50 Before 50 List...Part Four

 

Are you up for some more dreams from my 50 Before 50 list? Yesterday I told you about some ideas I had for dates with Ryan, but today’s list is all about things to do alone or with friends. (I tried to pick the things I knew he really wouldn’t love and put them on this list.)

1.      Go to high tea. I’ve been to tea rooms before and have always loved the food I’ve had there. But I’ve never gone to a proper “high tea,” and I think it would be fun to try. I fully confess I’m not fancy enough to be a “high tea” girl, but I think it would be good to say I’ve had the experience once in my life.

2.      Go to Annie Oakley Perfumery and make signature scent. I learned about the Annie Oakley Perfumery when I worked at WBCL, but I still haven’t been there in person. It’s right here in Indiana, and you can take a tour of how they make perfume…and then you can create your own signature scent! Doesn’t that sound like a unique experience?

3.      Spend an afternoon at a proper used bookstore. I originally intended to trek over to Wabash to the cool used bookstore there, but I see it has closed, and I’m sad to hear it. I will have to find another location, but I want to just get lost in the maze of a proper, independent used bookstore with lots of rooms and shelves. I know this wouldn’t bring Ryan nearly the joy it would bring me, so I won’t make him go! 😊

4.      Watch Gilmore Girls. Many years ago, a friend loaned me the first season of Gilmore Girls, but I didn’t really have time to get lost in a show in that season of my life. I know enough about it to know I’d probably really love it, so I think I should give it another try!

5.      Read Barbara Bull’s novels. A couple of years ago, on our way to Traverse City, we stopped at a cherry farm for a fish boil dinner. It remains one of my favorite things we’ve done, but one of the bonuses was getting to learn about the owner of that farm, Barbara Bull. I learned that she works hard on the farm in the summer, and she writes novels in the winter. Every year, she releases a new novel, and I heard some good things about them while I was there. I’d love to read through all of them.

6.      Scan and reprint traditional scrapbook pages. For a full decade, I did traditional scrapbooking, with the huge 12x12 albums and the adhesive and printed photos and the whole thing. I would really love to invest in a scanner that can handle that large of a page, scan all my pages, and have them printed in books that are more in keeping with the kind of scrapbooking I do now.