100 Things To Do

Last Updated 9/2015
  1. Take daughter to Europe
  2. Live/work in Alaska - completed 5/2/14 and 5/2015
  3. Go to Aruba
  4. Learn a foreign language - French, Russian, Italian or Spanish - working on Italian and Spanish 2014, still learning 2015
  5. Visit/work in Minnesota - completed visited 5/2013
  6. Visit/work in Maine
  7. Visit/work in Seattle - completed visited 1/2015
  8. Move to Portland, Oregon
  9. Visit Put in Bay - completed 7/2010
  10. Work overseas/Europe
  11. Go snow skiing - tried it 1/2015
  12. Pierce ears - 2 spots done - Completed 2012
  13. Write a magazine article
  14. Get my masters
  15. See polar bears in the wild preferably in Alaska - completed 11/2/14
  16. Go on a cruise
  17. Visit Hersey, PA
  18. Drink wine in France
  19. Learn to speed skate
  20. Write daily for an hour
  21. Read 6 non-fiction books per year for life - completed 2013, 2014, 2015
  22. Buy/wear thumb ring
  23. Buy/wear matching bra/panties - completed 3/2013
  24. Read 4 classics a year for 5 years - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
  25. Drink a $100 bottle of wine
  26. Visit Napa Valley - completed 2/2013
  27. Kiss an Italian man in Italy
  28. Go skinny dipping publicly
  29. Camp in the mountains
  30. Live by myself - completed Oct-Dec 2014
  31. Attend church regularly
  32. Pare stuff down to apartment only - almost done, only have a small closet sized storage area in apartment basement to clear out. I'm almost tempted to say this thing is complete as most of the stuff is my daughter's for when she moves to her own place. 12/2011, Completed 2013
  33. Volunteer passionately
  34. Skydive
  35. Join Mile High Club
  36. Go on a train journey - I think Amtrak from Chicago to home counts 10/2011
  37. Never dress my age
  38. Ride on a yacht
  39. Learn to waltz
  40. Learn to salsa
  41. Sit on a jury
  42. Go on a trip spur of the moment
  43. Take pole dancing lessons
  44. Dance barefoot in the pouring rain
  45. Be content with myself (which I am mostly) - 2014 I'm there
  46. Stay in a bed n breakfast - completed March 2011, here, here, and here
  47. Learn to knit - tried this and I really don't care for knitting.  I hate how the yarn feels in my fingers 10/2011
  48. Practice random acts of kindness
  49. Fly first class
  50. Be present
  51. Read the Bible
  52. Cook my way through one of my cookbooks and blog about it
  53. Eat an expensive dessert at a fancy restaurant/bakery
  54. Work out regularly
  55. Work in a bookstore
  56. Write a novel
  57. Take a trip around the world
  58. Take yearly vacations - completed 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
  59. Learn to understand poetry
  60. Cook something new every week - have been doing this pretty consistently since 2011
  61. Read all the books on my bookshelf - completed 10/14
  62. Take baking/cooking classes
  63. Take interesting college classes (not for a degree)
  64. Take a drawing or painting class
  65. Scrapbook all my pictures - 11/2011 almost done! Completed 2/2012
  66. Make a quilt
  67. Travel cross country with friends
  68. Work at a resort - completed 5/4/14
  69. Visit Key West
  70. Take a creative writing or travel writing class
  71. Get a tattoo
  72. Make homemade pasta and sauce
  73. Make infused vodka
  74. Re-watch Weeds
  75. Eat at one of the world's best restaurants
  76. Test drive or rent my dream car (1960s or 2010s Mustang or Camaro)
  77. See Stevie Nicks or Fleetwood Mac in concert
  78. Cruise Panama Canal
  79. Have a savings account that I don't really need
  80. Go whale watching - completed 8/26/15 in Seward, Alaska
  81. Visit Alnwick Castle featured in Harry Potter and Downton Abbey
  82. Ride in a hot air balloon
  83. Go parasailing
  84. Tour New England during fall colors
  85. Take Amtrak from Seattle to Chicago
  86. Read books about Presidents and other historical figures
    1. Abraham Lincoln
    2. Ulysses S. Grant
    3. George Washington
    4. Thomas Jefferson
    5. John Quincy Adams
    6. John F. Kennedy
    7. Andrew Jackson
    8. Some lesser known Presidents
      1. William Henry Harrison - 9/2015
      2. James Monroe
      3. James Polk
      4. Franklin Pierce
      5. James Buchanan
      6. Andrew Johnson
      7. Rutherford Hayes
      8. William McKinley
    9. Stalin
    10. Romanovs
    11. Hitler
  87. Go mushing (dog sledding)
  88. Drink tea in London
  89. Go hang gliding or paragliding
  90. Attend BEA (maybe Chicago 2016)
  91. Go to an art museum in every city I visit (preferably with my pencils and paper)
  92. Have a colored water/paint balloon fight
  93. Make a classics club list to read and finish it
  94. Read all the books on Goodread's 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime
  95. Visit Scotland and go to any of the places featured in Outlander
  96. Spend a winter in Alaska
  97. Teach overseas
  98. Make vodka-infused gummy bears
  99. Cook all the recipes in my recipes-ripped-out-of-magazines binder - 2011-2015 working on it
  100. Complete my never-ending travel bucket list
    1. Santorini, Greece
    2. Dubrovnik, Croatia
    3. Easter Island
    4. Mt. Rushmore
    5. Angkor Wat, Cambodia
    6. La Paz, Bolivia
    7. Aisco, Peru
    8. Buenos Aires, Argentina
    9. Vancouver, Canada
    10. Boston
    11. Cartagena, Columbia
    12. Salvador, Brazil
    13. Valparaiso, Chile
    14. Torres del Paine, Patagonia
    15. Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia
    16. Vietnam
    17. Ibiza
    18. Portugal
    19. Berat, Croatia
    20. Romania
    21. El Tunco, El Salvador
    22. San Pedro, Guatemala
    23. Portland, Maine
    24. Ancient Greek ruins
    25. Ring Road in Iceland
    26. Antarctica
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