Before I Die

1. Go to Barcelona
2. Go to Italy
3. Go to Japan (or Thailand)
4. See an owl
5. See a tornado
6. See a total solar eclipse
7. Take a pottery class
8. Learn to make Crème Brulée
9. Learn to speak German
10. Sell one of my photographs to a national magazine
11. Get my photography exhibited at an art gallery
12. Take a famous person’s portrait or headshot (at LEAST a D-lister)
13. Get a second tattoo (or my first one enlarged)
14. Take fencing lessons
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16. Campaign for a politician
17. Go to the Beaujolais Nouveau festival in Paris
18. Go parasailing
19. Enter a photography contest
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24. See the aurora borealis
25. Use a glory hole
26. Teach a class in something
27. Enter a cooking contest
28. Hire a houseboy
29. Go to the Olympics
30. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner for my friends
31. Take cooking lessons from a chef
32. Play a hand at a high-roller’s table
33. Go to a race track and place a bet on a horse
34. Host an exchange student
35. Smoke a Cuban cigar
36. Grow a fresh herb garden
37. Be a homeowner
38. Go to a nude beach
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40. Take a trip on a train with a sleeping cabin/lounge car
41. Spend an afternoon at a Buddhist center
42. Spend a weekend with my Aunt Louise learning to make baked beans
43. Learn to make my mother’s roasted chicken and buiscuits
44. Bench press 300 pounds
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46. See one of my Top 10 hot celebrities in a locker room
47. Run in a 5K race
48. Go to St. Petersburg, Russia during wintertime
49. Learn to make the perfect martini
50. Meet Nigella Lawson (ideally, cook something with her)
51. See the Southern Cross
52. Get a black cat and name him Figbash
53. See a presidential speech
54. Go to a rodeo
55. Spend the night in a real haunted house
56. See a ghost
57. Have a zero balance on my credit cards
58. See a Polo match
59. Live in Chicago or New York
60. Have my photography published internationally
61. Weigh under 200 pounds again
62. Volunteer in a homeless shelter or similar place