50 before 50

I made this list several years ago - sort of a bucket/project list of things I wanted to do and the goal was to do them before I turned 50. Then I lost the list when our computer went down about a year and a half ago. I couldn't come up with many in my head - shows you how important they were.
THEN.... while cleaning out some files, I came across a print copy of the first 36. Woo hoo I was so excited! Then I read the list and realized I was not very far along. So anyway, I am revamped to get started on my very own bucket list and have renamed it 60 before 60 - that gives me another decade to work on my things. AND I plan to get them all into the computer and saved to something external in case of yet another computer failure.
So the one thing that I can cross off my list is clean and organize the craft room - cuz that's how I found my list to begin with.
Here's a few things I have accomplished or plan to accomplish before I turn 50:
1. plan an awesome birthday trip with some of my favorite people - in the works for April
2. submit photo to a magazine - thank you Bon Apetit for finding me
3. have 20 readers of this blog. Well I have 12 "followers" and I know of many more who read it but don't "follow" so I am quite sure at least 20 people read my blog ....when I actually get around to writing.
4. organize craft room - awesome what you accomplished when you have to get ready to sell your home
5. organize the office  - yup - see above
6. track down a long lost friend or relative (search for birth mother begun and in process)
7. Cook something completely new - experimented with many new grains and new vegetables
8. Sort and purge holiday decor in attic - yay sold my surplus wreaths and swags and bows to the church this past Christmas
9. Write a cookbook - wrote one for Christmas gift for kids of all our holiday favorites and "must have" recipes complete with pictures of making many of these as children
10. Second cookbook is in the works - thanks to my work on the CSA blog
11. Bake something completely new - made olie bollen - a favorite dutch treat and working on perfecting donuts. Not good when another goal is to lose weight

So how about 11 before 50 - not too shabby - 20% and I still have 2 months before "50" so who knows what else I might accomplish............. feeling empowered at the moment

and next blog we'll talk gardening...because I have begun and my little seeds are sprouting