100 Things To Do Before I'm Done With This Life:
- Learn to improvise solos.
Visit the Louvre and see Nike of Samothrace (7/2000).
- Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
- Make and finish a quilt all by hand.
- Pay off all of our credit cards and cut them all up. (2/3)
- See the Sistine Chapel.
- Go to a Aerosmith concert.
- Play for a major CD recording.
Learn to knit and crochet. (1/2002)
- Run and finish a marathon.
- Get back to my goal weight.
- Learn how to pair wines with food.
- Get a really good camera and learn how to really use it.
Have dinner with at least one person I idoliize. (12/2007)
- Stop picking at my toenails.
- Celebrate Chinese New Year in China. (2/2007).
- Learn to speak Spanish.
- Finish the novel that I need to finish.
- Go to New York just to walk around MOMA.
- Knit something for each member of my family.
- Learn to make tomato sauce from scratch.
- Visit Pompeii.
- Float in the Dead Sea.
- Learn how to draw portraits and people.
- Try out new positions from the Kama Sutra. (What?!? Don't look so shocked. It's a goal.)
- Spend an entire afternoon laying in my hammock drinking wine with no interruptions.
- Visit a whiskey distillery.
- Buy a piece of art I really believe in without worrying about the money.
- Learn to ride horses (1990-1991).
- Take a cruise with David.
- Research my family's genealogy.
- Stop drinking sodas.
- Read the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Learn Irish step dancing (1997-2000).
- Go back to school and get a Master's degree.
- Host a cocktail party.
- Make a habit of doing the dishes immediately.
- Attend mass at the Vatican.
- Attend mass at Notre Dame (7/2000).
- Brush and floss three times a day.
- Ride a camel or elephant in a country where it's commonplace.
- Learn to make bread.
- Visit Ireland and play in a pub session.
- Eat fried rattlesnake or alligator.
- Float in a gondola and be serenaded in Venice.
- Grow a whole long row of sunflowers.
- Visit all of the Smithsonian Museums.
- Have the entire house clean all at once, just for an instant.
Play a concert in Carnegie Hall (4/1994).
- Take David to an Alabama football game.
- Let David teach me how to dance.
- Have a full-body massage.
- Grow my own grapes or muscadines.
- Learn how to prune roses and grapevines.
- Build a greenhouse in my backyard and grow things in it.
- Fix up our beautiful old piano.
Visit the Forbodden City (2/2007).
- Climb to the top of the Great Wall.
- Get a bikini wax.
- Have a yard with a fish pond and a waterfall.
- Learn how to sail a sailboat.
- Buy one extravagantly stylish, beautiful and expensive handbag.
- Buy or build a house.
- Go to Hawaii.
- Break open a pinata.
- Spend one Christmas alone with David.
- Swim with dolphins. Or sharks.
- Restore a classic car with David.
- Take a cooking class with a master chef.
- Make my will.
- See the Northern Lights.
- Visit Rio during Carnival.
- Be a spectator at the Olympics.
- Create a family recipe book.
- Learn to recognize wild bird songs.
- Take an IQ test. A real one.
- Have weekly Sunday dinners for our whole family.
- Visit the Taj Mahal.
- See an opera at the Met. (3/2000)
- Have a chicken coop for eggs.
- Learn to make pasta from scratch.
Plant an herb garden and use it (6/2004).
- Buy something from Tiffany's. Even if it's a sterling silver phone dialer.
- Visit Israel.
- Dye my hair I-really-mean-it-and-I'm-not-screwing-around-here red.
- Learn to scuba dive.
- Take another road trip wth my sister.
- Spend a week with no television, radio, internet, or cell phone.
- Visit my friend Tamara in Belgium.
- Play on a recital at ClarinetFest.
- Visit Alaska.
- Learn to shoot a handgun.
- Play for a show on Broadway.
- Finish my honeymoon scrapbook.
- Buy my dream bass clarinet.
- Visit the pyramids in Egypt.
- Learn to play the oboe.
- Buy a beautiful whistle that's worthy of my love for Irish music.
- Go back to Sedona and give another box canyon concert for hikers.
- Learn to play the concertina.
- Spend a month traveling down the Pacific coast with David.
- Take a family vacation with my parents, my sister and brother-in-law, and David.
Comments (1)
Anonymous said
at 12:24 am on Jun 11, 2008
didn't you accomplish #95?
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