Life To-Do List

I made this list my sophomore year of a college during a particularly boring linguistics class, but only recently found it in an old notebook. I'm surprised at how many things I've actually completed!!

  1. Go to Scotland
  2. Make a million dollars
  3. Bake a twelve-layer cake
  4. Make a mile-long paper chain
  5. Buy one thousand pairs of socks
  6. Learn to knit/crochet
  7. Go on the largest/tallest/longest/fastest rollercoaster
  8. Spend a whole day being brave instead of scared
  9. Learn to drive a stick-shift  (I am terrible)
  10. Invent my own ice-cream flavor
  11. Visit all the temples in the world
  12. Learn to dance (country dancing and a little ballroom)
  13. Read "A Christmas Carol"
  14. Crack an egg with one hand
  15. Fly in a hot-air balloon
  16. Ride a horse (spring break 2011)
  17. Find buried treasure
  18. Eat a whole watermelon by myself (a BIG one)
  19. Go to conference at the Conference Center
  20. See a play on Broadway
  21. Spend a day tasting different cheeses
  22. Go cliff jumping
  23. Catch a fish
  24. Find a chair that's worth thousands of dollars on the Antiques Roadshow
  25. Win a contest (I won a hair product giveaway)
  26. Pay for the meal of somebody I've never met before
  27. Meet a famous movie star
  28. Write a novel
  29. Spin on ice-skates
  30. Build a snowman that's taller than I am
  31. See my birth family again
  32. Play a game of chess without quitting
  33. Write a song
  34. Sing in the shower (LOUDLY) every day for a whole week
  35. Learn to play poker (I kinda have, but not really, so I won't count it)
  36. Find a diamond (not in a store)
  37. Solve a mystery (involves roommate and Voldemort)
  38. Eat snails (on the cruise)
  39. Ride in a gondola in Venice
  40. Meet a real elf
  41. See a bear (not at the zoo)
  42. Go on a sleigh ride or carriage ride, or both
  43. Ride the Zamboni
  44. Go ice-skating in Central Park
  45. Give a valentine to a stranger
  46. Buy something from a store on 5th Avenue
  47. Go to a concert (Kelly Clarkson)
  48. Be on a game show
  49. Sneak my way onto "What Not to Wear"
  50. Go on a cable car ride
  51. See the seven wonders of the world
  52. Dance with someone special in the rain
  53. Have my first kiss
  54. Go on a cruise (Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico)
  55. Paint a portrait (and actually finish it)
  56. Do the splits
  57. Be an insignificant extra on a TV show or movie (Church Ball with Mikey, Becca, and Shawna)
  58. Have a pen-pal
  59. Meet the prophet
  60. Own a convertible
  61. Ride in a helicopter
  62. Go skydiving
  63. Design and sew a beautiful gown
  64. Give an inspiring speech or talk
  65. Learn to juggle
  66. Make a quilt
  67. Memorize a whole Dr. Seuss book
  68. Shop at the floating market in Bangkok
  69. Graduate from college (B.S. in Literary Studies, baby!)
  70. Donate my hair (Fifteen inches)
  71. Buy a big box of crayons and make a mural
  72. Find out exactly how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop
  73. Learn to tap dance
  74. Ride the biggest Ferris Wheel
  75. Go white-water rafting
  76. Be in the audience for So You Think You Can Dance
  77. Have a whole conversation on the phone with a stranger (A mother wanting me to pay her son for hitting his red truck. When I don't have a car. And my name isn't Chelsea.)
  78. Do a flip on a trampoline
  79. Create the best brownie recipe
  80. Help someone in trouble (no questions asked) (bought gas for a man and his sick wife at the gas station)
  81. Dance with a stranger in a park
  82. Orchestrate a huge prank
  83. Sleep in a teepee
  84. Drive a tractor
  85. Throw a lasso
  86. Buy a pair of moon boots
  87. Ride an elephant
  88. Swim in the Dead Sea
  89. Walk on the moon
  90. Chop down a tree
  91. Charm a snake
  92. Sing on a corner for money
  93. Build a castle out of bagels and cream cheese
  94. Make a swing out of toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and glue
  95. Find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
  96. Find a four-leaf clover
  97. Make faces at a stranger on a bus
  98. Get married
  99. Be a mother
  100. Give Mr. Chester all the letters I've written him (hahaha)