101 in 1001

A long time friend of mine, Lindsey, has this great blog and she has had it for years. Her blog is like Jane Eyre whereas mine is more like...Twilight (SLS: the green leaves waved greenly). I love her layout and her posts are always so well written and so interesting. Today I feel like stealing one of her ideas for a post entitled 101 in 1001 which is 101 things you want to do in the next 1001 days. I have no idea if I'll actually get to 101 things BUT here goes. In no particular order other than when they pop into my head:

1. Sky dive the Alps

2. Learn to play the banjo

3. Have a huge vegetable garden
--3a. Con my child(ren) into weeding it for .25 cents a bushel like my parents did to me and Matt

4. Have our wedding

5. Go out West

6. Go to Alaska

7. Buy a house with lots of land (a pre-req for a vegetable garden I'm thinking)

8. Learn to make yogurt (I stole that one from Lindsey)

9. Learn to drive manual

10. Make a great Thanksgiving dinner

11. White water raft in Wisconsin

12. Bike from the Mississippi to Lake Michigan

13. Go apple picking

14. Istanbul

15. Get back to Ireland

16. Get a dog, or two

17. Paint the walls of our house

18. Join a summer softball league just for fun

19. Tour Wisconsin breweries (Cap brewery and New Glarus, specifically)

20. Make a whole cloth quilt (ok ok, START a whole cloth quilt)

21. Finish my behemoth of a sampler quilt

22. Read the biography of someone I admire

23. Kayak

24. Go rummaging

25. Bake a large variety of Christmas cookies from scratch

26. Get our first real Christmas tree

27. Learn how to use power tools better

28. Vatican City

29. Milk a cow

30. Learn to drive a big farm implement

31. Get a job that entails working with farmers and/or agricultural economics

32. Buy a really great old wooden serving tray so I can...

33. Make breakfast in bed

34. Get an espresso maker

35. Make homemade donuts

36. Make more scrap rugs

37. Dry laundry outside in the summer time

38. Buy a charcoal grill

39. Make our balcony here a place we enjoy being

40. Have a meal on our balcony

41. Buy a better sewing machine

42. Go to a Packer game

43. SCUBA

44. Get a blackberry (so shallow, yet so desirable)

45. Get a swing set for our kid(s) (and maybe me)

46. Subscribe to The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times

47. Actually READ aforementioned newspapers almost every day

48. Have a room only to sew/quilt in in my house

49. Transfer the rest of my VHS movies into DVDs

50. Have our son experience snow

51. Meet Bucky Badger and get a picture taken with him (I can't believe I never did)

52. Have a good collection of good wine

53. Learn how to buy good wine

54. See Amsterdam during tulip season

55. Go to a spa

56. Get some really great art to hang in our house

57. Get tons of old bookcases of all different sizes and fill them up over the years

58. Learn to make cheesecake

59. Get a claw foot tub

60. Get in the habit of waking up earlier

61. Invest

62. Have a bonfire in our backyard and roast marshmallows

63. Catch up on printing my pictures

64. Get a bird feeder

65. Buy a fire extinguisher (Seriously. There isn't one in our apartment)

66. Buy lots of Bob Dylan

67. Learn to french braid my own hair

68. Go to the Kentucky Derby wearing the appropriate hat

69. Buy a really great "little black dress"

70. Host guests at our current apartment

71. Play tour guide here

72. Reread some of my Russian lit books I was too busy to fully appreciate during the school year.

73. Get really great stationary

74. Take kickboxing

75. Pay off one of my student loans completely

76. Kiddie pool

77. Family Christmas card

78. Take tons of extended family pictures when we're home this December

79. Make my own butter

80. Cross off even more places in my "1000 Places to See Before You Die" book

81. Go for more walks

82.

Ok this is all you get. I started this at noon and it is now 1530; I've been doing other things but coming back to this as I thought of more but I have no more ideas. Maybe I'll slowly add to it in the coming days and weeks. It is way harder to come up with 101 things than I originally thought.