102 things

In no particular order except numerical.
  1. Frame (and hang) my daughter's artwork.
  2. Take a family portrait each year. (Have done it 3 years in a row so I'm calling it done.)
  3. Catalog all of my family's recipes.
  4. Be skinny.  
  5. And healthy.
  6. Sleep in a castle, like a princess.
  7. Go to Italy, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, England, Scotland, Ireland and France.
  8. Spend Christmas in a log cabin in the mountains.
  9. Don't get eaten by a bear.
  10. Finish my family tree.
  11. Visit all 50 states.
  12. Learn how to cook.
  13. Don't burn down the kitchen.
  14. See the Northern Lights.
  15. Finish crocheting the blanket for my husband that I started in 2006.
  16. Have a library in my house. Just for me. Like the one Helen Mirren has in Inkheart. Not to loan out my books. I don't like other people touching my books.
  17. Organize my cupboards.
  18. Decorate the inside and outside of our house.
  19. Buy a new house, with a big backyard, with a great view.
  20. Landscape our backyard so that the neighbors can't see us.
  21. Back up all the information and files on my computer. (1 terabyte drive + Dropbox, done!)
  22. Prepare for the apocalypse.  Zombie or otherwise.
  23. Can peaches.
  24. Have a garden.
  25. Write a book.  A good one.
  26. Learn how to take amazing pictures. With a real camera. Not my iPhone.
  27. Scan all of my paperwork so I can get rid of it.
  28. Learn how to use Photoshop. 
  29. Pay off all of our credit card debt.
  30. Be a successful writer/blogger.
  31. Be a stay at home mom.
  32. Have another baby. (Baby girl, September 2012!)
  33. Have just one more baby.
  34. Take my oldest daughter shopping for her prom dress. In Paris.
  35. Love myself.
  36. Figure out LOST.
  37. Teach my dogs not to shit or piss in my house. (Gated in their own little area...it counts.)
  38. Have the guts to play one of these jokes on someone, for reals.
  39. Go on a romantic honeymoon.
  40. Build a big house on our family property in the hills Pennsylvania.
  41. Own an antique/vintage shoppe. With two p's and an e.
  42. Meet Kathy Griffin.
  43. Go to NYC for New Year's Eve.
  44. See a play on Broadway.
  45. Borrow a cup of sugar from a neighbor.
  46. Create a family photo wall going up my staircase. (Needs to be updated but still done.)
  47. Finish putting together my wedding album.
  48. Get a boob job.  Just to make them match. Not to make them bigger.
  49. Get involved in a charity.
  50. Stick to a schedule.
  51. Believe in myself.
  52. Meet Jenny, The Bloggess without getting arrested.
  53. Be the "Comment of the Day" on Jenny, The Bloggess' blog.
  54. Start commenting on Jenny, The Bloggess' blog.
  55. Start a junior detective agency with my best friend.
  56. Have a cat named Ricky Bobby.
  57. Never clean another toilet again. 
  58. Decorate a cake. With more than just sprinkles.
  59. Grow my own fruit. 
  60. Go to the Grand Canyon.
  61. Go to Niagara Falls.
  62. Build a panic room. 
  63. Take a hike and have a picnic with my family.
  64. Don't get eaten by a bear.
  65. Go on a wine-tasting tour, a la Sideways.
  66. Don't drink the fucking merlot.
  67. Learn how to play tennis.  Complete with tennis skirt.
  68. Go ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza.
  69. Have a horse ranch. 
  70. Learn how to ride a horse.
  71. Run in a marathon. Or walk.
  72. Slow dance with my husband in our living room.
  73. Take a RV trip across the country.
  74. Play in a softball league.
  75. Teach my daughter how to make a boondoggle bracelet.
  76. Open up a custom jewelry shop with my daughter.
  77. Live in a small town.
  78. Make pottery. Like, on the wheel.
  79. Take a balloon ride. (Bring Xanax)
  80. Renew my wedding vows. (Little White Wedding Chapel in Vegas, December 2012!)
  81. Live in a seaside cottage.
  82. Become a YouTube sensation.
  83. Go to Opening Day at the Kentucky Derby.  Wear a big hat.
  84. Make new friends. (Lauren Parker-Gill!)
  85. Find my soulmate. (The Husband, 2005).
  86. Ride a mechanical bull.
  87. Go to Australia.
  88. See the largest ball of twine.
  89. Kiss my husband at the top of the Empire State Building.
  90. Join a community theatre group.
  91. Go on a couples retreat.
  92. Host a family BBQ at a beach house.
  93. Get a piece of jewelry from Tiffany's. (Locket from The Husband, December 2013)
  94. Learn how to do yoga.  And do it everyday.
  95. Go to Platform 9 and 3/4.
  96. Have a game room in my house. Complete with darts. And a pool table. And a fancy card table. And a bar.
  97. Have a secret room that opens when you pull my copy of Ben Franklin's Fart Proudly.
  98. Dye my hair blonde.
  99. Buy a pair of designer shoes.
  100. Spend the weekend in bed with my husband watching old movies, like Casablanca.
  101. Learn how to shoot a gun. (Attention robbers and murders: I already own a gun. So don't try it).
  102. Take a spontaneous road trip. 
  103. Come up with 100 things to do, before, well, you know.
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