The Do-Over Life: I Needed This Today

Brave - by Sara Bareilles

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Mande

The Do-Over List

1. Display my art at a gallery.
2. Travel to every continent.
3. Complete my family history.
4. Learn to play an instrument.
5. Pay for a stranger’s meal at a nice restaurant.
6. Learn to speak Italian.
7. Go on a meditation retreat.
8. Write to a pen pal from a foreign country.
9. Take a cross country road trip.
10. Graduate from college.
11. Write my own memoir.
12. Spend a summer backpacking through Europe.
13. Go to a Broadway play in New York.
14. Brew my own beer/wine.
15. Sew an entire outfit from scratch.
16. Go on a train ride through wine country.
17. Run a marathon.
18. Go on a week-long bike trip.
19. Spend the day on a nude beach.
20. Kiss a stranger.
21. Skydive.
22. Attend a red carpet event.
23. Publish a children’s book with Jeannie.
24. Visit the reservation where my Grandma Harper was born.
25. Shoot a gun.
26. Swim with the sharks.
27. Travel through Italy with Michele.
28. Grow a garden in the city.
29. Can a year’s worth of food storage.
30. See the Northern Lights.
31. Achieve my ideal weight.
32. Climb a mountain.
33. Experience an epic sunrise.
34. Experience an epic sunset.
35. Join a social etiquette class to further refine my mannerisms.
36. Learn how to do the Salsa.
37. Volunteer at a hospice.
38. Try a vegetarian diet for at least 21 days.
39. Fly somewhere first class.
40. Visit a volcano.
41. Stay overnight at a castle.
42. Throw a mega party.
43. Go to Mardi Gras.
44. Invent a board game.
45. See the 7 natural wonders of the world.
46. Make an anonymous donation of significant value.
47. Go to Burning Man.
48. Learn to make pottery.
49. Read the top 100 novels of all time.
50. Watch the top 100 movies on American Film Institute’s list.
51. Discover my life’s purpose.
52. Own a beach house.
53. Bury a time capsule with friends – open 10 years later.
54. Go on vacation with no luggage.
55. Plan and execute an elaborate practical joke.
56. Skinny dip at midnight.
57. Spend the night in a haunted house.
58. Take pole dancing lessons.
59. Participate in a “Polar Bear Plunge”.
60. Ride a camel to the Great Pyramid.
61. Fall deeply in love – helplessly and unconditionally.
62. Sleep under the stars.
63. Visit Auschwitz.
64. Walk on a glacier.
65. Throw a dart at a map and travel there.
66. Go one month without eating out.
67. Shower in a waterfall.
68. Watch a meteor shower.
69. Have adventurous sex.
70. Go on a treasure hunt.
71. Visit New England in the fall.
72. Compete in a cooking competition.
73. Invent my own recipe.
74. Take a painting class.
75. Purchase a fancy cocktail dress for drinks with the girls.
76. Learn how to take pictures.
77. Participate in an archeological dig.
78. Visit Stonehenge.
79. Explore the archives in the Netherlands for family documents.
80. Be an extra in a movie.
81. Volunteer at a hospital working with cancer patients.
82. Keep a journal for at least one year.
83. Organize an annual ‘friend reunion’.
84. Become reliant only on public transportation.
85. Camp on the beach.
86. Plant a garden & live off of it for one week.
87. Remodel a house/apartment to reflect MY style.
88. Purchase Christmas for someone on need.
89. Walk across a suspension bridge.
90. Be in two places at once.
91. Ride a horse on the beach at sunset.
92. Hike up to the top of Multnomah Falls.
93. Hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
94. Revisit the places that made you who you are.
95. Start a tradition with someone outside of your family.
96. Island hop through Greece.
97. Attend services at Roslyn Chapel
98. Spend the night in a snowball (igloo).
99. Join an online dating service.
100. Visit all 28 places on the Smithsonian Magazine Life List.
101. Own a bookstore.
102. Go to Machu Pichu.

The Do-Over Life

Thursday, May 23, 2013

I Needed This Today

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