- THINGS TO AIM FOR
- Completely learn German
- Read the Bible start to finish
- Read all of Shakespeare's works
- Get a PhD
- Get into Cambridge
- Design a wedding dress
- Make a new discovery in my field
- ✔ Start a blog
- Understand how the stock market works
- Either really enjoy my career or never have to work a day in my life
- Own a pair of Louboutins
- Find an ancient ruin
- Surf
- Learn Self Defence
- Be in a movie
- Never have to worry about money
- Lead someone to Christ
- Live by myself for at least 1 year
- ✔ Save a life
- Be able to run up a wall and flip off of it (Hah! - 2024)
- Conquer my fear of rock climbing (indoor only though)
- Learn to drive stick shift
- Be in a play by Shakespeare
- Excel in archery and fencing (start by learning)
- Get to my body's best possible shape
- Learn to play Toccata and Fugue on pipe organ
- Learn all the languages necessary to read the original transcripts of the Bible
- ✔ Read Pride and Prejudice
- ✔ Become an early riser
- Get on the International Best Dress list
- Be in Doctor Who
- Get to act with David Tennant
- Make a hole-in-one in golf
- Learn archery
- Run/Walk across a country
- FOOD
- ✔ Have High Tea at the Ritz
- ✔ Have High Tea
- Try black truffles
- ✔ Eat at a Restaurant Before Its Official Opening
- ✔ Be invited to a Hyacinth Bucket candlelight supper
- Eat pizza in Italy
- ✔ Eat a macaroon (So good!)
- Eat at Club 33 in Disneyland
- ✔ Have a food fight
- ✔ Bake the gingerbread cake I saw on 'The Two Fat Ladies'
- Make English Muffins
- Make crumpets
- Eat at a sushi conveyer belt
- Pick up local recipes when traveling
- ✔ Drink Bubble tea
- ✔ Try Gumbo
- Try grits
- ✔ Try Pho soup
- ✔ Eat a Pez candy
- ✔ Try pistachio ice cream
- ✔ Try Dragon Fruit
- ✔ Try passion fruit
- Drink out of a coconut
- Make sushi
- Make a huge improv dinner for 20 unexpected guests
- ✔ Go to Laduree in Paris
- ✔ Eat Chinese food out of a take-out box
- TRAVEL
- Travel on the Orient Express from Turkey to London
- Travel the Silk Road
- Treck through a desert
- Travel the entire Trans-Siberian railway
- Visit every continent on Earth
- Visit all of the Natural Wonders of the world
- ✔ Travel throughout Great Britain & Ireland (2012, 2013)
- Vacation on a tropical private island
- Visit the Sahara Desert
- Go on a Safari
- Go to the airport and take a random flight
- Get in the car and take a two week road trip and see what happens
- ✔ Travel to a foreign country alone
- Drive Route 66
- Ride in a helicopter
- Visit Iceland in the winter
- Travel to Europe on a ship and depart from New York
- ✔ Go to London
- ✔ Go on another Mission's trip
- ✔ Travel on a 747 airplane
- ✔ Travel on a 777 airplane
- Visit the Holy Land
- Take a worldwide cruise
- Vacation in Monte Carlo
- Fly in a private jet
- Spend a weekend at The Witchery in Edinburg
- ✔ Travel to Europe with my best friends
- Ride on a hot air ballon
- Go to New Orleans and walk down the street and hear blues playing
- Go to Machu Picchu
- Go to Easter Island
- ✔ Ride on a train
- ✔ Travel by train
- Go to Death Valley on a hot July afternoon
- Stay in a penthouse on 5th Ave. New York
- Stay in a bamboo house in the tropics
- Drive high-speed through a desert
- ✔ Go to the London Underground and hear 'Mind the Gap'
- Ride in a blimp
- Ride in limo (again)
- Stay in the nicest suite at a 5 star hotel
- Fly a plane
- Stay in an ice hotel
- Ride a cable car
- Stay at the Treehotel in Sweden
- Go to Tivoli Gardens
- Stay at Gamirasu Cave Hotel in Turkey
- Sail on the Nile River
- Stay at Hotel Danieli, Venice (The Tourist)
- See the cave on Bardsey Island, Wales
- Salt Desert
- Stay in the Royal Penthouse at Hotel President Wilson
- Walk across the Moses Bridge
- Stay at the Ritz hotel in London
- Stay at the Ritz hotel in Paris
- Stay at Hotel Imperial in Vienna
- Stay at Hotel Americano in New York
- Go to Crater of Diamonds State Park (and find a diamond)
- SIGHTS TO SEE
- Visit all of the great monuments in Egypt
- Visit Auschwitz
- See Corrie Ten Boom's house (The Hidding Place)
- Go to every major museum in London
- Witness a total solar eclipse
- Witness a total lunar eclipse
- See the Nutcracker Ballet in New York
- See the Mayan pyramids
- ✔ See a volcano
- ✔ See a glacier
- ✔ Visit Stonehenge
- Touch Stonehenge
- ✔ See the Atlantic Ocean
- ✔ See the Red Tide at night
- ✔ See a Shakespearean play at the Globe Theater in London (MacBeth!)
- ✔ See a Joshua Tree
- ✔ See the Hollywood sign
- Koln Cathedral, Germany
- Petra
- Go to Starbucks at Pike Place
- Scala of Milan
- Go to Puzzlewood Forest
- See real lava (not a lava rock)
- Pompey
- Float in the Dead Sea
- ✔ See the Mona Lisa
- See The Scream
- See the Northern Lights
- See the Southern Lights
- Sleep in Count Dracula's Castle
- ✔ See a mummy (Cleopatra!)
- See Chernobyl
- See Chatsworth House (Pemperly from Pride & Prejudice)
- EVENTS
- Go to the midnight Christmas mass in Vatican City
- Go to the German Christmas markets
- Go to Loy Krathong (Sky lantern festival, Thailand)
- Venice Carnival
- Burning Man
- Cochella
- See an opera
- Go to a New York Fashion Week
- Go to the Kentucky Derby
- ✔ Go to the Olympics
- Be in a flash mob
- Be part of a Bollywood dance flash mob
- Go to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
- Be part of the audience at a taping of America's Funniest Home Videos
- Go to the Fifa World Cup
- ✔ Experience an Earthquake
- ✔ See the Disneyland parade
- Be part of a huge snowball fight
- ✔ Witness a major historical event (So many: COVID, South Korea Martial Law & 2 impeachments in 2 weeks, Canada Martial Law)
- Watch a cricket game live
- Go to a masquerade ball
- Attend a Royal Wedding
- Go to a Coldplay concert
- Go to a Hillsong concert
- Go to a U2 concert
- ✔ Go to a Taylor Swift concert (LA Day 2 Eras Tour 2023!!!)
- See Switchfoot again
- See Cirque Du Soleil
- Go to a midnight premier of a movie
- Be in a high speed car chase
- ✔ Go to a film premiere
- ✔ Take part in a protest rally
- Go to an Il Divo concert
- Go to a Renaissance Fair
- CRAZINESS
- Skydive
- Climb Mount Everest (even if just a few feet up the mountain)
- Have a star named after me
- Drive a Ferrari
- Mush a dog sled
- Train for a day with a professional soccer player
- Pet a tiger or lion
- Own a pet lizard
- ✔ Ride a big roller coaster (Knotts Berry Farm)
- Have a proper pillow fight
- Meet a spy and know it
- Look through a giant telescope
- Mermaid Camp
- Play with tigers/lions/cheetahs
- Shower under a waterfall
- ✔ Have a James Bond moment
- Get out of a tricky situation McGyver-style
- Explore caves
- Get into Harrods through the Private Entrance
- Fire a gun (target only)
- Drive a race car
- ✔ Be part of something very exclusive
- Ride a Camel
- Hold a falcon on my arm
- Jump between train carriages
- ✔ Make a great escape (2023, not fun!)
- Go into a high-security top-secret government building
- Speed on the Autobahn
- Go on a Zip-line
- Go zorbing
- Experience zero-gravity
- Buy a piece of jewelry at Tiffany & Co.
- Touch the Stanley Cup
- Jump into a pool fully clothed
- Say 'Quick, follow that car!' and mean it
- Drive a tank
- Command a robot
- Use a jet pack
- Make a fainting goat faint
- Drive a golf cart
- Ride in a sleigh pulled by reindeer
- Go winter camping
- Scream as loud as I can
- ✔ Try to make the royal guards smile (Didn't try but I did see one smile)
- See an avalanche
- Go storm chasing and see a tornado
- ✔ See real dinosaur bones
- ✔ Climb a tree
- Spend 3 years just buying books for my own personal library
- Live in Dublin
- ✔ Live in London
- Donate a million dollars to charity
- ✔ Shop at Harrods
- Sleep in a Castle
- Have a walk-in closet
- Yell 'STOP THE PRESSES!'
- Get to go inside an airplane hanger
- Create my own fragrance at a perfumery in Paris
- ✔ Have a perfect day (London 2012, Fireworks night)
- ✔ Walk through a corn maze
- See the Book of Kells in person
- Go on a shopping spree
- Feel like a princess for a day
- ✔ Have a good birthday
- ✔ See a sunrise
- Watch a sun set
- ✔ See a shooting star
- ✔ Have a Lord of the Rings marathon
- Walk down the main aisle at Westminster Abbey
- Walk on a red carpet
- ✔ Hold a bird (not a chick) in my hands
- Explore a forest
- Live in California
- Never stop learning
- Jump in a big pile of leaves
- Own a Bonsai tree
- ✔ Fly a kite
- Makeover
- Live in a place with its own private tennis court
- Sit in a Barcelona chair
- Be in a jury
- ✔ Go to a planetarium
- Be Happy
- ✔ Be Baptized
- Faint
- Watch every James Bond movie
- Have a song written to me by a famous music artist
- Have my portrait painted
- Kiss under mistletoe
- Find the end of a rainbow
- Hold a bar of gold
- PEOPLE
- Meet royalty
- See and meet all of my favorite bands (Saw/met Switchfoot & Family Force 5)
- Get Married
- Meet & have tea/discuss Shakespeare with Tom Hiddleston
- Get married in December
- Fall in love
- Be kissed in the rain
- Meet and have a long conversation with Ted Dekker
- Meet and have a long conversation with James Rollins
- Meet Rick Steves
- Mean the world to someone
- Be on a television news program as an “expert”
- Be a bridesmaid/maid-of-honor
- Make a '500 Miles' video with David Tennant
- Go to a pierogi festival
- See a barrel full of sauerkraut
oct 21 2011 ∞
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