100 by 100

There are 100 things I'd like to do before I celebrate my 100th birthday.  Well, quite number more than that, and the fun stuff more than once.  But you know...I have to digress in some direction(the jury is still out on whether I need some meds for the ADD).  Since encouraged to take a moment to contemplate the future's starlit canvas ( what?), here is the list of things so I have it written down in a place I might be able to find it to mark things off.

CRAZYBELOVED ONE HUNDRED THINGS I WANT TO DO BEFORE I TURN ONE HUNDRED

1.     Be debt free--all debt: credit cards, 
2.     Home
3.     Auto.
4.     Save to pay for College,
5.     Weddings 
6.      And retirement.
7.      Be finished with this house, by renovation or evacuation.
8.      Participate in the Neighborhood Christmas Tour of Historic Homes.
9.     Find a vacation rental we can return to year after year...we are thinking Outer Banks.
10.     Be well-read instead of just a reader.
11.     Finish the story that lives on my shoulder and never skips a day of asking to be written.
12.     Publish.
13.     Become known for my hospitality (don't think Martha, think iced tea in mason jars and laughing until 3 a.m; not moving from the dining room to the living room because it might break the spell).
14.     Learn to like feta or some other objectionable trendy food.
15.     Become a REALLY good cook.  Not a gourmet chef.  A Good Cook.
16.     Own a little neighborhood coffee shop.
17.      Enter the Pillsbury Bake-off.*
18.     Figure out a way to share with others in a way that meets needs that are beyond shelter and food.
19.     Get consistent with my nutrition and exercise.There are not really days off in life.
20.     Lose 10 more pounds.
21.      Be organized. Real life, finished singing the same old tune, once and for all.
22.      Have a house that appears to have been decorated with any amount of deliberateness.
23.      Have 15 minutes of fame for something pleasant.  Not for being a stupid idiot.
24.      Be a good listener.
25.      Visit the following: Grand Canyon.
26.      Philadelphia
27.      Washington D.C.
28.      Alaska
29.      Mount Rushmore
30.      Kenya
31.      Spontaneously jump into the car and take off for the beach.
32.      Get an slr and learn how to use it*
33.      Kick a bad habit-- TV, caffeine, sugar.
34.      Go geocaching*
35.      Farm (you know, a garden and a goat and some hens)
36.      Dress Fabulously
37.      Have a "signature scent".
38.      School my kids to graduation. To the option to go to a really good college.  If they choose.
39.      Get through this "teen" stage with my girls and move through to a fun healthy relationship.
40.      Be the mom who has the fun ideas and executes them simply and economically.
41.      Be the good grandma
42.      Have enormous great holiday celebrations.
43.      Meet some of my favorite bloggers in person*
44.      See some important relationships healed on both sides.
45.      Invite my cousins, SILS, and nieces & nephews to come visit and have them come or want to come.
46.      Get a cabin in the mountains for Christmas
47.      Be the family with season passes for the good stuff (not the living history museum).
48.      Have the courage and wit to stand up for the right so well that people are persuaded without being angry first.
49.      Learn to scuba dive (from Lance who promised it to us for a wedding gift).
50.      Learn to climb rocks.
51.      Get proficient at some sort of textile related craft.*
52.      Dance in the rain, again.
53.      Take Mickey to see the Yankees.
54.      Buy him a(nother) '65 Mustang.
55.      Be better at my job.
56.      Hang out with the Fergusons, again.
57.      Win something big.
58.      Own an RV.
59.      And the big @#$ truck to pull it with.
60.      See a miracle.
61.      Visit Boston.
62.      Know someone who eventually becomes REALLY famous.(Not like every other Oklahoman who knew Mary Hart when she was on Dannysday.)
63.      Help my kids search their heritage when the time comes.
64.     Go snowskiing.
65.     Spend Christmas in New England.
66.     Do something that would make my aunts and cousins proud.
67.     Raise beautiful flowers.
68.     Keep a journal.
69.     Have another transcendant friend.
70.     Be really old and have people asking what the secret is and saying crazy stuff like eating bacon, smoking tiparillos, going without sunscreen, drinking a shot of cheap tequila every time I go #2.  Or whatever.
71.     Build a home in the plan of either the 83rd street house or my Grandmother's house.
72.     Not skydive.
73.     Watch the sunset over a rocky shoreline, drinking wine, while my flat stomach peeks out the bottom of my camisole over the comfortable expensive jeans.
74.     Visit all the amusement parks so my husband can ride all the roller coasters(I like a day at the park, but don't particularly care for coasters.  Mickey and Diva E's joy would be enough).
75.    De-clutter my house.
76.    Learn to speak Chinese
77.    Stand-up at an Open Mic Night
78.    Enter a Chili Cook-Off.
79.    Win.
80.    Love.
81.    Help.
82.    Sing.
83.     Rejoice.
84.     Be a cause for rejoicing.
85.     Encourage others.
86.     Teach my kids the same.
87.     Teach my kids our family history and theirs.
88.     Get the Thank Yous out in a timely fashion.
89.     Get a niece from China.
90.     Move the washer and dryer downstairs to the right spot.
91.     Have a collection of something interesting (-er than coffee mugs and cookbooks).
92.     Have good hair and skin (please God, one time before I die).
93.     Not end my 15 minutes of fame by being a stupid idiot.
94.     Never EVER meet Tom Cruise (or Angelina Jolie or Kate Gosselin or Meredith Viera or Nicole Kidman).
95.     Be prepared in case of an emergency.
96.     Get a boy's room ready with a cowboy theme.
97.      Finish raising the funds for this adoption.
98.      Pack well.
99.      Fly to China.
100.      BRING MY SON HOME!!!!

Now wouldn't it be fun to pass your list to the person on your right and help make each others lists happen?

This is my first time to choose a Mama Kat prompt to write on.  It is a load of fun.






*some of these need to give credit to Jennifer @ Momma Made It Look Easy.  These are the ones I might not have remembered if I hadn't read her list.  Any other duplication is because we seem to look forward to some similar things.