Happy 100 Posts Everyone!! To be honest, I didn't think I'd stick with this stupid blog as long as I have, and clearly from my recent lack of posting I'm sure you didn't either. Thanks to all who read, I'm glad someone enjoys my rambling. And to celebrate:
100 Things To Do Before You Die
- Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
- Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
- Swim with a dolphin.
- Skydive.
- Have your portrait painted.
- Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
- Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
- Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
- Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
- Be an extra in a film.
- Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
- Make love on a forest floor.
- Make love on a train.
- Learn to rollerblade.
- Own a room with a view.
- Brew your own beer.
- Learn how to take a compliment.
- Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
- Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
- Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
- Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
- Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
- Send a message in a bottle.
- Ride a camel into the desert.
- Get to know your neighbors.
- Plant a tree.
- Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
- Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
- Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
- Learn to ballroom dance properly.
- Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
- Be the boss.
- Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally.
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
- Sit on a jury.
- Write the novel you know you have inside you.
- Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
- Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
- Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
- Be someone's mentor.
- Shower in a waterfall.
- Ask for a raise.
- Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
- Teach someone illiterate to read.
- Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
- Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.
- Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
- See a lunar eclipse.
- Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
- Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
- Experience weightlessness.
- Sing a great song in front of an audience.
- Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.
- Drive across America from coast to coast.
- Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
- Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
- Write your will.
- Sleep under the stars.
- Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
- Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it!
- Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
- Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
- Forgive your parents.
- Learn to juggle with three balls.
- Drive the Autobahn.
- Find a job you love.
- Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
- Overcome your fear of failure.
- Raft through the Grand Canyon.
- Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
- Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
- Grow a garden.
- Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
- Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
- Accept yourself for who you are.
- Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
- Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
- Go up in a hot-air balloon.
- Attend one really huge rock concert.
- Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.
- Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
- Give to a charity -- anonymously.
- Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
- Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
- Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
- Fart in a crowded space.
- Make love on the kitchen floor.
- Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
- Create your own web site.
- Visit the Holy Land.
- Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
- Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
- Create your Family Tree.
- Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
- Make a hole-in-one.
- Ski a double-black diamond run.
- Learn to bartend.
- Run a marathon.
- Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
- Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.
carpe die(h)m everyone. happy 1oo. Here's to 1oo more.
