My Broke-Ass Life List
The ultimate TO DO list:
- cultivate and maintain an herb, sprouts, and veggie garden
- learn to compost and make it a practice
- complete a couch to 5k program and run a 5k
- Do the Run for Your Life Zombie 5k in 2012
- go to yoga at least 3x/week for 1 month
- go to pilates at least 3x/week for 1 month
- quit diet coke, replace it with water and tea
- cut back on processed foods
write a book proposal- get a book deal, write and publish my book.
get new headshots- cut together my reel
- get new representation
- book a national commercial
- book a feature film – {check, renewed}
- book a television show
- self-produce a project
- take another scene study class
- take UCB 201, 301 and 401 improv class and graduate
- book a segment or appearance on national programming as BAB
- learn to take a decent photograph with a camera
- attend TED
- climb macchu picchu
- sail the greek isles and eat saganaki there
- throw a proper greek easter feast for my los angeles family
- do karaoke in tokyo
- attend cannes film festival
- learn to exercise moderation in my vices
- visit bob marley’s home / smoke a spliff at his grave in jamaica
- pay off my student loans
- volunteer in africa
- hug oprah
- take a private cooking class and have dinner with Rick Bayless
- write $1m check to charity
- remove money as a concern
- rent an office space with hardwood floors, exposed brick, and lots of light.
- create an office space that cradles and inspires me
- pay the people who work/ed for free on BAB
- re-learn to speak conversationally in: French, Italian, Spanish
- experience pregnancy and childbirth
- perform on broadway
- perform off broadway in new york
- perform on stage in london
- attend a yoga retreat
- form a regular meditation practice
- rent a beach house in SoCal for a month in the summer, have a party every weekend
- re-learn to use a sewing machine
- become organized and learn to love it (or at least maintain it) {in process}
- buy a new car
- start the broke-ass lifestyle site {in process}
- throw a huge, themed party at least once every 3 years
- hear a live symphony perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
- attend Loy Krathong, the sky lantern festival in Thailand
- set foot on all 7 continents
- set foot in all 50 states
- wear a bikini in public with confidence
- go camping once a year
- hug a koala bear in australia
- adopt our next dog from a kill shelter (or rescue a retired greyhound)
- learn to use photoshop
- spend a day at a spa in Bali
- get my palm read
- have a beer with Anthony Bourdain
- See Peter Gabriel perform live
- See David Byrne perform live
- See David Bowie perform live
- See Elton John perform live
- meditate in an ashram in India
- see the taj mahal
- have dinner with Ina Garten
- have dinner with Ellen Degeneres
- volunteer at a no-kill shelter or with newborn babies at hospital
- take an african dance class
- take a bollywood dance class
- buy spices at a Moroccan bazaar
- dance at carnival
- stay the night in a castle, preferably haunted
- drink a guiness in ireland
- look for nessie in scotland
- see Edgar Oliver perform live
- go to Burning Man in an RV
- Picnic on a volcano in Hawaii
- do the “Lost” tour in Hawaii
- produce a film – {in process}
- experience Zero G / anti-gravity
- take a pole dance class
- take a trapeeze class
- take a spanish web class
- swim with manatees
- make peace with my past
- put experiences over material possessions
- eat fondue in the alps
- play blackjack in macao
- walk through cherry blossoms in kyoto
- be a zombie in a zombie movie
- appear on sesame street
- go apple picking and make a pie with the fruits of my labor
- make preserved lemons
- stay at peacock pavillions in morocco and have dinner with maryam
- rent a flat in london for a season
- rent a loft in new york for a season
- be able to afford a regular cleaning service
hire a reliable bookkeeper/accountant- visit farm sanctuary and spend a day with the animals. feed the turkeys I’ve adopted.
- go to david lynch’s nightclub in paris
- act in a David Lynch movie
- anonymously pay someone’s bill at dinner
- drive a vespa through the streets of Rome
- pay off student loans
- pay medical bills as they arrive, with no more debt
- take a girlfriends-only trip with stacie
- take a siblings-only trip with dawn, michael and kim
- act in a Travis Betz film
- visit Napa/Sonoma (and ride the wine train)
- make pasta from scratch
- walk across the brooklyn bridge
- see the aurora borealis
- attend the Twin Peaks festival in WA
- attend the artichoke festival in Castroville, CA
- drive a sky-high highway ramp without panicking
- drive up the California coast to San Francisco, stop in Big Sur, Monterey on the way
- throw a party at Demetria Vineyard in Santa Ynez, catered by Hitching Post II
- stand on a glacier
- drink a beer in Germany during Oktoberfest
- do a photoshoot in the style of each decade in from 1900 – present
- help baby turtles to the sea for the first time
- visit the galapagos islands
- see Ben Folds perform again live {check, renewed}
- ride a zipline through a forest
- hug a chimpanzee
- see the Grand Canyon
- see Radiohead perform at RedRocks
- play the lead in a Brock Wilbur film
- explore the pyramids in Egypt
- excavate at an archaeological site for a day
- eat at French Laundry or another Thomas Keller restaurant
- shoot a gun
- live on a houseboat for a month
COMPLETED:
- see wild whales, in the wild – {check}
- speak at a conference – {check}
- get flown internationally for work – {check}
- visit london, paris, cinque terre, amsterdam, venice, south of france – {check}
- go vegetarian – {check}
- go vegan – {check}
- downhill ski – {check}
- snowboard – {check}
- swim with dolphins – {check}
- meet Rick Bayless – {check}
- book a segment or appearance on the local network news as BAB – {check}
- take UCB 101 improv class – {check}
- Get my SAG card – {check}
- Move ‘cross country – {check}
- Fall madly in love – {check}
- Have a fabulous wedding – {check}
- Escape cubicle hell – {check}
- Have my writing published in print – {check}
- Get paid doing what I love – {check}
PHEW. This is gonna be fun 
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