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• 100 Things

  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