This is a follow-up to a post where I mentioned I was creating a list of 100 things I’ve always wanted to do. I couldn’t come up with 100, so for now it’s at 52, but more can be added to it later.
Read the list, let me know what you think, and tell me what ones are your favourite ones.
1. Watch an NHL playoffs finals live
2. Go to a Raptors game
3. See a baseball game at Fenway Park
4. Write a book
5. Visit Australia
6. Get my weight back to 180 pounds
7. Run for city council
8. Have a professional wrestling match
9. Watch Firefly and Serenity
10. Play in a poker tournament in Vegas
11. Go to the NHL draft
12. Get Earl Emerson’s autograph
13. Watch the Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania live (this is half done, as I’ve seen Wrestlemania already)
14. Finish paying off my line of credit
15. See Buddy Wasisname in concert
16. Bring Vanessa to Labrador City
17. Create a scholarship in my name
18. Win a journalism award
19. Attend a Habs playoff game
20. Learn to juggle
21. Play Great Balls of Fire on the piano
22. Go rock climbing
23. Be in the Guiness Book of Records
24. Lift the Stanley Cup
25. Meet one of the cast of Buffy, Angel or Lost
26. Go on a cruise
27. Visit the Statue of Liberty
28. Get my high school sweater back (I lost it, it was my favourite sweater of all-time)
29. Have a bad movie marathon
30. Make a geyser with Mentos and Diet Coke
31. Go to an auction
32. Read the Bible
33. Visit the Alamo
34. Tell Sandra Oh she looks like my wife
35. Learn to dance
36. Finish my university degree
37. Visit Hawaii
38. Learn to drive a manual car
39. Get 1,000 different NHL autographs
40. Donate blood
41. Learn to stop on ice skates
42. Get a dog and name it kitty
43. See an NHL game in 6 Canadian cities (already been to one in Montreal and Ottawa, so 4 left to go)
44. Complete a first aid course
45. Read every Harry Potter book (I haven’t read any yet)
46. Hit a home run (I’ve hit plenty of inside the park home runs, but never one over the fence)
47. Get 500 hits in one day on my blog
48. Throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game
49. Research my family tree
50. Watch the Superbowl live.
51. Be on a game show
52. Read the Guns of Normandy and the two followup books
53. Find a Googlewhack.
54. Go to the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.
Make dinner for your favourite co-worker named Blair.
I’ve done about four or five of the ones you have. Number 28 is my favourite, though possibly the one most out of your control.