Monday, January 25, 2010

Unsurprisingly, I talked myself into making a list. Here are a whole mess of things that I want to do, off the top of my head. Let's get to work on some of these. Because you know? I do some pretty fun things, but it feels like bragging to talk about it. Not bragging if it's part of the list, though.

1. Tango in Argentia | 2. Eat brains | 3. Feed a baby giraffe | 4. Buy a dresser that doesn't require assembly | 5. Take a trapeze lesson | 6. Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico | 7. See the Galapagos | 8. Have a bulldog | 9. Spend a month in Tuscany | 10. Learn how to make small talk | 11. Know enough French to have a conversation in France | 12. See hot lava | 13. Visit the Zeus Cave on Crete | 14. See the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic | 15. Visit all 50 states (31/50, so far) | 16. Go to Mexico | 17. Dig clams on a coast | 18. Learn to whistle | 19. Get married | 20. Have a family | 21. Own a lake house or someplace in the country for vacations | 22. Have a portrait taken | 23. Get another apple tree so Herbie will be able to produce fruit | 24. Go zip lining | 25. Make baby blankets for pregnant friends | 26. Have a date for New Years Eve | 27. Eat lobster from Maine in Maine | 28. Perfect a signature dish for dinner parties | 29. Finish the last four books of "In Search of Lost Time" | 30. Switch my lightbulbs to CFLs | 31. Clean out the filing cabinet | 32. Stick packets of flower seeds in the pockets of clothes in stores | 33. Learn to take compliments gracefully | 34. Visit Spain | 35. Find a job that lets me travel and help people | 36. Look at space through a very big telescope | 37. Skinny dip near a waterfall | 38. Throw another surprise party | 39. Have a picnic at Point No Point | 40. Go fishing | 41. Learn to drive a stick shift | 42. Visit City Lights bookstore | 43. Ride a hot air balloon | 44. See a moose not in a zoo | 45. Make more of my wardrobe than I buy | 46. Ride a camel not in a zoo | 47. Get a drink from a swim up bar | 48. Have a fancy day at a spa | 49. Ride a donkey at the Grand Canyon | 50. Finish grad school | 51. Find a pair of jeans that fit perfectly, and then buy several of them | 52. Visit the Smithsonian | 53. See the noble rhinoceros not in a zoo | 54. Visit Yosemite | 55. Compliment more people sincerely and specifically | 56. Stop biting my nails | 57. Have a whole room just for books | 58. Learn to make my own stationary | 59. Send someone to college who otherwise wouldn't be able to go | 60. Drink champagne in France | 61. Go to Lake Vanda in Antarctica | 62. Get my worm box back in working order | 63. Eat at Tilth | 64. Learn how to alter clothes | 65. Learn to play the pedal steel | 66. Visit Thailand | 67. Sit in a hot spring | 68. Start volunteering again | 69. Go in a cave | 70. Get up the first time my alarm goes off consistently | 71. Be able to do at least one pull up | 72. Write love notes | 73. Ride the Orient Express | 74. Visit Mongolia | 75. Play tambourine in a band | 76. Make cheese | 77. Grow enough tomatoes to be able to can some | 78. Pay off student loans | 79. See a reindeer in Iceland | 80. Create a recipe box or binder | 81. Discover a song that I can actually karaoke well | 82. Ride the Trans-Siberian express | 83. Learn to re-wire a lamp | 84. Have a romantic weekend at Treehouse Point | 85. Become a better public speaker | 86. Hold a pygmy marmoset | 87. Eat fresh crab on the Dungeness Spit | 88. Grow more edible flowers | 89. Make all my own cleaning products | 90. Saber off the top of a champagne bottle | 91. Learn to juggle | 92. Visit the Hermitage | 93. Sleep in a castle | 94. Go to the ballet at least once a year | 95. Not feel guilty spending bits of my savings on adventures | 96. Pick up a Sleepy Lizard in Australia | 97. Meet a pangolin. Tell it that its name is Nicodemus | 98. Be able to lift my carry-on over my head (aka, No More Sad Noodle Arms) | 99. High five some manner of non-human primate | 100. Go on an archaeological dig | 101. Learn to fold a fitted sheet | 102. Make a ship in a bottle without a kit | 103. Have one of granddad's old fishing maps framed. | 104. Visit the Wieliczka Salt Mine | 105. Live in Paris