100 Things: The Conclusion

I started my list of 100 things I want to do before I’m 100 a few months back. Honestly, it was a bit of a cop out. I had just started my new job and was dried up as far as content ideas for this site, so I wrote out a huge list of things I want to do someday. Then, when I had nothing else to write, I would post five or ten of these things at a time. Really, it was all about laziness. Which should be the new tagline for the blog: Crazybananas, it’s all about laziness.

I never kept track of how many things I’d written, just hoping I’d be able to come up with 100 at the end of this whole endevour. Turns out, when I looked back, I had written exactly 95. Yesterday I sat down and attempted to finish up my list. But, CRAP, it was hard. How do I come up with five more things, when I’ve already listed 95? How do I fit everything else I want to do into only five things? Quite the quandry.

In the end, this is what I came up with:

95. Attend a big movie premiere
96. Have a piece of art in a gallery showing
97. Make $100 off of my online writing
98. Live in Europe and take the train to faraway locations during vacation
99. Retire and live a life of leisure
100. Do something that changes the world for the better

You can view the entire list right here, and it will also be posted under my About Me section and on the right hand sidebar of the homepage. I plan to continue to update my list as I accomplish things and am able to cross them off. And I WILL accomplish them, even if Trent hates horses and swears we shall never own one! I noticed that many of my ideas involve travel of some kind, and I wonder why that is? I never thought of myself as a person that craved travel and exploration, but apparently I don’t know myself very well! Have any of you tried to write a list like this? What surprised you?

For those of you who hate to click on links (why is that, exactly?) below is the list in it’s entirety.

1. Learn to play the guitar
2. Purchase my own house
3. Get my scuba diving certification
4. Visit all 7 continents
5. Skydive
6. Get over my fear of boats by going on a cruise
7. Learn to snowboard
8. Blog everyday for a month
9. Write and publish a fiction novel
10. Take Trent to Amsterdam and eat lunch on the lawn of the Van Gogh Museum
11. Give a stranger $100 on Christmas Eve
12. Go on a honeymoon
13. Own and train a horse
14. People watch at the duomo in Florence with Lucy
15. Take the train to St. Louis from Kansas City
16. Stand underneath a waterfall in a tropical location
17. Take photos of someone famous
18. Attend a taping of the Oprah Winfrey show
19. Vote for a woman for president
20. Give a speech honoring my dad
21. Grow my own cantaloupe like when I was a kid
22. Spend a day at a spa
23. Play in a real rock band
24. Buy a brand new Mac computer
25. Send my daughter to college
26. Work on a horse ranch
27. Go white water rafting
28. Teach Lu how to ice skate
29. Report from a foreign country for NPR
30. Live in a “green” home
31. Turn off my phone for a day
32. Organize a family reunion
33. Go on a mother/daughter trip with Lucy, my sister and her daughter
34. Pay back my and Trent’s parents for all they’ve done for us
35. Ride a camel
36. Attend P. Diddy’s white party
37. Be content in my life
38. Cross 50 items off this list
39. Buy a very expensive pair of shoes just because they are pretty
40. Take a university level design or photography class
41. Hold a leadership position in local politics
42. Take Lucy to the circus
43. Teach English at a school abroad
44. Visit Washington DC
45. Attend a political rally
46. Donate to charity anonymously
47. Drink wine in Central Park
48. Renew my vows on a beach
49. Live in a house on the Italian Coast
50. Reconnect with an old friend
51. See the Earth from space
52. Get my masters degree
53. Hug a koala bear
54. Visit the Grecian ruins
55. See a Broadway play
56. Sell a piece of photography
57. Go to New Orleans during Marti Gras
58. Cook every night for 7 days
59. Drink a pint in an Irish pub
60. Find out about my lineage and visit where my family comes from
61. See my mom’s old house in South Chicago
62. Ride in a rickshaw
63. Throw a keg party
64. Write a screenplay
65. Learn to bake apple pie
66. Go camping with the family
67. Learn to surf
68. Raise Lucy to become a strong, independent woman
69. Have more kids
70. Take a road trip of the United States in an RV
71. Run a marathon
72. Gamble in Vegas
73. Kiss Trent at the Eiffel Tower
74. Visit the Grand Canyon
75. Volunteer in a third world country
76. Live in New York City
77. Have a girls vacation with friends
78. Throw Lucy a sweet sixteen birthday party
79. Surprise Trent with a gift for no reason
80. Throw an elegant dinner party
81. Relearn how to speak fluent Italian
82. Attend a wedding in India
83. Ride an elephant
84. Learn how to fly an airplane
85. Meet a famous blogger
86. See the pyramids in Egypt
87. Hike through a tropical rain forest
88. Make enough money to support my family DONE – February 2008
89. Take Trent to Cinque Terre and go on a hike there
90. Visit Canada
92. Drink a fancy cocktail on the roof of an apartment building in NYC
93. Go to therapy
94. Go for a week without checking email
95. Attend a big movie premiere
96. Have a piece of art in a gallery showing
97. Make $100 off of my online writing
98. Live in Europe and take the train to faraway locations during vacation
99. Retire and live a life of leisure
100. Do something that changes the world for the better