Goodbye Dallas Hello World: A WINNER!

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

A WINNER!

Good morning!

Today is the day that I know you have all been so anxiously awaiting!

THE GIVEAWAY WINNER

I used random.org to generate the winning number

Then started counting.....

Then started laughing...

Dearest Stephanie, my college best friend, you are the winner!

I like to think of it as blog karma for all of the amazing internet support you give me!

Thank you all for entering! Feel free to unfollow if you don't like my particular brand of randomness!

xoxo
Mer

5 comments- my fav!:

Stephanie said...: May 25, 2010 at 12:19 PM; Hilarious. I understand if you need to pick someone else in order to save your followers. Although I would really like a free $60...
Cat said...: May 25, 2010 at 12:24 PM; What a wonderfully, funny bit of "randomness". Congrats Stephanie (you really do deserve to win...so many great reasons :))
Meredith Travels said...: May 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM; no no no. Steph is the clear winner. I think this should be payment for the time in 2007 when I broke your neon bar sign. You've got it!
Stephanie said...: May 25, 2010 at 2:07 PM; OMG...I totally forgot about the incident involving the bar sign in 2007. I guess there were just too many incidents for that one to stick out!

Love ya, lady!
chelsea rebecca said...: May 26, 2010 at 3:00 AM; CONGRATS to STEPHANIE!!
she definitely deserves it!

and how fun that you guys are college friends!!