In My 40th Year.......

Nearing 40 makes you think about things…………….
A friend once told me – just after reaching 40 – that she felt life did begin. You begin to accept and understand you body and your life, and you stop worrying about all the crap like how you look compared to celebrities, and how well you have faired against your contemporaries.

I decided, as I think a lot of people do, to put together a list of things yet to be done in my life. This made me think about things that I have done in my life and so far I don't think I have been a complete failure!!

So - Things to Do in My 40th Year (This means I have still got time to add a few items to make it a round 40) :

1. Become the same weight I was at 30 for my 40th birthday!
2. Organise a naff 40th party and make everybody dance even though they don’t want to!!
3. Celebrate my 40th with lobster and champagne.
4. Finish one (if not all) of the 3 Novels I have started writing.
5. Have an article and / or short story published.
6. Give Colonic Irrigation a go.
7. Have my legs and bits waxed.
8. Be photographed in the nude in High Wycombe (after loosing the weight!).
9. See Otters in the wild on the Isle of Skye.
10. Have afternoon tea at the Ritz.
11. Grow my own vegetables and salad and actually eat them.
12. Visit Amsterdam and eat a ‘cake’.
13. Spend the night in a Haunted House.
14. Make lasagna from scratch and eat it!!
15. Spend a Night at Burgh Island a la Agatha Christie.
16. Become a ‘Prisoner’ in Port Merion.
17. Go skinny-dipping – possibly in a waterfall.
18. Have a swanky ‘spa’ bathroom with Jacuzzi and power shower without moving house!!
19. Get the garden sorted.
20. Have a real tattoo done somewhere on my body.
21. Take a Dance Class – Salsa or Rumba - or have some more Pole dancing lessons.
22. Go to a casino in England and play roulette.
23. Learn to totally Relax.
24. Attend a photography course.
25. Attain my Bronze Lifesaving Medallion.
26. Have a ride on the back of a motorbike.
27. Have another attempt at Rock climbing.
28. Go waterskiing.
29. Write a song and have it performed.
30. Learn to play the drums.
31. Run a 10K.
32. Get married
33. Learn to read the Tarot.
34. Complete a first aid course.
35. Host a refined dinner party and do all the cooking myself.
36. Complete a car maintenance course.
37. Help to save the planet.
38. Plan 50 things to do before I am 50….