Wednesday, March 07, 2007

My Master List

Things I want to do before I die:


1. Skydive
2. Fly a plane
3. Knit a scarf
4. Get SCUBA certified
5. Belly Dance
6. Write a book
7. Live and love with one other person
8. Collect 8 phone numbers in one night – just to say I did
9. See Yosemite, hike and camp there
10. See the Northern Lights
11. Sleep on a beach in Fiji
12. Write a song
13. Finish my masters degree
14. Speak Japanese
15. Go back to Paris with the man I love
16. Golf an 18 course
17. See Mt. Rushmore
18. Take a cruise
19. Go to Hawaii
20. Have a Garden
21. Own a house
22. Have a Child
23. Be a Royal Matron
24. Live in a small city
25. Design a website from scratch
26. buy an impractical yet beautiful perfume
27. develop all rolls of film I have
28. Create beautiful Photo albums
29. Own a convertible
30. Take two more years of sign language
31. Work in a job I love
32. Focus on quality not quantity in all aspects of my life
33. Get Bridal Consultant certificate
34. Wear a bikini with confidence
35. Walk a Marathon
36. Write a letter to an Editor that gets published
37. Be actively involved in a Political campaign
38. Teach a class for one day
39. Drive a car cross-country
40. Body paint
41. Get a professional portrait done
42. Orchestrate a city-wide scavenger hunt
43. Throw a party for more then 50 people
44. Speak Italian fluently
45. Read the 50 greatest books written
46. Watch the 50 greatest movies
47. Learn needlepoint
48. Paint a picture
49. Learn the mechanics of a toaster
50. Study all presidents and vice presidents of our country
51. Organize a charity event
52. See Japan
53. Get PM certified
54. Live internationally for at least 1 year
55. Visit Russia
56. Sail a boat
57. See all of the Smithsonian
58. Save a life
59. Read all religious texts – dead sea scrolls, Koran, etc…
60. Make a haunted house
61. Stay in a real haunted house
62. Learn to play a song on the piano (chords and all)
63. Play Guitar (specifically be able to play Pink Floyd)
64. Get married
65. Get Pilots license
66. Live by water
67. Learn how to ballroom dance
68. Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
69. Visit Netherland
70. Pray with a Tibetan Monk
71. Visit Graceland
72. watch a cricket match with someone who knows what’s going on
73. Travel on the Orient Express
74. Take a hot air balloon ride
75. Learn how to Horseback ride
76. Visit the Pyramids
77. Be first aid certified
78. Visit Machu Picchu
79. See India
80. Resolve issues with Father
81. Minimize material objects in life
82. Appear in a film as an extra
83. Meet Richard Bach
84. Learn a Martial Art
85. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
86. Brew my own beer or make my own port
87. Be a member of the audience on a TV show
88. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
89. Spend New Years in an exotic location
90. Visit the Holy Land
91. Kiss the Blarney Stone
92. Visit Iceland
93. Visit the ruins of Pompeii
94. Experience weightlessness
95. Write a movie script.
96. Attend a film festival or award show
97. Learn origami.
98. Attend the Olympics
99. See Angkor Wat in Cambodia
100. Meet a musician who’s music has moved me
101. Visit/Walk on the Great wall of China
102. Visit the Acropolis
103. Go to the Oscars
104. Attend the Grammies
105. Watch whales migrate
106. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
107. Be serenaded by a Venetian gondolier

108. Walk down Abbey Road
109. Read a novel in a foreign language (Other then the Iliad and Odyssey I read in Greek in College)
110. Start a fun holiday that catches on (Ala Inappropriate Card Day)
111. Pay a visit to the Bristol Observatory and look through the Camera Obscura.
112. Surf
113. Make a movie (short or long)