My list of 101 things I’d like to do/try:

1. Learn HTML so I can design websites

2.  Photograph my sister and her husband

3. Make caramel rolls from scratch

4.  Make fresh squeezed OJ/lemonade

5.  Go camping in Colorado

6.  Travel to St. Lucia

7.  Visit Denmark (part of my ethnic heritage)

8.  Go to Tulip Festival in Pella, IA.

9.  Visit the zoo in Omaha

10.  Be able to name more than 2 counties in my state…

11. Run a marathon

12.  Start a business

13.  Publish an article

14.  Be a little bolder

15.  Snowboard in Vancouver

16. Go heli-skiing with my dad

17.  Decorate a room in my house

18.  Recover a piece of furniture (we’ll start with the dining room chairs…)

19.  Finish my scrapbook from my trip to France in 2004…

20.  Go back to France!

21.  Go camping with my niece and nephew.

22.  Sew a dress for myself.

23.  Start to compost.

24.  Have a vegetable garden

25.  Landscape/plant flowers

26.  Maintain an indoor herb garden in the winter (I have failed at this consistently)

27.  Do a better job at keeping in touch with family and friends

28.  Visit all 50 states (still to visit: Oklahoma, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Alaska, North Carolina, Kentucky, Deleware, Louisianna)

29.  Go on an overseas mission trip

30.  Take a cooking class

31.  Make pottery again (I miss this…)

32.  Stop biting my nails

33. Buy a house

34.  Learn how to salsa dance with my husband

35.  Spend the night in a fancy hotel

36. I’m too chicken for sky diving, but maybe bungee jumping

37.  Go to Cedar Point

38.  Watch all of the movies that have won a best picture oscar

39.  Read something by Jane Austen

40.  Write poetry

41.  Become a certified hospice-care worker

42.  Pray more

43.  Care about others more

44.  Find a shampoo that doesn’t bug my husband, or dry my hair out

45.  Figure out a hairstyle for myself that I actually like

46. Become less fearful of what others think of me

47.  Host sunday brunch/tea

48.  Send a friend a gift, just because

49.  Make a german chocolate cake for my husband

50.  Learn my MIL’s danish layer cake recipe

51.  Call my grandparents more frequently

52.  Find a home church

53.  Make 5 Martha Stewart crafts

54.  Donate blood

55.  Host a murder mystery dinner party

56.  Pick up the dinner tab for a stranger

57.  Sew pillows, curtains or something else for my house

58.  Go t the Kansas Rodeo

59.  Visit Arches national park, or National monument park

60.  Go to a drive-in movie

61.  Complete a fitness class

62.  Take a self-defense class

63.  Organize all my photos on my computer

64.  Design a wedding photo album

65.  Play guitar more regularly

66.  Learn how to do my make up

67. Learn how to be a grill master

68.  Watch fireworks over a lake

69.  Dust my house regularly

70.  Not complain about waking up at 6 am every day

71.  Read my Bible every day for a month

72.  Sew something with my mom

73.  Bike to a destination, and camp there

74.  Sell something at the farmers market

75.  Participate in a CSA

76.  Send flowers to a new mom

77.  Welcome new neighbors with fresh bread or a warm casserole

78.  Get rid of anything in my closet I haven’t worn in the last year

79.  Refinish a piece of furniture

80.  Surprise my husband with a candlelit dinner

81.  Host a poker night

82.  Have children

83.  Go to China

84.  Go ice skating outside

85.  Go cross country skiing with my husband

86.  Go on a backpacking trip with my husband

87.  Attend a poetry reading

88.  Go to a political rally for someone I disagree with

89.  Build my own darkroom

90.  Submit a photo of mine to a competition

91.  Arrange flowers for a centerpiece

92.  Build a piece of furniture

93.  Make my own household cleaners

94.  Cook with organic beef

95.  Make my own butter

96.  Try soy milk

97.  Rent/or sublet to a friend in need

98.  Do a charity walk/race

99.  Share my faith with a friend

100.  Blog about my 101 things.

101.  When I’ve finished this list, make another one!101 T