- 1. Get a tattoo (which means I have officially started the list, I guess)
- 2. Run a marathon
- 3. Publish a book
- 4. Get new cabinets and flooring in the kitchen
- 5. Do something cool with my wine corks
- 6. Have a baby
- 7. Buy one pair of insanely expensive shoes, preferably Louboutins.
- 8. Read at least three biographies.
- 9. Finish Starr and Fletcher's wedding quilt, for God's sake
- 10. Celebrate my half-birthday or un-birthday with a real party and a cake
- 11. Establish a decent savings account (at least $5,000 for emergencies)
- 12. Send completely random gifts to people who are special to me.
- 13. Start a Roth IRA or similar
- 14. Finish painting house exterior
- 15. Finish painting house interior
- 16. Vacation somewhere completely new.
- 17. -Go on a ghost tour
- 18. -Pay for someone behind me at the drive through
- 19. Write in my physical journal at least once a month (0/33)
- 20. Make quilt out of our old t-shirts
- 21. Get back into playing the guitar
- 22. Figure out how to make self knit properly
- 23. See the Killers in Las Vegas
- 24. Start playing the Guitar again
- 25. Visit Jason in Manchester; check out Liverpool and see the Beatles haunts
- 26. Watch all of the Best Picture Oscar winners.
- Wings, 1927/28
- The Broadway Melody, 1928/29
- All Quiet on the Western Front, 1929/30
- Cimarron, 1930/31
- Grand Hotel, 31/32
- Cavalcade, 32/33
- It Happened One Night, 1934
- Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
- The Great Ziegfeld, 1936
- The Life of Emile Zola, 37
- You Can't Take It With You - 38
- Gone with the Wind - 39
- Rebecca - 40
- How Green Was My Valley - 41
- Mrs. Miniver - 42
- Casablanca - 43
- Going My Way - 44
- The Lost Weekend - 45
- The Best Years of Our Lives - 46
- Gentleman's Agreement - 47
- Hamlet - 48
- All the King's Men - 49
- All About Eve - 50
- An American in Paris - 51
- The Greatest Show on Earth - 52
- From Here to Eternity - 53
- On the Waterfront - 54
- Marty - 55
- Around the World in 80 Days - 56
- The Bridge on the River Kwai - 57
- Gigi - 58
- Ben-Hur - 59
- The Apartment - 60
- West Side Story - 61
- Lawrence of Arabia - 62
- Tom Jones - 63
- My Fair Lady - 64
- The Sound of Music - 65
- A Man for all Seasons - 66
- In the Heat of the Night - 67
- Oliver! - 68
- Midnight Cowboy - 69
- Patton - 70
- The French Connection - 71
- The Godfather - 72
- The Sting - 73
- The Godfather Part II - 74
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 75
- Rocky - 76
- Annie Hall - 77
- The Deer Hunter - 78
- Kramer vs. Kramer - 79
- Ordinary People - 80
- Chariots of Fire - 81
- Gandhi - 82
- Terms of Endearment - 83
- Amadeus - 84
- Out of Africa - 85
- Platoon - 86
- The Last Emperor - 87
- Rain Man - 88
- Driving Miss Daisy - 89
- Dances With Wolves - 90
- Silence of the Lambs - 91
- Unforgiven - 92
- Schindler's List - 93
- Forrest Gump - 94
- Braveheart - 95
- The English Patient - 96
- Titanic - 97
- Shakespeare in Love - 98
- American Beauty - 99
- Gladiator - 00
- A Beautiful Mind - 01
- Chicago - 02
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - 03
- Million Dollar Baby - 04
- Crash - 05
- The Departed - 06
- No Country for Old Men - 07
- 27. Learn a complicated dance - Thriller or Single Ladies or the like
- 28. -Get Paul's parents to go on vacation with the whole family
- 29. Visit 12 quirky spots in Iowa
- 1. Villisca Axe Murder House
- 2. Field of Dreams (Dyersville)
- 3. Herbert Hoover Library (West Branch)
- 4. Grotto of the Redemption (West Bend)
- 5. Giant Popcorn Ball (Sac City)
- 6. Largest Crater in the U.S. (Manson)
- 7. Ice Cream Capital of the World (Le Mars)
- 8. The Black Angel (Iowa City)
- 9. Matchstick Marvels (Gladbrook)
- 10. American Gothic House (Eldon)
- 11. Ice Cave (Decorah)
- 12. Scenic Railroad Tour (Boone)
- 30. Make a new friend
- 31. Try Patron
- 32. Go one week where we buy nothing
- 33. Go to the Des Moines Opera
- 34. See 3 shows at the Civic Center (or similar)
- 35. Take grandpa out for a meal, just the two of us
- 36. See a drive-in movie
- 37. Visit Canada, even if it's just driving across the border
- 38. Try acupuncture
- 39. Buy a LRD... Little Red Dress.
- 40. Visit D.C. with Paul so he can see the Smithsonian
- 41. Send a secret to postsecret.com
- 42. Surprise Paul with a going-away weekend arranged with his boss, maybe to see one of his favorite bands
- 43. Eat a whole pint of Ben and Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie in one sitting and don't feel guilty about it.
- 44. Try geocaching at least once.
- 45. Enter something in the Iowa State Fair
- 46. Make a Christmas Tree Skirt
- 47. Send flowers to three people for no reason. 1/3
- 48. Watch five documentaries. 0/5
- 49. Try surfing
- 50. Join a DSM group - writing, stitch & bitch... something
- 51. Try a rock-climbing wall
- 52. Finish the upstairs bathroom
- 53. Try rocky mountain oysters
- 54. Get over my Perez Hilton addiction
- 55. Have a bad Christmas Sweater Party
jan 8 2009 ∞
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