Blogger Notes

This is a list of 100 things I have never done but really want to, so I am setting them out as life-long goals. As I achieve each one, I will cross them off the list. Please feel free to make suggestions for my list [particularly the travel] or to share your list with me! I had so much fun thinking this up and can’t wait to start crossing things off. Of course, once I complete everything, I will make another list and start all over again!


1. Visit all 50 states at least once:

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

2. Visit the following U.S. sites/cities/events, take photographs and turn the collection into a scrapbook:

Beverly Hills/Rodeo Drive
Statue of Liberty
Central Park
Empire State Building
Grand Canyon
Hollywood
Mount Rushmore
White House
Lincoln Memorial
Salem, Massachusetts
Niagara Falls (New York)
Golden Gate Bridge
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Las Vegas, Nevada
Atlantic City
Ground Zero
Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana
Times Square
San Diego Zoo
Kentucky Derby

3. Visit the following international sites/cities/countries/events, take photographs and turn the collection into a scrapbook:

Italy
Greece
Spain
Ireland
Germany
Amsterdam
Australia
Mexico
Jamaica
Canada
Bahamas
Virgin Islands
England
Puerto Rico
Great Wall of China
Egyptian pyramids
Carnival in Brazil
African safari
Mona Lisa
Buckingham palace
Great Barrier Reef
Fiji

4. Meet and marry the love of my life.
5. Have a happy home and a house full of kids.
6. Climb a mountain.
7. Buy a house.
8. Learn to drive a stick shift.
9. Become a Naval Psychologist.
10. Learn to ride a motorcycle.
11. Save at least $20 a week, every week for a year and then spend the money on a trip.
12. Run a marathon.
13. Take a self defense class.
14. Take ballet.
15. Make a photo album each December with pictures from the previous year.
16. Parasail.
17. Make baby books for each of my kids (and fill them out completely).
18. Grow my hair until it’s long.
19. Be a maid-of-honor.
20. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
21. Learn how to stop living in the shadow of my past so that I can cherish the present and enjoy what the future holds.
22. Learn to speak Spanish fluently.
23. Write a novel and/or publish my children’s book.
24. Dance on stage.
25. Meet Joey Fatone and Britney Spears.
26. Go to a Bed and Breakfast.
27. Get a tattoo.
28. Become a mentor in the Big Brother/Big Sister program.
29. Build a Habitat for Humanity house.
30. Keep journals to pass on to my kids.
31. Bury a time capsule with my closest girl friends. Dig it up in 10-20 years and go through it together.
32. Learn how to sew/mend clothes.
33. Ask for forgiveness.
34. Spend a week traveling “wherever the wind takes me” with no destination in mind.
35. Rollerblade down a boardwalk in the middle of summer.
36. Pay off my credit cards.
37. Plant a garden.
38. Meditate at least twice a month.
39. Write my nephew a new story every birthday.
40. Get to know my neighbors.
41. Learn how to build a fire (that lasts).
42. Dance barefoot on the beach underneath the stars.
43. Chase a storm.
44. Go paintballing.
45. Go away once a year with one or two of my friends.
46. Have a BBQ/Bonfire every year “just because.”
47. Make love on the beach.
48. Spend an entire summer somewhere like Nantucket Island.
49. Be as happy and in love with my husband 50 years later as I am when I marry him.
50. Work out weekly.
51. Remember to tell my loved ones that I love them daily.
52. Eat dinner as a family more often than not.
53. Spend quality time with my children/as a family.
54. Take a family vacation every year – even if it’s only camping at a local state park.
55. Plan and save for retirement.
56. Swim with dolphins.
57. Learn how to handle and shoot a gun.
58. Learn how to shoot a bow and arrow.
59. Visit a vineyard.
60. Bake cupcake brownies.
61. Go water tubing.
62. Try surfing.
63. Dance, watch fireworks and/or look at the stars on a rooftop.
64. Write a letter to everyone who has touched my life letting them know what they mean to me.
65. Take a ride in a hot air balloon.
66. Go canoeing.
67. Take a cruise.
68. Audition for a music video as a backup dancer.
69. Be an audience member for “Ellen.”
70. Learn to ballroom dance.
71. Audition for a game show.
72. Sit on a jury.
73. Teach English in a foreign country.
74. Attend the Olympics.
75. Sleep outside for a week.
76. Spend an entire day in bed.
77. Kiss someone in the rain.
78. Meet my grandchildren.
79. Get over my fear of creepy crawlies.
80. Buy a meal for a stranger.
81. Read all of Jane Austen’s novels.

Novels

• Sense and Sensibility (1811)
• Pride and Prejudice (1813)
• Mansfield Park (1814)
• Emma (1815)
• Northanger Abbey (1817)
• Persuasion (1817)

Unfinished fiction

• Lady Susan (1794, 1805)
• The Watsons (1804)
• Sanditon (1817)

82. Turn off my cell phone and computer for an entire week (i.e. 7 days!)
83. Spend an entire paycheck on shopping for myself and not feel guilty.
84. Carve my name on a tree.
85. Skinny dip.
86. Go horseback riding on the beach.
87. Spend a day building a giant sandcastle.
88. Watch the sun set, stay up all night, and watch it rise again.
89. Become CPR/First Aid certified.
90. Smile at 100 strangers and count how many smiles I get back. For each smile, donate $1 to a local charity.
91. Finish college – both undergrad and graduate school.
92. Rent a limo for a day for a girls’ day/night (when there is no special occasion other than spending time with the girls).
93. Take a vow of silence for 24 hours and observe those around me.
94. Write and send a message in a bottle.
95. Make my own Christmas cards and send them to everyone.
96. Build a tree house with my kids. Have tea parties and sleepovers there.
97. Become a foster parent.
98. Re-pierce my nose (again).
99. Host an exchange student.
100. Climb a tree.
101. Be a contestant on a game show.