Sunday, October 3, 2010

100 Things to do before you die

My current boom is making a grand list of "things to do before you die"
I found this list on the internet.
I shall place and "XXX" on the things I have done.
Here goes the uber long list.

100 Things to do before you die.

  1. Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open. XXX       
  2. Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.XXX
  3. Swim with a dolphin.
  4. Skydive.
  5. Have your portrait painted. XXX
  6. Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it. XXX
  7. Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
  8. Watch the launch of the space shuttle.(I WISHHHHHHH!! I went to NASA Space Camp though!)
  9. Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty. XXX, everyday.
  10. Be an extra in a film.
  11. Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details. XXX
  12. Make love on a forest floor.
  13. Make love on a train.
  14. Learn to rollerblade. XXX
  15. Own a room with a view.
  16. Brew your own beer.
  17. Learn how to take a compliment. XXX, I'm pro at this. "Rika, you are awesome!" "I know :)"
  18. Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
  19. Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month. (Um..I would if it was possible!)
  20. Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her. XXX
  21. Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
  22. Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
  23. Send a message in a bottle. (Doing this as soon as I get home! Heads up, Lake Washington!)
  24. Ride a camel into the desert.
  25. Get to know your neighbors. XXX, I was watering my plants and..I did not know that my neighbor was out on his desk and accidentally poured water on his head. Heheh, he said "Don't worry. I'm glad you are watering you plants."
  26. Plant a tree.
  27. Learn not to say yes when you really mean no. XXX. I need to learn how to say NO.
  28. Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.XXX, Apolo Anton OHNOOO
  29. Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.XXX, I was in it.
  30. Learn to ballroom dance properly.
  31. Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
  32. Be the boss.
  33. Fall deeply in love -- helplessly and unconditionally. XXX, achieved with Apolo.
  34. Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
  35. Sit on a jury.
  36. Write the novel you know you have inside you.
  37. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
  38. Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).XXX, Done it WAY too many times. Who the hell goes to work at the tennis center with a tiny dress and 5 inch hooker heels? I do.
  39. Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
  40. Be someone's mentor. XXX, my dog.
  41. Shower in a waterfall.
  42. Ask for a raise.
  43. Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill. XXX, Ukulele!
  44. Teach someone illiterate to read.
  45. Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
  46. Spend a night in a haunted house -- by yourself.
  47. Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
  48. See a lunar eclipse. XXX
  49. Spend New Year's in an exotic location.XXX, I consider Saipan Exotic.
  50. Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
  51. Experience weightlessness.XXX, at NASA Space Camp baby!
  52. Sing a great song in front of an audience. XXX, was on a Worship Team.
  53. Ask someone you've only just met to go on a date.XXX, ROFL My junior year prom date. I asked a total random stranger that worked at a grocery store cause he was so darn cute. oooh, memories.
  54. Drive across America from coast to coast.
  55. Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. XXX, everyday. I am one klutz.
  56. Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
  57. Write your will.
  58. Sleep under the stars.XXX, just this summer. Romantic.
  59. Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
  60. Learn how to complain effectively -- and do it! XXX, I bitch way too much.
  61. Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
  62. Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
  63. Forgive your parents.
  64. Learn to juggle with three balls.
  65. Drive the Autobahn.
  66. Find a job you love.
  67. Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.XXX, again, unlocked in Saipan.
  68. Overcome your fear of failure.
  69. Raft through the Grand Canyon.
  70. Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
  71. Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
  72. Grow a garden. XXX, this summer I grew some tomatoes, rosemary, scallions, and basils!
  73. Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape. (It will take longer for me....)
  74. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring. XXX, my dad's favorite thing to do.
  75. Accept yourself for who you are. (NO!)
  76. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.XXX, my high school days. I was a public speakin whore.
  77. Scuba dive off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
  78. Go up in a hot-air balloon.
  79. Attend one really huge rock concert.
  80. Kiss someone you've just met on a blind date.
  81. Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah's Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.XXX, pro stats.
  82. Give to a charity -- anonymously.(Hell no, my name will be on that in all CAPS - RIKA MATSUMOTO)
  83. Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
  84. Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
  85. Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
  86. Fart in a crowded space.
  87. Make love on the kitchen floor.
  88. Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch. XXX, Saipan once again! Google Marianas Trench.
  89. Create your own web site.
  90. Visit the Holy Land. XXX, my turf - Saipan.
  91. Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
  92. Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty. (I went there. Does that count?)
  93. Create your Family Tree.
  94. Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
  95. Make a hole-in-one.
  96. Ski a double-black diamond run.
  97. Learn to bartend.
  98. Run a marathon.
  99. Look into your child's eyes, see yourself, and smile.
  100. Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.

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