The List: 1-250

1 Create a list of 1001 things that I would like to do/see/achieve in my life! – IN PROGRESS (96%)

2 Scan all of my Pre-digital photos onto my laptop – IN PROGRESS

3 Have a garden and grow my own herbs, fruit and vegetables

4 Get back down to my Pre-University weight, and stay there (or less!) for at least 3 months!

5 Get rid of all my debt (other than a mortgage) – IN PROGRESS

6 Create an Emergency Fund with at least 3 months wages in it

7 Gather together all of my recipes, making sure I note where I got them & when I use them – IN PROGRESS

8 Write Thank you cards for both Birthday and Christmas for 3 years – IN PROGRESS

9 Learn HTML enough to create a website for this list!

10 Upload 365 mug shots to dailymugshot.comIN PROGRESS

11 Create an Online Photo Journal to show off my photos

12 Buy a House

13 Get a Master’s Degree

14 Learn a NEW Language (not French or German) to the point where I can hold a conversation

15 Sponsor a Child

16 Stop Smoking – 1st Try- IN PROGRESS (since 16th Apr 2012)

17 Learn to like Coffee

18 Learn to like Tomatoes

19 Take up a NEW sport / form of exercise

20 Read the Lyrics to Songs and post the meaningful ones online – IN PROGRESS

21 Re-learn to Knit and make something as a present for someone

22 Go to the Theatre 100 timesIN PROGRESS

23 Get my Great-Grandmas ring re-sized so that I can wear it

24 Get my Godmothers ring re-sized so that I can wear it

25 Buy a house plant and keep it alive for at least a year!

26 Buy a wooden box and use it as a memory box to put all of my memories in

27 Take a flight on a hand glider

28 Apologise in writing to 5 people from my past about whatever I did wrong to them, and send them

29 Drive a VERY expensive convertible

30 Eat something I would never normally think of eating!

31 Do something nice for someone without them knowing

32 Sky Dive

33 Meet a man that I want to spend the rest of my life with …

34 … and encourage him to start his own list

35 Go Skinny Dipping

36 Own something from Tiffany’s

37 Write a book about the achievements I have made in completing the list

38 Stay up all night and watch the sunrise

39 Have a food fight

40 Bet more than £10 on the winning Horse

41 Have afternoon tea at The Ritz in London

42 Ride a Harley Davidson

43 Buy everyone in a crowded bar a drink – “the next rounds on me!”

44 Have a Snowball Fight

45 Scream as loudly as possible in a deserted area

46 Bail a friend out of jail

47 Work my way through “No One Cares What you had for Lunch” and post the results here

48 Sit with a stranger in a restaurant, eating, drinking and chatting

49 Milk a cow

50 Catch a bouquet at a wedding

51 Buy (and use) a Jukebox

52 Be able to name and locate 10 constellations

53 Walk down Abbey Road (a la The Beatles)

54 Cover a whole wall in photos

55 Have a sari made for me

56 Buy something at an auction (real life)

57 Sell something at an auction (real life)

58 Be a Godmother

59 Celebrate Chinese New Year in Chinatown in London

60 Organise all of my favourite quotes and passages into one notebook – IN PROGRESS

61 Cut down my own Christmas tree at least once

62 Dye my hair purple (highlights at least)

63 Grow a Sunflower successfully

64 Have a mud fight

65 Go on an Easter Egg hunt

66 See the Grand Canyon

67 Visit Every African Country – IN PROGRESS

68 Drive Route 66 (at least 1/3 of it in miles)

69 Go on a Cruise (that lasts at least 7 days!)

70 Learn to Scuba Dive

71 Learn to Surf

72 Visit Stonehenge, United Kingdom

73 Visit Vesuvius

74 Watch a space shuttle launch (live!)

75 See the Northern Lights

76 Go to Oktoberfest in Munich

77 Witness the running of the Bulls Festival in Spain

78 Ride in a Hot Air Balloon

79 Visit all 50 American States – IN PROGRESS

80 Swim with Dolphins

81 Visit the Guinness factory in Dublin

82 Visit The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

83 See Whales in wild

84 Backpack through Europe for 2 months

85 Walk along the beach at night with someone I love

86 Visit Tokyo

87 Get Married

88 **Personal**

89 Have Children

90 Give Birth (Not the same as number 89!)

91 **Personal**

92 **Personal**

93 “Read” the complete works of Shakespeare – IN PROGRESS

94 Watch the New York Yankees at the Yankee Stadium

95 Watch all 100 of the “Movieline Magazines’ 100 Greatest Foreign Films

96 Meet Take That!

97 Watch England play at Wembley

98 Watch England play at Twickenham

99 Watch England play at The Oval

100 Got to Wimbledon and watch a Brit play

101 Read the BBC’s Top 200 Reads (from 2003) – IN PROGRESS

102 Watch the Lord of the Rings Trilogy

103 Watch the English National Ballet perform in London

104 See a Shakespearean play at the RSC in Stratford

105 See a Shakespearean play at The Globe in London

106 Go to an Ice Hockey match in the USA or Canada

107 Watch Manchester United play at Old Trafford

108 See in New Year in Times Square, New York

109 Read the Bible from cover to cover

110 Get backstage passes at a concert

111 Get on a bands tour bus

112 Attend a movie marathon (at least 6 films in a row at once)

113 See 100 different bands/singers perform live – IN PROGRESS

114 Go on a Bobsleigh run

115 Start a charity

116 Give Blood and achieve 100 donations – IN PROGRESS

117 Put all of my CD’s onto my computer and iPod – IN PROGRESS

118 Kiss in torrential rain

119 Watch a film at a drive-in Cinema

120 Visit the Great Wall of China

121 Appear in a Movie

122 Crash a party

123 Ride the The Star of Nanchang

124 Get a tattoo

125 Get my tongue pierced

126 Receive flowers from someone other than my Mum or best friend

127 **Personal**

128 See “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” live and dress up

129 Buy a star and name it after me!

130 Walk across the Golden Gate Bridge

131 Drive down the Motorway with the windows open, singing loudly!

132 Fly a plane

133 Help an animal to give birth

134 Help a human to give birth

135 Win Money in a TV/Radio/Magazine competition

136 Visit all 7 Continents – IN PROGRESS {NA} {SA} {AN} {AF} {EU} {AU} {AS}

137 Have my photo in the Newspaper

138 Try parasailing

139 Be elected for something by a group of peers

140 Shave my head

141 Save someone’s life

142 Go Dog Sledding

143 Go on Safari in Africa

144 Ride a camel in the desert

145 Have a Croissant and Hot Chocolate in a Parisian Cafe and watch the World go by

146 Open a Swiss Bank Account

147 Stay in the Ice Hotel

148 Visit the Taj Mahal

149 Learn to Tap Dance

150 Give £50 to a busker

151 Live in another Country for at least a year (Full time)

152 Carve my initials in a tree somewhere

153 Think of 10 people who have had an impact on my life and write and tell them

154 Throw a Block Party / Street Party

155 Go on a 2 week holiday without phones, TVs or computers

156 Make a Memory quilt – IN PROGRESS

157 Christen a boat with champagne

158 Plant flower bulbs in a public space

159 Serve on a Jury

160 Climb Snowdonia

161 Sleep under the stars in a place with no noise or light pollution

162 Cross the Atlantic on a boat

163 Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans

164 Get drunk with someone famous

165 Get a massage from a professional

166 Go bareback riding along a beach

167 Learn to Ballroom dance for my wedding

168 Experience a wedding of someone of a different faith to me

169 Fire walk

170 Send and receive 50 postcards on Postcrossing.comIN PROGRESS

171 Change a tire on a car

172 Change a fuse in a plug

173 Stay in a haunted house over night

174 Visit a concentration camp

175 Throw a surprise party for someone I love

176 Watch a game of Hurling in Ireland

177 Observe a religious tradition of all religions other than my own

178 Eat ‘cake’ in Amsterdam

179 Go to a festival and camp

180 Stay in a Bedouin camp

181 Stay in a secluded cabin by a lake

182 Invest a small amount of money in the stock market

183 Write a message in a bottle … And send it!

184 Plant a tree

185 Start a scholarship or bursary in my name

186 See a musical on Broadway

187 Go to a foreign Country with no hotel booked

188 Follow a band/singer around for a while and see at least 3 consecutive shows

189 Organise a big bonfire party

190 Jump off something really high into water

191 Join a choir (and stay with them for at least a year)

192 Fly first class on a long haul flight

193 Carve a pumpkin family

194 Make a snowman

195 See all of the planets through a microscope

196 Go White water rafting

197 Make a will

198 Gamble in Las Vegas

199 Ride a mechanical bull for longer than 10 seconds

200 Make homemade bread

201 Make homemade lemonade

202 Make homemade ice cream

203 Make a pizza from scratch

204 Make a curry from scratch

205 Spend a whole day at the Spa

206 Hire a limo for a day and go shopping

207 Play ‘Spin the Bottle’

208 Build a sandcastle

209 Jump in a pool fully clothed

210 Buy absolutely nothing for a week

211 Watch the changing of the Guard in London

212 Find a four leaf clover

213 See a Cirque du Soleil show

214 Kiss the Blarney Stone

215 Travel on the Orient Express

216 Order a hotdog from a stand in NY

217 Visit 50 places with funny names and have my photo taken with the signs

218 Visit the Leaning Tower of Pisa and take my picture trying to ‘hold it up’!

219 Go to Disneyland Paris

220 Watch the sun come up over Ayres Rock

221 Give something back to the Aborigines who live at Ayres Rock

222 Teach someone to read

223 Teach someone to write

224 Attend a Football World Cup game (preferably England)

225 Attend a RWC game (Preferably England)

226 Attend an event at a summer Olympics

227 Volunteer at a nationwide event in the UK (read this and this)

228 Visit Mount Rushmore

229 Visit Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, London, England

230 **Personal**

231 **Personal**

232 **Personal**

233 **Personal**

234 **Personal**

235 **Personal**

236 Be an Egg donor

237 Write a letter of thanks for a good product or service

238 Deliver a speech to over 4000 people

239 Provide the Police with an anonymous tip

240 Live in a Capital City for 6 months (full time)

241 Live in the Country (middle of nowhere) for 6 months

242 Go on all of the City Sightseeing Bus Tours (Listed) – IN PROGRESS

243 Create my Family History – IN PROGRESS

244 Create Coffee Table books of my family history for members of the family

245 Learn to write my name in Russian – IN PROGRESS

246 Have something published on postsecret.com

247 Take a homeless person out to dinner

248 Have a New Year’s kiss

249 Be a maid / matron of honour for someone

250 Attend the filming of an episode of Top Gear

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