Goodbye Dallas Hello World: Oh ha ha wait I do more embarrassing stuff

100 Before 100

1. Learn to knit

2. Write a cookbook

3. Learn how to clap to the beat of music on my own (No, seriously. This is an issue)

4. Start a by-mail book swap with my amazingly smart high school friends

5. Learn how to use photoshop

6. Get a puppy and train him so well that I can go for a run and she/he will follow behind me with no instruction

7. Go to every continent

8. Be fluent in French

9. Watch all of Hitchcock's classic movies

10. Celebrate a 50th wedding anniversary

11. Throw a party that people will be talking about for years as one of the best events they've ever been to.

12. Write in a journal daily for a year

13. Learn to scuba dive (I received scuba lessons as a Christmas present! I'm one step closer to knocking this off my list!)

14. Ride an elephant

15. Read War and Peace

16. Have a white christmas

17. Wear a tutu in all seriousness in public

18. Build my dream kitchen (subway tile, giant stove, sofas for hanging out....)

19. Work on conquering my fear/phobia of needles to the point where I can get a shot without being slightly hysterical

20. Learn how to make delicious Indian food (there have been some very failed attempts in the past)

21. Live in a city that is no more than an hour drive from the mountains

22. Create a 5-year plan that is feasible, interesting, and exciting.

23. Go to the World's Longest Yard Sale in Tennessee.

24. Win the weekly cartoon-captioning contest in the New Yorker.

25. Go 12 months without losing a cell phone.

26. Donate 10+ inches of hair to Locks of Love

27. See the Taj Majal

28. Collect and record stories about my family from my grandparents

29. Break the habit of picking at the skin around my nails. Youch! It hurts!

30. Bungy jump from the world's tallest bungy jump from Bloukrans bridge in South Africa.

31. Have a “signature dish”—something that everyone will ask me to bring to a potluck.
32. Go ice fishing.
33. Get all of my amazing girlfriends across the nation together for an unforgettable weekend.
34. Spend a month in the woods with nothing but the pack on my back and whatever I can carry in it.
35. Use the phrase “the last time I was in Thailand” in a completely legitimate way.
36. Own my own company.
37. Learn how to clean and cook and entire fish.
38. Play with a baby elephant

39. Run a 7-minute mile.
40. Compete in a hot air balloon race.

41. Live in a foreigncountry
42. Play tennis at a 4.0 level (right now I'm a measly 2.75)
43. Learn the names of the constellations
44. Beat my Mom at Scrabble (never. going. to happen.)
45. Start a compost pile
46. Buy a gorgeous piece of stained glass
47. Learn how to be a good haggler
48. Wear a two-piece with ease again
49. Be an extra in a movie
50. Learn how to play chess

So... last night I think I had my first embarrassing moment on the internet. I had been randomly poking around the internet and after clicking link to link to link I showed up at a random blog. I honestly couldn't have told you how I got there but there I was nonetheless (is this suppose to be 1 word?). So, I ended up leaving a comment and adding the blog to my reader. Then I read this post later:

"two new blogs on the side.

goodbye dallas, hello world is a girl named meredith who must know marisa since they both live in chicago? i dunno. but she's taking an around the world trip with her boyfriend in may and you knooow how much i love travel books/blogs."

Then I had to confess:

"Meredith Travels said...

ohhh totally called out. So *sigh* here is where I fully announce myself as a stalker. So... I don't know Marisa but I saw a comment she wrote on another blog and then I saw your blogs and here I am!

I'm not really as creepy as that sounds!

And I am indeed taking a world-wide trip. Starting in Southern Africa, moving to the Middle East, then South East Asia and then finally India and Nepal. In May Chris, my boyfriend, and I will be taking our backpacks and heading to Johannesburg!

Now I must go email real people I know about this so I can confirm that I have real life friends too. haha

FEBRUARY 3, 2010 10:35 PM

Sigh, now the whole internet knows that I am creepy stalking them.

6 comments- my fav!:

chelsea rebecca said...: February 4, 2010 at 12:47 PM; haha! this is too funny!! i know exactly what you mean! it's like i really have no explanation why or how i got to your blog but i like it!!!
way to put it out there and say it, proudly!
Lesli said...: February 4, 2010 at 1:28 PM; That's completely okay! I think people are flattered when you find their blogs!!
missris said...: February 4, 2010 at 2:21 PM; Um hello, totally flattered that you found my little blog! Also, we don't know each other...yet. I think since we both live in Chicago, ya know, we should get together and kvetch about the weather.
Stephanie said...: February 4, 2010 at 7:45 PM; I don't even know what to say about this, but you ARE an expert stalker. Ha Ha...even the Internet knows.
megan said...: February 4, 2010 at 11:42 PM; i've always been a believer that everything happens for a reason. now i can give you all of the bangkok tips :P

and yay marisa is so fun! she's a good girl to have in your circle.
Iva Messy said...: February 5, 2010 at 1:48 PM; hehehe!!! funny story! ;)

Happy Friday!! Have a great weekend!