided to write: "Forty Things I Want To Do Before I Turn Forty."

Then she suggested that I write: "50 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 50." (Due date isn't for three more years.) But here it is:

50 by 50
(or what I want to do before I grow old, haggard and useless)

34) Have that, "ahhhhhh…VACATION" feeling without worrying about the bill.
35) Have a snowball fight and go sleigh riding with my wife and son, then come inside to hot chicken soup or cocoa by the fire.
36) Organize my pantry, my filing cabinet, or my medicine chest.
37) Laugh more. Like I used to.
38) I'd love to publish one of my children's stories, a very specific one, mostly so I could see the illustrations on paper.
39) Lurn to spell. If they're is won thing that ide love too do be four turning fif tee its is learn two spell "better;" You no wat i meen?
40) Paint an oil painting. Not an 8 x 10... But a really, really big one.
41) Have a steady gig (not a full-time or strenuous job or anything like that… just a good part-time salaried position where they pay me to sit around and be witty).
42) Just once, I'd love to take an axe to my computer, after it loses my file because of something I did (of course the demolished machine would instantly be replaced by a faster and more considerate computer).
43) Win the lottery, or at least the ring toss game at the county fair.
44) Catch a shark that attacked a swimmer. Then cook that shark and serve it to the swimmer… with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
45) Sleep till ten.
46) Have one conversation in which I wasn't interrupted by: "Daddy can I ____?"
47) I'd like to finish this list before I turn 50.
48) Tip a waitress fifty dollars for a ten dollar lunch. Ahhh, make it a hundred.
49) Donate my ponytail to Locks of Love.
50) Enjoy all that I have and fully appreciate, for every minute of the entire day, just how lucky I am… and let all the small things go.

What would you like to do before your next big one?

Comments

[Robin P]

I love this list!!!! Especially about the shark! You always make me laugh. Are you sure no one will pay you to sit around and be witty? Are you absolutely sure? I don't understand that.
Now I have to think and make up my own before 50 list. Hmmmm....I have 9 more years......I'll get back to you on that one.

[Marcia]

Writing it down is the first step toward making it happen. Well, except #43.

[AGK]

I enjoyed your list...and it made me think. Thanks a lot ;) No, seriously. I used to have a list of everything to do before 30. I wonder what happened to it. Time to make a new one!

[Philip]

That's quite a list. I hope you'll post each one as you cross it off. I'll be watching! You have three years my friend...Better get started on that cookbook now...

[Julie]

Finish my list of 40 things? I love you :)
Thanks for inspiring me.