My RAD Life List

• Grow my hair long and thick *like when I was a child*

As a kid, I hated my long thick hair. Oh what I would give to have hair like this now!

• Cook/Host an entire Thanksgiving dinner for 8 guests *served on beautiful Anthropologie dishware* 

• Plant a vertical garden like this

 

• Have a photo shoot with Pauline Darley in Paris

• Have our nursery/home featured on Ohdeedoh blog DONE   

• Learn to converse in French *go back to Paris with Olivia, this time speaking French only, and take the Amelie walking tour*

• Build my dream closet/wardrobe *edit my wardrobe to pieces I love/look amazing it*

•  Meet Jack White and take a picture with him in a photo booth

• Give birth naturally *drug-free* Sadly I succumbed to 3 epidurals but I did give birth to our beautiful daughter Olivia Lily, June 2, 2010

• Redesign my blog layout

• Grow my own peonies, strawberries and herb garden *that the bugs don’t eat*

• Read Classic novels *Pride & Prejudice, Jane Eyre,  Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Glass Menagerie, The Great Gatsby, Atlas Shrugged, Oliver Twist, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Wuthering Heights, A Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick*  Italics are ones I have read

•  Go glamping with my friends *in Paris*

•  Create a blog dedicated to our life travels *turn all the yellow pins {places we want to go} into red pins {places we’ve been} on our map*

 

• Completely renovate our next house *buy My Dream House* and have it featured on Apartment Therapy

• Learn how to print on a hand crank letterpress *make pretty business cards* 

• Swim in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

Björk and her son in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland

 

• Spend Christmas at a Bed & Breakfast in Canada *Montréal ideally* 

•  Add a padlock with our names on it to a lock bridge

• Dress up and attend an opera/ballet *cities may vary; Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl or Walt Disney Concert Hall, New York Metropolitan Opera House, Royal Opera House, London, Palais Garnier, Paris or Sydney Opera House*

• Stay at these hotels; Chateau Marmont, Sunset Tower, Roosevelt Hollywood, Fairmont Heritage Place, The Standard, The Ritz, Four Seasons, Beverly Hills Hotel, Mr Cs, Peninsula, Waldorf Astoria, St Regis, One & Only Los Cabos

• Visit 50 of the 52 certified Los Angeles farmers markets *29 down/21 to go*

• Jump into a pool with all my clothes on    

• See Björk play live at Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK and in her hometown, Reykjavík, Iceland

• Be a contestant on The Amazing Race with Antz

• Attend Blogshop and learn how to make my blog radder 

• Ride a pink Vespa *with a matching pink helmet*

•  Sleep in a tipi

• Attend Dapper Day at Disneyland 

• Host a pop up dinner *our 10 year wedding anniversary* 

•  Smash a pie in my BFF’s face *she really wants me to*

• Attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics *I was planning to go to the 2012 London Olympics, but I made the adult decision to save the money for our Dream House*

•  See a narwhal in person

•  Dine at one of Gordon Ramsey’s restaurants

• Attend the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island in New York

• Buy an authentic Moroccan rug, fez and spices 

• Attend New York Fashion Week

• Host outdoor movie night at our house 

• Act in a film

• Walk across the Grand Canyon on the skywalk

• Build a photo booth in our house

DIY Photo booth

• Attend the red carpet at a major awards show *Golden Globes, BAFTAs or Academy Awards*

• Own a Chanel handbag, a designer piece of furniture and invest in art from my favorite artists 

Nathan Ota ‘Midnight Crooner’

• Start collecting vinyl LPs *so far I have one Björk and one Radiohead record*

• Meet Tom Waits and see him perform live

Glitter & Doom Tour

• Spend one year living abroad *Paris would be dreamy*

• Live long *healthy & happy* to have a kick-ass, huge 50th wedding anniversary party in 2052  

• Attend TED

• Feature a guest blogger here and be a featured guest on someone else’s blog *any takers?*

• Attend Coachella, SXSW, Bonnaroo & Satchsquash Music Festivals

• Meet the President

• Visit the 7 Wonders of the World *Great Wall of China, Beijing, Taj Mahal, Agra, India, The Colosseum, Rome, Italy, Manchu Picchu, Peru, Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, Petra, Jordan and Christ the Redeemer Brazil* I’ll be happy if I get to at least 3 of these

• Learn to ride a unicycle, juggle and how to bake without following recipes

• See the Northern Lights 

• Purchase a vacation home *Palm Springs or Las Vegas*

 

• Go to Camp Mighty 

• Throw an annual Holiday Soiree *hire a pianist, harpist, accordion player have it catered and hire a bartender* 

•  Stand on the skydeck of Willis Tower in Chicago *I am deathly afraid of heights*

• Ride a camel in the desert *dare I say, in Egypt?*

• Attend a live taping of Saturday Night Live in New York at Rockefeller Center

• Drive a car on the left side of traffic *in a vintage Fiat*

• Have 1,000 followers *I love comments and feedback from my lovelies!*

• Attend a Masquerade Ball

• Participate in a Color Run 5k

• Drink Sangria in Spain, Sake in Tokyo, Ouzo in Greece, Chartreuse in Paris and learn to open a champagne bottle using le saberage 

• Own a pet goat, raise Silky chickens & an Angora rabbit

• Go to Buñol, Spain for La Tomatina *tomato throwing festival*

• Make my blog profitable *I just got my first sponsor!* 

• Attend Dîner en Blanc Paris *Attended Diner en Blanc Los Angeles*

• Stay at W hotels around the world *these are my top locations*

 

Extreme Wow Suite W Maldives

 

• Teach Liv origami & calligraphy 

• Take our kid to a presidential inauguration in Washington DC

• Teach her math in a fun way so when she gets older she enjoys it!

• Purchase an Airstream *like this one by DWR* and road trip throughout North America

• Learn all 50 states and capitals together

• Teach Olivia how to swim

 

• Learn to sew and make this adorable pillowcase dress for Liv DONE

• Visit all 5 Disneyland Theme Parks *California, Florida, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong*

• Teach Liv to be fearless about food, adventure and ambition

• Take Olivia to meet her relatives in Mexico

• • Take Olivia’s photo every week with her Totoro plush until she turns 2, then every year until she’s 18 *you can see her photos here*

vimeo video

• • • Take Olivia and several of her friends to an etiquette class and then to high tea at the Peninsula Beverly Hills  
  • •  Take Liv to see the Salvation Mountain *DONE*
      

• • • Host an exchange student 
  • • Build a treehouse
  • • Visit Evelyn & Dion in upstate New York
  • • Go camping*in our backyard*
  • • Take Liv to see Mt. Rushmore
  • • Teach Liv how to roller skate/ice skate/skateboard/ride a bicycle
  • • Set up a lemonade stand with Liv and donate the proceeds to charity

• • • Have her addidas bronzed
  • • Join Girl Scouts and try for every merit badge
  • • Have every one of Olivia’s teachers write a message to her in Oh The Places You’ll Go! book and surprise her at her high school graduation

• • • Send Olivia to the summer study abroad program at La Sorbonne Paris during her Sophomore year of high school

• • • Volunteer at an Animal Shelter and serve Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner at a homeless shelter  
  • • Participate in a flash mob
  • • Host Aimee’s bridal shower *and be her Matron of Honor*
  • • Help my Mom write her memoirs

• • • Renew our wedding vows in Hawaii for our anniversary
  • • Sponsor an animal
  • • Plant a tree
  • • Cook everything on my Pinterest food board
  • • Run for office with our neighborhood council and do good in the neighborhood

• • • Pay for the car behind mine’s order at a drive thru  DONE *on Christmas Day at Starbucks*
  • • Spend a year not receiving but giving gifts.
  • • Officiate a gay wedding *I have already officiated a wedding*

• • • Attend alt. Design Summit
  • • Pay off our credit card debt
  • • Call my extended family more *not out of obligation* 
  • • Take Olivia to see the World Trade Center Memorial *and have a conversation with her about that day*

 

• • Hire a professional chef to cook dinner at our house for my family
• • Take a vacation on my 75^th birthday with my BFF *PARIS!!*
• • Watch less telly and go outside more often