Life List

This is a list of things I want to do before I die, sort of like a bucket list. Things that I have already done are crossed off. Some of these are also part of my 101 in 1001 days project.

For Myself
  1. Have my own clothing line
  2. Have my own small business
  3. Have my own personal library in my house
  4. Have my own radio show  (Aug 2009)
  5. Have my children grow up with love
  6. Do a full course in something that interests me
  7. Perform Hajj myself
  8. Have something named after me
  9. Be pampered
  10. Have someone write and sing a song about me
  11. Have someone make me breakfast in the bed
  12. Find a best friend
  13. Live in an apartment with my significant other

  14. Be a bridesmaid (Dec 2012)
  15. Have a song dedicated to me (Sept 2012)
  16. Have my 11.11.11 11:11 wish come true - I have forgotten what this wish even was. Oops
  17. Have my first kiss with the one who's meant for me

  18. Have rainbow hair

  19. Get a portrait painted by a street artist
  20. Receive flowers from a stranger
  21. Receive an infinity necklace
  22. Find my perfect lipstick shade
  23. Paint my front door pink
  24. Feel confident without makeup
  25. Get Lasik eye surgery

  26. Get over my fear of heights
  27. Be a model for a day (June 2012)
  28. Have really white teeth
  29. Receive a Disney Spin
For Others
  1. Convince someone to write their own bucket list (Dec 2012)
  2. Spend time volunteering 
  3. Donate my hair to locks of love
  4. Help someone else fulfill a bucket list dream
  5. Donate blood
  6. Make a difference in at least one person's life
  7. Sponsor someone's education
  8. Send my parents to Hajj
  9. Have family traditions and rituals
  10. Pay for a stranger's groceries
  11. Pray for someone for a month straight
  12. Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight
  13. Make a mix CD for a friend (Jan 2013)
  14. Play matchmaker for someone

  15. Pass on a family heirloom
  16. Pay a stranger's tab at a restaurant
  17. Give someone a makeover
  18. Meet my pen pal
  19. Host a swap party with friends
    Money and Stuff
    1. Buy a switch
    2. Buy a Chanel red lipstick
    3. Buy 
    4. Own an iPhone  (July 2013)
    5. Buy a lap top (Jan 2010)
    6. Buy a nice camera
    7. Start an Etsy shop.

    8. Buy a pair of white shoes and doodle on them
    9. Buy flowers for someone for no reason at all (Feb 2017)
    10. Own a pair of nude pumps

    11. Own something from Tiffany &co

    12. Have a wardrobe I actually like

    13. Own a collection of cute bikinis
    14. Go shopping every day for a week
    15. Find the perfect LBD
    16. Shop at Forever 21

    17. Buy a give/laptop for dad (Jan 2014)
    18. Pay off my parents debt
    19. Own 20 pairs of shoes
    20. Buy a Polaroid camera
    21. Start a charity
    22. Start my own business
    23. Sell a book on Amazon
    24. Collect a coin from each country

    25. Have a pool
    26. Collect postcards from every country
    27. Receive my Hogwarts acceptance letter (Feb 2015)
    28. Own a Marc Jacobs bag
    29. Own a typewriter




    Learning  and Accomplishments
    1. Learn to speak Spanish
    2. Learn to speak Italian
    3. Learn to speak Arabic
    4. Learn to Kayak
    5. Learn to say "Hello" in 50 languages
    6. Learn Origami
    7. Learn to play pool (Dec 2011)
    8. Learn to play foosball (Dec 2011)
    9. Learn to juggle
    10. Learn how to surf
    11. Learn how to play guitar
    12. Learn fluent sign language
    13. Learn how to drive (April 2015)
    14. Learn to swim
    15. Graduate college (Mar 2013)
    16. Become a fashion designer
    17. Get the Shaheed Labeeb Award (Feb 2011)
    18. Learn how to play the saxophone
    19. Learn Braille
    20. Learn to write with my left hand
    21. Learn to play the piano
    22. Learn jewelry making
    23. Get a masters
    24. Get a PhD

    25. By heart the entire Holy Quran
    26. Learn how to play every Taylor Swift song on guitar
    27. Learn how to use chopsticks (Mar 2012)
    28. Know the alphabet backwards
    29. Learn a new word every day for a month
    30. Learn to identify 10 constellations
    31. Solve the Rubik's cube
    32. Learn the names, capitals and flags of all countries
    33. Develop a British accent (Mar 2012)
    34. Attend a Sean Covey lecture

    35. Learn how to tie a tie
    36. Go to a real fashion show
    37. Know the name and location of every country in the world
    38. Learn how to do a cartwheel
    39. Learn how to cook
    40. Take a spinning class
    41. Take a zumba class
    42. Take a Pilates class
    Creativity
    1. Paint a self portrait
    2. Make some pottery
    3. Go to a scrapbook convention
    4. Take an art class
    5. Invent a board game (Apr 2012)
    6. Design my own wedding cake
    7. Tie dye a shirt
    8. Build a gingerbread house
    9. Take a picture of myself a day for an year
    10. Finish an entire coloring book

    11. Leave 200 inspirational notes inside 200 books for others to find
    12. Finish a wreck this journal
    13. Take a photo of the same place every month for year and then turn it into a calendar for the next year
    14. Invent a stupid word and get everyone to say it
    15. Teach a parrot to say my name
    16. Invent a ridiculous holiday
    17. Complete a scrapbook
    18. Make a jar of lucky paper stars (May 2013)
    19. Have a dream catcher over my bed (Sept 2012)
    20. Design my own converse
    21. Learn how to tie a knot in a cherry stem using my tongue
    22. Make 1000 paper cranes
    23. Make a burn book
    24. keep a dream journal for one month.
    Food
    1. Take a cooking class
    2. Take a cake decorating class
    3. Eat in a underwater restaurant
    4. Try sushi (May 2016)
    5. Try macarons (March 2015)
    6. Have a tea party (June 2014)
    7. Eat at a Mcdonalds  (Mar 2012)
    8. Eat at a restaurant by myself
    9. Be a vegetarian for two weeks
    10. Hold an Alice in Wonderland tea party
    11. Open a cookbook to a random page and make whatever is on it
    12. Eat chicken tikka masala (Mar 2013)
    13. Give a waiter an abnormally large tip
    14. Be in a food fight
    15. Make and eat s'mores
    16. Make and eat red velvet cake
    17. Eat dim sum
    18. Make a fruit bouquet

    19. Smash a pie in someone's face
    20. Throw a Barbie themed birthday party
    21. Have someone surprise me with a heart shaped pizza
    22. Try gelato (August 2014)
    23. Throw a drink in someone's face (Dec 2016)
    24. Make someone I love a birthday cake (June 2015)
    25. Set up a lemonade stand with my children

    26. Try every kind of Pringles
    27. Host a holiday party
    28. Bake in the middle of the night with someone I love
    29. Eat a square watermelon

    30. Try every flavor of Baskin Robbins ice cream
    31. Make a three course meal for my closest friends
    Entertainment and Writing
    1. Write an article for a magazine that I like (Apr 2012)
    2. Have a column (online, magazine, newspaper, whatever)
    3. Write a book and publish it

    4. Record a song in a studio
    5. Make a list of the top 5 people who have positively influenced me and write them letters
    6. Write 200 poems
    7. Write 100 songs
    8. Read 1000 books
    9. Read my height in books
    10. Voice a commercial (Feb 2010)
    11. Write a letter to each of my future children
    12. Read the complete works of Shakespeare

    13. Meet Kareena Kapoor
    14. Take a dance class
    15. Work for a magazine (May 2013)
    16. Be featured in a TV show
    17. Make a documentary
    18. Join a book club (Sept 2015)
    19. Work in a bookstore
    20. Be a part of a flash mob (Aug 2012)
    21. Go to a Taylor Swift concert
    22. Write a letter to myself to open in 10 years
    23. Write a "if anything ever happens to me" letter
    24. Write a list of 101 things I've already achieved in this lifetime
    25. Keep a “My Day in Six Words” journal for 6 months
    26. Participate in NaNoWriMo (Nov 2013)
    27. Write all my bad memories on paper, burn this paper afterwards
    28. Write a fan mail letter (May 2015)
    29. Write a message in a public bathroom

    30. See "The Bucket List"
    31. Go to a movie alone
    32. Watch a ballet
    33. Read all Agatha Christy mystery novels

    34. Have my favorite author sign my book
    35. Watch a 3D movie (Mar 2012)
    36. Watch "Titanic" with someone I love
    37. Read 365 books in one year
    38. Read every C.S Lewis novel
    39. Read a book backwards

    40. Make "fetch" happen
    41. Complete an entire book of Sudoku puzzles
    42. Send a letter to a random address and see if they write back
    43. Watch every movie Audrey Hepburn acted in
    44. Read 26 books I've never read starting with each letter of the Alphabet
    Travel and Sightseeing
    1. Ride in a submarine
    2. Ride in a limo
    3. Go on a cruise
    4. Visit new 7 wonders
    5. Visit all inhabited islands in Maldives

    6. Visit all heritage sites in Asia
    7. Visit every country in the world
    8. Visit Wizarding World of Harry Potter
    9. Set foot on all the 7 continents
    10. Go to Platform 9 3/4, Kings Cross (Mar 2012)
    11. Visit the walk of fame
    12. Study abroad
    13. See the Stonehenge
    14. Visit the Taj Mahal (Dec 2007)
    15. Go on a vacation by myself
    16. See the northern lights
    17. Throw a dart at a map and travel to wherever it lands
    18. Climb up the statue of Liberty
    19. Go to Universal Studios, Hollywood
    20. Visit the Hershey chocolate factory
    21. Visit the Sydney Opera House
    22. Visit any Madam Tussauds
    23. Celebrate 50th wedding anniversary in Paris
    24. Visit Naples and eat the best pizza in the whole world
    25. Fly first class
    26. Celebrate my birthday overseas
    27. Experience Diwali and Holi in India
    28. Go on a road trip
    29. Visit Easter Island
    30. Walk on the Moses bridge
    31. Visit the Sherlock Holmes museum
    32. See the Alice in Wonderland statue in Central Park

    33. See the great pyramid of Giza
    34. Go on a world cruise
    35. Visit strawberry fields in Central Park
    36. Visit the library of congress
    37. Visit a vineyard
    38. Drive the Atlantic ocean road
    39. Go on a Safari trip
    40. Visit Ibrahimfulhu Museum
    41. Visit a Floating Library (Dec 2013)
    Outdoors and Leisure
    1. Go zip lining
    2. Plant 1000 trees
    3. Sing Karaoke (May 2016)
    4. Jump from a cliff into deep water
    5. Ride in a hot air balloon
    6. Ride in a rollercoaster
    7. See a platypus
    8. Ride an elephant
    9. Build a snowman
    10. Push somebody into water
    11. Have a snowball fight with someone I love
    12. Drop a water balloon off a tall building
    13. Fly a kite
    14. Dance in the rain
    15. Go on a blind date (Aug 2013)
    16. Spend the whole day in bed doing nothing (June 2022)
    17. Have a sleepover
    18. Have a Harry Potter themed party
    19. Have a murder mystery party
    20. Stay at a bed and breakfast
    21. Throw someone a surprise party (June 2016)
    22. Attend a Japanese tea ceremony
    23. See a shooting star (Dec 2012)
    24. Go on a carnival date
    25. Participate in a high heel run
    26. Ride in a glass elevator (Dec 2015)
    27. Have a huge water balloon fight
    28. Paint roses red
    29. Find a four leaf clover
    30. Lay down in a field of daisies
    31. Cuddle under the stars
    32. Spend an entire day watching Disney movies
    33. Bait a hook and catch my own fish, then let it go
    34. Go on a beach date
    35. Carve my name into a tree
    36. Go an entire day without using any technology
    37. Stay a whole night in an airport (Dec 2007)
    38. Send a message in a bottle
    39. Stop and smell the flowers (always)
    40. Jump in a pile of leaves (Nov 2016)
    41. Get a pet
    42. Grow a bonsai tree
    43. Get into a cab and say "Quick, follow that car"
    44. Crash a wedding  (Aug 2013)
    45. Plant flowers
    46. Swim in an infinity pool
    47. Have a paint fight (Oct 2015)
    48. Lay in the road in the middle of the night (Aug 2015)
    49. Participate in the 3 day walk for the cure
    50. Let go of a floating lantern (Apr 2015)
    51. Lay in a hammock
    52. Have a candle-lit bath
    53. Go on an aquarium date
    54. Have a water gun fight
    55. Go on a stargazing date
    56. Take a bubble bath with him
    57. Build a snowman
    58. Throw a masquerade party (Jul 2016)
    59. Have a picnic in the park with friends (May 2014)
    60. Dance in the snow
    61. Go Bungee jumping
    62. Take part in an Improv Everywhere mission
    Big Things
    1. Fall in Love
    2. Grow old with someone I love
    3. Become an inspiration 
    4. Adopt a child
    5. Witness a wedding proposal
    6. Confess my love
    7. Love him until I die
    8. Be the best parents we can be
    9. Have the courage to tell him I think he's the one
    10. Be an aunt
    11. Find the love of my life
    12. Marry the love of my life
    13. Have our families support us and be at our wedding
    14. Finally be his
    Misc

    1. Have a 10 year high school reunion
    2. Have a pen pal from each country
    3. Make a friend from every country
    4. Change my name for a day
    5. Send a secret to PostSecret
    6. Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011 (Nov 2011)
    7. Tie a secret to a balloon and let it go
    8. Build a blanket fort with someone I love

    9. Find P. Sherman, Wallaby Way, Sydney
    10. Wake up on January 1 next to the one I love
    11. Feel breathless after a kiss
    12. Put Mentos in diet coke
    13. Stay naked for an entire day
    14. Have a relationship that lasts successfully for at least a year  (June 2013)

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