The Life List

This list has been up and running for awhile, but I think this is an appropriate place for it to be proclaimed. I refuse to call it 'Things to Do Before I Die,' because, although I'm aware death is inevitable (I am in the church business, after all), I'd like to think there's not a deadline (oof, no pun intended) on all my fun.

Do you think that's where the term came from? Probably not.

It was probably some dude who was killed by his boss for missing the first one. Yikes.

Anyway, I'm getting a pretty good list going, but I'm always up for suggestions!
  1. Go skydiving
  2. Attend a Mozart/Beethoven/Brahms/any Viennese composer's concert in Vienna
  3. Earn a Master's Degree (In Process...)
  4. Go wine tasting (July 2009)
  5. See El Alhambra in Andalucia, Spain (July 3, 2010)
  6. Conduct a choral group (April 23, 2008)
  7. Visit San Francisco
  8. Try a new ethnic food every month for a year
  9. Read Les Miserables
  10. Go on the Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg
  11. Make a scrapbook of college
  12. See where my family's from in Ireland
  13. Get one of my compositions published
  14. Visit every inhabited contenent (I'm ok skipping Antarctica)
  15. See West Side Story on Broadway
  16. Visit Machu Picchu
  17. Finish knitting that blanket
  18. Get a drivers' license from a state that I actually live in
  19. See a BC/BU Hockey game and root for both sides
  20. Tango in Argentina
  21. Send out Christmas Cards
  22. Take an ethnic cooking class
  23. Become conversational in German
  24. Attend four different religion's services (Judaism, Christianity)
  25. Donate blood
  26. Get an article published
  27. Live in a city apartment on my own (Boston, 2009-)
  28. Visit Jerusalem and see 'the sights'
  29. Walk the entire Freedom Trail
  30. Adopt a kid
  31. Run a 5K
  32. Leave a huge tip for a breakfast waitress (October 2009)
  33. Learn Karate
  34. Finish 2666
  35. Build another house with Habitat for Humanity
  36. Play a Brahms Intermezzo on the piano
  37. Try contacts (August 2009)
  38. Run 100 miles in a month
  39. Play the guitar well (I'm on a recording!  That's got to count for something.)
  40. Fall in love (May 2011)
  41. Pay off my student loans
  42. Tapdance again (August 2010)
  43. Fill 5 tall bookcases with books (2.5/5)
  44. Buy a real piece of art
  45. See the NYC Ballet at Lincoln Center
  46. Watch all of AFI's 100 greatest Movies (31/100)
  47. Get a passport (February 2010)
  48. Go scuba-diving
  49. Have a food fight
  50. Ride in a hot-air balloon
  51. Host Christmas for my family (December 2009)
  52. Know my neighbors
  53. Work at a coffee shop
  54. Attend a new music premiere every year (3/2010...)
  55. Donate my hair to Locks for Love
  56. Attend a fancy gala
  57. Eat really healthy for a month
  58. Read a book from every year of the 20th century (50/100)
  59. Get ordained in the United Methodist Church
  60. Live a life that brings me joy--not that makes me necessarily happy every minute of every day, but rather one that I love and am proud to have lived. (In Process...)
That's what I've got for right now--I'm always open to suggestions! I was going to go for 100, but I can't think of any more right now. Updates will be in bold and italics, and I'll adjust accordingly each time I accomplish one of these things.