Real Talk with MandiLynn

Jul 21

Who’s down for making my dreams come true?

So I wrote some of this back when I was 11 or 12 and sick the first time. I added a few things they are in bold. If I completed it, it has a strike through…

We could totes do this Gang!

(listed in no particular order.)

  1. Go skinny dipping.
  2. Ride every ride at Kings Island.
  3. Ride the Dumbo ride at Disney World
  4. Go to Disney World
  5. Go to Universal Studios
  6. Visit Ireland
  7. Visit NewZealand
  8. Try Drugs.
  9. Visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
  10. Meet Rupert Grint
  11. Go on a “girls only” trip with my best friend.
  12. Laugh until I pee my pants.
  13. Attend photography classes.
  14. Tour the Statue of Liberty.
  15. Go on an Alaskan cruise.
  16. Light a firecracker.
  17. Swim with dolphins.
  18. Witness newly-hatched sea turtles making the dangerous trek from their nest to the sea.
  19. Muster up the courage to wear a bikini at the beach sans cover-up.
  20. Grow my hair out long enough to reach my lower back.
  21. Cut all that hair off and donate it to Locks of Love.
  22. Volunteer my time with the elderly.
  23. Eat sushi.
  24. Buy a classic car.
  25. Learn to sew.
  26. Win a stuffed animal from one of those claw machines.
  27. Dance with someone under the stars.
  28. Ride a roller coaster.
  29. Ride a camel
  30. Ride an elephant
  31. Ice skate on a frozen lake.
  32. Make a random stranger smile.
  33. Grow my own vegetables.
  34. Get up and sing at a karaoke bar.
  35. Ride a horse. 
  36. Be in two places at one time.
  37. Go surfing.
  38. Bake my own bread.
  39. Watch the sun rise.
  40. Learn to snowboard.
  41. Give baked beans a chance.
  42. Knit a scarf.
  43. Read all day in bed.
  44. Learn to play an  5 instruments.
  45. Ride a mechanical bull.
  46. Hang upside down on the monkey bars.
  47. Ride a kayak.
  48. Scuba dive.
  49.  Bake a cake from scratch.
  50. Sit on a porch swing on a warm summer night. 
  51. Get my Black Belt.
  52. Learn to salsa.
  53. Own a sexy red dress.
  54. Learn to ride a motorcycle.
  55. Fly somewhere.
  56. Fly first class. 
  57. Kiss a frog.
  58. Publish a book.
  59. Go deep sea fishing.
  60. Clean and gut a fish.
  61. Learn to say “I love you” in ten different languages.
  62. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
  63. Eat dessert first.
  64. Learn to juggle three balls at a time.
  65. Pelt random strangers with snowballs and get away with it.
  66. Visit Jerusalem.
  67. Spend a day at the spa.
  68. Take the official IQ test 
  69. Learn to play decently at cards/poker
  70. Learn to play golf
  71. Learn to play piano by ear
  72. Learn conversational Spanish
  73. Learn to sail 
  74. Tell someone about Jesus
  75. Complete a real family tree.
  76. Be able to identify more constellations (beyond Orion & the Dippers)
  77. Build a really great tree house.
  78. Write a song
  79. Invent something & take out a patent
  80. Become handy with some new dangerous tools
  81. Visit all 7 continents. Yes, this includes Antarctica. 
  82. Visit all US national parks 
  83. Visit every US state (ONLY 7 TO GO!)
  84. See the pyramids & the Sphinx (Egypt, not Vegas) 
  85. Walk the Great Wall 
  86. Visit the Terra Cotta Warriors in Xian
  87. Visit Beijing, China 
  88. Visit the Taj Mahal, India
  89. See the 7 Wonders of the world
  90. Visit France
  91. Go to Austria
  92. Sleep in a castle
  93. See Italy 
  94. Visit Japan
  95. See a theatre in Greece
  96. Big heads on Easter Island
  97. Ride in a Hot Air balloon and/or a Zeppelin
  98. Walk longish segments of the Appalachian Trail 
  99. Take a cruise 
  100. Travel by train across the US 83.
  101. Take a US roadtrip from coast to coast 84.
  102. Take flight Lessons
  103. See the northern lights 
  104. Take a helicopter ride
  105. Go whitewater rafting 
  106.  Live in or travel around another country for a few months
  107. Marry someone 
  108. Give Birth
  109. Get back under 200 pounds 
  110. Create a unique recipe that’s pretty darn good
  111. See the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco 
  112. See Mount Rushmore 
  113. See the Empire State Building 
  114. Climb up the Statue of Liberty 
  115. Go to Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston
  116. Finish high school 
  117. Get a college degree 
  118. Get a Masters
  119. Get a PhD 
  120. Get into Juilliard 
  121. Get an Honorary Degree 
  122. Give the Commencement Speech at a major university
  123. Be interviewed on Oprah. 
  124. Be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
  125. Have a street named after you.
  126. Be inducted into a Hall of Fame 
  127. Be awarded a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  128. Cut the ribbon at a major opening.
  129. Win an Emmy.
  130. Make the front page of the newspaper.
  131. Be interviewed on The Today Show. Swim with dolphins
  132. Go whale-watching 
  133. Go on safari.
  134. Milk a cow
  135. Get your palms read.
  136. See a psychic.
  137. Get a tarot card reading. 
  138. Watch a baseball game at Wrigley Field- Chicago, IL
  139. Watch a basketball game at Madison Square Garden  
  140. Audition for American idol 
  141. Audition for a role in a movie 
  142. Audition for a Broadway play 
  143. Audition for a sitcom