The List
1. Publish a collection of personal humor essays.
2. Visit every continent (North America, Europe)
3. Become conversational in another language
4. Get married barefoot
5. Have or adopt a child
6. Complete the NYC marathon
7. Go on a cruise
8. Visit Yosemite National Park
9. Take a photo with a celebrity
10. Own a house
11. Get a psychic reading done
12. Pay off my undergraduate loans
13. Be involved in a political campaign at a hands-on level
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 for someone else
20. Swim with dolphins
21.  Take one photograph everyday for a year
22. Explore a jungle
23. Have sex in all 50 states
24. Skydive a second time
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)
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. Become a certified reiki practioner
31. Visit Bali, Indonesia
32. Take recreational culinary classes
33. Get naked on a nude beach
34. Read 50 books in one year
35. Visit 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 the Great Wall of China
39. Send out a photo holiday card (December 2008)
40. Work in a cupcake shop
41. Buy something for each of my parents that they couldn’t afford on their own
42. Leave a ridiculously big 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. Attend a school reunion
50. Get a puppy
51. Take a picture in the cities all 4 of my grandparents were born in
52. Meet ten blog friends in person (completed May 21, 2009)
53. Eat dinner at Per Se in New York City
54. Visit a different city once a month for a year (3.10 Los Angeles, CA | 4.10 Scottsdale, AZ | 5.10 Ashland, Oregon and Las Vegas, NV | 6.10 Santa Cruz | 7.10 Denver)
55. Visit a different country once a year for five years
56. Tour the White House
57. Ride 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. Write one handwritten card or letter 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
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
72. Run a 5K race, a 10K race, and a half marathon (5K April 2008)
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
81. Be able to complete five pull-ups
82. Host a five-course dinner party for 8 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 vegetarian
88. Go snorkeling at The Great Barrier Reef
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. Create a personal mission statement for myself (September 1, 2009)
96. Teach a class or a seminar
97. Wear snowshoes
98. Fly in a blimp
99. Learn how to change a tire
100. Show up at the airport with my bag and passport- take the first available flight
101. Work at The Annual Chocolate Show in NYC
102. Eat BBQ in Memphis
103. Taste sushi (November 28, 2009)
104. Watch all of the Top 100 IMDB movies
105. Tour a brewery and a winery
106. Get photographed naked for TimeOut NY’s Naked New Yorker Photo Shoot
107. Visit a tea plantation
108. Meet the Editor in Chief of three major magazines
109. Get drunk on a bus
110. Take a class at Murray’s Cheese Shop in NYC
111. Have lunch with Rachael Ray
112. Drink vodka with Chelsea Handler
113. Visit the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
114. Raise $10,000 in one month for a single charity
115. Go bungee jumping
116. Contribute to setting or breaking a world record
117. Go on a silent retreat
118. Try a ridiculously bizarre job for at least a week
119. Attend a food festival
120. Move to a new city on a whim (December 20, 2009)
121. Visit a Redwood forest (January 10, 2010)
122. Take a trapeze class
123. Learn to parallel park
124. Learn to drive stick shift
125. Dine in the dark at Opaque (April 1, 2010)
126. Get over my ridiculously ridiculous fear of riding a bike
127. Take a photo at the equator, with one foot in each hemisphere
128. Go to Burning Man