50 Things
Been a while since I dusted this thing off, neh? Well, nothing much to see. Found a List of 50 that kinda appealed to me, so I will use this journal as it was intended, and make a list of 50 things I need to do before I die. Some of which I have already done, and they will be marked . . . somehow.
1. Own my own home (done!)
2. Watch the sun rise and set consecutively
3. Dive the Red Sea
4. See the Egyptian pyramids
5. See the Taj Mahal
6. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
7. See an opera in the Sydney Opera House
8. Hear real live Tibetan monks chanting
9. See the Great Wall
10. Visit Japan (done!)
11. Do something nice for someone who will never, ever know (done!)
12. Finish and publish my novel
13. Make my family proud
14. Be happy (done!)
15. See the Northern Lights
16. Make an apple pie with the apples from my apple trees (done!)
17. (This is ridiculously hard, to come up with 50 things I have to do in my lifetime) Skydive
18. Freefall in a wind tunnel
19. Hang-glide
20. Buy a homeless person a meal instead of giving them money
21. Drive a tank
22. Own a rifle
23. Finish the portrait of my parents and give it to them
24. Rebuild my fireplace (done!)
25. Donate money to a zoo/shelter every year
26. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
27. Get my mother helicopter flying lessons
28. Learn to speak Serbian fluently (as opposed to haltingly)
29. Learn to speak Japanese (done!)
30. Learn to speak Spanish
31. Save a life
32. Tour a European castle
33. See a real catacomb
34. Run a military obstacle course
35. Run five miles consecutively
36. Snowboard (done!)
37. Ski
38. Rollerblade
39. Stand on the very top of a mountain (done!)
40. Spend a week seeing Europe
41. Play the perfect recital (done! If an audition counts. =)
42. Figure out this love thing everyone keeps talking about
43. Spend a day in a clean house curled up with the cat just being lazy (done!)
44. Let my friends know I love them (done!)
45. See all the major museums in Washington, D.C.
46. Visit a real live jungle
47. Visit an observatory at night and see all the planets live (or go to the middle of nowhere and see all the stars a human can see)
48. Watch a live solar eclipse with those cool glasses that prevent you from going blind
49. Watch a live meteor shower (done!)
50. Spend two days at an amusement park for the sole purpose of having fun (done!)
Guess I can't die in the near future, huh. Except some of those things are probably going to kill me. =)
So pick it up! I don't know why 50, but it's interesting to think about what you really want to do. Apparently I am an adventure junkie - analyzing these results . . .
15 things I need to 'see'
12 active things I need to 'do'
4 things I need to 'own' or 'have'
18 places I need to 'go'
10 things I need to do to 'feed my soul'
Generally speaking, I am apparently all about going, seeing, and doing, rather than having. And I am more about going, seeing, and doing than I am making myself happier or more well-rounded. I wonder if that means I'm all about running away or distracting myself . . . =) Or maybe it just means this world is full of things and places to go, see, and do, and I need to get up off my ass and check them out before they go somewhere.
I'm going with the latter.
1. Own my own home (done!)
2. Watch the sun rise and set consecutively
3. Dive the Red Sea
4. See the Egyptian pyramids
5. See the Taj Mahal
6. Dive the Great Barrier Reef
7. See an opera in the Sydney Opera House
8. Hear real live Tibetan monks chanting
9. See the Great Wall
10. Visit Japan (done!)
11. Do something nice for someone who will never, ever know (done!)
12. Finish and publish my novel
13. Make my family proud
14. Be happy (done!)
15. See the Northern Lights
16. Make an apple pie with the apples from my apple trees (done!)
17. (This is ridiculously hard, to come up with 50 things I have to do in my lifetime) Skydive
18. Freefall in a wind tunnel
19. Hang-glide
20. Buy a homeless person a meal instead of giving them money
21. Drive a tank
22. Own a rifle
23. Finish the portrait of my parents and give it to them
24. Rebuild my fireplace (done!)
25. Donate money to a zoo/shelter every year
26. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
27. Get my mother helicopter flying lessons
28. Learn to speak Serbian fluently (as opposed to haltingly)
29. Learn to speak Japanese (done!)
30. Learn to speak Spanish
31. Save a life
32. Tour a European castle
33. See a real catacomb
34. Run a military obstacle course
35. Run five miles consecutively
36. Snowboard (done!)
37. Ski
38. Rollerblade
39. Stand on the very top of a mountain (done!)
40. Spend a week seeing Europe
41. Play the perfect recital (done! If an audition counts. =)
42. Figure out this love thing everyone keeps talking about
43. Spend a day in a clean house curled up with the cat just being lazy (done!)
44. Let my friends know I love them (done!)
45. See all the major museums in Washington, D.C.
46. Visit a real live jungle
47. Visit an observatory at night and see all the planets live (or go to the middle of nowhere and see all the stars a human can see)
48. Watch a live solar eclipse with those cool glasses that prevent you from going blind
49. Watch a live meteor shower (done!)
50. Spend two days at an amusement park for the sole purpose of having fun (done!)
Guess I can't die in the near future, huh. Except some of those things are probably going to kill me. =)
So pick it up! I don't know why 50, but it's interesting to think about what you really want to do. Apparently I am an adventure junkie - analyzing these results . . .
15 things I need to 'see'
12 active things I need to 'do'
4 things I need to 'own' or 'have'
18 places I need to 'go'
10 things I need to do to 'feed my soul'
Generally speaking, I am apparently all about going, seeing, and doing, rather than having. And I am more about going, seeing, and doing than I am making myself happier or more well-rounded. I wonder if that means I'm all about running away or distracting myself . . . =) Or maybe it just means this world is full of things and places to go, see, and do, and I need to get up off my ass and check them out before they go somewhere.
I'm going with the latter.