The First 40

Amanda inspired me.  So here it is, my List of Entirely Plausible Things I Would Like To Do Before I Die.  This is hardly a complete list.  Pretty much every single day I turn on the tv or read the newspaper or talk to someone and suddenly there are 18 new things I want to do.  I better get crackin'.  

1.)  Play the organ at Dodger Stadium

2.)  Paint a mural 

3.)  Learn how to double-dutch

4.)  Own a Slurpee machine

5.)  Host a really fancy dinner party with name cards

6.)  Fly a plane

7.)  Go to space camp

8.)  Get published

9.)  Learn how to arrange flowers

10.)  Learn how to bake really great bread

11.)  Meet the Queen

12.)  Attend a Passover Seder

13.)  Learn how to cut hair

14.)  Go ice skating on a frozen pond 

14a.)  Learn how to ice skate

15.)  Perfect my Scottish accent

16.)  Understand the mysteries of the game of cricket

17.)  Win at Monopoly

18.)  Make a perfect pie crust (taste and looks)

19.)  Ride a motorcycle

20.)  Be a waitress at a teeny little diner and call everyone sugar or honey

21.)  Have my own boysenberry bush

22.)  Do a handstand

23.)  Knit a sweater

24.)  Memorize a piece of music on the piano

25.)  Play a round of golf and get to drive the golf cart

26.) Go to a Big Hat Event and wear one (Kentucky Derby, ribbon cutting, British wedding, Baptist church on Easter Sunday, etc.)

27.)  Build a really awesome sand castle

28.)  Learn how to play an instrument that is portable, preferably the concertina.

29.)  Poach an egg

30.)  Fly off of an aircraft carrier in a fighter jet

31.)  Go on the Sound of Music Tour in Austria

32.)  Learn how to yodel

33.)  Go to one of those giant flower markets in Amsterdam

34.)  Soak in a thermal pool in Iceland

35.)  Go to a cherry blossom festival in Japan

36.)  Make it past chapter 7 of Wuthering Heights

37.)  Learn all the capitals in the world

38.)  Sing with a live band

39.)  Eat really good barbecue in Kansas City

40.)  Attend all 4 tennis grand slams