Claire did a post of 40 things she hopes to accomplish by the time she is forty. Well, since I'm 40 (and only for one more week!) here is a list (in no particular order) of 40 things I DID accomplish by the time I was 40:
- Speak in Stake Conference (did this when I was 7)
- Earn my BS in History from USU
- Serve an LDS Mission to New Hampshire
- Teach early morning seminary
- Earn my MA in History from MSU
- Travel to Switzerland, Germany, and France
- Travel to Victoria B.C. with friends
- Sing the role of "Sarah" in the Forgotten Carols (you know the "Mary let me hold her baby" part) with Michael McLean
- Marry my best friend
- Remove and install a catalytic converter in a 1982 Toyota Corolla
- Buy a house
- Have a 10-year career
- Bungee jump
- Visit the Sacred Grove
- Visit Nauvoo
- Sing in a fireside at the Joseph Smith Memorial in Sharon, VT
- Give birth to a beautiful girl
- Take a cross-country trip in a moving truck with three brothers
- Help re-shingle a roof
- Travel in Italy
- Hike the Narrows (Zions) - twice
- Contribute to a 403B retirement fund
- Heal from a broken heart
- Teach a university course (two actually: Freshman Connections and Women's Leadership)
- Survive Banner installation/conversion - twice
- Have a blog
- Serve as Phi Alpha Theta president
- Win first-place at Phi Alpha Theta conference (for a paper about black, female, educators)
- Compete in the regional College Bowl (in Boulder, CO)
- Reupholster my chair (the chair that is now lovingly referred to as the "chemo-chair"
- Serve as Relief Society president
- Buy a serger
- Go to NYC -thrice (once with Amanda, once with Charlotte, and once with Andy)
- Help my dad through multiple health issues and hospital stays
- Act and sing in multiple plays and musicals (including an amazing stage kiss) LOL
- Attend a professional hockey game
- Read The Book of Mormon several times
- Play in the ocean with all my clothes on
- Serve as Gospel Doctrine teacher for 5 years
- Go to Hawaii with all my family (those that were in the family at the time anyway)
2 response(s):
Very cool!! Especially the singing the part of Sarah, with Michael McLean!! I met him when Cecelia was... 5 months old, maybe 6. He kept giving her kisses and asking if we could arrange a marriage between Cecelia and his grandson Bucky. He's a really neat guy! How cool that you got to work with him!
You have the best memory!...(for an almost 41 year old...lol) but really, I wish I could remember details and events the way you can. You must be eating your veggies...just like Eden.
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