When
I was 26 I made a list of 50 things I wanted to accomplish in my
lifetime. You can tell my brain was mostly developed but definitely
still mushy in parts. Honestly it still is, but God granted me 16
more years since I wrote the original list & I believe it merits an
update. Besides, someone recently said to me “I was just thinking to
myself earlier today … 'Susie doesn’t write anymore'… why DON'T you write
anymore?" & I had a lot of excuses but no real
answers. Thus – I present my half-ass effort @ writing on a
weeknight, 75% thru a bottle of wine, @ 42 YO:
To Do:
1) Get
a job I love
a. Ugh
– I love having a successful career but its capitalism at its worst and I am
only using it as a means to an end
2) Skydive
on my birthday – check!
3) Move
to Hawaii – check!
4) Go
to church – mega check
a. Also
ugh – church people are still just people
5) Marry
my best friend – check!
a. por vida
6) Watch
parents play with grandbabies
a. Never,
sorry. Can’t 😞
7) Get
a Graduate Degree
a. Ugh
too tired for this @ 42
8) Be
a Bridesmaid- check!
a. Couple
times – even a MOH once
9) Go
to Egypt, France, Japan, Thailand, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico City,
Canada, Michoacan, Africa, Jamaica, Italy, Amsterdam, etc.
a. Only
Amsterdam so far
10) Take
a road trip across the U.S. & see every state possible
a. NV
& AZ only by car
b. TX
& IL soon by plane
11) Write
a book
a. This
is like my 1,000,000th attempt
12) Be
more affectionate – check!
a. This
is tough but yea –there has to be wine
13) Own
property & paint one of my walls purple & paint a Sandra Cisneros poem
over it – check!
a. The
most important one here is owning property
b. Going
to get a big magnet sheet to put my art on the wall in my office so I can put
Sandra in purple there
14) Have
an “art room” – check!
a. My
office! & the patio! & the whole house!
15) Be
on the Price Is Right
a. I just decided I also wanna do Family Feud
16) Ride
in a hot air balloon – check!
a. Cringey
proposal included LMAO 😆
17) Go
paintballing
a. This
is coming off the list. I bruise easily now.
18) Be
the best daughter, auntie, niece, friend, granddaughter, cousin I can be
a. Ugh
I am in therapy for this
b. I’m
a good Tia though ❤
19) Learn
to DJ – WITH VINYL
20) Watch
the Chargers win the Super Bowl in my lifetime
a. UUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH
b. THEY
LOST A 27 PT LEAD TO THE JAGS IN THE 2023 PLAYOFFS
21) Learn
to swim all over again – check!
a. I
joined the Y & took swim lessons with kids when I was 27!
22) Get
Lasik
a. My
eyeballs are shaped oddly & I will not benefit from this at all per
optometrists
23) Never
ever ever forget where I came from- check!
a. por vida
24) Go
to Disney World
25) Change
someone’s life for the better for nothing in return
a. Idek
where to start here. I’ve always benefitted from good deeds so this
might be impossible.
26) Quit
smoking—check!
a. This
was hard af
27) Have
a Valentine—check!
a. por vida
28) Get
out of debt – CHEEEEEECCCCCK! ✅✅✅✅
a. This
was also hard af
b. Only owe the house
29) Forgive
& be forgiven – check!
a. Wow
– this one is life-changing 💔
b. I
was toxic to some & a blessing to others, and either way I wasn’t always
right
30) Take
Mom on a helicopter tour – check!
a. She
loved it!
31) Do
laundry more often—check!
a. This
has been a royal pain in my ass but yes, mf’in check ✔
32) Do
the 3 Day Breast Cancer walk
a. …
but … my bunions!
33) Stop
eating meat—check!
a. Im
taking this off the list, I love a bloody steak.
34) Ride a Ferris Wheel – check!
a. w/
C for the first time ever the year before we got married - @ the Del Mar Fair
w/Milu & Ren
35) Play
basketball with my Dad again
a. ☹ *drinks
wine* 🍷
36) Be
at a championship fight in Vegas & have my fighter actually win 🥊
37) Weigh
120 lbs.
a. LMAOOOOOO
38) Grow
my hair out & then chop it all off - check!
a. Like
a hundred times over
39) Learn
to cook at least one thing other than eggs – check!
a. Oh man im sucha way better cook now!
40) Get
a tattoo from Kat Von D
a. Im
revising this to get a tattoo from every place I travel to from now on
41) Have
as many dogs as possible – check!
a. I
can only handle 2 at a time rn 🐕🐶
42) Shake
Common’s hand—check!
43) Plant
a tree
a. Does
removing a tree count? bc check twice
44) Volunteer
at the polls during an election
45) Be
less judgemental - check!
a. This
has been a process & I bet after I do mushrooms it will leave so MUSHROOM to
be even less judgey LOL “ty ty im here all day” 🍄🤣
46) Be
less guarded – check
a. Just
get drunk it happens naturally 🍻
47) Be
more quiet – check!
a. ONLY BC i WFH by myself all day SO i have no choice
48) Cuss less –
a. FUCK
this – removing from list 🙊⛔
49) Witness
everyone I know find happiness
a. This
is also weird. Everyone I know has something that makes them happy
but not 24/7
50) Check
everything off on this list & then some.
a. *
queue midlife crisis*
Stay tuned for the next installment when I'm 58! 😉jk ❤👽
