43 Things I'd Like to Do

The ever studly and sweet Dave asked me to list 43 (or as many as I could think of) things I would like to do before I die. Here is my list:

1. Get into grad school and get my PhD in social or neuro psychology.
2. Conduct my own gender study and get published.
3. See my husband finish residency and set up his own practice.
4. Be my ideal weight for the first time in my life since childhood.
5. Get a breast reduction surgery (I so want small perky breasts!)
6. Get in shape enough to play soccer again.
7. See my children grow and start families of their own.
8. Learn to play the guitar.
9. Learn to speak Italian.
10. Visit Sicily and Tunis to see where my Daddy grew up.
11. Build my own home exactly to my design with a huge bathtub complete with a waterfall faucet.
12. Read Harry Potter VII
13. See myself be RIGHT when I say Snape isn't bad (it was a setup of Dumbledore's making, y'all)
14. Stop being jealous
15. Love myself completely
16. Stop being a total basket case when I hear about bad things happening to children and actually do something about it.
17. Get out of debt including my husband's medical school loans (yikes!)
18. Get over certain phobias such as my fear of water, fish, heights and grasshoppers
19. Meet Keanu Reeves and have him not mind me just staring at his brown eyes since I won't be able to speak
20. Hug Spencer for real
21. Meet my other blogger friends
22. Be more patient with my kids
23. See a cure for autism
24. Visit every state in America including Hawaii and Alaska
25. Have a reunion of my buddies from high school (here's to you B.G's!)
26. Get back all the Portuguese I ever learned and then some
27. Buy the turtle platter from Knottyboy's gallery
28. Visit my friend in England and hug my English babies (her kids)
29. Find a church that doesn't condemn other churches or people and centers on the love of Jesus AND have a rockin' great worship band
30. Go parasailing one more time
31. Be able to get drunk just once without getting all splotchy and red
32. Get a pair of hand made denim jeans that fit my body perfectly
33. Teach at the college level
34. Learn higher math and get really great at stats
35. Pet a tiger
36. Own a zebra
37. Plant my very own vegetable garden and peach tree ( I like peaches)
38. Win a really big jackpot just once where they take my picture and put it up on the wall under the banner "Hall of Winners" whoohoo!
39. Learn all the words to "Shine" by the Newsboys
40. Find this crazy movie called American Dreamer on DVD and buy it
41. Just ONCE not cry when Dakota fanning yells "Creacy!" in the movie Man On Fire when she is running to him
42. Stop biting my nails
43. Learn how to make coffee

well there you go. boring as usual. sorry but I am not very ambitious in life. I am quite content actually. I would like see SunGrooveTheory's list as well as Rowan and Kimanada but I won't pressure you gals. I know you have a life and many more years ahead of you than I do to complete these things. I finished it Dave!