ONE HUNDRED Things to Do, Pre-Dropping Dead

Travel
Walk Great Barrier Island
Set foot on six continents (umm, no Antartica — it’s cold there, ya know)
Stand on the Great Wall of China
Spend 2 weeks in Morocco
See the pyramids at sunset
Visit Cuba
Drink whiskey at a pub in Ireland
Witness the salmon run in Alaska
Watch the whales migrate from a ship
See the Sedlec Ossuary
Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico
Feed the apes on the Rock of Gibraltar
Pet a wombat in Australia (you knew it’d be here)
Rowboat in the lake with the swans in Retiro Park (Madrid)
Eat Italian in Italy
Visit Lugosi’s castle in Romania
Watch the platypuses (platypi?) from the deck at Broken River (Australia)
Go back to Belgium and see if anything looks familiar
See Dresden
Watch a soccer game in South America
Feed the penguins on the beach in Cape Town
See Tokyo at night
Watch the moon rise over Stonehedge
See the Castle Hill area of Budapest
Take a safari in Madagascar
Ride in a Gondola through the canals of Venice
Take a train across Western Europe
Touch the Weeping Wall
See the Aurora Borealis
Got to California and rock out with Sister Wolf

Make life better for someone else
Rescue a badly abused animal
Buy a family in China or Taiwan a water buffalo
Teach an illiterate person to read
Volunteer at the zoo

Friends & Family
Celebrate each anniversary with D watching the sun set & moon rise
Write a letter to each person in my immediate family
Always keep my relationship with D exciting and as strong as it can be
Spend a day building something with my dad
Spend a day at a spa with mom
Take Jason to dinner, just the two of us
Teach D how to ice skate
Spend a weekend with just my niece & nephew
Send a package to one friend I don’t talk to often

Learn
Learn to play at least 3 songs on guitar
Learn to speak basic French
Learn to drive a stick shift
Research how to be more ecologically conscious and put 3 new ideas into practice
Learn how to make a really good vegetarian bean soup
Learn enough Mandarin to watch “Hero” without the subtitles
Learn sign language
Learn how to shoot a gun
Brush up on my German
Learn to play banjo

Buy, and other money stuff
A reliable car
My own house that I can do with what I please
5 original pieces of art that I truly love from local artists (2/5)
Start a savings account, and use it
Pay off my last credit card

For my health (physical and emotional)
Take vitamins B, Q10, and iron daily
Get a handle on the depression and insomnia
Develop Habit: Eat three square meals a day
Strike the phrase “I can’t” from vocabulary
Eat only home prepared food for one week
Go one week without drinking soda
Quit smoking
Write a list of 25 things that make me happy and reflect on it regularly

Be Creative
Make another gigantic animal out of paper machier, and finish it this time
Decide my 10 favorite albums and write an insightful blog about why I love each
Make a sock monkey
Paint a picture I’m proud to hang up
Make a scrapbook of one of the travels mentioned here
Successfully build my own picnic table
Knit my own scarf
Write and publish a children’s book
Publish a piece of fiction

Do — just because I can
Live in another country for a year
Read the complete works of Shakespeare
Watch all the Godfather movies in one day
Take swing dance lessons
Read every Vonnegut & Heller novel
Get acupuncture
Cultivate a window herb garden
Watch the 100 all-time best grossing films
Buy a ‘little black dress’ and shoes that make me feel pretty and girly
Have a flourishing vegetable garden
See The Sonics on one of their reunion tours
Burn off all my vinyl into MP3’s
Dress in a Halloween costume on a day that’s not Halloween
Stop being such a packrat and clear out some of what I own currently
Ride in a hot air balloon
Dye my hair an outlandish color
Spend an entire day in bed just because
Swim in an ocean, now that I’m old enough to appreciate it
Make love in the rain
Get frames for my nice posters (getting there!)
Jot down all the dreams I remember from now on
Catalog all of my books, CDs, rekkids, and DVDs
Go horseback riding
Go rock climbing
Shower in a waterfall
Experience weightlessness