Before I die… some things to do/be/have.
“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today” —James Dean
9th Grade 1. Learn to swim [[Jesse Luttermoser & Ms. Stoody]]
2006 2. Finish a game of monopoly [[Nikki Siemaszko]]
May 2007 3. Ride a roller coaster [[Nikki Siemaszko & Ruth Belmont]]
2006 4. Win/Finish a video game [[Jesse Luttermoser & Sean Ghettel]
5. Learn to fence
2006 6. Have Mexican fruit loops [[Nikki Siemaszko]]
11-05-05 7. Go to my first concert [[Senses Fail with Bronna]]
8. Learn another language
9. Go snowboarding/skiing
10. Look into massage therapy
199? 11. Ride in an airplane [[Shain, Cassie, Tim, Sam, and Jake.]]
200? 12. Meet someone famous [[Nikki, a guy from the bachelorette]]
13. Go to a Disney
Summer 2006 14. Be on T.V. [[Nikki Siemaszko, Tom Green, & Connor Klug. Star Trek 2.0]]
December 2005 15. Learn some sign language [[Jesse Luttermoser]]
July 2009 16. Get a driver’s license
June 2009 17. Graduate high school
2006 18. Find out what the hokey pokey really is all about [[Jeff Williams]]
2006 19. Play Yahtzee [[Jesse Luttermoser]]
20. Learn how to throw my voice
2006 21. Get someone I don’t know to give me a piggy-back ride [[Matt, a random guy at a show]]
2005 22. Save somebody’s life [[Erik Christopherson]]
August 2008 23. Watch a sunrise [[Aaron & WLSM]]
2006 24. Find out why bunnies and eggs are the things associated with Easter[[Jeff Williams]]
25. Get married
2008 26. Learn the moves to thriller [[HHS Choir]]
2005/2-14-2008 27. Rub a bald man’s head and make a wish for a watermelon [[Allen Brown in 9th grade]] then get one [[Michael Cieslak in 11th grade]]
200? 28. Catch a fish [[Nikki Siemaszko]]
29. Visit another country other than Canada
30. Visit the Grand Canyon
2-13-9 31. Win an award for something [[3rd place in the HHS talent show]]
32. Learn how to cook well
12-20-10 33. Go to a zoo [[David Shinabarger, Daniel Shinabarger, Mike Killam, Caleb Denman]]
200? 34. Eat my first lollipop [[Brittani Jones]]
35. Sponsor a child
36. Learn to juggle 37. Drop something off a tall building (army guy in a parachute? paper airplane?) [[David Shinabarger]]
38. Ride in a hot air balloon
Summer 2009 39. Go ice-skating [[Parker Armstrong]]
Fall 2007 40. Be in a parade [[Cassie & ITS]]
October 2005 41. Climb a mountain [[Mt. Brighton]]
2006 42. Stick finger through a gauged ear [[Richie]]
43. See the end of the Neverending Story
44. Ride in a limo
45. Read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
46. Become financially free
2009 47. Lie on a rooftop & look at the stars [[Aaron Crane]]
2007 48. Yell “I’m full!” outside of Taco Bell after dining in [[Sara & Katie]]
49. Win a game of Civilization 50. Hit a hi-striker so hard the bell rings [[David Shinabarger]]
2007 51. Go inside a Seven Eleven and buy something [[Jeff Williams]]
2007 52. Go on my very first date [[Kevin Arney]]
53. Go to the Mall of America
54. Swim in the Dead Sea with my sister Cassie
55. Be able to do the splits
February 2009 56. Know the first 100 digits after the decimal in pi
2008 57. Ride a tandem bike[[Aaron Crane & the WLYG]]
March 2010 58. Ride a unicycle [[Bronna & Matt]]
59. Make and bury a time capsule
60. Go to the Rock Paper Scissors Championships
October 200? 61. Carve a pumpkin without any help [[The Taulbees & Modovskys]]
February 2009 62. Build a bear [[Karla Sartor]]
63. Visit each state in the U.S. at least once (Michigan, Indiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Oregon, Washington, Colorado)
Spring 2008 64. Go to a circus [[Cassiy, David, Brandon, Karla, & her mom]]
65. Make a slinky go down Aztec temple stairs like Ace Ventura
Summer 200? 66. Ride a horse [[The Cook sisters, the day I realized I had hippophobia]]
August 2008 67. Touch things that Christopher Reeves touched in the movie Somewhere in Time at Mackinac[[Aaron Crane]]
Fall 2007 68. Go under a train and live [[Jeff Williams & Chris Pressley]]
Spring 2008 69. Be in the newspaper[[Brittany Schryvers & the freedom writers]]
70. Have a date in Constantinople
71. Participate in Relay for Life
June 2010 72. Do something on film the go back in (a)time(zone) & do it again “a few minutes earlier” [[Pilgrim Metts]]
73. Celebrate New Years in more than one time zone in the same night
74. Legally name a star
75. Go hang gliding
9-15-10 76. Meet someone who can yodel [[Wesley Lawton]]
77. Visit an Amish town
Summer 2009 78. See the world’s biggest something [[Moccasins; with TT & Baby David]]
79. Build something
80. Learn how to yodel
81. Visit towns with ridiculous names & take pictures next to their welcome signs
82. Procreate
January 2010 83. Run/jog two miles without stopping
2009 84. Donate blood[[HHS NHS & Brianna Palmer]]
85. Walk on the Great Wall of China
1-1-11 86. See a ball drop on New Years [[David Shinabarger]]
March 2010 87. Get over my fear of escalators! [[Parker Armstrong, Brianna Palmer, & Matthew Marcum]]
88. Visit an aquarium
89. Learn Morse Code
90. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
91. Eat Green Eggs & Ham
92. Take the elevator to the top of a building with someone then race down the stairs
93. Read the entire Bible
94. Go parachuting
95. Have twins & induce labor so one’s born before midnight & one after so they have their own birthdays
96. Max a skill to 99 on Runescape
1-19-11 97. Eskimo kiss in an igloo [[David Shinabarger]]
98. See The Killers in concert
99. Visit Stonehenge during a solstice
10-4-09 100. Use an outhouse [[Core 100 Cedar Bend]]
101. Swim in every Great Lake, (Michigan, Huron, Superior, Erie & Ontario)
8-24-10 102. See a waterfall [[David Shinabarger, Duncan McIntosh, Charlene Johnson, Alyssa Bulow, & Cody Davis]]
June 2011 103. See Niagara falls [[David Shinabarger]]
12-09 104. Listen to “Yellow Submarine”
2009 105. Be an extra in a movie [[HIGH School]]
106. Be in the audience of a TV show
Summer 2009 107. Get a caricature picture of myself 108. Go streaking 109. Make a knapsack then run away!
2009 110. Send a message in a bottle [[Brianna Palmer]]
111. Ride a camel in the desert
May 2011 112. Plant a tree [[David Shinabarger, David Sartor, and Colleen Muliett!]]
113. Write a fan letter
Spring 2011 114. See a meteor shower [[David Shinabarger]]
115. Drive on the autobahn
116. Have a garden
117. Drive with my “tan skin shinin’ in the sun, have the top pulled down & that radio on, babyy”
118. See a concentration camp
August 2009 119. Get a hole in one! [[Aaron & WLSM Teen Trip 09!]]
120. See the northern lights
121. Go snorkeling or scuba dive
122. Be in the delivery room when a baby is born
June 2011 123. Go to a drive-in movie [[David Shinabarger]]
124. Go putt-putting/mini-golfing dressed in all argyle or plaid
125. Go dog-sledding
126. Grow a vegetable then make a meal out of it
127. Stay in the ice hotel
128. See the sun rise on Lake Huron then set on Lake Michigan on the same day
September 2009 129. Go to college
Summer 2009 130. Feed the fish at Cedar Point
Fall 2009 131. Get my first real job
132. Pay off my first home
September 2009 133. Own my own payed off car
134. Finish college
135. Make a meal from scratch
136. Go sky diving
April 2011 137. Ride a bike with no hands [[David Shinabarger]] 138. Ride in a commercial airplane [[David Shinabarger]]
139. Cross an ocean
2-16-11 140. Throw a pie in someone’s face
APRIL FOOLS DAY 2010 141. Pull a fire alarm[[Ormston Boys’ Dorm]]
142. Bungee jump
143. See a Broadway show
7-16-10144. Learn how to ballroom dance[[Emily & John-Mark Cican]]
12-21-10 145. Sleep under the stars [[David Shinabarger]]
146. Test drive a really expensive car
147. Hold a tarantula
148. Milk a cow
12-20-10 149. Learn an entire song on piano [[David Shinabarger]]
August 8, 2010 150. Take a stroll down Memory Ln. [[Josh Siegrist, Pilgrim Metts, Brianna Palmer]]
July 2011 151. Go to a legit rodeo & tell everyone that it’s my first rodeo [[David Shinabarger]]
152. Go to a rodeo for a second time & tell everyone it’s not my first rodeo
153. Start a fire without matches or a lighter
154. Knit a piece of apparel
9-17-10 155. Take a train ride.
156. Throw a boomerang just right
157. Go hunting
Summer 2010 158. Have a night-time picnic on the hood of a car under the stars [[Jessica McIntyre, Joe Hillier, & Brianna Palmer]]
159. Visit and explore the Winchester Mystery House
160. Vote in a presidential election
161. Learn Braille
162. Type at 100 wpm
163. Learn how to drive a stick-shift
July 2011 164. See the Rocky Mountains [[David Shinabarger]] 165. Swim in the Pacific Ocean [[David Shinabarger]]
166. Own a duck umbrella
167. Win a game of monopoly
168. Make a ship in a bottle
169. Set off a firework
August 2011 170. Visit a reservation and meet an actual Native American [[David Shinabarger]]
171. Eat a hot dog in Paris, France
172. Ride in a gondola in Italy 173. Be loved by a man as much as my father loves me
174. Know 314 digits of pi
3-13-10 175. Be someone’s plus one [[Ryan Hartmann]]
5-21-10 176. Be the first one on the dance floor [[Colleen Muliett, Lance & John-Mark Cican]]
5-22-10 177. Be the last one on the dance floor [[Pilgrim Metts]]
5-22-10 178. Crash a wedding [[Pilgrim Metts]]
179. Be a maid of honor
180. Be someone’s godmother
181. See a parade from a second story window
12-25-10 182. Be the crazy aunt who gives out underwear on holidays 183. Learn how to skip rocks [[David Shinabarger]]
184. Learn how to cook eggs
185. Be a witness to a marriage
9-21-10 186. Be a witness on the back of someone’s license [[Daniel Eads!]]
187. Give more blood in my lifetime than I have in my body normally
188. Make jello/cookies for the new neighbors
June 2011 189. Get into Canada without being deported [[David Shinabarger]]
190. Be a spiritual life adviser on campus
12-19-10 191. Be introduced as “my fiance Valerie” [[David Shinabarger]]
192. Run a 2k race with a friend & pretend one’s chasing the other
12-24-10 193. Explore the Thompson Lake islands [[David Shinabarger]]
2-15-11 194. Go geocaching [[David Shinabarger]]
195. Be the guest of honor
June 2010 196. Be “with the band.” [[Pilgrim Metts and The Illallogical Spoon]]
197. Legitimately celebrate Christmas in July
09-10 198. Go rock climbing [[Adventure Skills class 270]]
Spring 2011 199. Go to a roller-derby [[David Shinabarger, Sam Sartor]]
Summer 2010 200. Learn how to west coast swing dance [[Nicole Zwerlein & Emily, Lance & John-Mark Cican]]
201. Do a back-flip on the trampoline
9-18-10 202. Visit a commune [[Sarah Dolski]]
9-16-10 203. Have a legit pen pal [[Colleen Muliett]]
204. Live forever or die trying
June 2011205. Go to another Cornerstone festival [[David Shinabarger]]
February 2011 206. Write valentines using obscure bible verses [[David Shinabarger]]
1-2-11 207. Send out a postcard [[David Shinabarger]]
208. Spend an entire day reading
209. Be with someone when they get a tattoo
210. Get personalized M&M’s
211. Request a song on the radio
10-18-10 212. When a fast food worker asks if they can get me something else… ask for their number [[Brianna & Brianna]]
213. Swim in a waterfall
June 2011 214. Go behind a waterfall [[David Shinabarger]] 215. Skip across a suspension bridge [[David Shinabarger]]
216. Eat my height in Sandwich 217. Go Christmas caroling in a small group
218. Learn how to sew
12-20-10 219. Learn how to knit [[David Shinabarger]]
220. Give out more presents than I get on my birthday
221. Get into and drink at the Viceroy bar in Grand Rapids
222. Go back to Pictured Rocks
12-27-10 223. Go to the other side of the Mississippi [[David Shinabarger]]
224. Visit the White House
225. Shake the president’s hand
226. Throw a party
227. Hang a piece of my art on a wall in my home
228. Hang a piece of a child’s art on a wall in my home
12-20-10 229. Use the valet [[David Shinabarger, Mike Killam, Caleb Denman, Daniel Shinabarger]]
230. Go a week without looking in a mirror
231. Get a pilot’s license 232. Get over my fear of horses [[David Shinabarger, Rachel Shinabarger, Anna Johnson]] 233. Sleep outside [[David Shinabarger]]
234. Put my coat in the coat-check
235. Participate in a zombie walk
236. Take a picture of myself every day for a month
237. (If applicable)Take a picture of myself every week of a pregnancy
238. Go back-packing 239. Karaoke in public
240. Join a bowling league
241. Go to an opera
242. Learn how to salsa
243. Learn how to tango
244. Fire a gun
12-27-10 245. Learn how to pogo [[David Shinabarger]]
246. Learn how to play euchre
247. Solve a rubik’s cube
248. Pay off my first loan
249. Pay off all of my loans
250. Honeymoon
251. Refrain from speaking for 24 hours
252. Ride on the back of a motorcycle
253. Drive a motorcycle
254. Document a day in pictures
256. Go for an early morning jog
257. Spend a day garage sailing 258. Test out chairs at a furniture store with no intent on buying anything [[David Shinabarger]] 259. Get up at dawn and go to sleep at dusk [[David Shinabarger]]
260. Take a picture of a bolt of lightning
261. Make an entire outfit
262. Make a pair of shoes
263. Make a candle
264. Carve something into a tree
10-30-10 265. Be a part of a Chinese fire drill [[Pilgrim Metts, Alyssa Bulow]]
266. Be a part of a Chinese fire drill with two cars involved
267. Watch Jacob graduate High School
268. Watch David graduate High School
269. Take my mom out to dinner 270. Have my dad go to a Red Wings game
271. Have a wallet containing more family pictures than dollar bills
272. Sled down a sand dune
12-17-10 273. Visit Woodstock, IL [[David Shinabarger]]
274. (Over the seasons of the year) Make snow angels, sand angels, leaf angels, and flower angels with someone and take photos then hang them side by side on the wall.
12-17-10 275. Drink horchata in December [[David Shinabarger]]
276. Send out Christmas cards
11/27/10 277. Make s’mores from the chimney fire [[The Family]]
277. Visit Alcatraz
278. Sing a song over a Walmart speaker
279. Watch the sunrise on the Atlantic and set on the Pacific in the same day 280. Explore a shipwreck
281. Take Baby David to a bakery and don’t leave until we find a kind of bread he likes 282. Walk a year in someone else’s shoes
283. Sleep in a barn
284. Meet someone at a train station
2-14-11 285. Beat teenage pregnancy
286. Visit a spanish speaking country
287. Have a conversation in Morse Code
288. Learn how to ice skate backwards
289. Learn how to roller skate backwards
290. Learn how to pogo with no hands
291. Pogo 100 in a row
292. Water ski or Wakeboard
293. Explore Frankenmuth 294. Get a passport
295. Go to Costa Rica
296. Go LARPing
297. Go to a renaissance festival
298. Go to a comic con
299. Go surfing 300. Go to a midnight movie premiere
301. Skinny dip
302. Win something at a fast food coin drop 303. Read a book backwards 304. Dumpster dive
305. Pass out Halloween candy
306. Drink Champagne in Champain, IL
307. Drink hot coffee in Hot Coffee, MS
308. Be able to write legibly with both hands
309. Be a chaperone on one of David’s field trips 310. Hop on a train [[David Shinabarger]]
311. Play paintball
312. Play laser tag 313. Dive off a diving board [[David Shinabarger]] 314. Walk into the wrong movie at the theater [[David Shinabarger]] 315. Punch a complete stranger 316. Tandem bicycle across America from sea to shining sea [[David Shinabarger]] 317. Tie a cherry stem with my mouth
NEW! 318. Spend a semester abroad
NEW! 319. Live completely independently of harmful chemicals
NEW! 320. Write a book
NEW! 321. Have a nightguard for my teeth
NEW! 322. Have a consistent, healthy diet
NEW! 323. Expand someone’s worldview
NEW! 324. Visit Austin Blake Sanders in Mississippi
NEW! 325. Craft something out of clay
NEW! 326. Host a couchsurfer (couchsurfing.org)
NEW! 327. Be able to whistle
NEW! 328. Be able to snap with both hands
NEW! 329. Be at a ceremony where someone cuts a ribbon with giant scissors
NEW! 330. Pick apples then bake an apple pie with them
NEW! 331. Be a grandma
NEW! 332. Drink at the bar at Big Boy
333. Finish everything on this list!
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