Before death:

• To be completely the person God wants me to be
• To fall in love!
• Get married
• Adopt a child
• Lose weight (goal - size 10 or 150 pounds, whichever comes first)
• Tell everyone I love that I love them
• Go to college
• Teach someone something
• Witness to someone (share the Gospel)
• Be a part of the Great Commission
• Learn how to tie a tie
• Travel to another country
• Wear a cowboy hat
• Learn to play the guitar
• Be a teacher
• Backpack across Europe
• Sing for pocket change at the Plaza in Kansas City (Well, Westport, but close enough)
• Love God with all my heart, mind, soul, and strength
• Save someone's life
• Witness a miracle
• Become a dancer
• Wear a bikini
• Learn how to figure skate
• Date someone
• Be in 100 pictures in one day
• Befriend someone I don't like
• Be in two places at once
• Learn how to play the piano
• Stop biting my nails
• Watch the sun rise and set with the same person
• Play music for people to enjoy
• To learn to let Jesus become more and more as I become less and less
• To have a faith that is healthy and strong
• To see His face
• Get my nails did :)
• Have a party for no reason
• Read the Bible in its original languages
• Learn to swim
• Get a college degree
• Try to fathom God's grace and love
• Listen to a seashell
• Dance in the rain with someone I love
• Truly help someone
• Truly help someone I don't like
• Be one of the two leading roles in a God-written romance
• Be used by God and realize it
• Resist temptation
• Defy the status quo
• Go to a baseball game
• Buy my mother a NEW car
• Read the entire Bible, cover to cover, as one whole story
• Live "on fire" for Christ
• Make someone laugh
• Have an oreo eating contest
• Be a part of a team
• Have a twinkie roast
• Make someone smile
• Be a youth pastor
• Count to one million and one
• Make someone happy
• Look in the mirror and not hate what I see
• Ride a camel
• Go to Jerusalem and walk where Jesus walked
• Hail a taxi
• See a play on Broadway
• BE on Broadway
• Cook bacon
• Walk a tightrope
• Work in a soup kitchen
• Be in a beauty pageant
• See someone cry tears of joy
• See my friend Abby get married
• Write a book
• Climb a mountain
• Do something I've never done before
• Attend a wedding
• Be sure of something, anything!
• Eat something I've never eaten before (alfredo peas!?)
• Sing for someone special
• Count as many stars as I can
• Dance with someone special
• Be a Christian singer
• Be Miss America
• Sign something "Captain Cate - Team Amazing."
• Give someone a real gift
• Accomplish something for the Kingdom of God
• Do something that involves great gain for someone else but great sacrifice for myself
• Go to all 50 states...
  • Alabama
  • Alaska
  • Arizona
  • Arkansas
  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Hawaii
  • Idaho
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Iowa
  • Kansas
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Montana
  • Nebraska
  • Nevada
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • North Carolina
  • North Dakota
  • Ohio
  • Oklahoma
  • Oregon
  • Pennsylvania
  • Rhode Island
  • South Carolina
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Texas
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin
  • Wyoming
• Go to these places...
  • Africa
  • India
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Canada
  • China
  • England
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Haarlem, Holland (to see Corrie ten Boom's house)
  • Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
• Have a snowball fight
• Have Ms. Hickman play at my wedding
• Start something and then finish it
• Do something responsible
• Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk making lazy circles in the sky with my honey lamb... :)
• Live to be 93
• To not die a virgin
• Finally finish all my scrapbooks
• Finally get all those disposable cameras developed
• Make someone's day
• Learn something I didn't expect to learn, from someone I didn't expect to learn from
• Volunteer
• Sing at church
• Try alcohol (responsibly)
• Excel at something that doesn't come easy to me
• Go stargazing
• Place flowers on the tombstones that don't have any
• Get a tattoo
• Do something crazy
• Meet Alan Alda, and kiss him on the cheek :)
• Go to an amusement park and ride the scariest roller coaster there
• Touch a spider
• Drop all my masks
• Give blood
• Go skydiving
• Be on the radio
• Find the heart of God (always)
• Do something crazy to praise God, something I've never done in worship before, with no inhibitions
• Go to Boston in the fall
• Dye my hair red
• Sing at the superbowl
• Go to New York City
• Surrender completely to God
• Paint someone's face
• Have my face painted
• Speak in tongues
• Read another Philip Yancey book
• See these people again after high school:
  • Ms. Hickman
  • Jordan
  • Abby
  • Jacob
  • Jason
• Go to IHOP (International House of Prayer)
• Go to IHOP (the pancake one this time)
• Make a movie
• Win something
• Make something out of clay
• Ride the subway
• Please God
• Learn how to roller skate
• Give myself away (in tiny pieces everyday)
• Believe in everything good and true given to me by God to believe in with my whole heart, mind, and soul
• Change someone's life
• Meet my dad
• Write on parchment paper with a quill pen
• Go to Disney World!
• Learn to say "I love you" in every language on earth
• Make someone's dream come true
• Have one of my dreams come true
• Sing at a jazz club
• Be in a band
• Find the end of a rainbow
• Go to a haunted house
• Sit on Santa's lap when I'm way too old for it (18)
• Give Christmas presents in June
• Make a candle
• Fly on a plane
• See the Pacific Ocean
• Go on a boat
• Have my own business card
• Have an out of body experience
• Be in the studio audience of Ellen (and win a car or a small country, lol)
• Cut my own hair
• Cut someone else's hair
• Get a pedicure
• Receive flowers
• Wake up early
• Sing to God
• Thank everyone who has helped me
• Make someone breakfast in bed
• Dance for Jesus
• Swim with dolphins
• Cut down my own Christmas tree
• Record an album
• Be called beautiful
• Go out on a date
• Ride a metro bus
• Knit some mittens
• Make a grocery list
• Say the words "rory" and "onion" correctly
• See the good in something broken
• Lick a sparkplug
• Sniff a stinkbug
• Paint daisies on a big red rubber ball
• Look bad in leggings
• Swab a poopdeck
• Become a master of the Japanese Piglatin (or should I say Pongigonglongatonginong?)
• Trust Jesus
• Pluck a rooster (maybe a stuffed one - I don't want to hurt a real rooster)
• Kiss a chipmunk
• Win a game of ping pong
• Drink fruit punch standing on my head or hanging upside down
• Run a red light
• Milk a cow
• Go on a road trip
• Watch all 233 episodes of Friends
• Dance in worship
• Go on the roof of a building
• Learn how to close a bra in the back (i.e. correctly, haha)
• Throw a glass of water in someone's face (he had it coming)
• Base jump
• Get my own apartment
• Sport an afro
• And a mohawk
• And shave my head
• Walk down a runway like America's Next Top Model
• Kiss someone with a beard :)>
• Own a bassett hound
• Go skiing
• Dye my hair blonde
• Kiss someone famous
• Be a model for a photo shoot
• Have a daily deviation on deviantart.com
• Read my poetry in front of people
• Spend a day at a spa and have a professional massage
• Work in an orphanage in India (or anywhere, really)
• Design something
• Meet Kimya Dawson
• And Eddie Izzard
• And Darren Hayes
• Get a fake tan
• Get a makeover
• GIVE a makeover!
• Buy the perfect sofa
• Spend two years in the Peace Corps
• Dance again (ballet)
• Have a voice recital of my own
• Audition for American Idol
• Find the perfect little black cocktail dress
• Sell what I have and give to the poor
• See something so beautiful it literally takes my breath away
• Donate my hair for Wigs For Kids
• Have my own art show
• Do something really, really hard that I thought I couldn't do
• Must see New York skyline
• LET GO and just be
• Make a mudpie
• Take senior pictures for myself
• Meet Donald Miller

After death:

• Learn how to fly