The List

To be completed by 12 August, 2018.

This is still a list in the making, because, hey, I have time. 

Photo credit: Platform 3 via Visual hunt / CC BY-NC-ND

✓1. Go back to Fiji
Completed July 2016

2. Get my hair coloured
So I haven't coloured my hair since I was a young adult, but those greys are starting to come through. I figure at some point over the next two years I will need to start having my hair coloured :(

3.Use skincare regularly
I am so so so bad about skincare, but it really is time for me to start a regime. I have my eye on Rodan + Fields which is meant to be able to fix up my annoying melasma too. I shall give it a go later this year.

4. Bet back to PCFL
That's pre children fitness level. I'm not that concerned about weight, but I do want to get fit again

5. Write
For a few years I have been writing and running reading challenges which are a good creative outlet for me and this year I got into the blogging webiverse. 

6. Get back into veggie gardening
This relies on my wrist improving which hopefully will be soon. Goodness gracious please let it be soon.

7. Take better control of our finances
I've started this, but it needs to be a focus. The reality is that I've now worked for longer than I would like to keep working. That means I need to be more aware of what we are doing and using our money in smarter ways.

✓8. Eat something new
Completed July 2016

9. Go on a girls spa weekend
I've never made a weekend of it. Perhaps at a winery?....

10. Have a professional makeup lesson
As I get older I think working out the best ways to use makeup for my face will be useful!

11. Go to MONA
I'm not sure how realistic this is with two small kids, but I'm throwing it on the list! 

12. Finish the activities in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainand draw something worth framing
I've had this book for years and it fascinates me because being a left-brainer this is such a mind leap.

13. Swim freestyle for a kilometre without stopping
This scares me because it is a BIG goal. I could be a wuss and say 500m, but I have never done 1km, let alone close to it, so I'm going to put it here to stretch myself

14. Go to the opera
Just because. It is expensive so not something I've done often, but such an experience.

15. Spend a weekend away in the city with my lovely husband
These days trips to the city are rushed affairs with kids, or rushed affairs because we have baby sitters at home with the kids that we don't want to have to stay up too late! So it would be really nice to pick an extravagant hotel on the harbour and enjoy our city for the weekend. I just love Sydney.

16. Find a recipe for, and cook, a traditional Moldovian cake
Since Epic Sax guy graced our Eurovision screens in 2010, I've loved the crazy Moldovian style

17. Have a games night
We have so many board games and never seem to play them

18. Cook all the recipes in one cookbook
I'm not sure which one yet :o

19. Paint something

20. Walk somewhere locally that I haven't been before

21. Hand write and post a letter to a friend

22. Only wear active wear when actually active (haha!!)
So this is a bit of a joke aimed at those of my gender and vintage, but seriously people...

23. Karaoke!

24. Learn about permaculture

25. Go to Quay and have a snow egg

26. Make jam or preserve something
I've never done this. I'm a little scared of the bottling process and poisoning myself

✓27. Read a book that is popular, but I don't want to read
Completed June 2016

28. Try a new haircut style 
(eek)

29. Go to the theatre

30. Hire chooks
The old owners of our house had them and one of our neighbours didn't approve. Maybe if I gave them a go temporarily to see how he (and the kids) cope

31. Go to Govinda's restaurant and movie room
I've been meaning to do this for about 15 years

32. Go snorkelling

33. Visit Nan Tien Temple 
Lear thinks I need to also get orange robes, but a visit will do nicely ;)

34. Have a Host a Murder Party
These are so much fun and I haven't done one in years

35. Take the kids to the Zoo

36. Go to the Christmas lights / nativity scene nearby
Perhaps just with the toddler and leave the baby nice and warm at home with Dad