And so it begins...

*N.B. Bolded list items are ones I have completed, even if I have not yet posted about them.

What do you want to do before you graduate?

I've been thinking a lot lately. And I mean thinking. Why do certain thingss happen to certain people? What defines human nature? And why does life have limits?

This experiment is my little way of figuring that out for myself. I don't care if no one ever reads this blog. I don't care if no one ever knows what I find out. I'm doing this for me. I really haven't done anything for myself in a long time. For that very reason, I start this experiment.

My goal:
Defy the "limits" that are set in my life and do things I would NEVER do otherwise.

My list:
1. Jump into a pool with my clothes on.
2. Eat a bowl of cereal with water instead of milk.
3. Write an awesome script.
4. Run up the stairs of the Philly art museum.
5. Meet someone famous.
6. Audition for American Idol (Disney World counts.)
7. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
8. Stay in solitary confinement for 24 whole hours.
9. Send a message in a bottle.
10. Sing a song solo at a concert.
11. Sleep downstairs one night.
12. Hide an easter egg.
13. Ride a roller coaster.
14. Go on the Scranton Office Tour.
15. Try PB&J.
16. Cook dinner for the family.
17. Wake up at 3 AM.
18. Eat at a Sonic.
19. Fractured Prune
20. Shout at the top of your lungs.
21. Shoot a gun.
22. Attend a Pit game.
23. Spend a day with Cousin Tony’s kids.
24. Eat at the Melting Pot.
25. Get your permit.
26. Come out of the closet.
27. Go see a movie you didn’t want to.
28. Buy a rap song on iTunes. And listen to it =)
29. Go to darts with Uncle Mac.
30. Make a show with Maddie in it.
31. Become a minister online.
32. Go ice skating.
33. Get your driver's license.
34. Go on a college road trip.
35. Eat nothing but fatty foods all day one day.
36. Eat nothing one day.
37. Try Maine lobster.
38. Run in an election.
39. Give a big speech.
40. Go back to the Blue Moon Cafe.
41. Look at / count the stars.
42. Win a round of either mini-golf or bowling.
43. Go Black Friday shopping with Aunt Leah and Mom.
44. Airzooka Fight!!!!!
45. Go to prom.
46. Explore the secret parts of Devon.
47. Stand somewhere important (a monument, an artifact) entirely by yourself.
48. Take pictures with a bunch of wax figures (Madame Tussaud’s)
49. Order the first thing you see on a menu.
50. Try Pineapple Pizza.
51. Show people the acting chops you’ve been holding back on.
52. Run in a 5K.
53. Go on a ride-along with Aunt Leah.
54. Rewrite “Pools of Yellow”.
55. Spend a day in silence.
56. Go a whole day without your iPod.
57. Be at Maddie’s Baptism.
58. Take the NBC tour in New York City.
59. Visit the Mutter Museum.
60. Take the boys somewhere special.
61. Win an award.
62. Cry tears of joy.
63. Open a lemonade stand.
64. Hold a yard sale.
65. Go to Cumberland Farms.
66. Milk a cow.
67. Get a cooking lesson from Aunt Claire.
68. Try every flavor snowball.
69. Make the super awesome Madzilla sequel.
70. Start a blog.
71. Beat Alex in Wii Boxing.
72. Go to a morning Mass at school.
73. Wear something crazy in public.
74. Learn to make something in origami.
75. Write a song for your guitar.
76. Visit the SPCA again.
77. Spend a day going through photo albums.
78. Release a balloon.
79. Spend one whole day wearing flip-flops.
80. Have a real heart to heart with someone.
81. Attend the midnight opening of a movie.
82. Tell your friends how much they mean to you.
83. Visit the Hershey Factory.
84. Open one of your old letters to Santa.
85. Walk from your house to school.
86. Make an awesome yearbook.
87. Pass on the theater art to your cousins (aka let them do a whole show by themselves)
88. Try to learn to juggle.
89. Do a magic show one last time.
90. Thank each and every one of the teachers you’ve had.
91. Bake brownies with Mom.
92. Apply to your dream college.
93. Make a rocking senior yearbook page!
94. Beat your score on the SATs.
95. Participate in the senior prank, no matter how much trouble you get in.
96. Give Ben a going away party.
97. Give the strawberry man back to Swifty.
98. Get a better cell phone.
99. Leave some kind of legacy behind.
100. Complete the K-12 book that Pap-Pap and Grandma Virginia gave you.


What I hope to accomplish:
Tie up all the loose ends before I go to college, and, in doing so, make some amazing memories and discover things about myself I would never have otherwise known.

Ambitious much?

I hope to do each and every one of the things on the list. If a few slip through the cracks, oh well. They can go on my next list!

I'll describe the experiment in more detail later when I have time. I'll be documenting all along the way, providing pictures and detailed posts on each item I cross off. By the end, I hope to look back on this blog and remember just what makes my life so great, despite all the dangers, toils and snares I have to overcome.

Of course, things may happen that aren't on the list that I wanted but never expected to accomplish. Those things will be tacked on to the end of the list.

And so, with that, I officially cross off my first complete goal.

#70: Start a blog... Check!