Wednesday, February 4, 2009

number twenty-three

well alex decided it was time that i updated my list of things i wanted to do in life

144 Things I Want To Do Before I Die

bolded things indicates things i've done

1. Have my own horse
2. Graduate high school
3. Graduate college
4. Write and publish a book
5. Have a conversation with JK Rowling about my book
6. Spend time learning in Italy
7. Kiss someone in the rain (inside a truck that was in the rain? haha)
8. Kiss someone. Period.
9. Make a touching and strong speech
10. Change someone's life
11. Strengthen and soldify my faith (i'm getting there)
12. Have a baby
13. Throw a surprise party
14. Fall in love
15. Be a role model and source of inspiration
16. See Lion King on Broadway
17. Ride a big roller coaster
18. Buy baby clothes
19. Have my own house
20. See a wild horse out in the open
21. See an orca whale in the ocean
22. Go camping
23. Stand up to someone to their face
24. Do locks of love
25. Paint a picture
26. Go to a place no one's ever been to before
27. Take another ceramics class
28. Witness a miracle
29. Watch a meteor shower
30. Watch a solar eclipse
31. Watch a lunar eclipse
32. See a harvest moon
33. Be able to identify various constellations
34. Hit a softball over the fence (haha not going to happen)
35. Score the winning run
36. Be captain of the Varsity Softball team
37. TP someone's house
38. Go to Disney World
39. Go to Harry Potter World (they were talking about making one awhile back...)
40. Get a Harry Potter book on the night of the release
41. Go to a Harry Potter movie release
42. Be kissed on the neck
43. Stay up all night talking to a boy I love
44. Watch the sunrise
45. Catch a big fish
46. Read the whole Bible
47. Write a message and put it in a bottle and toss it out to sea
48. See S Club live in concert
49. Write a song
50. Relearn how to play the piano (ally can teach me yay!)
51. Learn at least three songs on the guitar (Why Georgia being one of them)
52. Get married
53. Have a real date to a dance
54. Rock a child to sleep
55. Fall asleep next to a boy I love
56. Go skinny dipping
57. Explictly say "no" to drugs
58. Explictly say "no" to alcohol
59. Write graffiti on something
60. Swim with dolphins and/or orca whales
61. Have my own puppy
62. Be a designated driver
63. Work at Lost Valley Ranch
64. Be some kind of part of a major motion picture
65. Save someone's life
66. Save an animals's life
67. Decorate my own house
68. Cook a full meal for myself
69. Be able to properly do the Cotton-Eye Joe
70. Relearn how to tack a horse
71. Become an elected leader of a group
72. Discover myself (i don't think you ever stop discovering yourself, so i'll leave this unbolded)
73. Go on an all-day hike
74. Create my own website (didn't last long haha)
75. Ask a boy for his number

76. Send a picture in to Pink is the New Blog
77. Be the topic of a newspaper article
78. Have grandchildren
79. Write a letter to a soldier
80. Write a letter to a perfect stranger
81. Smack someone who says something smack-worthy
82. Pay off all debts (whyyyy did this get on the list? haha i have no debts)
83. Take a fantastic picture entirely on accident
84. Become fluent in a different language
85. Give someone who's crying a hug and hold them until they stop
86. See David graduate from high school
87. See David graduate from college
88. See Van Gough's "Starry Night"
89. Drive a Seadoo
90. Go rafting
91. Go sailing
92. Be a bride's maid
93. Be a maid/matron of honor
94. Become someone's friend despite previous differences
95. Learn to play drums to at least one song
96. Be valedictorian-- how about third in my class? I'm okay with that. Haha
97. Change a stranger's life
98. Hail a taxi
99. Read the Illiad
100. Read the Odyssey
101. Run into someone famous on the streets
102. Run into a childhood friend some years later
103. Send someone a care package
104. Solve a mystery
105. Be so surprised, I'm speechless
106. Be so happy, I cry
107. Visit every state in the country
108. Go to Canada
109. Create a time capsule
110. Dig up a time capsule 10 or 20 years later
111. Keep Blankie (esp) and Goliath alive (they're alive and strong)
112. Play with several-weeks-old puppies
113. Do something no one's ever done before
114. Make a snow angel
115. Make a snow man
116. Fall asleep in front of a fireplace
117. Hear Santa's sleighbells
118. Cause someone's heart to flip or stomach to drop
119. Touch a dolphin and/or orca whale
120. Hear the whales talk to each other in real life
121. See a rainbow
122. See a white rainbow
123. Kiss someone on the nose
124. See an angel
125. Watch a baby be born
126. Watch an egg hatch
127. Get my driver's liscense
128. Sleep outside in the backyard
129. Give a homeless person some food
130. Go rock climbing
131. Watch the sun set
132. Be the inspiration for a song
133. Go to Niagara Falls
134. Go to the Grand Canyon
135. See a glacier
136. Watch a men's lacrosse game
137. Visit the Parthenon
138. Have a surprise party thrown for me
139. Ride bareback
140. Go scuba diving
141. Develop a photograph
142. Send a postcard to Post-Secret
143. Visit Yellowstone
144. Milk a cow

there we go.
i'm sure there are other things i want to do.
i'll add more later. but for now there you go.

i'll make alex do one too. =)

1 comment:

Zanzibar George said...

I remember this list. I loves it.
I never actually finished a long one. I think I have bits and pieces of it scattered around. I really need to make it.

I would comment on more of this post, but I want to go play Kingdom Hearts.

So farewell!
<3