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• Try all types of Bowling: Tenpin, Ninepin, Fivepin, Duckpin, and Candlepin – It’s no secret that I love bowling, so I want to expand my horizons and try all 5 major types.
• Get my name in the credits of a movie – I know someone with his name in the credits of a movie, and I thought, why not?
• Own my own business – I’ve thought about this a great deal lately, what with my not working and all, but I can’t find something I’m passionate enough about to start my own business. Unless I can somehow have a Bejeweled Blitz store?
• Bake fresh bread once a week for a year – I’ve baked fresh bread on a number of occasions, and it seems like there are very few smells that make me as happy as freshly baked bread.
• Take pictures with all of my friends - While trying to fill my picture frames with pictures, I discovered that I have very few shots of me with the people I love. I’m fixing that.
• Make ice cream from scratch – For years I’ve wanted an old fashioned ice cream maker, or at the very least, the ice cream attachment that goes with my mixer. How awesome would it be to make your own ice cream?
• Learn how to play softball & play for a full season – A good portion of my friends play softball together once a week, and it sounds like so much fun. I, however, have never played softball and have no idea how different it is from baseball. I used to be athletic once, and I think I might actually have a chance at being decent. Of course, I’d have to get on a team that’s ok with not winning, because there’s also a good chance I’ll suck.
• Have a signature dish that’s requested at family or friend events – You all know someone who makes that one dish that people love (Donald’s is Spinach Dip, for some weird reason). I want to have one of those dishes. Of course, that means I’ll have to let other people taste my food…maybe this wasn’t a great idea.
• Attend a taping of Craig Ferguson’s show – I love him. LOVE. I only wish he was on earlier so I could enjoy him more often. He’s just hilarious, once you learn to understand the accent.
• Host a Beans tournament in my backyard, complete with food and prizes – Beans is a bean bag toss game that’s popular amongst my group of friends (also called Cornhole, but Beans sounds nicer). It can get quite competitive, depending on who plays (you know who you are), but it’s a whole lot of fun.

The Life List – Part 1 can be found here.

It’s taken me quite a while to come up with just 20 things to put on my list. What do you want to put on your list? Maybe we can trade ideas!

It’s common knowledge throughout a good portion of the blog world that Maggie has this fantastic life list that she’s come up with, and now Intel is helping to sponsor it so she can cross off some of the things on her list. When I first saw her list, I was in awe of how grand and large her plans were. Donate a million dollars to charity? Be conversational in seven languages? Those are some lofty goals! But she seems so positive that she’ll be able to do it.  I’d always casually made comments about how I wanted to do “this that or the other thing” before I died, but I’d never put much stock into actually completing them.  But still, it’s an idea I’ve been toying around with for a long while, so I’m going to try it.  It’s a little daunting to try and come up with 100 things to do, so I’m going to start with 10, and add to it as time goes on. Some will be easy to check off, others will require work over time. But all are things I truly would like to accomplish in my lifetime.

There. Those are the first 10 on my life list. I think that’s a good start, don’t you?