Sunday, September 29, 2013

27 By 27

"Someone should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of everyday. Do it I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows."- Michael Landon Jr. 

I apologize for the significant amount of time that has passed between now and my last post. I moved to a new state to start a new job, and on my first full day I ended up breaking my ankle and my foot. Needless to say a lot has changed in the last couple weeks. I am still recovering from my injuries, but should be back to 100% in a couple weeks. I am living in a new city and have been working at my new job for 6 weeks, and I am now twenty-two.

While at work this past week, I realized that I have so much I want to accomplish and only so much time to do it all. I decided I would make a list of 27 things to accomplish by the time I'm 27. In the next five years I plan to have made it all the way through my bucket list. I will post my list here and be posting about my progress.

Here is my list of 27 Things to Accomplish By the time I'm 27:

Travel Goals:

  • Completely fill up my passport with stamps. (I have had this passport since I was 17. It currently has 20 stamps and 43 open spaces.)
  • Go on at least 1 trip every year
  • Go to a foreign country completely alone
  • See the Aurora Borealis
  • Go to Hogmanay for New Years
  • See Stonehenge 
  • Go to the Isle of Skye 
  • Go on a trip to another country with a significant other
  • Safari 
  • Go to Egypt
  • Go to New Zealand/Australia 
  • Go to 3 Major World Festivals 
    • Mardi Gras, Oktoberfest, Carnival, etc.
Work Related Goals:
  • Make at least 80K a year
  • Have at least 100K saved 
  • Be promoted at least twice
Fitness Goals:
  • Run 6 miles three times a week for a month
  • Be proficient in inversion yoga
  • Learn to belly dance
Random Goals:
  • Write a book
  • Take a class for a hobby 
  • Live alone 
  • Own Christian Louboutins 
  • Learn the basics of another language 
  • Learn to like whisky
  • Read every play of Shakespeare's 
    • Here is my list of Shakespearean works I still need to read: 
      1. All's Well That Ends Well
      2. As You Like it 
      3. Comedy of Errors
      4. Loves Labour's Lost 
      5. Measure for Measure
      6. Merry Wives of Windsor
      7. Taming of the Shrew
      8. Tempest
      9. Twelfth Night 
      10. Two Gentlemen of Verona 
      11. Winters Tale 
      12. Henry IV, Part 1
      13. Henry IV, Part II
      14. Henry VI, Part II
      15. King John
      16. Pericles
      17. Richard II
      18. Richard III
      19. Antony and Cleopatra
      20. Coriolanus
      21. Cymbeline
      22. Macbeth 
      23. Timon of Athens
      24. Titus Andronicus
      25. Trolius and Cressida
  • Read every book on the 100 best book list. 
    • I have already read some of the books on the list but here are the titles I need to read over the next 5 years.
      1. Beowulf
      2. Robinson Crusoe
      3. Last of the Mohican's 
      4. Giovanni's Room
      5. Moby Dick
      6. Madame Bovary 
      7. Atlas Shrugged 
      8. A Death in the Family 
      9. Go Tell it on the Mountain
      10. Waiting for Godot 
      11. Adventures of Augie March 
      12. The Stranger
      13. Death Comes for the Archbishop 
      14. The Cherry Orchard 
      15. Heart of Darkness
      16. The Red Badge of Courage
      17. Crime and Punishment 
      18. Narrative and Life of Frederik Douglass
      19. An American Tragedy 
      20. The Mill on the Floss
      21. Invisible Man
      22. Selected Essays By Ralph Waldo Emerson
      23. Tom Jones
      24. The Good Solider
      25. Faust 
      26. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
      27. A Farewell to Arms
      28. Their Eyes Were Watching God
      29. Brave New World
      30. A Doll's House
      31. The Portrait of a Lady 
      32. The Turn of the Screw
      33. The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      34. Ulysses 
      35. The Metamorphosis 
      36. The Woman Warrior
      37. Babbit
      38. The Call of the Wild
      39. The Magic Mountain 
      40. One Hundred Years of Solitude 
      41. Bartleby the Scrivener 
      42. A Good Man is Hard to Find
      43. Doctor Zhivago 
      44. Selected Tales-Edgar Alan Poe
      45. Swann's Way
      46. The Crying of Lot 49
      47. All Quiet on the Western Front 
      48. Cyrano de Bergerac 
      49. Call it Sleep 
      50. Pymalion 
      51. Frankenstein 
      52. Ceremony 
      53. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 
      54. Antigone 
      55. The Grapes of Wrath 
      56. Treasure Island 
      57. Gulliver's Travels
      58. Vanity Fair
      59. Walden 
      60. War & Peace
      61. Fathers & Sons
      62. Candide
      63. Collected Stories-Eudora Welty
      64. Leaves of Grass
      65. The Glass Menagerie 
      66. To the Lighthouse
      67. Native Son
      68. Anderson's Fairy Tales
      69. Aesop's Fables
      70. Grimm's Fairy Tales
      71. Le Morte D'Arthur 
So I clearly have a lot to do in the coming years. Wish me luck!

Cheers xx
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