Exactly 2 months before our 1 year anniversary I posted my first entry on this blog. Now, exactly 2 months before the 1 year anniversary of this blog, I am posting our 100th entry! (Did you follow that?)
Our blog is all about being newly married, trying new things, and laughing at ourselves. In honor of this momentous occasion, we thought it would be fun to compile a (by no means exhaustive) list of 100 new somethings that we would like to try. The following are in no particular order (although Shakespeare really is #1 in our books):
- Read every one of Shakespeare’s plays
- Raise a family
- Go to Disney World
- Read all of Cormac McCarthy’s books
- Have twins (out of our control…but on the list)
- Learn to speak Italian
- Learn to ride a motorcycle/Never ride one (Sean/Meg)
- Sew a quilt
- Watch all of AFI’s top 100 films (minus the scary ones)
- Learn to can/Make homemade jam
- Get published
- Go backpacking together
- Own a home
- Refinish a piece of furniture
- Run a marathon in under 3 hours (we all know whose this is)
- Come up with original crafty idea/Make it
- Go to Europe together
- Go to Hawaii together
- See at least one play a year
- Have a million dollars in our savings
- Read 100 classic books
- Memorize a book of the Bible
- Become an aunt and uncle
- Have a dog/Raise a puppy
- Learn ballet
- Perfect a homemade spaghetti sauce recipe
- Make a meal entirely of things we’ve grown ourselves
- Shoot a buck
- Plot our family tree
- Take a picture we love and hang it in our house
- Rewire a lamp
- Learn to reupholster furniture
- Choose the fifty best cocktails
- Take a two-week vacation from computers
- Have a big wedding anniversary party
- Live in another country for a year
- Throw 100 parties
- Stretch every night for a month
- Send 100 letters
- Compile a list of our 50 favorite cheeses
- Go to India together.
- Kiss everyday
- Tell our kids we love them & that we are proud of them everyday
- Complete the NY Times Sunday crossword puzzle
- Raise kids who love the Lord
- Teach our kids to hit a baseball
- Try caviar
- Teach someone how to speak English
- Lead a friend to Christ
- Host Thanksgiving Dinner
- Celebrate Passover with our family
- Celebrate our 50th anniversary
- See the Northern lights
- Plant a garden in our backyard
- Learn to sail
- Learn to bake homemade bread
- Create our own traditions
- Visit all 7 continents
- Run Disney Princess Half Marathon (Sean would like to specify that this is Meg only)
- Learn to use our Wok more effectively
- Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Get a Master’s degree
- Visit the Holy Land
- Go to New Zealand
- Do 100 push-ups in a single set
- Bike the RAGBRAI
- Brew our own beer
- Meet someone over 100 years old
- Learn to play bridge
- Visit Alaska
- Learn to surf
- Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Build something together
- Read all of Wendell Berry’s books
- High-five our siblings for being awesome
- Beat Oregon Trial without losing a single member of our party
- Stay up one night and pray
- Keep a journal for a year (Sean)
- Keep a prayer journal for one year (Meg)
- Find sunglasses that we like
- Go back to Cape May, New Jersey
- Complete 100m freestyle without stopping
- Take ballroom dancing lessons
- Get to know our neighbors
- Go to the circus
- Enter a pumpkin at the Canfield Fair
- Bake homemade pie crust
- See the pyramids
- Visit the Louvre
- Learn to use our camera
- Attend a hot air balloon festival
- Write a Petrarchan sonnet
- Go on a safari
- Attend an Olympic event
- Walk on the Great Wall of China
- Score over 400 points in Scrabble
- Ride a bicycle built for two
- Take a wine-tasting class
- Build an impressive sandcastle
- Write 100 more posts
Now it’s your turn…What are 5 new somethings that would be on your list?
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I’m just going to plagiarize your list personally, in fact, I think this finally inspired me to make an actual and physical bucket list that I keep.
But I’ll add the challenge (to Sean) to skinnydip in 100 bodies of water.
This might be my favorite post yet!! Xxx love you both so much!!
Come visit me and we’ll go to the Met! And you can high five me while you’re here so you’ll kill 2 birds with one stone!
Absolutely love this!!! You guys will have such fun w/ this…looking forward to see the results/comedic antics of your ventures…..XOXO
What a fun list you have! 🙂 I hope you get to do every single thing on it! 🙂 My list right now would consist of finishing our renovation so we can finally have a house again – that’s all I want! 🙂
It’s also on my list to read all of Shakespeare’s work and I’m currently working on the AFI movie list-I only have 21 one to go. Good luck on your list!
What a fun list! I loved the oregon trail one, what a classic game – in computer class in grade school we use to all fight over who got to play that game!
On my list I would have debt free living, visit Utah, own a SLR camera and cook an indian meal.
I fully support all of those!! 🙂 I’m a huge fan of Indian food…but have yet you try cooking it myself!
visit Smithville for 100 years
Meg, it is so good to “meet” you. Thank you for visiting GraceLaced. My hubby (of almost 13 yrs.) and I had a similar list as well, and you know, not only do you check things off as you go, you grow into something totally different together in the pursuit. The Lord’s so gracious to give us joy in the journey!
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