Before I Die
1. Parasail
2. Own a shirt with cuff-links
3. Own a domesticated squirrel
4. Learn to speak Spanish proficiently
5. Run a 10K
6. Have a litter of puppies
7. Eat real Polish food at a real Polish restaurant
8. Grow a garden
9. Buy jewelry from Tiffany’s in NYC
10. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it
11. Spend all night out and go to work the next morning, without going home
12. Take ballroom dancing lessons
13. Be an audience member at a SNL taping
14. Remodel a house
15. Spend a weekend in Las Vegas without renting a hotel room
16. Donate $50,000 to charities (over a lifetime)
17. Perfect the art of baking sourdough bread, risotto, black and white cookies
18. See a movie five times in the theater
19. Tour Italian wine country
20. Make love on a train
21. Commit a felony (and don’t get caught)
22. Flirt with a foreigner
23. Go to the Louvre
24. Spend Day of the Dead in Mexico
25. Be someone’s boss
26. Read every bit of Muriel Spark’s fiction
27. Read every one of Tennessee Williams’ plays
28. See Damien Rice, The Mars Volta, Radiohead perform live
29. Own a rescue Italian Greyhound
30. Kiss someone under the mistletoe
31. Visit the Vatican
32. Buy a proper piece of art
33. Create a proper piece of art
34. Plant and maintain a garden of tulips
35. Eat the entire dessert menu at a fancy restaurant in one sitting
36. Skinny dip with a lover
37. Take part in a demonstration
38. Spend Christmas on a beach
39. Go tubing
40. Order someone to leave
41. Witness a big concert on floor level
42. Own a Corvette
43. Learn to play “Rhapsody in Blue” & “Claire de Lune” on piano
44. Fly in a helicopter
45. Converse with a celebrity
46. Learn to fresco, mosaic
47. Ride a pig
48. Wear a rat tail
49. Appear on the JumboTron at a professional sporting event
50. Visit Russia
51. Restore an antique piano