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!
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!
- Go skydiving
- Attend a Mozart/Beethoven/Brahms/any Viennese composer's concert in Vienna
- Earn a Master's Degree (In Process...)
- Go wine tasting (July 2009)
- See El Alhambra in Andalucia, Spain (July 3, 2010)
- Conduct a choral group (April 23, 2008)
- Visit San Francisco
- Try a new ethnic food every month for a year
- Read Les Miserables
- Go on the Sound of Music Tour in Salzburg
- Make a scrapbook of college
- See where my family's from in Ireland
- Get one of my compositions published
- Visit every inhabited contenent (I'm ok skipping Antarctica)
- See West Side Story on Broadway
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Finish knitting that blanket
- Get a drivers' license from a state that I actually live in
- See a BC/BU Hockey game and root for both sides
- Tango in Argentina
- Send out Christmas Cards
- Take an ethnic cooking class
- Become conversational in German
- Attend four different religion's services (Judaism, Christianity)
- Donate blood
- Get an article published
- Live in a city apartment on my own (Boston, 2009-)
- Visit Jerusalem and see 'the sights'
- Walk the entire Freedom Trail
- Adopt a kid
- Run a 5K
- Leave a huge tip for a breakfast waitress (October 2009)
- Learn Karate
- Finish 2666
- Build another house with Habitat for Humanity
- Play a Brahms Intermezzo on the piano
- Try contacts (August 2009)
- Run 100 miles in a month
- Play the guitar well (I'm on a recording! That's got to count for something.)
- Fall in love (May 2011)
- Pay off my student loans
- Tapdance again (August 2010)
- Fill 5 tall bookcases with books (2.5/5)
- Buy a real piece of art
- See the NYC Ballet at Lincoln Center
- Watch all of AFI's 100 greatest Movies (31/100)
- Get a passport (February 2010)
- Go scuba-diving
- Have a food fight
- Ride in a hot-air balloon
- Host Christmas for my family (December 2009)
- Know my neighbors
- Work at a coffee shop
- Attend a new music premiere every year (3/2010...)
- Donate my hair to Locks for Love
- Attend a fancy gala
- Eat really healthy for a month
- Read a book from every year of the 20th century (50/100)
- Get ordained in the United Methodist Church
- 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.
