Compile a list of 'Things To Do Before I'm 30'!

while drinking wine in Italy. Very pleased that two of my most important things will be, or have been, done within weeks of turning 28. Clearing the slate for the rest.

I need them. No, I actually do. My mission for tomorrow, after the dentist, is to get them. Because I simply must.

See, you put stuff out there and it happens.

(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Be on a game show.

Eat at a roof-top restaurant, or failing that, eat while sitting on a roof. Not by myself.

I’d like to do something to raise funds for Alzheimer’s research. And possibly some other issues that have touched my life. Not anything people would automically associate me with, but I don’t think anyone would automatically associate me with anything.

Something fun and non-fund raisery-ish. The thing is this. Public fund raising has always, always, always bothered me. Like in a goes-against-everything-I’m-about kind of way. The concept is fine (if handled well) it’s just some methods make me want to turn the air so blue it’s black and get on every soap-box on the planet.

So, something unconventional while still supporting stuff that matters to me. At Uni some friends and I were going to get together and do a sponsored sky-dive/bungee-jump, but that, if you pardon the expression, never got off the ground.

I’ll have to think more about this…

I some semblance of order, kinda:

Go back to Dallas, just to see it and be there while cognizant
Take my Dad on a trip back to NY
Go to Ohio and finally meet my Grandfather’s brother
Go to Italy and Russia
Get my ENTIRE family (original and chosen) in one room
Find somewhere I can make a home
Go to my own book-signing, or two, thank you very much
Thank my 9th Grade English teacher (I did have one, long story) and possibly buy him a coffee or something.
Sing in public again.
Thank Alanis Morissette
Go to Nashville

Those are the ones that jump out, but it will be a long list (is there any other kind? :)