Inspired by my friend Angela's list I've spent 4 months creating a list of 101 things to do before I turn 30. It was tough because most of the things I want to do, I've done, including (much to my mother's dismay): wrestling a bear, getting a tattoo, and dancing in a cage (whoops, I don't think she knew about that one... she does now. ) And some I did while I was still creating the list. But it was there before I did it, so it still counts.
If you see a wish that you can help me accomplish, let me know, I might take you up on it.
101 things to do before I turn 30 on July 28, 2007
1. Try 3 new vegetables
2. Try 3 new fruits (muskadones… )
3. Travel to another country (Canada doesn't count since it's
really just America-lite)
4. Learn to swim
5. Go 5 days without eating sugar (like deserts, not fruit)
6. Memorize 20 new bible verses complete with number and verse
7. Make a cheesecake from scratch
8 Read Paradise Lost
9. See Casey Shuck again
10. Learn to run/jog 3 miles
11. Visit Chimney Rock in NC
12. Learn how to grill steaks and burgers
13 Visit New Orleans, go to Café Dumonde
14. Go to the beach during the off-season and run in the surf barefoot
15. Take a walk by moonlight
16. Have a picnic at Duke Gardens
17. Go to Africa
18 Tell my dad I'm going to Africa
19. Make bread from scratch
20 Pray in-group 5 consecutive times without needless crying
21 Paint my baseboards
22. Clean my bathroom once a week for a month
23. Make my bed every morning for 1 month
24. Learn the words of "come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runner
25 Study the psalms
26 Get the hard water stains out of my toilet. (It might take that long)
27 Sleep on a waterbed (do they still make them?)
28. Speak in front of a group without getting all nervous
29 Learn to speak 20 phrases in another non/Spanish language
30.Volunteer as a Salvation Army Bell ringer at Christmas time
31. Read C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce
32. Meet Maya Angelou
33. Go to the Oprah Show
34. Meet Joyce Meyer
35. Visit WWII memorial in D.C
36. Watch an I-max movie
37. Live overseas
38. Complete my BLOG page including pictures, and advertisements
39. Memorize 20 names of God including their Hebrew/Greek meaning
40.Finish writing my children's book
41. Publish my children's book
42. Go camping
43. Take a road trip with an unexpected friend (i.e., not Heidi)
44. Kiss a cute boy!
45. Kiss a cute boy with a British accent!
46. Own a set of silk or satin pajamas
47. Learn to burn cd's
48. Visit Central Park in New York
49 Try a Bloody Mary
50. Meet Sofia Delaney Britton in Person
51. Meet Abigail McPherson Green in person (after her birth of course!)
52. Eat the RDA 25 grams of fiber a day for 1 week. (note to self, ***buy toilet paper)
53. Rent and watch a full season of Seinfeld
54. Preach a sermon to 30+ people
55. Get a pedicure
56. Get a manicure
57. Find and watch the episode of friends when "They were on a break!"
58. Watch Chariots of Fire
60. Get my belly button pierced
61 Get a tummy flat enough to show my belly button ring
62. Go 1 month without shaving my legs
63. Go into public (probably Carrboro) with my hairy legs
64. Be nominated for an award
65. Get an ipod
66. Get a 1-hour professional message
67. Learn to sing
68. Get great thighs (by any means necessary)
69. Learn a style of dancing (no grindy-bump, - real dancing)
70. Add at least 3 new artists to my repertoire of enjoyable music
71. Watch CNN to learn about current events for 1 month
72. Watch a James Dean movie
73. Watch The Graduate
74 Mail a cool picture to Lilly Craighead
75. Share my blog with 10 people
76. Read all of Maya Angelou's autobiography's
78. Grow my own tomatoes
79. Put carpet into my bedrooms
80. Clean out my shed and minor closet
81. Sell wedding dress on eBay or other way
82. Ride in a convertible
83. Pet a snake
84 Watch an outdoor movie
85 Go to a firing range and shoot a gun
86. Go to a movie by myself
87. Read Pascal's Penses (never mind. I threw it out.)
88. Read the Harry Potter series
89. Ride in the sidecar of a motorcycle
90. Remodel my kitchen with new stove, counters, and backsplash
91 Go on a mission trip.
92. Take a class (something that I choose, not for a degree)
93. Step out in faith! Not be afraid to give a word to a stranger!
94. Win a contest with a great prize!
95. Pay off my car and student loans.
96 Break my sugar binging.
97. Go to post-Katrina New Orleans (I've already done #13)
98. Work at a video store
99. Learn to cut up a chicken properly
100. Watch the snow fall from the window of my house.
101. Get married
Optional Alternate: meet a celebrity
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4. If you need a teacher, I'm ready, willing, and much better with grown-ups than with kids (so I've been told)
7. If you find a good recipe let me know. I haven't done that one yet.
12. Next time we grill we'll have you over. JJ's the master ... and it's on my list, too!
19. See comment on number 4.
45. Satin from Victoria's Secret, wait till they go on sale. Mine were only 30 bucks!
70. If you haven't already, try Sara Groves. We have all 4 and are waiting for her newest album. Curtis has done a bunch of her songs as features in church.
85. Adam Moyer is supposed to take me sometime. You should come, too.
88. I own them. All 6. If you'd like to borrow them, let me know.
99. I saw (and recorded) a great episode on a food network show that teaches you how to do that. Lemme know if you want a DVD copy and I'll have JJ make one.
*sigh* I've been bad about my list. I suppose I better get cracking.
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