Previously: One through twenty five, twenty six through fifty, and fifty one through seventy five.
As it turns out, I’ve done quite a few little things off my life list in the past year since its inception. I might write an updated post about some of those, but for now, the ones accomplished have crossed out – take a look back and see! Here’s the last 25 entries on the list, compiled over the past year in various notebooks and post-its to myself, and shamefully not updated here.
76. Learn how to run regularly,
77. then run a 5K,
78. then run a half-marathon.
79. Cook a huge Thanksgiving dinner.
80. Cut my hair really short.
81. Take a knife-skills class.
82. Teach.
83. Go on a canal-boat holiday.
84. Practice yoga regularly.
85. Go kayaking.
86. Drive down the Pacific Coast Highway in a convertible (preferably vintage).
87. Make gifts from scratch one Christmas.
88. Take a family vacation with both of my brothers and my parents.
89. Run for some sort of office.
90. Save up for one or two really big gifts to myself.
91. Catch a firefly in a jar.
92. Help send my kid(s) to college without incurring debt.93. Make a beautiful piece of jewelry for a friend.
94. Attend a convention (preferably an interesting one).
95. Live in California.
96. Visit the Bodleian Library at Oxford (and Oxford generally).
97. Do an apartment-swap with a friend in Europe.
98. Read Henry James and William Faulkner already, sheesh.
99. Go on a bike trip.
100. Enjoy it all.




Good list.
Can assist with #97.
Awesome. #80 is simple: you make the appointment and just do it. It’s only hair, after all, and it WILL grow back. In fact, I’m about to go get 4″-6″ chopped off my head tomorrow and I will also probably leave with a different color. It’s way, way fun. Also? Pixie cuts? SO SIMPLE. SO EASY. SO GREAT.
I did #87 last year. It was unbelievably stressful, but worth it. I do warn you, however, that there are some people who will be disappointed. People you don’t necessarily think would be disappointed with a present made with all the love in your heart.
Did you know that if you are driving at night and a firefly splats on your windshield, it will glow for a good minute afterwards? It is simultaneously fascinating and weirdly guilt-inducing.
Ooh – I can help with no.97 too! Been reading your blog for years – found it via Stephanie Klein’s blog, which I found via the Independent newspaper (live in London). Was just saying to my partner the other day that we’d love to do a flat swap with someone in NYC for a week or two.
Probably getting a bit ahead of myself here – and who knows if you even want to go to London seeing as your husband is from this country so you probably already have loads of friends who live here, but still you never know. We live in Stoke Newington, NE London – zone 2, lovely 2ish bedroom flat with a fantastic newly done garden (i’m an architect, he’s a builder, why wouldn’t we!?). Stokey is a great area, very family-ish but with a bohemian edge and on the border of Dalston which seems to be becoming the new Shoreditch – very trendy. Lots of jazz bars, boutique shops, cafes, big underground scene, you know the kind of thing.
Anyway…i’ll stop there…getting ahead of myself again. If you’re interested let me know!?
Rebecca
Rebecca,
Oh my gosh I LOVE it! I mean, I’m not even sure our apartment in Sunset Park would compare, but it is a really nice place only 30 minutes from midtown.
Stuart and I are full up on vacations for 2009 (boo) but I will email you offline and we will chat about doing this in future! We do have a lot of friends in London but it’d be incredible to be able to have a place to ourselves for a few days, particularly as I never seem to ever spend time in London anymore and my dear friends Kate & Conrad have just left NY for there.
Wow you replied!
Sounds like we’re very much on the same page – we’ve got a big trip planned for the end of the year so 2009′s been all about saving for that (NZ – my boyf’s a kiwi). But 2010 is wide open, so yes let’s email to see if maybe we can sort something out in the future. I love NYC-but have only been twice and my boyfriend has never been so i’d love to be able to go there with him.
yay!
ps coincidentally, I’m originally from Portsmouth – a mere stones throw from the Isle of Wight!