The List

Oh here's the list.
Additions, suggestions, and of course help welcome.

1. Learn to Dance.
2. Skydive
3. Visit the Trevi Fountain
4. Be vegan for one year.
5. Live an impact-free month.
6. Run a marathon.
7. Take the megaphone at a rally.
8. Buy the ultimate sofa.
9. Finish a quilt by hand.
10. Be a size 4.
11. Get a brazilian wax.
12. Be a blonde.
13. Dance on a bar.
14. Write a book.
15. Come to terms with my faith.
16. Find a church at accepts me.
17. Go to grad. school.
18. Get a tattoo.
19. Be a homeowner.
20. Buy a hybrid car.
21. Live overseas.
22. Paint my kitchen butter yellow.
23. Visit Africa.
24. Swim a 500y easily.
25. Learn html.
26. Learn flash.
27. Learn to make 1 week of perfect meals.
28. Become fluent in Spanish.
29. Pay off my credit card.
30. Be quoted in the NYTimes.
31. Fly an airplane.
32. Build a computer.
33. Give a perfect presentation or speech.
34. Have a best female friend.
35. Visit a rainforest.
36. Have a chic short haircut.
37. Snowboard.
38. Visit Cuba.
39. Own a pug.
40. Surf.
41. Be able to do the splits.
42. Spend a season as a wildland firefighter.
43. Look beautiful in an outdoor picture.
44. Wear a red dress and feel fabulous.
45. Eat at the French Laundry in Napa.
46. Cubs win a world series.
47. Spend an entire day in the movie theater.
48. Have a real meal in my dining room.
49 . Go paintballing.
50. Grow beautiful roses.
51. Have a pretty girly movie star vanity.
52. Look absolutely fabulous in a bikini.
53. Have a romantic Ravinia picnic.
54. Appreciate merlot.
55. Be tearfully happy.
56. Learn to love weddings and babies.
57. Visit Paris.
58. Be prepared for confession.
59. Go to South America.
60. Work a challenging job I love.
61. Take a long camping trip.
62. Pay off college loans.
63. Have and maintain a perfectly organized closet.
64. Go to tea at the Drake with my mom.
65. Refurbish a piece of furniture.
66. Forgive everyone completely.
67. Throw a smashing cocktail party.
68. Go skinny-dipping.
69. See the pyramids.
70. Play a team sport and feel good about it.
71. Drive Route 66.
72. Have a fabulous library with sliding ladders.
73. Skate on State.
74. Do something unexpectedly kind.
75. Scuba dive.
76. Read all of de Bello Gallico in Latin.
77. Drive a Porsche on the Autobahn.
78. Befriend a Republican.
79. Ride in a gigantic bike rally.
80. Take an IQ test.
81. Learn to sail and wear preppy J Crew sweaters.
82. Give Christmas cookies to everyone I love.
83. Read de Beauvoir en francais.
84. Become a flosser.
85. Work planning on a campaign.
86. Write and live my mission statement.
87. Marry my soulmate.
88. Stop to help a stranger on the road.
89. Crowd surf.
90. Say "I love you" and mean it.
91. Learn a good song for karaoke.
92. Stand on the International Date Line.
93. Get into a consistently valuable volunteering.
94. Sleep in a snow fort.
95. Ask for forgiveness openly.
96. Go to my 10y high school reunion.
97. Have a goofy nickname.
98. Touch a live armadillo.
99. Adopt a child or grandparent.
100. Smile every day.
101. Live a beautiful life.

Welcome - 101

Hi There Curious Reader,

This is Jenna,

Basically here's the premise. I turned 24 back in May and realized, like most 24 year-olds, that a significant chunk of my life is over and I haven't done shit. I graduated from college, started a pretty boring job, and just moved into a great apartment in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood with 2 relative stranger but soon to be best buddies roommates. I know, great reason to start a blog.

BUT, in the aim of getting past your typical navel-gazing 20-something blog. I instead decided to start a list of 101 things I plan to do before I get old (approx. 30, but maybe I'll start to feel differently at 29). And lucky reader, I even plan to post pictures and stories (which I promise will be mostly true) of me accomplishing these goals.

What do I ask in return for regularly entertaining you with my prose? Give me ideas and suggestions! Share your goals and accomplishments! Set me up with a visit to an armadillo farm!

Let's enjoy our brilliant youth together!

Love, kisses, and bicycle freedom,

J.