here's to being here: February 2012

Life List

Be a completely different person in a different city
Be in a parade
Be on tv, a magazine, the front page of a newspaper
Completely memorize all the provinces and states
Go herding at camp
Go white water rafting
Kill something and eat it
Memorize and perform the Thriller dance
Not have a single song on my Itunes with a 0 play count
Paint a design/writing on a wall
Read James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Receive a legit, non-parent filled standing ovation
Record a CD with my own tracks
Take in and appreciate a busker
Watch the Cirque de Soliel perform
Actually make a tangible New Year's resolution and keep it
Anonymously shovel an entire street of sidewalks and driveways
Attempt fire poi
Attend a large music festival such as Lollapalooza/Coachella/Sasquatch
Attend a major film festival
Attend mass in Latin, Spanish, Italian, French, and English
Backpack Europe
Be a mascot
Be a member in the audience of a TV show
Be a part of a dance
Be able to locate any country on a map
Be an extra in a film
Be an international disgrace to a large business organization and its affiliates
Be bald for a good cause
Be in a flash mob
Be in a play (Gr. 3 doesn't count)
Be in a wedding party of a non-family member
Be involved in a protest rally
Be lifted up on people's shoulders in celebration
Be quoted
Become a non-consumer for over nine months
Become close with the members of my family
Become debt free
Become fluent in Spanish
Bike across three provinces
Build something with my dad
Busk on the streets with an instrument
Catch a fish and eat it
Catch someone reading a book I wrote
Choreograph a dance
Climb an old shool
Climb one of the Seven Summits
Complete Eat This Book through E-Free
Complete Keri Smith's "100 things"
Complete the Camino de Santaigo
Compose a symphony
Conduct a band
Conquer the unicycle
Direct some kind of video
Do guerilla art
Do hot yoga
Donate blood over 100 times
Drive across the United States
Earn a Bachelor of Education
Eat a blind meal
Experience Nepal
Experience public education
Fast for two weeks
Find a movie that I cry in every time
Finish "Great Expectations"
Finish the Lord of the Rings series
Fix my own flat car tire
Fly a kite with someone I love
Get a Eurorail pass
Get a tattoo
Get in a fight
Get laser-eye surgery
Get my first aid certificate
Get my motorbike license
Get on a bus with no idea as to where it is going and somehow find a way home
Get to the top of a climbing wall
Give a TED talk
Give away over $7000 at one time
Give up something precious to me
Go a month without a computer
Go around the world and find my own personal 7 wonders
Go back to Venice and ride a gondola
Go bungee jumping
Go parasailing
Go skinny dipping
Go skydiving
Go snorkeling
Go snowshoeing in the mountains
Go stargazing with a telescope
Go to Africa
Go to Bible College
Go to Disneyland
Go to Imax
Go to Jerusalem
Go to Marble Slab and order an ice cream with ALL the toppings
Go to Times Square for New Years
Go to a Philharmonic Orchestra concert
Go to a ballet
Go to a concentration camp
Go to a football game in a South American or Spanish stadium
Go to a play on Broadway
Go to a poetry slam
Go to an opera
Go to casino and use a VLT
Go to the Olympics
Graduate university
Graffiti something
Hand out money to strangers
Have a beard for a year
Have a collection of over two hundred legit CDs
Have a site which I update daily
Have a theological debate with a religious theologian
Have my own sponsor child
Have something/someone named after me
Have the vast majority of the decorations in my house be my own artwork/pictures
Help fund a bigger start-up
Help in the production of a movie
Help out with the students of Heritage after graduation
Help someone cross something off their own life list
Hike the Grand Canyon
Hike the Inca Trail
Hop onto a moving train
Host a meal
In the US, see the Golden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, Seattle Space Needle, Mount Rushmore, White House, Lincoln Memorial, Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty
Inspire someone
Intimately understand another religion
Invent/patent something
Jump into a body of water fully clothed
Jump the wake on a wakeboard
Lead worship in a church
Lead worship with a guitar
Learn CPR
Learn Sign Language
Learn about my ancestry
Learn one solid magic trick
Learn to beatbox
Learn to become comfortable with spiders
Learn to do a backflip/handspring/handstand
Learn to drive standard
Learn to juggle
Leave a note or poem on a stranger's windshield
Live off of other people's support for at least two months
Maintain a kick-ass garden
Make a life changing decision after I feel my first arthritis pain
Make a list of everything I own
Make the New York Times Bestseller List
Master a style of dance and perform with other professionals
Master carving on a snowboard
Meditate for a week straight
Meet Sol
Meet a famous author
Meet the Dali Lama
Meet the current Prime Minister of Canada
Memorize USA state geography
Memorize over thirty famous poems
Memorize the flag for every country
Mentor someone much younger than myself
Organize a pile of leaves and jump in it
Own a dog
Own a mortgage-free house and have a mortgage burning party
Own a stereo with giant speakers
Own an awesome cologne that I love
Own at least 5 exotic instruments
Own over 1000 books
Own stock
Own/start my own company/organization
Participate in 5 Days for the Homeless
Participate in Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir
Participate in a giant food fight
Participate in an open mic
Pay for someone's groceries
Pay for the person's meal behind me in a drive thru
Perform a spoken word poem
Play a trumpet solo for an important event with more than a hundred people present
Post a Youtube video with over 50,000 hits
Preach a sermon to an older congregation
Propose to my girlfriend in an original and ridiculously awesome way
Publish a book of poems
Read a Pulitzer Prize winning book from every year since 1917
Read every John Grisham novel
Read everything by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Read ten of Shakespeare's plays
Read the Bible in a year cover to cover
Receive Honour Roll with Distinction
Recycle as a family
Regularly volunteer at a shelter of some sort
Ride a mechanical bull
Run a marathon
Save someone's life
See Parliament
See over 100 bands live
See the Eiffel Tower, London Eye, Big Ben, Macchu Pichu, Colloseum, Pyramids, Stonehenge
See the Nazca Lines
See the world's largest cathedrals in Rome, Spain, Paris, Russia, Japan, Turkey
Sell a piece of original art
Sell something online
Send a postcard
Sing a solo for an audience of over five hundred people
Sit on a jury
Solve a Rubik's Cube
Spend the night under the stars, on a cliff, in a bookstore, in prison, in an antique hotel, on a billboard
Stand and look into a volcano
Start a compost
Start a dance in a public place
Start my child in piano lessons before age seven
Stay abstinent until marriage
Stay on a bus for its entire route and back again
Take a vow of silence for a ~~day~~ week
Take part in a time capsule
Take salsa, hip-hop, swing, waltz lessons
Teach a school lesson
Teach in a country other than Canada
Test drive an expensive car that I know I can't afford
Throw a surprise party for someone
Tithe consistently for a year
Travel by car, foot, bus, plane, train, motorbike, bicycle, hot air balloon, cessna, taxi, ship, tuk tuk, gondola, horse, human-powered rickshaw, helicopter, canoe, kayak, reed boat, limo, dogsled, segway, elephant, camel
Truly get to know an extended family member
Try a legitimate Cuban cigar
Try a unique food such as octopus, guinea pig, monkey
Try every flavour of Peters' milkshakes
Visit a Buddhist monastery
Visit a black gospel church
Visit a jazz/blues bar in Chicago
Visit a mental hospital
Visit the quietest place on Earth
Volunteer at a soup kitchen
Volunteer at an animal shelter
Vote
Watch a dance show/performance live
Watch an amazing trumpeter live in concert
Watch an eclipse, meteor shower
Watch every movie that has won an Oscar for Best Picture
Watch the sun set after an epic day
Win in a lottery or raffle
Witness a session at Parliament
Witness a surgery (without throwing up)
Witness the Northern lights, while ziplining
Work on a house with Habitat for Humanity
Write a letter to a leader of government addressing something I care about
Write a novel
Write a song that is performed
Write a song with a friend
Write poetry in a European cafe

Monday, 6 February 2012