mason jar.

i want to….
i will.

1. study abroad for a semester.
2. climb the watertower. (check, 2007)
3. open a coffeehouse.
4. get married.
5. honeymoon on the pacific coast.
6. go on a cruise.
7. learn to drive a stickshift, well.
8. have a hammock. (check, 2007)
9. paint a room on the spur of the moment, in the middle of the night.
10. love with abandon. (check, 2009)
11. truly forgive someone i hated. (check 2005, 2007)
12. wild oats.
13. open a restaurant.
14. have my wedding outside.
15. write and actually finish a book.
16. move to the city.
17. kiss in the rain–cliche, yes, but i want the classic, movie rain kiss (check, 2009)
18. take more ballroom dancing lessons.
19. skydive.
20. become a wine connoisseur.
21. be the editor for ivy leaves before i graduate. (check, 2009)
22. go to new york.
23. have kids.
24. make a friend on a flight.
25. go camping. (check, 2007)
26. fall in love with my best friend. (check, 2005)
27. get that SL internship. (applied, heard back, changed my mind: check, 2009)
28. subscribe to the new yorker.
29. plan a wedding.
30. photograph a wedding/bridal portraits. (check, 2005)
31. restore an old house.
32. live in savannah for a short while.
33. wear overalls at least one more time and pull them off.
34. leave on a spontaneous road trip suddenly. (check, 2007)
35. live on the beach when i’m old.
36. drink a pomegranate martini.
37. get a tattoo. (check 2009)
38. have a chocolate lab or an irish setter.
39. buy a real espresso machine for my apartment/house.
40. see my name in print or in a bookstore.
42. watch my kids choose to live for Jesus.
43. smoke a cigar. (check, 2007)
44. hold hands even after i’ve been married for years.
45. cook dinner with my boyfriend. (check, 2009)
46. go out for my little sister’s 21st birthday.
47. sleep on the beach.
48. spend a day in the Met.
49. see europe.
50. go to a coldplay concert. (check, 2008)
51. ring in the new year in times square.
52. see san francisco.
53. go back to mississippi. (check, 2007)
54. work for a magazine.
55. see a broadway play.
56. go cowtipping.
57. keep my college friendships.
58. find a mpg substitute. (check, 2008 )
59. throw my black and gold new year’s bash.
60. vote in a presidential election.
61. live in boston.
62. go to a foreign/indie film festival.
63. visit new orleans. (check, 2008 )
64. take an astronomy class.
65. take a bellydancing class.
66. go to the melting pot. (check, 2007)
67. run away for a little while. for fun.
68. take some classes at j&w.
69. own a clawfoot tub.
70. rake leaves and play outside with my bf.
71. have my wedding in a venue i love.
72. name my daughters blythe and adelaide.
73. learn to be braver. (check, 2008 )
74. work for a literary/poetry review.
75. go to nashville.
76. have a real, beach SB. (check, 2008 )
77. jump off some rocks/waterfall.
78. read to my kids every day when they’re little.
79. finish anna karenina.
80. fall asleep on the phone with someone. (check, 2007)
81. paint a room in my house royal blue.
82. marry a boy that makes me laugh all the time.
83. go on an overseas mission trip.
84. see thailand and japan.
85. build a snowman.
86. stay in a hostel.
87. become a servant.
89. see alvin ailey perfom again.
90. go to an opera.
91. spend a summer in the northeast.
92. learn to tango well.
93. meet my cuban family.
94. learn to view people differently.
95. take my kids to the nutcracker every christmas.
96. get a nice camera.
97. save money for my graduation trip.
98. stay a mac girl for life.
99. see egypt and israel.
100. drink real espresso in italy.
101. photograph my kids constantly.
102. make scrapbooks for all my children.
103. go camping again.
104. learn how to cartwheel. (seriously).
105. publish something while in college. even something small.
106. hang stockings for my kids.
107. have a valentine’s day that means something. (check, 2009)
108. buy another mac after graduation.
109. go to a techno club.
110. drink an amaretto sour.
111. go sailing.
112. volunteer for a political campaign.
113. drink a mint julep and wear a big hat at the kentucky derby.
114. eat at the french laundry in napa.
115. have a son with curly hair (pleeeeeease God).
116. find someone in my life that i will always be ready to leave at a moment’s notice and go somewhere, anywhere with them if they ask me..
117. wake my kids up in the middle of the night, hand them a warm chocolate chip cookie, bundle them up, and take them outside to watch the stars for a little bit.
118. start/join a book club.
119. up against the wall.
120. breakfast at tiffany’s.
121. kiss at midnight on new year’s.
122. mail in a postsecret.
123. get kidnapped one day (check, 2009).
124. smoke in bed (w/a/m)—a bed, not my bed.
125. acquire a fine collection of literature and films over the next ten years.
126. read the entirety of remembrance of things past.
127. use real china/glasses my whole life (NOT paper plates).
128. institute champagne thursdays at some point in my life.
129. christen a boat.
130. sing auld lang syne on new year’s eve.
131. kiss in a library. (check, 2009)
132. complete a miranda july project.
133. sleep in a silk tent.
134. reproduce simply breakfast in my life for three months.
135. drink a brandy alexander.
136. sleep for forty-eight hours.
137. kiss in front of my mom.
138. decide to go somewhere and buy a plane ticket in the same hour.
139. sleep on the roof of merritt before i graduate.
140. go on a roadtrip with an old school map and no specific destination.
141. move north as soon as possible.
142. get a pedicure…since i never have.
143. write a letter for every day i am in alaska.
144. eat lobster.
145. have a significant impact on a younger girl’s life. (check, 2009)
146. celebrate anniversaries in blocks of three.
147. have a crazy and specific family portrait taken.
148. live in a city with a subway.
149. plant flowers in a window box.
150. start crazy christmas traditions in my own family.
151. live in a tiny apartment.
152. visit grier parrott once we’re apart.
153. yardwork.
154. plan & host beth’s lingerie shower with jess.
155. line dry my laundry.
156. stop a moving car to pick wildflowers on the side of the road. (check, 2009)
157. happy sunday forever—coffeeshop before church etc etc.
158. see prince edward island.
159. learn to french braid.
160. adopt.
161. learn to tie a tie. (check, 2009)
162. complete my project  by christmas.
163. return to alaska on my own terms.
164. ride in a float plane.
165. take my children camping.
167. join or a start a locally-grown coop.
168. do a cleanse diet.
169. sleep on a boat.
170. have a natural birth.
171. tandem kayak on lake eklutna again.
172. motorcycle through south america.
173. have a travel fund in my budget.
174. see the northern lights.
175. finish my listbook.
176. speak french fluently & have bilingual children.
177. plant a windowbox herb garden.
178. stay in a funny/sketchy motel.
179. wear a dress/skirt every day for a year.
180. start art project at my school.
181. write a letter to my children every year on their birthday.
182. make jelly.