My Own 100
So I decided that I wanted to write a 100 things to do before I well….. you know. And this is what I came up with, so enjoy. Hopefully I will accomplish ALL 100, because well, I want to and there is nothing that can stop me.
1. Visit Alaska
2. Hike to the top of a mountain
3. Live abroad for more than 6 months
4. Have a Billboard up in Times Square
5. Create an ad for the Coca Cola Company
6. Get a tattoo
7. Meet Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fischer, and Peter Mayhew
8. See the Himalayas
9. Throw a dart at a world map and then travel there
10. Create a painting I can hang on my wall
11. Perform a stand up comedy routine
12. Ride a Horse on a trail
13. Run part or all of a marathon
14. Ride in a Helicopter
15. Fly a plane
16. Fly in a blimp
17. Go paragliding
18. See the Victoria Falls
19. See the Northern Lights
20. See the cherry blossoms in bloom in Washington, DC
21. See the Statues of Easter Island
22. Visit the largest Buddhist temple, the Borobudur Temple in Central Java, Indonesia
23. Climb all of the 1671 steps on the Eiffel Tower
24. Tour Northern Ireland, and stay in Belfast
25. See the Great Wall of China
26. Visit the Coliseum in Roma
27. Go to Kauai
28. Write a screenplay
29. Write and publish a bestselling book
30. Write a memoir, but never publish it!
31. Take a picture of everyone in my family
32. Build a deck, or porch
33. Make a ship in a bottle
34. Take up Origami
35. Graduate College
36. Play the guitar at a performance in front of hundreds of people
37. Be in a Broadway play
38. Be in a Movie
39. Understand Quantum Physics
40. Get a degree in Chemistry
41. Meet George Lucas
42. Be in Rolling Stones magazine
43. Get a street named after me
44. Be a Hero / Save a life
45. Be an Organ Donor
46. Visit Camp Wa Wa Segowea again
47. Make a difference in at least one person’s life
48. Donate a million dollars to a charity
49. Create a comic book
50. Attend the comic con in San Diego
51. Ride in a Rolls Royce
52. Gamble in Monte Carlo, Monaco
53. Take a holiday and stay in a castle
54. Be Financial set for life
55. Create a trust fund for child or godchild
56. Watch all 10 of the greatest American movies of all time
57. Start my own business
58. Ride a Camel
59. Go on a Safari in Africa
60. Grow and maintain a Bonsai tree
61. Live in NYC
62. Have a house with an inner courtyard, and a tunnel system
63. See the World Series from the 3rd base line
64. Be ridiculous and crazy for one whole day
65. Read the complete works of Shakespeare
66. Be fit and healthy by 25
67. Be completely silent for a week
68. Find Serenity
69. Make Yoga an everyday thing
70. Learn not to fear my own death
71. Own a Faberge Egg
72. Play chess one more time with my grandfather
73. Win the lottery, and then give away the winnings
74. Send my mother on the holiday of her dreams
75. Find the strength to forgive my father for all his wrongdoings
76. Be the maid of honor for my best friend
77. Live in the woods for two weeks
78. Record the verbal story of the lives of my grandparents
79. Visit the winter palace in St. Petersburg
80. Say I love you more often to the ones I love, and not feel embarrassed about it
81. Send a message in a bottle across the Pacific Ocean, and find out where it ends up
82. Write a fan letter to a hero I admire
83. Fall deeply in love and become a hopeless romantic
84. Give a speech or tell a story in front of a crowd of thousands
85. Host Saturday Night Live
86. Fart in a crowded elevator and then claim it
87. Visit Auschwitz
88. Catch a fly ball at a major baseball stadium
89. Discover my greatest weakness
90. Learn to surf
91. Enjoy an Orchestra performance of the music from Star Wars in a park
92. See the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain
93. Visit Australia
94. Pet a tiger
95. Go up in a hot air balloon
96. Make a sad crying person laugh from happiness and forget their sadness
97. Be debt free
98. Own a beautiful expensive dress tailored to my body
99. Fly in a military craft
100. Accept myself, with all my faults and all my flaws
The Spaghetti Squirrel
The Squirrel with his mound of Spaghetti
The Squirrel as he ran away, then stopped to stare back at me.
Notice the strand of spaghetti on his shoulder.
Fluffy-tail will be wearing it for the rest of the day, badge of HONOR.
An Odd Sight
Today I saw a squirrel.
Just a normal everyday tree climbing, nut eating, twig hopping, squirrel.
Except this squirrel, was well, not eating nuts. Instead he was eating a large pile of Spaghetti. Yup the kind of noodle that goes well with meatballs and some sauce, or a little butter and some parmesan cheese (your choice). Now what really caught my attention about this, wasn’t that he was eating spaghetti, because hey, animals pick things out of garbage cans and eat them all the time. If your going to throw out food, some bird, or racoon, or in this case a squirrel is going to attempt to get into the can and get what ever delicious human treats they can find. (Or if they are smart they will simply go “Over The Hedge” and get food out of your house, and NOT from a garbage can.) No what grabbed my attention and struck me as well odd, was that he was eating the spaghetti fistfuls at a time. In one of his chubby little fists he had a few strands of spaghetti and in the other fist another chuck of spaghetti strands. He would eat from one fist till it was empty and then switch over to the other one, all the while filling the empty paw with more noodles. It was even more odd when the squirrel decided to start eating one strand at a time and proceeded to pull out one spaghetti noodle and suck it down much like a toodler does when they first experience this Italian deliciousness. Now, of course I got photos of this magnificant sight, but not enough to convey the awesomeness of such an odd thing to witness. Plus I was kind of mesmerized by it, so I spent most of the time just watching it pack pawfuls after pawfuls of the spaghetti into its tiny little fuzz-mouth.
Squirrels + Spaghetti = An Oddity
(You know you want to go out looking for a spaghetti eating squirrel, now don’t ya?!?)
