Life List

This list is inspired by Maggie Mason of Mighty Girl.  I have been keeping track of my list since she did it a while back, and when I heard her great news I decided to join in on all the #lifelist fun.  A few on this list that I already crossed off were on a list I made back in college.  Other since I started this list back in June or July.  After several months I am finally ready to hit publish.

100 Things to Do . . .

1. Find my ancestor’s names on Ellis Island
2. Go to Alaska
3. Learn to Crochet
4. Participate in a salmon fry stocking to help restore the atlantic salmon population in New England
5. Run a marathon
6. Hike the Inca trail to see Machu Picchu
7. Visit the Charles Schultz Museum
8. Watch a Space Shuttle Take-off
9. Write a Children’s Book
10. Visit Yosemite
11. Make my home the road for a while
12. Save a farm
13. Travel around the world
14. Go on a safari in Africa
15. Drive across the country
16. Get outside my comfort zone more to help causes I believe in.
17. Keep my health a top priority
18. Get involved with organizations that help fight hunger
19. Visit Cuba
20. Have some chickens
21. Become more focused with my art work
22. Spend less time online, perhaps going unplugged 1/day per week
23. Learn how to be a beekeeper and have a hive in our yard
24. Run the bases at Fenway Park
25. Scan all my pictures and backup online
26. Organize or participate in a Flash Mob
27. Sort through and find a home for all my Mother’s clothes.
28. Take Jay up in a hot air balloon
29. Travel to the town my family is from in Turkey
30. Photograph animals in the Galapagos
31. Walk over the Golden Gate Bridge
32. Hike amongst Elephant Seals in California
33. Random acts of kindness
34. Stand up on a surf board in the ocean waves
35. Visit a monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico
36. Moonwalk on the new Grand Canyon Skywalk (written before MJ died!)
37. Visit a National Park in every US state and fill my NPS passport with Stamps.
38. Do as much as I can to campaign to remove parabens from beauty products
39. Make baked Alaska
40. Design my own wallpaper
41. Knit a blanket
42. Make a quilt
43. Visit the Johnson Wax building, Taliesin East and Falling Water.
44. Take a Duck Tour in Boston | Took a Duck Tour with Jay and Randall on 7/26/09
    
45. See a Patriots game at Gillette Stadium
46. Paint a wall mural or stencil a wall in my house
47. Go to see the Oprah Winfrey show
48. Stomp grapes to make wine
49. Attend Waterfire in downtown Providence, RI. | Saw the River fires on 7/4/09 with Jay
    
50. River Raft through the Grand Canyon.
51. Own a hybrid vehicle
52. Hang a large map to keep track of our travels with pins.
53. Make more meals for dinner
54. Set foot on the Lisa Marie airplane at Graceland
55. Go see the Boston Lobsters
56. Hang our bat house in the park across the street
57. Have a spot in our yard for a hammock
58. Climb a mountain every year
59. Eat less meat
60. Support local foods, Buy ocean friendly seafood
61. Visit Reggio Calabria, Italy
62. Grow potatoes
63. Take an annual picture in a photobooth
64. Keep bird feeders stocked in the winter to attract birds
65. Do something that is wikipedia worthy.
66. Start a movement to stop all the needless puking scenes on TV
67. Find and visit more camera obscuras
68. Organize a beach clean-up
69. Use only natural lawn products
70. Buy natural personal care and laundry products.
71. Breed dragonflies
72. See a sand castle competition at the beach. Revere, MA Sandcastle competition 2009
    
73. Have a porch with a blue ceiling
74. Climb Mount Rushmore
75. Go up to the crown on the Statue of Liberty
76. Take a boat through the Panama Canal
77. Rate several chowders in New England and document
78. Host a family reunion
79. Make/Craft more gifts for friends/family
80. Keep my CPR certification current each year
81. See some of the old time great musicians before they go.
82. Grow grapes
83. Visit the Georgia O’Keefe museum
84. Become a bone marrow donor
85. Photograph animals in Patagonia
86. Understand the rules of tennis and golf
87. Row in a race
88. Learn how to use all the settings on my DSLR camera
89. Visit a cork-oak forest in Portugal.
90. Ride a zip-line through the top canopy of a rainforest
91. Take more risks
92. Reach out to friends
93. Be a nice driver, customer, client etc.
94. wind surf
95. Start an Etsy Store
96. Live artfully
97. Get organized. Complete some house projects that have gone unfinished for a long time
98. Go to the Olympics
99. Super Secret goal #99
100. Super Secret goal #100

100 Things Worth Doing . . . (Still working on these)

1. Eating an ice cream cone in Madrid as Jay rows me around in a row boat
2. Having Haggis at a pub in Scotland
3. Eating the Venison pies that were accidentally delivered to our table in New Zealand
4. Surprising Jay with a Rick Roll Cake
5. Seeing the Book of Kells in Dublin, Ireland
6. Learning all the words to the Born in the USA album by Bruce Springsteen, and singing and dancing my heart out with my family
7. Riding on the Childrens Railway in Budapest, Hungary
8. The approach to Hallstatt, Austria by boat
9. Van Gogh museum and riding white bikes on a in Arnhem, Holland
10. Drinking a Bellini in Venice Italy
11. The ruins in Olympia Greece
12. Car surrounded by goats in Crete
13. Watching penguins water surf at night in Tasmania, Australia
14. The Gardens at Giverny
15. River boat ride down the Rhine River in Germany
16. Eating mussels in Bruges
17. Climbing the steps of the castles in Sintra, Portugal
18. The Alhambra
19. Watching the big clock in Prague
20. Accidentally getting blessed by the Pope at the Vatican with Jay, David and Hunt.
21. Volunteering at the Boston Marathon
22. Learning to Row
23. Finding the Paper House in Rockport, MA
24. Sleeping on the night train to Budapest
25. Digging for Diamonds in Murfreesboro, AR
26. Fishing with my Grandfather
27. Singing with the neighbors by a fire
28. Planting a vegetable garden
29. Having a blog
30. Singing New York, New York and kicking Chorus Line style with my family at our wedding
31. Escaping the cold with Roasted Marshmellows in Chicago
32. A quick side trip on the way to DC to see the Gates in NYC
33. Staying on a boat in the Galapagos for 7 days.
34. Taliesin West in Arizona
35. Buying a house
36. Setting up an exercise space in our upstairs office
37. Dancing on stage with the Mighty Mighty Bostones and then diving into the crowd and crowd surfing
38. Pushing my way to the front of a Bob Dylan concert and hearing him sing Mr. Tamborine Man from 10 feet away.
39. Seeing minky whales while sketching on Monhegan Island
40. Taking pics of everyone with a Sombrero on at my grandfather’s 80th b-day party.
41. Joining a CSA Farm
42. Visiting the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam
43. Volunteer to get people out to vote on Election Day
44. Oyster shooters in Australia
45. Skinny dipping at Plum Island at Midnight
46. Driving around Savannah, GA in a rented convertible with the top down
47. A ride on the Cyclone at Coney Island
48. Wrestling in zipped up sleeping bags with friends in Maine
49. Having a “Fuck you George” party the night Clinton won
50. Skiing on powdery snow in Colorado
51. Snowshoeing around the Reservoir across from my house on a freezing cold day
52. Learning CPR
53. Keeping an organ donor card in my wallet
54. Road trips to Maine
55. Graceland
56. All day beach outings
57. Having one big meal on Sundays – Blupper
58. Lobster races by the pool
59. Getting over my fear of flying/heights
60. Learning to juggle
61. Having a rainbarrel, worm bin and outdoor compost.
62. Planting trees
63. Making an ice sculpture
64. Having a cat
65. Salt mine tour in Salzburg
66. Switching from Easter egg hunts to Easter kiwi hunts
67. The Sistene Chapel and Davide
68. Guernica
69. Folk Festival 50, Willie Nelson, Tony Bennett
70. Taking my brother to see Paul McCartney
71. Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica
72. Going up the Eiffel tower
73. Close up view of Gargoyles on top of Notre Dame Cathedral
74. Getting in touch with a long lost relative
75. Floating in the ocean
76. Spending long chunks of time with my Grandparents in NY in the summer when I was a kid
77. Being a park ranger
78. Wine country, Santa Cruz, Los Gatos and Saratoga, CA
79. Wedding dress shopping with my Mother
80. Setting aside my sadness and planning a nice memorial service for my mother.
81. Learning to love jogging/exercise with my Dad
82. Game 5 of the ALCS 2004 – Go Red Sox!
83. Catamaran cruise with old friends.
84. Local Oysters
85. Studying Art in College
86. Watercolor class as therapy
87. Roller Blading along the Charles River
88. Sending an Orchid Lai as a birthday gift
89. Making yogurt