my life list

Things to Do Before I Die

1. Make a profound difference in the lives of as many people as possible
2. Have my own world famous talk show
3. Have everyone know my name
4. Go on a hot air balloon ride
5. Visit the continental 48 via a cross country road trip; cruise to Alaska and fly to Hawaii
6. Walk the Great Wall of China
7. Find my perfect guy
8. Proximity - ??
9. Have the perfect wedding
10. Have 2 kids - a boy then a girl
11. Publish a poem and/or a book
12. Host Saturday Night Live
13. Own a Mini Cooper S – red w/ white racing stripes or racing forest green or maybe blue?
14. Meet royalty, after meeting the President of the US, so I can display my manners
15. Make a sizeable charitable difference at home and over seas
16. Find and keep REAL friends
17. Convey to my family how much they mean to me
18. Be in 100% physical shape with less than 5% body fat
19. Weigh 120 pounds for a long time
20. Surprise strangers in a good way
21. Be in the credits of a movie
22. Meet Oprah, Bono, Nelson Mandela, Paula Deen,  
23. Chris Pine and  Justin Timberlake
24. Own the black and white house with the red door and big backyard on the corner
25. Eat in the restaurant in the Eiffel tower
26. Save someone’s life
27. Climb a bridge… like the one in Sydney harbor
28. Go skydiving
29. Swim with dolphins
30. Hold a baby tiger
31. Ride an elephant
32. Ride a camel
33. Be able to afford a maid service to clean mommy’s house
34. Be able to afford a landscaping service for daddy’s yard
35. Be invited to go dancing in the pouring rain
36. Learn to ballroom dance
37. Learn to golf
38. Learn to play poker
39. Kiss at the top of the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Sydney Harbor Bridge, in the Great Barrier Reef, on my front porch, on an altar, at the Rockefeller Center Tree, under the stars, 
40. Write a book or article that helps people
41. Dance my first dance as a wife to Josh Groban’s “When You Say You Love Me”
42. Dance the father daughter dance to Israel "Iz" Kaʻanoʻi Kamakawiwoʻole’s “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/ What a Wonderful World”
43. Visit all 7 continents (North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South America, Australia, Antarctica)
44. Forgive and forget
45. Honeymoon in Monaco or Venice
46. Buy something at auction preferably Christie’s or Sotheby’s
47. Spend time on all of the oceans (Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Antarctic)
48. Waste no time, enjoy all of it
49. Be serenaded in public
50. Cook a whole thanksgiving meal myself – including the TURKEY
51. Fund a wing at a hospital
52. See the northern lights a.k.a. aurora borealis in Denali National Park
53. Go luge-ing
54. Have the courage to punch/slap someone in the face as the need sees fit
55. Own real estate in a foreign country
56. Go back to Paris maybe live there for a little while
57. Tour Ireland maybe live there for a little while
58. See all of AFI’s 100 greatest movies
59. Ride a horse bareback on the beach
60. Visit Half Moon Bay, California
61. Visit Washington D.C. when the cherry blossoms are in bloom
62. See a Broadway show front row center
63. Drive around NYC in a limo, hanging out the sun roof
64. Bachelorette spy party in Vegas?
65. Stand on the equator
66. Watch a meteor shower
67. Tour museums with a personal guide
68. Sit in the best seats at the Super Bowl, and the World Series
69. Build a house
70. Learn to shoot a gun safely 
71. Go whale watching 
72. Learn to defend myself
73. Learn to Surf
74. Spend the extra money to sit in great seats at plays and concerts
75. Eat at Paula Deen’s restaurant
76. Pull a prank involving 100 lawn gnomes
77. Spend at least 24 hours straight in a mall (sleepover)
78. Learn all of the presidents in chronological order
79. Learn all of the state capitals in alphabetical order
80. Be able to identify masterpieces of art, music, and literature, and their creators
81. Be able to converse in a foreign language
82. Visit the Buddhist monastery in Thailand where they house orphaned tigers (jeff corwin)
83. Race a horse
84. Zip line over the rainforest
85. See the Olympic games live
86. Go scuba diving
87. Ride the orient express
88. Visit an uninhabited island
89. See the Taj Mahal
90. Defy gravity
91. Walk a red carpet
92. Work a red carpet
93. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
94. Go to Carnivale in Brazil
95. Inspire someone
96. See the Serengeti from the Oldonyo Laro
97. Have a garden designed by Tom Stuart-Smith
98. Watch a concert from backstage/ the wings
99. Go white water rafting
100. Crash a wedding
101. Meet someone who will profoundly and tangibly change my life
102. Ride on a dog sled
103. Participate in a big wheel tricycle race 
104. Go skiing
105. Go into outer space
106. Get an audience with the pope
107. Hit a home run
108. Take my parents on a vacation
109. Run with the bulls in Pamplona
110. Throw my parents a terrific 25th anniversary/50th birthday surprise party
111. Attend a loud, rowdy, vivacious Baptist gospel ceremony
112. Get the keys to a city
113. Go on a bike tour of a city
114. Be on The Buried Life show
115. Go to the Kentucky Derby
116. Have my own action figure
117. Watch the fireworks for the 4th of July from Hen's Island near Rye, NY
118. Be on a game show (and win something) 
119. Learn about boats and sailing
120. Go on a cruise with college friends before i turn 30
121. Go on a cruise with the Kitsons, Mitchells, and Kellys
122. fly a kite
123. find a buried treasure