Another uber-long meme
1. Start your own blog
2. Go camping and sleep under the stars - You know, mosquitos in your ear kind of detract from the experience
3. Play in a band - it only just now occurred to me that they meant "rock band". No. Marching band, concert band, orchestra, quintet, yes.
4. Holiday on a tropical island
5. Make a wish on a shooting star
6. Give 1% of your income to charity
7. Go to Disneyland/world - my shame is that I haven't taken my kids to said venues - yet.
8. Climb a mountain
9. Hold a praying mantis, a spider or a snake
10. Stay overnight in the desert
11. Bungee jump
12. Visit Paris and see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre - she's behind so much glass it's hardly worth it. But don't skip Paris!
13. Watch a lightning storm at sea
14. Teach yourself an art/craft from scratch - decoupage, anyone?
15. Walk to the top of the Statue of Liberty
16. Grow your own vegetables
17. Eat ’space’ cookies in Amsterdam and float down the canals in a pleasant daze Hahaha
18. Sleep on an overnight train - also, NOT sleep on an overnight train because you're stuck on a fold-down bench in the corridor...
19. Go backpacking
20. Have a pillow fight
21. Travel solo
22. Take a sick day when you’re not ill
23. Tell someone you love them when they haven’t said it first
24. Help bring a life into this world - puppies, kittens, babies anything!
25. Go skinny dipping (free advice: don’t hide your clothes in poison ivy!)
26. Run a Marathon
27. Try surfing
28. Ride in a gondola in Venice
29. See a total eclipse 1973, I think
30. Get up to watch a sunrise Stay up? Done that more often than get up
31. Pursue a dream
32. See one of the great waterfalls in person - Victoria, Niagara, Iguazu - have seen Niagara.
33. Visit the birthplace of your ancestors
34. See how a traditional indigenous community live
35. Learn a second language (ja, oui, si)
36. Decide you have enough money to be truly satisfied
37. Go rock climbing or abseiling
38. See Michelangelo’s David in Italy
39. Sing karaoke (Horribly)
40. Participate in a demonstration or some form of social/political activism
41. Buy a stranger a meal indirectly, I guess - I didn’t sit there and watch them eat it
42. Climb the Sydney Harbour Bridge
43. Walk on a beach by moonlight
44. Make love somewhere you could get caught
45. Be transported in an ambulance
46. Break the law - 75 mph in a 55 mph zone...
47. Do something you know is reckless
48. Get your portrait drawn/painted
49. Go deep sea fishing
50. See the Sistine Chapel in person
51. Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - I rode the elevator.
52. Go scuba diving or snorkeling
53. Come face to face with real poverty and don’t look away
54. Kiss in the rain
55. Play in the mud
56. Fall in love
57. Have your heart broken
58. Get married
59. Have children
60. Buy your own home
61. Go to a drive-in theater
62. Appear on television or in a movie
63. Visit the Great Wall of China
64. Start your own business
65. Take a martial arts class
66. Visit Africa
67. Volunteer to help the needy
68. Sell Girl Scout Cookies
69. Go dolphin or whale watching
70. Buy someone flowers for no reason
71. Donate blood, platelets or plasma
72. Go sky diving
73. Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp
74. Fly in a helicopter
75. Save a favorite childhood toy
76. See the Pope, the Dalai Llama or another religious head
77. Eat Caviar
78. Stand in Times Square
79. See a monkey, tiger or another exotic animal in the wild
80. Get fired from a job
81. See the Changing of the Guards in London
82. Break a bone
83. Ride on a speeding motorcycle
84. See the Grand Canyon in the USA
85. Get a book published
86. Visit the Vatican
87. See the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
88. Buy a brand new car
89. Walk in Jerusalem
90. Have your picture in the newspaper
91. Read the Bible or the Koran or another religious text in full
92. Visit the White House
93. Kill and prepare an animal for eating
94. Save someone’s life
95. Sit on a jury
96. Confront a fear
97. Admit to someone you lied or made a big mistake
98. See the Pyramids of Egypt - my next must-see
99. Swim in the Dead Sea
They left off my #1: see your child(ren) grow to be decent, grounded, and caring.