50 before 50....

the weekend dorian
hit PEI
with hurricane force wild winds
and pounding, pouring rain,
i turned 49.

my age has never really bothered me too much.
i have always rounded up by 5 years
because
a) i’m bad at math
b) when i hit the “big” years, it doesn’t even matter to me…
i’m like “meh…i’ve been 50 for five years now”

and, if i am going to be painfully, brutally honest
this past year (or more) has been a little rough.
i could focus on all the ways things are not
where i thought they would be when i hit 50

OR

i can say whatever…and make myself a list…
cause
i love a good list. :)

so i have LESS than one year to do the things on this list…
cause
i also work better under pressure.

THE 50 BEFORE 50 LIST

1. Get a new tattoo

2. Go skydiving (tandem is ok)

3. Visit a province/place I have never been (not on PEI!)

4. Go camping alone

5. Go camping with someone else

6. Cabot Trail

7. Drive in

8. Give blood

9. Go on a road trip

10. Finish the Bernadine story

11. Build a robot

12. Knit a robot

13. Go sledding

14. Try rockclimbing

15. Get a passport

16. Watch all Game of Thrones

17. Go apple picking

18. Go on a train

19. Go to a football game

20. Play badminton

21. Have a sleepover with friends

22. Plant a garden

23. Try kickboxing or karate or judo or something that could give me a belt

24. Climb a tree

25. See a live band

26. Bake an apple pie

27. Start and finish a puzzle

28. Carve a pumpkin

29. Have a bonfire

30. Drive someplace really dark and look at stars

31. Ride on a motorcycle OR in a racecar

32. Paintball

33. Photowalk with other people

34. Hit goal weight

35. Treego

36. Zipline

37. Rollercoaster

38. Drive some kind of heavy machinery

39. Learn to drive standard

40. Learn to drywall

41. Make a calendar

42. Pop up shop

43. Fill my Etsy shop

44. Aerial yoga

45. Kayak

46. Watch the sunrise

47. Make meat pies

48. Hold a baby goat

49. See fireworks

50. Make a snowman