Welcome to My Life List

Here is my ambitious list of goals I would like to accomplish during my lifetime. Some of these are total dreams of mine that may sound far-fetched but others are quite doable and I am currently in the process of completing. I update the list every New year to mark progress, modify and add goals, it’s always evolving, like myself.

Please email me if you would like to sponsor a goal on my list, sunkissis@aol dot com that would be rad!

Things that would be Lovely

Learn French (in progress!)
Grow my hair long 

Getting there 2020

getting more grays in 2025

Have a photo shoot with Lee Robbins in France
Buy and renovate a French country house
Cook/Host an entire Thanksgiving dinner party
Build my dream closet/wardrobe edit my wardrobe to pieces I love
Have a bebe DONE

We had our beautiful daughter Olivia Lily, June 2, 2010

Have our nursery featured on Ohdeedoh blog DONE
Grow my own peonies, strawberries and herb garden DONE
Attend a Masquerade Ball (bonus if it’s the Fete des Galante at Versailles)
Leave a 100% tip at a restaurant (have left a 50% so far!)
Completely renovate our house and have it featured on Apartment Therapy DONE
Take a photo at the Golden Gate Bridge DONE

Adopt a new pet from an animal shelter DONE
Have my home featured in Domino DONE
Have a confetti fight DONE

Such a fun day!

Live to celebrate my 100th birthday (March 20, 2077!)
Take a CSS/html classs and Redesign my blog layout
Dress up for a fancy night out *Opera, ballet, gala
Meet and take a photo with Bill Murray ❤ 

Sponsor an elephant
Cook everything on my Pinterest food board
Attend the Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governor’s Island in New York
Celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in 2052
Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge DONE
Add a padlock with our names on it to a lock bridge DONE

Things That would be Rad

Have my November 11, 2011 11:11 pm wish come true
See Björk play live in her hometown of Reykjavík, Iceland
Have Marina Abramovic make me cry
Attend Paris Fashion Week fashion show (we hung outside of the 2020 Chanel show)
Visit all 50 of the Los Angeles farmers markets  *29 down/21 to go*
Act in a film DONE
Walk on the red carpet
Drive a vintage Fiat
Reach 10k followers on Instagram
Go blonde! DONE

Attend an awards show
*So far we’ve been to Mtv Movie Awards/Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards FIVE times
See Tom Waits perform live
Help my Mom write her memoirs

My Mom & Bob Dylan on a train in Tokyo in the 70s

Own a classic Chanel bag
Start a record collection DONE
See a narwhal in person
Throw a big 50th birthday party for Antz in New Orleans
Be completely debt-free (90% there!)
Cook something in my Instant Pot
Visit the Rain Room DONE
Plant a tree DONE
Visit 25 countries (Currently at twenty four!)
Learn how to use my Nikon SLR camera DONE
Go on vacation with my friends on a yacht (on the Malta or Sicilian coast)
Learn how to embroider
Buy a Fiat Topolino
Own a vacation home like this one!
Smash a pie in my BFF’s face *she really wants me to
Ride a pink Vespa scooter with a matching pink helmet
Sleep in an igloo DONE 
Spend a year not receiving but giving gifts
Buy a vintage photo booth
Attend Dapper Day all dressed up at Disneyland
Jump into a pool with all my clothes on DONE

Things to do with Olivia

Teach Liv origami & calligraphy DONE
Send Olivia to a French immersion school DONE
Teach Liv all of the US presidents  DONE (she also learned the French presidents)
Have Olivia participate in Le Bal des Debutantes
Teach her math in a fun way so when she gets older she enjoys it!
Have a huge food fight
See Liv walk in a fashion show in Paris (she walked in a fashion show in LA at age 7!)
Purchase an Airstream (like this cute one by DWR and road trip around the world)

Learn all 50 US states and capitals together
Take Liv to the Grand Canyon and walk on the skydeck
Host a foreign exchange student
Take Liv to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam DONE
Have Liv’s baby shoes bronzed
Take Olivia to Junibacken to see Villa Villa Kuella in Sweden DONE
Teach Liv the Nations of the World Song *by the Animaniacs DONE

Go to the summer Olympics Opening Ceremony
Have a Snowball fight DONE
Take Liv to see Mt. Rushmore and the Smithsonian museum in DC
Teach Liv how to cartwheel/roller skate/ice skate/skateboard/surf/ride a bicycle
Take Liv to see the Salvation Mountain DONE

Teach Olivia how to swim DONE
Set up a lemonade stand with Liv and donate the proceeds to charity DONE

Take Liv to see The Nutcracker and Swan Lake ballet
Go to a Björk concert with Liv DONE

May 2017

And she freaking met Pharrell Williams!!

Take a photo at Platform 9 & 3/4 at King’s Cross train station DONE

June 2014

April 2018

Take Liv to see Cirque du Soleil DONE
Learn to sew and make this adorable pillowcase dress for Liv DONE
Take Liv to all five Disney parks (California, Florida, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong)
Own a pet goat, raise silky chickens & an Angora rabbit
Take Olivia to the World Trade Center Museum and the Natural History museum in NYC
Take Olivia to meet her relatives in Nayarit, Mexico
Purchase “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss. Secretly get her teachers and mentors to sign and leave messages in it at the end of each school year. When she graduates from high school, present her with the book.

Have a Mommy/Daughter monthly mani/pedi date DONE
Build this treehouse in our backyard
Take a photo of Liv standing in front of the Sorbonne in Paris to inspire her to study there DONE

Teach Liv to to sew, crochet and needlefelt DONE
Stay in a cottage in the French countryside DONE
Take Liv to the Eiffel Tower  DONE

Finish Liv’s baby book
Take Liv to the Madonna Inn, glass beach in Northern California and see the Redwood trees
Build an in-ground trampoline for our backyard
Take Olivia’s photo every week with her Totoro plush, then every year until she’s eighteen
*Bonus Go viral on TikTok DONE 2,500,000 VIEWS!

Travels

Move to Paris DONE
Take a family cruise with my Mom DONE
Take a cruise to Alaska (I want to see a Moose)
Spend a year traveling around the world
Go to Krakaw/Oświęcim/Zalipie, Poland
Swim in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland DONE

Kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland
Go to Mexico City during Dias de Los Muertos
Attend the Holi Festival in India (maybe for my 50th birthday?)
See the incredible Taj Mahal and the Pink Palace in Jaipur, India
Ride a cable car in San Francisco DONE
See Stonehenge, I guess? I’d rather go to the Cotswalds
Hold a koala in Australia
Return to Venice, Italy for Carnivale DONE 

Drink Sangria in Spain, Sake in Tokyo, Ouzo in Greece, Chartreuse in Paris and learn to open a champagne bottle using le saberage
Go to Nuit Blanche DONE
Drive Lombard Street in San Francisco DONE
See the Colosseum DONE
Go to the Rain Room at LACMA DONE
Buy an authentic Moroccan rug, fez and spices in Morocco DONE
Black Forest Germany Road Trip DONE
Road trip to Austin, Texas and take a photo in front of the fake Prada store in Marfa, Texas *EAT ALL THE FOODS!
Visit the Les Jardins d’Etretat in Normandy
Eat Belgium waffles and chocolate in Brussels DONE
See the tulip fields in Holland DONE
Walking tour of the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas DONE
Drive in a right-hand car DONE
Ride the London Eye DONE
See the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Italy DONE
Bathe elephants in Thailand
Attend Dîner en Blanc Paris DONE

We attended several Dîner en Blanc Los Angeles as well

See the Game of Thrones film locations in Croatia and Ireland
Attend Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany DONE
Take a long train ride *Seattle – Portland – LA DONE
Drive through a tree in the Redwood forest
Road Trip to Portland DONE
Visit the Christmas markets in Europe DONE (Vienna, Austria and Paris)
Walk on the Great Wall of China
Go see a Broadway play in New York DONE (We sat front row for Rent in 2000)
Fly a Hello Kitty airplane on Eva Airlines and stay in a Hello Kitty themed hotel
Take the Orient Express train ride from Paris to Istanbul
Sleep in an igloo and see the Northern Lights DONE

Spend a summer in a New York brownstone
Go to South Korea (Seoul, Busan and Jeju Island)
Make a wish and toss a coin in the Trevi Fountain DONE

Go to Japan DONE (best trip ever)
Go on an African Safari (ideally Giraffe Manor)
See the AquaDome in Berlin DONE (Liv and I stayed there before it exploded!)

See puffins on the Faroe Islands
Return to Japan and visit an onsen, Puroland, take the bullet train to Osaka and visit Gion in Kyoto
Attend a live taping of Saturday Night Live in New York at Rockefeller Center
Spend Christmas at a quaint Bed & Breakfast DONE (Lausanne, Switzerland)

 

That’s all I can think of for the moment.

What’s on your Life List?

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xoxo,

Lizzie