stolen from new kid on the hallway

Things I’ve done are in bold.

Things I am indifferent towards or actively would like to avoid are crossed out.

Things in normal type face are things I’d like to do (or at least, that I’d rather do than not).

Comments in parentheses are my additions.

Start my own blog

Sleep under the stars

Play in a band

Own a cell phone

Visit Hawaii

Watch a meteor shower

Give more than I can afford to charity

Visit Disneyland / Disneyworld

Climb a mountain

Sing a solo

Bungee jump

Participate in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony

Teach myself an art from scratch

Adopt a child

Purchase real estate

Had food poisoning

Visit Parliament / Capital Hill

Grow my own vegetables

See the Mona Lisa in France

Sleep on an overnight train

Have a pillow fight

Hitchhike (car blew a tire and the jack was missing in a rural area, many miles from home)

Take a sick day when you’re not ill

Build a snow fort

Hold a lamb

Go skinny dipping

Run a Marathon

Been on television

Ride in a gondola in Venice

See a total eclipse

Watch a sunrise or sunset

Hit a home run

Go on a cruise

See Niagara Falls in person

Visit the birthplace of my ancestors (grew up there)

See an Amish community

Teach myself a new language

Have enough money to be truly satisfied

See the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person

Go rock climbing

See Michelangelo’s David

Sing karaoke

See Old Faithful erupt

Buy a stranger a meal at a restaurant

Visit Africa

Walk on a beach by moonlight

Be transported in an ambulance

Have my portrait painted

Be arrested

Go deep sea fishing

See the Sistine Chapel in person

Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris

Kiss in the rain

Play in the mud

Go to a drive-in theatre

Be in a movie

Visit the Great Wall of China

Start a business

Take a martial arts class

Visit Russia

Serve at a soup kitchen

Go whale watching

Get flowers for no reason

Donate blood, platelets or plasma

Visit a Nazi Concentration Camp

Bounce a check

Fly in a helicopter

Save a favorite childhood toy

Visit Quebec City

Eat Caviar

Piece a quilt

Stand in Times Square

Tour the Everglades

Been fired from a job

See the Changing of the Guards in London

Been on a speeding motorcycle

See the Grand Canyon in person

Published a book

Visit the Vatican

Buy a brand new car

Walk in Jerusalem

Have my picture in the newspaper

Read the entire Bible

Visit the White House

Kill and prepared an animal for eating

Had chickenpox

Save someone’s life

Sit on a jury

Meet someone famous

Join a book club

Lose a loved one

Have a baby can’t do that

See the Alamo in person

Swim in the Great Salt Lake

Been involved in a law suit

Been stung by a bee

Ride an elephant

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