100 Things I Want to do in My Lifetime

Not a story...just things I'd like to do while I'm here on earth.

1) Start helping out at Friends of the Colorado Lagoon and Los Cerritos Wetlands (I'm kind of SUPPOSED to, that's the community service I haven't started yet).

2) See Hawaii.

3) Learn a new language (don't mind trying Spanish again, but learning my mom's native language, Tagalog, would be nice too).

4) Get a book published. Poetry, short stories, and/or a novel, just as long as I do it. That's my dream. =)

5) Find the man God meant for me to fall in love and spend the rest of my life with. I know you're out there, baby.

6) Getting a massage would actually be nice too.

7) Lose weight. Seriously. I think my jeans are getting too tight.

8) Make a semi-permanent switch to decaf, moreso when I get Starbucks.

9) Learn more about who my grandparents were before I or my parents were ever born.

10) Contribute in a huge way, somehow, in obtaining rights for our gay citizens, including, but not limited to, marriage.

11) Be able to drive up the coastline of California and take pictures of the ocean I love so much.

12) Get my own iPod. The one I have is a hand-me-down from my sister, although this one apparently is still working and my mom's new one just freakin' died.

13) Go shopping in Downtown LA. That sounds kind of dumb, but the problem is that it's roughly 20 miles away and it's not the safest place to be by yourself, especially if you're a girl.

14) Go back to New York and get onto Ellis Island to find my great-grandfather's name.

15) Go snowboarding. Who wants to drive me to the mountains? Cuz I sure as hell don't wanna be driving up there in the snow.

16) Visit the Philippines. After watching this, do you blame me? www.youtube.com/watch

17) Meet Megan. Wait, I'm doing that in June!

18) Graduate with my BA in English from CSULB. I'm making it happen, but damnit, don't rush me!!!

19) Get a Tempur-Pedic mattress and see if it works for me. If it does and I get rich off my books, I'm buying one for my parents.

20) Go back to Palos Verdes, admire and immerse myself into the nature, and remember why I'm in love with it. <3

21) Meet the other four members of *NSYNC. I already met Lance! See?

22) Get drunk. Not tipsy, not buzzed, drunk.

23) Own a pair of leather boots. Preferrably black.

24) See the Queen Mary in Long Beach. Nope, I haven't seen it. Sad.

25) When I move into my first place, I want to have my place littered with candles and all kinds of ornate candle holders.

26) I want to hang a sprig of winter jasmine over my bed when I sleep. I can probably arrange that tomorrow when I get home from work.

27) Start taking vocal lessons so I can strengthen my singing voice.

28) Take kickboxing so I can kick your a*s. Assuming I don't pop my knee out in the process.

29) Take up fencing. Not fence as in what divides your property from your nosy neighbor's, but the fencing in which I pick up a sword and duel you to the death.

30) Take pictures at a place like Glamour Shots or whatever so I can look like what my classmates did when we were in high school, despite the fact it's almost been 5 years since we graduated.

31) Find a dress which I can actually like the way I look in.

32) Convince my one friend to let me buy her a male prostitute for her birthday. Solves her "I don't have a man" problem for a few hours. Depending on how good he is, though.

33) Be someone's bridesmaid/Maid of Honor. I SWEAR I won't pull what my character Angela did!

34) Make love under the stars in the forest. I'm not sure if I'd really like it, but if it looks like we can get away with it without getting caught, I'm game.

35) See all the countries of the British Isles. And when I'm there, I'm only referring to each place by its own name because I don't want anyone getting their breeches in a bunch (as opposed to panties) cuz I called them "British".

36) Read the books on my shelf I haven't gotten around to.

37) Go to Disneyland with people I like and see how that goes.

38) Go see the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Strange request, huh?

39) Start a new scrapbook for my college years.

40) Surprise the hell out of my husband by doing a sexy dance on video. I have dreams, too.

41) Re-visit the Grand Canyon. I miss it.

42) Get the DVD set of Monty Python. Let's see how bored I can get!

43) Read all of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. I really should have put that for 42.

44) Smack Steve's butt. If you don't know who Steve is, you've never been on Gregory Michael's forum.

45) Go to Jamaica. Preferably Paradise Island.

46) Have my honeymoon in the Virgin Islands. Virgin. Islands. I go the Virgin Islands and I leave my virginity there. That's why it's called the Virgin Islands.

47) Be able to tell my students that some of my teachers were published poets. They really are. I'm being taught by one right now.

48) Swim in clear water. That might be taken care of when I accomplish # 2, 45, and 46.

49) Drive around Long Beach for once. Let me see the city that I occupy so much.

50) Learn how to make my grandpa's pancakes. When my grandpa's gone, I want to be able to keep that alive.

51) Go to a powwow and eat actual frybread. Mine sucks. It's not bad but it doesn't look anything like it does in the movies I have.

52) Return to Red Rock Canyon in Mojave, hopefully during a meteor shower like I did the first time.

53) Do a rain dance. Nothing specific from any Native American tribe, I just seriously want to go out to the desert, let my body go and dance and connect with nature and my spiritual side.

54) Take up yoga. There's a more acceptable form of connecting with nature and my spiritual side.

55) Invite Mormon missionaries into my house, let them talk, and then interrupt with "Oh, what time is it? I forgot, Satanic Mass is right now!"

56) Kick my coworker's a*s if he even mentions the words "my neck/back" in the same sentence! Don't ask unless you really need to know.

57) Learn guitar. I think I should stay away from the piano.

58) Go back to Lunada Bay and take more beautiful pictures of the ocean and the sunset.

59) Go back to the Griffith Observatory now that it reopened. I hope they're not still doing that stupid RSVP thing!

60) Learn how to play poker so my uncle will stop making fun of me. But I beat them that once!

61) Learn how to French braid my hair...that'd look pretty.

62) Get a new DVD player. Mine's acting stupid right now. I still wanna drop it in a tub of hot, soapy water.

63) Get "Zorro, the Gay Blade" on DVD!

64) Write a letter to Stephenie Meyers and tell her how Twilight was inspiring. Don't quote me on that.

65) Take another astronomy class that doesn't involve all the damn math I had last time.

66) See New Zealand. But I'm staying the hell away from that one park where Juliette Hume and Pauline Parker killed Parker's mom.

67) Go parasailing! W00 h00!

68) Go on American Idol, sing like crap on purpose, let the judges (specifically Simon) make fun of me, so when I go out and Ryan Seacrest asks why I'm laughing, I'll do a "special" performance.

69) Speaking of Ryan Seacrest, I totally wanna pull a Ryan's Roses on someone. Not a boyfriend (hopefully, I'll NEVER have to do that), but just play a prank on someone. Heh.

70) Learn how to straighten my hair without my cousins nagging me to let them do it when I'm over their house.

71)  Live long enough to see my children and grandchildren grow up.

72) Deepen my expertise on the James Bond movies. I'd really love to watch all 22 back-to-back-to-back.

73) Same goes for my Gundam Wing series. Although I'd love having the DVD set first.

74) Own "The Reel Nsync" but I think I'll wait after the semester's over.

75) Watch my "Dante's Cove" DVDs without fear of shame or being caught by the parentals. Maybe when I move out.

76) Look like an actual princess for one night.

77) Go back to "my" place at my old high school again.

78) If I get enough money, I'll pay to get grass put into the ground at my elementary/middle school.

79) Teach a creative writing class for short stories.

80) Go back to CSULB as a teacher. Once again, possibly for creative writing.

81) Help someone else's dream come true, in some way.

82) Plant my own winter jasmine bush.

83)  Get married in my dream wedding dress with a bouquet of white lilies, winter jasmine, and white roses.

84)  Own my own car. Preferably a sedan type car like my mom has. But in sea green or ocean blue. Why are you looking at me funny?

85) Paint my ceiling sky blue with clouds, and my walls green.

86) Do something, anything, to help the Native Americans on the reservations.

87) Witness a total solar eclipse. Lunar eclipses only turn the moon a funny color.

88) Visit the Holy Land. Hopefully when it calms down over there. Well, if I die, I can say I died trying to worship God.

89) Watch the snow fall from the sky.

90) Savor the sound of the pouring rain.

91) Find more poems that can move me emotionally as if I just got told bad news or if the man I love told me he wants to marry me.

92) Win the Nobel Peace Prize or the Pulitzer.

93) Learn how to make better frybread. And cook adobo. And perfect my chicken and rice recipe. I'm Filipino, I don't have a God damned recipe book.

94) Get the strength to tell someone off when they are seriously pissing me off.

95) Inspire one student to follow their dreams and make it a reality.

96) Have a hand in possibly changing and rearranging the education system. Including telling Arnold to shove his budget cuts up his well-toned a*s for making my future job even more of a living hell.

97) Go back to Puvugna (sp? It's sacred Native American ground, I think possibly Chumash) on CSULB. The government has refused to recognize it as such, and is possibly under threat of development.

98) Go to Red Lobster and eat a well-buttered lobster tail.

99) Make a strong, constant, living connection to my God so it'll be there when I die and arrive for judgment.

100)...Eat that tasty shrimp/noodle confection my mom is making right now. Peace.

 

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Author's Note

Anything that has a line struck through it are things I have accomplished =D

Reviews

[Brjden (Bridge-Den) Cre..]

32) Convince my one friend to let me buy her a male prostitute for her birthday. Solves her "I don't have a man" problem for a few hours. Depending on how good he is, though.

This one was dope too...

55) Invite Mormon missionaries into my house, let them talk, and then interrupt with "Oh, what time is it? I forgot, Satanic Mass is right now!"

I loved the piece and from reading all of them, you have such a well versed plan to do a combination of fun things, spiritual things, ethical and ethnical missions, and alot of DVD watching! Very telling piece and it's inspiring. I believe you can get it done!

[Drew Wade]

this is one of the best lists I have seen in a long time, and you have a lot of really good, fun ideas.. I hope you do them!