The List

1. Eat lunch with 100 people who inspire me before I turn 30
2. Get a psychic reading done
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 (11/50)
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 professional baking certification course
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 in a cupcake shop
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
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
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 vegetarian
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. Work at The Annual Chocolate Show in NYC
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 with Paula Deen
112. Drink vodka with Chelsea Handler
113. Visit the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia
114. Raise $10,000 in one year 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)