Bucket List

I just found this list somewhere among the million Word documents on my computer. It was written almost two years ago.. shortly after Mason was born. I have no idea why there's only 95. Guess I got lazy before I got to 100. Hopefully I can stop being lazy long enough to finish this list before I croak. Anyway...

Important things to do before I die:

1. Become a teacher
2. Do shots of Jamison with Conan O’Brien
3. Start loving my body
4. Find the campground we used to go to when I was little and take Mason there
5. Eat deep-dish pizza in Chicago
6. Teach English in another country
7. Take Mason to Sea World
8. Parasail over the ocean
9. Be a soccer (or track, or band, or art, or whatever) mom
10. Find someone I can share my secrets with
11. Become a member of the Mile High Club
12. Eat completely Vegan for a year
13. Have a meaningful conversation with a bum
14. Get a mini-potbelly pig for a pet and name him Hamlet
15. Protest something
16. Take my dad to a Simon and Garfunkel concert
17. Re-watch all the old Disney movies
18. Donate hair to Locks of Love
19. Watch the ball drop in Times Square on New Year’s Eve
20. Dance with Ellen DeGeneres on her show
21. Learn French
22. Have a beer with Chuck Palahniuk
23. Volunteer to hold abandoned babies at a hospital
24. Wear yellow to a funeral
25. Surf
26. Be proud of my kid no matter who he ends up being when he grows up
27. Feed a giraffe
28. Learn to cook well
29. Get a job I love that doesn’t require a name tag or an apron
30. Send a thank you note to Ben and Jerry for being awesome
31. Get Mason’s picture on a bottle of Jones Soda
32. Learn to snowboard
33. Be completely debt-free... for at least one week
34. Stand in that place where you can be in four states at the same time
35. Give a large sum of money anonymously to someone who needs it
36. Run a marathon
37. Visit Ireland
38. Write a novel
39. Have it published
40. Pick up a hitchhiker
41. Play bingo with a bunch of old ladies and beat them
42. Swim in the Pacific Ocean
43. Kiss someone on top of the Eiffel Tower
44. Pay for the person behind me in line at a drive-thru
45. Take a spontaneous cross-country road trip
46. Plant a garden
47. Use a metal detector on the beach
48. Own a home
49. Adopt a puppy for Mason
50. Go to Mardi Gras
51. Skydive
52. Acquire smile lines and don’t let them bother me
53. Jet ski on the ocean
54. Scuba dive
55. Sing a Sublime song on stage with Bad Fish
56. See the Grand Canyon
57. Have a real backyard with a swing set and lots of room to run
58. Make snow angels naked
59. Take a hot air balloon ride
60. Help in a natural disaster recovery project
61. Win more than $1000 on a scratch-off lottery ticket
62. Hike in the Rocky Mountains
63. Read all the books on the 100 Greatest Novels of All Time list
64. See either David Bowie or Billy Joel in concert
65. Learn to play the guitar
66. Raise Mason to have compassion, confidence, determination, and a sense of humor
67. Graduate college
68. Float in zero gravity
69. Go down an up escalator
70. Donate eggs or be a surrogate mom
71. Get a tan on a nude beach
72. Make all Mason’s Halloween costumes ‘til he’s old enough to put up a fight
73. Be in a commercial
74. Read Henry David Thoreau’s Walden while sitting by Walden Pond
75. Learn to make sushi
76. Be a foster-parent
77. Bowl a 300
78. Go to Bonnaroo
79. Spend a night somewhere supposedly haunted
80. Donate to charity
81. Make my blog famous
82. Own a Dr. Seuss painting like this or this
83. Ride the world’s highest roller coaster (Six Flags, NJ)
84. Buy a round of drinks for an entire bar
85. Gamble more than I can afford to lose in Las Vegas
86. Beat my dad in darts
87. Get drunk off a bottle of Cabernet that costs more than my weekly salary
88. Remodel an old house
89. Get over my fear of masks
90. Go completely blonde and see if I have more fun that way
91. Have coffee at the Gas Light Café in NYC where Jack Kerouac hung out
92. Sleep until noon again someday
93. Stop feeling guilty
94. Fall in love
95. Be Mason’s best friend