Oh, the things I’ll see

I thought at first I’d make the list have exactly 100 things, but then, why should I limit myself to only 100 things? This list will (hopefully) grow and evolve as I do. Who knows what I’ll add as time goes on. The only thing I’ll never do is say I’ll never do something… Cuz I’ll probably end up doing it… and I hate being wrong.

1. speak french
2. smile at a complete stranger - trying to go through the turn style the wrong way, walked right into it, shared a laughing smile with a fellow who I guess had observed my accident
3. legally buy an alcoholic drink - my daddy took me out for a drink on the night of my 21st, but its been a few months since then, and I can definitely say, I’ve bought my share of alcoholic drinks. 
4. fly in a hot-air balloon
5. play with a penguin
6. make really, really good fudge, from scratch
7. be completely satisfied with what I see in the mirror
8. have a little girl who looks like her daddy
9. have more money coming in than going out
10. be a bride’s maid, in a pretty dress
11. be a bride, in a gorgeous dress
12. visit each and every state, driving through counts
13. live somewhere in the US other than NY for a year
14. complete my family tree
15. see Greece
16. see India
17. be kissed in the pouring rain
18. learn to Ice skate backwards as well as I can skate forwards
19. volunteer for AIDS walk
20. go to a gun range
21. accept my mother for who she is, not what she isn’t
22. swim a mile
23. learn about Islam
24. pay the toll for myself and the person behind me
25. learn to drive (important for #24)
26. have my very own (not shared) king sized bed
27. buy a homeless person a meal and learn his/her story
28. study abroad in Paris for a semester (year?)
29. learn to surf
30. live somewhere where I can surf
31. learn to ballroom dance. waltz
32. spend a day on the ocean in a small sailboat
33. learn to not take it personally when people get in my way
34. learn German
35. have my fortune told
36. figure out what to do with my cork collection
37. learn Arabic
38. read Anna Karenina
39. understand whats under the hood of a car
40. seriously take up tennis
41. quit smoking
42. perfect my signature
43. learn Latin
44. donate blood
45. visit all 7 continents: europeasia northamerica southamerica antarctica australia africa
46. change a tire
47. see the aurora borealis
48. start yoga
49. FALL DOWN DAMNIT! (skating) -added 4.12.08
50. Learn something in Hungarian
51. wing suit base jump (flying) – added 3.18.09