Happy birthday to me. Not yet forty but it’s creeping up (730 days) so it think it is time to publish the forty before forty list and get this party started. And started I did – I revealed the first 10 in January but here is the full list – some are very ambitious (like #10), some are scary (like #14), and some are just pure crazy (like #9) but why not dream big? Wish me luck!

1. Take piano lessons (I quit after one year – my sisters are beautiful players and I’ve come to regret dropping out).
2. See Hawaii – it has been my dream to take David to Hawaii for his 10th birthday since the day he was born. He will turn 10 less than two months before my 40th so the timing will be tight but I am sure Mike can make this happen.
3. Make some pottery – take a class.
4. Visit all of the National Parks in Atlantic Canada. There are 10, I’ve seen 5 (can you go to Sable Island?)
5. Get a tattoo. Hah! Where the heck did that come from?
6. Make a move. Not sure if it will be career or school or a move to the country but I like the idea.
7. Sail away – even if it’s just around the Armdale.
8. WALLPAPER my itty bitty bathroom.
9. Bangs. Try them out.
10. Rent a cottage with some lady-friends for +2 nights and drink way too much wine.
11. Scuba dive. Ideally off the Florida Keys. With Kyle Chandler.
12. Win something.
13. Buy a silk blouse. I’m thinking a nice deep midnight blue button down.
14. Try Whole 30. It’s just 30 days… how terrible can it be?
15. Sip sweet tea in the South like a Georgia Peach.
16. Take tennis lessons.
17. Sign up for a Yoga session.
18. Get eyelash extensions.
19. Make a batch of wine. I promise, it won’t be low class and I promise I will not force you to drink it.
20. Run a Spring marathon (I’ve run September, October and Novembers only)
21. Get a new personal best in a marathon (which would be sub 3:56:00)
22. Learn and preform the full Footloose dance.
23. Try snowboarding *again.
24. Buy watercolours. Watercolour.
25. Attend an epic festival, concert or event (like Mardi Gras, The Beach Boys in California, Running of the Bulls, etc.)
26. Donate plasma.
27. Ride in a helicopter (ideally while visiting #2)
28. Volunteer.
29. Get a reading done by a psychic medium.
30. Go to a drive-in movie.
31. Explore a new country.
32. Read a novel in one weekend.
33. Take a solo vacation.
34. Host a holiday dinner or a murder mystery party.
35. Change a tire. Change the oil. Learn these skills.
36. Scoot around on a scooter and end up at the ocean.
37. Attend a retreat or workshop of some sort.
38. Watch all of the movies on the AFI’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time (I’ve seen about 40 so far).
39. Dip my toes in Lake Louise.
40. Party like it’s 1979.

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