100 things to do before I go, 1-100

One of the blogs I look at regularly is written by a very clever and funny San Franciscan woman named Maggie Mason.

She recently prompted her readers to write the list of things to do in one's life.

After doing it in a series of lists 25 things long.. I finally completed the arduaous task and found my list. This was somewhat harder than I thought it would be.

I also did the list of 100 things crossed off. That was easier. Why was that?

Remember.. in no particular order of importance..

1. open a cheese shop
2. open a hostel
3. ride a giraffe
4. go on an African safari
5. Scuba Dive someplace tropical
6. have a public exhibit of my photographs
7. sew a wrap around apron dress in navy linen
8. hand embroider bed sheets
9. hand embroider a matching duvet
10. travel through Japan
11. go to a yoga class in India
12. learn to ride a motorcycle
13. spend a night in the room Janis Joplin died in
14. plant a vegetable garden and eat from the harvest
15. finish my art history degree
16. pay someone's rent for the month
17. give someone a job
18. save someone from jumping
19. do a back flip
20. spend a year without ordering in
21. live in a house with a front porch and a screen door
22. have more than 1 cat at one time
23. learn a specific occupation
24. spend the night in the Chelsea Hotel
25. take a train trip across Canada
26. visit the Pyramids
27. bungee jump
28. knit a pair of socks and wear them
29. design my own web page, top to bottom, code and all
30. swim with sharks
31. invest in stocks independently
32. go to Holland during tulip season
33. let a backpacker stay overnight
34. produce a line of t shirts
35. participate as a vendor at a craft fair
36. make my own jam
37. spend a weekend without talking
38. invent something
39. volunteer my time
40. become an aunt
41. ride a bike long distance
42. tandem skydive with free fall
43. go on a retreat
44. own my own apartment
45. inspire someone
46. cook a stranger a meal and deliver it
47. have an 88th birthday
48. drink 6-8 glasses of water everyday for a month
49. sleep in an igloo
50. publish a photography book
51. spray paint something large and inspirational in a public place.
52. dig up a time capsule
53. find my best friend from when I was 5- Tanya Barter
54. visit Cuba before it's too late
55. have a ponytail
56. hide Easter eggs someplace
57. see a ghost
58. make my own cheese
59. ride a donkey to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
60. mail a secret to Post Secret
61. send more postcards to strangers through PostcardX
62. go camping alone
63. loose 30 pounds
64. visit Chicago and see the Oprah show
65. ride my bike to work every day for 1 month
66. cross the equator
67. stop eating meat
68. take a flight in a hot air balloon
69. take a mud bath in one of those "spas"
70. live outside of Canada for a year
71. make a living from home
72. spend a significant amount of money on a piece of art
73. make soap at home and give it as gifts
74. make all my Christmas gifts one year
75. sleep on the beach
76. Do a degree in Communications
77. give birth
78. eat 100 miles from my house
79. stop getting tattooed
80. find the perfect pair of jeans
81. swing from a rope over a lake in the summer
82. cliff jump
83. turn all my craft supplies into finished projects
84. do a large scale art installation in a public place in the middle of the night
85. See the Art Nouveau in Nancy, France
86. Visit Greece
87. drink my nut smoothies every day for a month
88. dance more
89. spend money all willy-nilly on clothes, just because I want them
90. fit into the dresses in my closet that i can't get rid of because they are too beautiful
91. open a flower shop and call it "this bud's for you."
92. learn to drive a scooter
93. own a Vespa
94. sit in a natural mineral pool
95. visit a hammam in Morocco
96. be independantly wealthy
97. plant tulips in random places
98. loose my fears
99. forget my insecurities
100. find bliss