100 Things to Do Before I Die

1) Go scuba-diving off Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
2) Become a parent.
3) Visit Paris and go to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
4) Go to a real theatre. 5/15/08 Chicago Theater to see "Wicked"
5) Take a hotair balloon ride.
6) Climb a mountain.
7) Christmas in New York.
8) Go to a major sporting event.
9) Visit the pyramids.
10) Go whale watching.
11) Visit Machu Picchu.
12) See the northern lights.
13) Visit a museum in London.
14) Attend the Olympic games.
15) Donate blood.
16) Try wine-tasting.
17) Float in the dead sea.
18) Go on a safari.
19) Walk on the Great Wall of China.
20) Take the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
21) Visit the Tower of London.
22) Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
23) Run a marathon.
24) Send a message in a bottle.
25) Be present at a birth (of a child other than mine).
26) Hike the Appalachian Trail.
27) See the Niagara Falls.
28) Go to midnight premiere of a movie.
29) Cruise down the Nile.
30) Ride a camel in the desert.
31) Kiss the Blarney Stone.
32) Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
33) Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
34) See a musical on Broadway.
35) Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
36) Swim with dolphins.
37) Skydive-http://www.georgiaskydivingcenter.com/
38) Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
39) Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
40) Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
41)Be an extra in a film.
42) Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
43) Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
44) Be a member of the audience in a TV show. --I did this, I went to see a taping of Jeopardy.
45) Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
46) See Ani Difranco in concert.
47) Plant a tree.
48) Learn to ballroom dance properly.
49) Sit on a jury.
50) Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
51) Be someone's mentor.
52) Shower in a waterfall.-3/23/08--Didn't take a full shower, didn't get naked, but I definately immersed myself in a waterfall at the end of a caving expedition.
53) Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
54) Spend New Year's in an exotic location.
55) Drive across America from coast to coast.
56) Make a complete and utter fool of yourself. --I do this too often!
57) Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country. --currently the Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ
58) Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
59) Drive the Autobahn.
60) Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
61) Raft through the Grand Canyon.
62) Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
63) Attend one really huge rock concert.
64) Give to a charity -- anonymously.
65) Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
66) Visit the Holy Land.
67) Go to Auschwitz
68) Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
69) Stay overnight in a Buddist Monastery
70) Visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial
71) Milk a cow
72) Visit Ground Zero in New York City-Scheduled December 2008
73) Protest
74) Take an archery lesson-http://www.archery101.com/
75) Learn to water ski
76) Have coffee on a sidewalk in Paris
77) See Cirque Du Soleil live-from January 2 to January 18, 2009
78) Camp outside for a week
79) Go to a real Ballet
80) Enroll in a belly dancing class-Belly Dance Basics Sept. 2 - Oct. 7 (TU)-Georgia Highlands
81) Ride a mechanical bull
82) Visit all 50 of the United States- visited 20/50 so far
83) Graduate college-Scheduled for May 2009
84) Be an Oprah audience member
85) Help with a Habitat for Humanity Home
86) Go to a fashion show
87) Try fire walking
88) See the Acropolis in Greece
89) Watch Casablanca Completed 5/26/08
90) Learn to fly, get my pilot's license
91) Receive my black belt in Tae Kwon Do
92) Eat Chinese food in China
93) Get to my ideal weight again
94) Volunteer with an organization such as "Doctors Without Borders" and make a difference
95) Run with the bulls in Spain
96) Become debt free
97) See the Highland Games in Scotland
98) Stay overnight in an ice hotel
99) Drink tequila in a bar in Mexico
100) Ride horseback on a beach

Ya'll Come Back Now. . .You Hear?

Ahh, the play is over. The ending of a play is always a relief because you are exhausted but it is so bittersweet. The play went really well. One of the best audience turnouts of any play that I have even been in. 300 Friday and Saturday night and 230 Sunday. So nice to be back on stage again!

Hiawasee/Natahala

I had a wonderful weekend! Carmen, Andrew and I went to Hiawasee to visit my dad and stepmom who are doing the Georgia Mountain Fair. They rent a cabin right outside of Hiawasee in Warne, NC. The mountains were beautiful.



Friday night. . .

We drank a bottle and a half of wine and talked on the porch outside the cabin until the wee hours of the night. It was so relaxing and nice to get away and have good conversation and good company.



Saturday morning. . .

We drove to Bryson City, NC to go white water rafting on the Natahala. It was beautiful! Such a nice break from reality. Then that evening we bought a 24 pack of PBRs and played drinking games.

Sunday morning. . .

It was back to the real world. We drove home, stopping for so yummy BBQ on the way. Once we got back to Rome I had to work on projects for school all afternoon. . .yuck. . .

completed titles in italics

River God by Wilbur Smith

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard

The Secret's of a Fire King by Kim Edwards

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier

Dark Angels by Karleen Koen

Dark Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz

Update

1990's-"The Deep End of the Ocean" by Jacquelyn Mitchard
1980's- "The Cider House Rules" by John Irving
1970's- "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
1960's- "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1950's- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
1940's- "1984" by George Orwel
1930's- "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
1920's- "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
1910's- "Dubliners" by James Joyce
1900's- "Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1890's- "Tess of the Dubervilles" by Thomas Hardy
1880's- "King Solomon's Mines" by H. Rider Haggard
1870's- "Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy
1860's- "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
1850's- "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville
1840's- "Vanity Fair" by William Thackery
1830's- "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens

Movies of June 2008

Before Sunrise-5/5
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof-4/5
Into the Wild-5/5
My Fair Lady-5/5
National Treasure: Book of Secrets-4/5
The Golden Compass-3/5
The Orphanage-3/5
To Kill a Mockingbird-5/5