Saturday, September 13, 2008

A list... of Sorts...

My List…

… Of Sorts

Books to Read

All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929, By Erich Marina Remarque

The Catcher in the Rye, 1951, By J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby, 1925, by F. Scoot Fitzgerald

Tales, 1952, by Edgar Allan Poe

To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960, by Harper Lee

Wuthering Heights, 1847, Emily Bronte

Les Misérables, 1862, Victor Hugo (Reading Now ~ Feb '-9)

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Ulysses by James Joyce

All is Well that Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet, King John, by Shakespeare

Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Virginia Woolf

Crime and Punishment, 1886, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Done Quixote, 1612, by Miguel de Cerantes

CHECK

Beowulf (In Original Old English & English)

Jane Eyre, 1847, by Charlotte Bronte

Paradise Lost by John Milton

Pride and Prejudice, 1813, by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen

The Scarlet Letter, 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau) by Henry David Thoreau

The Republic, Plato

Saint Francis of Assisi,, 1987, G. K. Chesterton

Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1974. G. K. Chesterton

Purpose Driven Life

Don’t Waste Your Life

Places to Visit

Eiffel Tower, Paris, Cathedral Notre-Dame; France

The Magna Carta, Palace of Westminster, The Thames, Startford Upon Avon, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace; London, England

Acropolis; Greece

Scotland

Salzburg; Austria

Australia

Cannon Beach, OR (with the Ziggys!!)

The Grand Canyon; AZ

Yellowstone National Park; WY

Charleston, S.C. & The Biltmore; N.C.

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill; KY

Cruise to Alaska

CHECK

New York City, NY

Disney World, FL

Zion National Park, UT

Seattle, WA

San Francisco & Hollywood, CA

Kaui, Maui, Hawaii, Oahu, HI

Washington DC, Boston, East Coast States

London; England

Coliseum, Rome, Venice, Florence; Italy

Mombassa; Kenya

Things to Do

Go to a Bon Jovi concert

Brew my own beer

Buy a house with +20 acres

Buy a cow

Kill a deer, moose or turkey

Eat the deer, moose or turkey

Send a message in a bottle

Write my autobiography for my posterity

Learn to play the bass better

Loose +15 lbs

Write my will

Spend one WHOLE day in front of the fire place with a latte and a book

Have a garden

Produce edible food from a garden

Have +4 kids

Go on vacation with the Zickefooses

Scrapbook/Picture Book my wedding

Compile my own/Collaborate a cookbook

Reflect on my greatest weakness and realize how it is my greatest strength

CHECK

Read the Bible in its entirety

Attend a U2 Concert

Snorkel

Sky Dive

Scuba Dive

Fall in love

Get Married to the love of my life

Stay out all-night and party like there’s no tomorrow! (Non alcoholic version)

Learn to play the piano

1 comment:

Shawn and Laura said...

Laura's Additions:

- Places:
-- Seattle, WA (Space Needle, Pike's Place Market [ie. original Starbucks], ferry boats. Mt. Rainier National Park)
-- Cannon Beach, OR

- Things:
-- Dance in the rain to Michael Buble
-- Go on vacation with the Zickefooses
-- Scrapbook your wedding
-- Compile your own cookbook

- Books:
-- Purpose Driven Life
-- Don't Waste Your Life