I started out with a list of 40 things I wanted to do before I turned 41.  Once I started doing the list, I realized that I would not be able to afford to do them all, so I added a year to it.  I’ve wanted to blog about them all, but I got sidetracked by life, so I’m going to just post an update to the list and hope that I’ll be able to blog more often about it.  There are other little things I want to regularly blog about, too, such as movie/book/restaurant reviews, my journey into painlessness (more about that later), my students…all the little things in my life.  So here’s my 40×42 list:

1. Go to New York (May 14-17, 2015)
2. Go indoor sky diving
3. Share my faith with 40 people (I’m at 15)
4. Do three 5Ks
5. Finish my “Girls’ Guide to Guy Things”
6. Break bread with someone half my age and someone twice my age
7. Go to Harry Potter World
8. Try 40 new restaurants (I’m at 30)
9. Memorize 40 Bible verses I don’t already know (I’m at 7)
10. Do 40 Random Acts of Kindness (I’m at 11)
11. Take a class in something out of my comfort zone
12. Get my CHL
13. Road trip to visit a friend I haven’t seen in 5+ years
14. Learn to play a new song on my guitar OR learn to play the ukulele
15. AMTRAK to someplace I’ve never been
16. Lose 15 pounds (I’m at 6)
17. See an Aggie game in the new Kyle Field
18. Go to one of each: Mavs game, Rangers game (June 13, 2015), Stars game, Cowboys game
19. See these in concert:  Jonny Lang (May 9, 2015), Harry Connick, Jr. (July 25, 2015), Aerosmith or other 80’s favorite
20. Meet and have a conversation with a celebrity
21. Find three local band concerts
22. Cook a meal entirely of food I’ve never had before
23. Write an adoption story collection called “Gotcha Day”
24. Restart my blog and article writing (Here we go!!)
25. Ride an elephant
26. Write 40 encouraging notes/letters to people other than students (I’m at 1)
27. Paint a picture
28. Give up social media for one week
29. Pay a stranger’s restaurant bill
30. Go geocaching
31. Get a new bed (March 11, 2016)
32. Go to three museums (9/11 Memorial Museum on 5/26/15, )
33. Get a cute pedicure in different color combinations every month
34. Go fishing four times
35. Visit Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Memorial in Austin
36. Get out of debt besides house and car
37. Helicopter ride over DFW
38. Get LASIK surgery (March 10, 2016)
39. Think about and possibly get a dog
40. Is a secret