The Big List – Part 2
On Friday, Gentle Reader, I told you about my new project for the upcoming year – much like Not That Kind of Girl, I am going to try 150 things I’ve never done before, or that I’m not typically the type of person to do. We left the list at 75; here is the other half of the list.
As before, I am still accepting ideas. The list can be edited up until the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, and after that is sacrosanct: at that point, every item on my list MUST be completed in 2014.
76. Visit a convent.
77. Learn axe throwing or knife throwing.
78. Attend a burlesque class or lesson.
79. Feed the birds in front of St. Paul’s cathedral in London.
80. Attend a lodge meeting in every country I visit.
81. Donate Blood, even if it is technically illegal.
82. Commission a portrait of myself.
83. Visit Madame Tussaud’s.
84. Have a spa day.
85. Be Hypnotised.
86. Ride in a sailboat.
87. Drink a tropical drink out of a coconut.
88. Own and wear an old-timey swimsuit.
89. Visit the Hoveton Hall Spider Garden in Norfolk.
90. Try “urban foraging”.
91. Ride a carousel in top hat and tails.
92. Hold a book signing.
93. Walk the Camino de Santiago.
94. Visit the hotel where Oscar Wilde died; inspect wallpaper.
95. Drink Absinthe in Montmartre. Obviously.
96. Attend a beard/mustache competition.
97. Speak to every person who crosses my path for an entire day.
98. Get a hot shave from a barber.
99. Have a champagne and caviar picnic.
100. Attend a gay rodeo.
101. Eat Mussels in Bruges.
102. Have a cocktail in public, on the steps of a palace.
103. Visit Deyrolle’s taxidermy shop in Paris.
104. Go to Neushwanstein.
105. Visit a sauna or public bath.
106. Visit the Englischegarten in Munich; seek out the Japanese teahouse there.
107. Watch Practical Magic and take Midnight Margaritas with C.W.L. Darling.
108. Go to Edinburgh Pride and send a postcard to Young Nate.
109. Try Marmite.
110. Make myself an everyday traveling hat; give it away to a stranger on my travels.
111. Learn to pick a lock.
112. See the entire Ring cycle.
113. Hop a fence or break in somewhere.
114. Visit the Lascaux caves.
115. Learn fencing.
116. Carve my name into something in every city I visit.
117. Take up contortion.
118. Visit a bee-farm; try to extract honey from a hive.
119. Visit a concentration camp.
120. Visit CERN.
121. Ride the London Eye.
122. Ride a boat in the canals of Amsterdam.
123. Rowboat in a castle moat.
124. Visit Salisbury Plain on a bicycle.
125. See Gilbert and Sullivan in the Savoy Theatre.
126. Swim in the Seine.
127. Try Meditation.
128. Visit Freetown Christiana.
129. See a Rosicrucian temple.
130. Rekindle my interest in mysticism and magical theory.
131. Collect a curiosity from every place that I visit.
132. Visit the statue of Boudicca that was the first thing I ever saw in London.
133. Send real correspondence to people.
134. Have bouilliabase in a French seaport.
135. Give away something that I truly love.
136. Wear more jewelry.
137. Find my way into a clock-tower.
138. Wander around Highgate Cemetery.
139. Visit the Hunterian Museum and Sir John Soane’s Museum.
140. Find an abandoned amusement park.
141. Visit the Loft, in Taddiport, North Devon.
142. Collect grave rubbings.
143. Write down all the beautiful phrases overheard in one day.
144. Attend a class at a charm school.
145. Go on a photo scavenger hunt; take every social media suggestion.
146. Join a secret society that I don’t already belong to.
147. Crash a fancy party.
148. Visit L’Escargot D’Or and read poetry by Robert Service.
149. Learn to play the pennywhistle.
150. Only barter for goods/services for an entire day.
Tagged: life goals, Ridiculous Life, Two-part Episodes, Whimsy
