1. Eat a croissant in Paris.
2. Learn how to ice skate backwards.
3. Speak two foreign languages fluently.
4. Write a book.
5. Get cast in a Broadway show.
6. Learn how to ski, refrain from complaining while I’m learning.
7. Swim with bioluminescent plankton in Puerto Rico.
8. Give birth.
9. Throw a dinner party.
10. Visit the Polish town where my grandmother was born.
11. Plant a garden, watch it grow.
12. Write thank you letters to all the teachers and professors who altered the course of my life.
13. Fall in love.
14. Appear in a television show.
15. Go horseback riding.
16. Go on a roadtrip across the United States.
17. Visit Prince Edward Island, pretend I am Anne of Green Gables.
18. Learn to surf.
19. Perform in an improv troupe for an audience.
20. Stand atop the Great Wall of China.
21. Make a family.
22. Have three best girlfriends.
23. Own a super kick ass digital camera to document my adventures.
24. Practice yoga in India.
25. Pay off my parents’ mortgage.
26. Help children who aren’t mine.
27. Change the oil in my car by myself.
28. Eat pasta and drink wine with Tom at a table on the sidewalk in Italy.
29. Rock my baby in my parents’ rocking chair.
30. Live in another country for a year.
31. Walk across the Brooklyn bridge.
32. Book a commercial.
33. Have $0 credit card debt.
34. Go to Las Vegas for a rowdy weekend of debauchery.
35. Get offered a part without having to audition for it.
36. Take my dad to Nashville, sing along to country music in a bar at the top of our lungs.
37. Make a habit of saying ‘yes’ to things that scare me.
38. Rent a beach house for a week in August, take my entire family.
39. Eat a piece of Belgian chocolate in Belgium.
40. Rent a car and drive up the California coastline.
41. Throw myself a huge golden birthday party, when I turn 29 on the 29th.
42. Sip a cool drink on a hot night in New Orleans.
43. Finish every book on the Modern Library’s list of 100 Best Novels.
44. Take a pottery class, make a pot.
45. Learn to play the banjo.
46. Drink Guinness in a pub in Ireland.
47. Get a master’s degree.
48. Watch all three Godfather movies in a row.
49. Make a quilt.
50. Go to Maine to see the fall foliage.
51. Do two pull-ups.
52. Live as a brunette or a redhead.
53. Learn Latin.
54. Host Saturday Night Live.
55. Ride in a hot air balloon.
56. Swim with dolphins.
57. Learn to yodel.
58. See the cherry blossoms in DC.
59. See the Sydney Opera House in Australia.
60. Go to Alaska to see the Northern Lights.
61. Visit the Van Gogh museum in Holland.
62. Learn to juggle.
63. Donate blood four times a year.
64. Invest in the stock market.
65. Create a home with an inviting, joyous, comfortable, loving atmosphere. Preferably with a piano in the living room.
66. Resist the urge to gossip.
67. Find the love of my life, build a life together.
68. Take a bath every Sunday for a year.
69. Go to a Yankees /Red Sox game at Yankee Stadium.
70. Cook 1,000 new recipes.
71. Make it through “The Artist’s Way”.
72. Sit on a front porch, summer night, drink a mint julep.
73. Watch the floats inflate the night before the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
74. Pay off my student loans.
75. Have tea and scones in London.
76. Organize a giant food fight.
77. Sing outloud on the subway for tips.
78. Make a Halloween costume from scratch.
79. Make an appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
80. Open up a School of Practical Philosophy.
81. Throw my daughter a sleep-over party.
82. Run a half-marathon.
83. Learn how to make pasta from scratch.
84. Meditate twice a day for 30 minutes.