The List

You all know I have a list, because I write about it on a regular basis.  Here is the first half of that list.
  1. Get married.
  2. Go to a Major League Baseball game (Atlanta Braves)
  3. Drive over the Golden Gate Bridge (2003)
  4. Work at camp. (2009-)
  5. Have a baby.
  6. Graduate college
  7. Run in a race. (Cooper River Bridge Run, 2012)
  8. Vote (2004, 2006, 2008, 2012)
  9. Go one entire year without shopping for clothes (shoes, handbags, accessories, etc.).
  10. Watch Old Faithful erupt (2002)
  11. Fall in love (2010)
  12. Be published (2000, poetry in Maggie’s Drawers)
  13. Read a book before watching the movie. (P.S. I Love You, Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
  14. Visit all 50 states.  (18 down, 32 to go)
  15. Learn to play guitar.
  16. Publish a book.
  17. Sing karaoke.
  18. Skydive.
  19. Speak at a funeral.
  20. Ride in an airplane. (2002, 2003)
  21. Give a toast at a wedding.
  22. Play in the ocean. (All the time)
  23. Learn to sew (2011)
  24. Learn a tribal dance. (Tininkling, Philippines, 2010)
  25. Start a band/ Be in a band.
  26. Learn to ballroom dance.
  27. Run a 5K (Krazy Kow 5k, Swamp Rabbit 5k, 2012)
  28. Give blood.
  29. Help Deliver a baby. (2009)
  30. Make a documentary.
  31. Pick flowers to give to someone.
  32. Go camping without my parents making me (2008)
  33. Sing a solo in church.
  34. Go on a real classic date-like the dinner and a movie kind.
  35. Have someone that I truly consider a sister. (2012)
  36. Color on my walls (2011)
  37. Be a Mentor (2005)
  38. Follow through with a fast for Lent. (2011)
  39. Learn to think before I speak.
  40. Be the recipient of a bouquet of flowers. (2010)
  41. Feel the liberation of telling a real secret. (2011-3 times!)
  42. Make money off of something I love to do.
  43. Have my very own big playful puppy. (AWWEEE Ollie, 2011)
  44. Play the violin in something that matters.
  45. Be an extra in a film.
  46. Be in a book club (for more than a week).
  47. Be a starter on the school soccer team. (2001 at TR, 2007 at Anderson-ok, so it was intramurals…it still counts.)
  48. Be a coach for a rec league soccer team.
  49. Drink only water for a month or year or some other extended period of time. (2011)
  50. Start a blog and keep up with it.

That’s the first half of the list.  The second half is just not going to be posted for now. Because I said so. :)

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