100th Post – 100 Things To Do
Oct 6th, 2008 by Anna
Let me begin by saying that this is not a Bucket List. I suppose it might be a Bucket List. I haven’t seen that movie yet. I’m far too young to think about kicking the bucket. This is just a list of some big things and little things I’d like to do in my life. It is in honor of post #100 of The Full Catastrophe. I’ll try to keep this site updated in case I get to begin checking things off my top 100. Wish me luck!
1. Go to the desert to see the winter wildflowers
2. Canoe around Catalina
3. Have a haircut that doesn’t need to blow dried and still looks good
4. Teach my dog not to bark at everything
5. Feed a giraffe
6. Scan all of my old pictures
7. Run a 7 minute mile
8. Join the Y Adventure Guides
9. Join a Board of Directors
10. Go on a multi-day river rafting trip
11. Earn a graduate degree
12. Take my kids to Washington DC
13. Go to South Africa
14. Go to South America
15. Learn to cut my kids’ and husband’s hair
16. Organize a girls trip with my mom & sisters in the next 6 months
17. Keep girls trips going so that my daughter and niece can legally join in the fun one day
18. Speak more Spanish
19. Serve on the pit stop crew of the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk
20. Figure out why people wear tshirts that say “College”
21. Own an electric car
22. Become a more comfortable snorkeler
23. Finish the green scarf I’ve been knitting for 10+ years
24. Do a backyard camp-out with Oscar this fall
25. Do a night of camping at the Wild Animal Park with Oscar and Laurel
26. Eat more fish
27. Go to all of the Balboa Park museums
28. Take the kids to the drive-in
29. Go to Murphys at least three times per year
30. Live in a house with a wrap-around porch
31. Spend a lazy summer at a lake house
32. Complete a ropes course
33. Bake excellent bread
34. Have a complete wardrobe
35. Be an educated bird watcher
36. Join the Talmadge/Kensington trash volunteers
37. Buy only original art
38. Fix our house’s 80 year old mailbox cover
39. Go to more tidepools
40. Fly 1st class
41. See the Northern Lights
42. Watch Born Into Brothels
43. Go to obedience training and train an obedient dog
44. Own a cat
45. Teach cat to use the toilet
46. Renew CPR
47. Learn how to use a defibrillator
48. Go to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
49. Go on a horseback riding trip with Uncle Terry and Aunt Peggy
50. Whisk Brian away for a surprise vacation
51. Go to the Hayden Planetarium
52. Go to the Rose Bowl Parade
53. Learn to play guitar
54. Try golfing
55. Play beach tennis
56. Learn to play chess
57. Learn to play bridge
58. Hike the Napali Coast
59. Hike Mare a Mare Centre in Corsica
60. Go to Bran Castle in Romania
61. Drink a prestige cuvee champagne
62. Grow enough tomatoes and strawberries to share with friends
63. Try a new restaurant once a month
64. Create 10 good playlists for my ipod
65. Finish our state quarter collection
66. Fly on a glider
67. Improve my posture
68. Build a haunted house with my kids
69. Pull off a complicated practical joke
70. Repair that family heirloom clock and put it on the mantle
71. Read Moby Dick
72. Start composting again
73. Call my sisters more often
74. Buy a rolling pin
75. Buy a cast iron skillet
76. Buy a pancake griddle
77. Clean my back teeth better
78. Celebrate Christmas without gifts
79. Hike the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
80. Teach my kids how to play cat’s cradle and Chinese jump rope
81. Try acupuncture
82. Wear red lipstick
83. Buy a beer for Oscar’s soccer coaches
84. Plant a camellia in my garden
85. Write a letter once a month
86. See Barack Obama speak
87. Make a Christmas wreath
88. Enter something in the San Diego County Fair
89. See the fall colors in New England
90. Be a grandma
91. Keep my desk cleaner
92. Eat more vegetables
93. Go to Black’s Beach
94. Try offal
95. Explore Los Angeles
96. Get a job that pays enough for me to follow through on all of these ideas
97. Be a big tipper
98. Coin a phrase
99. Witness a bad driver getting pulled over
100. Recognize my good fortune everyday
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You’re so cool! Congratulations on 100 posts! Good luck with toilet training a cat!! Aside from that, I love your ideas. XOXO
This is awesome – thanks for sharing!!
You’ve inspired me! I may start my own list, although it could take awhile.
Love this, I need to start my own list (although a lot of it would involve traveling to far way places)
PS I think I can help you out with a few of these things!
I love this idea, I may have to post one myself! Some of yours I have done already, but many I have not and are a great source of ideas!
20. Figure out why people wear tshirts that say “College”
Belushi wore one in animal house and it was funny cause it was mocking all those folks who where specific shirts. Anti-branding.
hopefully that cuts your list down
#79 YES!!! #94????
Since you’ve been providing updates and I have no idea what your husband shares with you, I wanted to let you know I’ve done #52. There’s two ways to do that one, but being a 2nd generation of men in my family born in Pasadena, I have to insist you call it “Rose Parade”. Calling it the “Rose Bowl Parade” is akin to referring to San Francisco as “Frisco”. You don’t have to go all out and call it “The Tournament of Roses Parade”, but the game is incidental and has a completely separate history (yes, I’m being persnickety 8)).
If you are serious about #52 (or an alternative for viewing the floats that does not involve serious cash or a sleeping bag like the other options do) let me know.