The List

1. Eat lunch with 100 people who inspire me before I turn 30
2. Get a psychic reading done (December 29, 2011)
3. Become conversational in another language
4. Write my own wedding vows
5. Undergo a series of reiki treatments
6. Complete the NYC marathon
7. Go on a cruise
8. Visit Yosemite National Park
9. Have sex in all 50 states (9/50)
10. Own a house
11. Visit every continent (North America, Europe)
12. Pay off my undergraduate loans from NYU
13. Make every recipe from a single cookbook
14. Hike the Grand Canyon (March 22, 2008)
15. Send someone flowers (March 21, 2010)
16. Take silly pictures in a photo booth (September 20, 2009)
17. Attend a major religious service for at least four different religions (Catholicism, Judaism)
18. Milk a cow
19. Make a scrapbook or photobook for someone else (February 14, 2011)
20. Swim with dolphins
21.  Take one photograph each day for a year
22. Explore a jungle
23. Write and publish a book
24. Take a sugar-free baking class
25. Put my hand in ten of the world’s natural oceans & bodies of water (1. Pacific Ocean, 2. Atlantic Ocean, 3. Gulf of Mexico, 4. Aegean Sea, 5. Lake Tahoe)
26. Be an extra in a movie or a television show
27. Go backpacking for at least one month (9.18.09 – 11.9.09)
28. Ride a camel
29. Drive across America, from CA – NY
30. Give birth to or adopt a child
31. Go snorkeling in Belize
32. Secretly record my grandfather telling his best stories (December 18, 2009)
33. Get naked on a nude beach
34. Read 50 books in one year
35. Hike Machu Picchu
36. Drive through a tollbooth and pay for myself and the car behind me (January 10, 2010)
37. Walk on a glacier
38. Visit a city whose name I have to learn to pronounce
39. Send out a photo holiday card (December 2008)
40. Work/volunteer on a farm
41. Buy something for each of my parents that they couldn’t afford on their own
42. Leave a $100 tip for a breakfast waitress
43. Watch the sunrise at the beach
44. Stay in an Ice Hotel
45. Regularly practice yoga for an entire year, at least once per week
46. Have a picnic (January 10, 2010)
47. Go to a major music festival
48. Stay at a spa for an entire weekend
49. Host 10 consecutive Bloggers in Sin City events (3/10)
50. Get a puppy
51. Take a picture of myself in the cities all 8 of my great-grandparents were born in
52. Meet ten blog friends in person (completed May 21, 2009)
53. Eat at all of Thomas Keller’s restaurants (Bouchon, Bouchon Bakery)
54. Visit a different city once a month for a year (3.10 – 3.11)
55. Leave the US at least once a year for five consecutive years (2011)
56. Tour the White House
57. Stand in a submarine
58. Take a dance lesson
59. See the Aurora Borealis
60. Go wine tasting (May 30, 2009)
61. Visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe
62. Send one handwritten card per week for a year
63. Relearn how to ski
64. Go white water rafting on the Colorado River
65. Travel alone (9.18.09 – 11.9.09)
66. Give twenty “just because” gifts to twenty different people in the same week (week of 1.14.2011; sponsored by Babeland)
67. Spend Christmas on a beach
68. Buy the perfect little black dress
69. Go camping with three other bloggers
70. Get a fourth and fifth tattoo (May 1, 2009 and April 24, 2010)
71. Make homemade jam (February 3, 2012)
72. Complete a 5K race, a 10K race, and a half marathon (5K Aug 2011 | 10K Oct 2011 | Half Marathon Oct 2011)
73. Visit the Galapagos Islands
74. Enter a writing contest (August 2008, Fiction in a Nutshell, The Acorn Newspaper, Runner up)
75. Have sex on a train
76. Swim in the Dead Sea
77. Attend a white tie event
78. Go canoeing
79. Ride a jet ski
80. Get my picture in a major newspaper or magazine
81. Be able to complete five pull-ups in a row
82. Host a five-course dinner party for 6 people
83. Ride a zip line
84. Go to the Olympics
85. Stay out all night dancing
86. Go on safari in Africa
87. Spend a month as a vegan
88. Own a king size Tempur-Pedic mattress
89. Bake a French baguette from scratch
90. Do volunteer work in three different countries (United States)
91. Hike a volcano
92. Take my nieces on vacation
93. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (October 20, 2009)
94. Fly a kite (January 10, 2010)
95. Write a personal manifesto (April, 2011)
96. Teach a class, seminar, or workshop
97. Wear snowshoes
98. Fly in a blimp
99. Have black & white boudoir style photos taken of myself
100. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport- take the first international flight
101. Run a race in all 50 states (2/50)
102. Eat a pulled pork sandwich in Memphis
103. Learn to like sushi(November 28, 2009)
104. Watch 30 of the “Best Picture” Oscar winning movies
105. Tour a brewery and a winery
106. Stock my bathroom with incredible products for my entire body (March 2011; sponsored by Babeland)
107. Visit a tea plantation
108. Meet the Editor in Chief of three magazines
109. Get drunk on a bus (July 10, 2010)
110. Take a class at Murray’s Cheese Shop in NYC and at The Cheese School of San Francisco
111. Make homemade butter
112. Take a meditation class
113. Visit the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
114. Raise $10,000 in one month for a single charity
115. Go bungee jumping in New Zealand
116. Contribute to setting or breaking a world record
117. Go on a silent retreat
118. Attend a Do Lectures event
119. Attend a food festival
120. Move to a new city on a whim (December 20, 2009 – San Francisco)
121. Visit a Redwood forest (January 10, 2010)
122. Take a flying trapeze class (October 9, 2010)
123. Go to Burning Man
124. Create a ball pit in my apartment (August 22, 2010)
125. Dine in the dark at Opaque (April 1, 2010)
126. Take a photo at the equator, with one foot in each hemisphere
127. Live in an apartment/house with a hot tub
128. Relax in The Blue Lagoon in Iceland
129. Try acupuncture (October 20, 2010)
130. Randomly email 10 writers or bloggers that I love, but have never met (StephanieKlein.com, TheBloggess.com, MightyGirl.com, SloaneCrosley.com, MorganDayCecil.com, designlovefest.com, thepioneerwoman.com, ohhappyday.com)
131. Learn to make donuts from scratch (October 2011)