Here it is, Ladies and Gentlemen, The List!

(Made most of these up years ago, I've updated since. Any other suggestions would be wonderful.)

In no particular order:

1. Try sushi March 05
2. Ride in a hot air balloon
3. Build a real, life-size snowman
4. Get a tattoo May 05
5. Learn to surf
6. Visit all 50 states (11/50)
7. Go skydiving
8. See a show on Broadway
9. Read the entire LOTR series (2/3)
10. Read The Hobbit Summer 04
11. Spend a year on another continent
12. Get hair cut above my ears April 04
13. Make a scrapbook once and for all
14. Make a quilt
15. Knit something
16. Get my Learner's Permit March 04, February 06
17. Get my Driver's License
18. Buy a car
19. Learn another language relatively fluently
20. Go skiing
21. See the Grand Canyon
22. Spend an entire month road-tripping
23. Learn how to drive stick-shift
24. Open my own business
25. Write a screenplay
26. Run a marathon
27. Go to New Orleans
28. Vote November 04
29. Help put a libertarian into office (I've worked on a campaign before)
30. Conquer my fear of heights, and climb the shrouds on a ship HMS Bounty, July 05
31. Conquer my fear of heights, and climb the shrouds on the USS Constellation
32. Go scubadiving
33. Visit the 7 Wonders of the World (both ancient and new)
34. Devise a fool-proof strategy to take over the world
35. Make $1,000,000
36. Sew an entire outfit
37. Invent something useful
38. Learn how to change a tire July 04
40. Act in a major movie or theatre production
41. Watch Gone with the Wind September 05
42. Watch Braveheart February 06
43. Ride a helicopter
44. Sail June 05
45. Watch The Godfather
46. Ride a horse bareback
47. Write a letter to my congresspeople and senators about something I feel strongly about
48. Fall in love June 04, January 06
49. Say "I love you" - and mean it June 04, January 06
50. Have a poem published Spring 03
51. See the Statue of Liberty
52. Carry a Donor's Card March 04. February 06
53. Have a book published
54. Ride a motorcycle
55. Own and drive a Volkswagon Beetle
56. Find the right guy that would like to be with me (and I him!)for the rest of my life
57. Go skinny dipping
58. Own a little black dress October 04
59. See an opera October 04
60. Stop biting my nails, dammit!
61. Learn how to be wrong or when to let go without thinking it means abandonment.
62. Earn my Bachelor's Degree. (at minimum)

EDIT (11.24.05):
63. Watch the ball drop on New Years Eve in Times Square
64. Find a penny lying heads up in the street with my birth year on it

EDIT (2.26.06):
65. Fire a handgun
66. Fire a great gun or cannon
67. Visit Rome
68. Shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die

EDIT (6.14.06):
69. Go on a trip to a town where I have no contacts whatsoever
70. Learn to pick a lock
71. Have an newpaper or magazine article either quoting me or with a photo that has nothing to do with the Connie
72. Find a place to call Home

EDIT (6.22.06):
73. Memorize Whitman's "Song of Joys"
74. See for myself that the world is round.
75. Crush grapes with my bare feet in a press.
76. Straddle the equator.


"To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest criticism and endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty and find the best in others;
To leave this world a bit better whether by a healthy child,
a garden patch, a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--
this is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music: Tori Amos - 'Me and a Gun'