The Things I Should Have Said

For everything I keep inside my head. And some of the things I don't.

Thursday, March 08, 2007

25 Plus Things I Want to do in my Life

Updated!!!
My physics teacher is a smart man well versed in saying the right thing. I want to live life a little like he does. He's such a teenage adult I love it. His newest assignment is for us to make a list of things we want to accomplish. I really like setting goals. Maybe this will be my rough draft.

Everything I want: Vain and selfless acts alike, long and short term goals: In life I want to:

1) Be a professional actress.
2) Perform onstage in another country
3) Build a house for someone who needs it
4) Attend the Academy Awards no matter what side of the rope I'm on
5) Move to Los Angles and give everything a fighting chance
6) Live in London
7) Visit: Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa, Egypt, Israel, China, India, Luxembourg, Sudan, Cambodia, Hawaii, Ireland, Peru ect
8) Make a positive difference in someone's life.
9) Write an inspiring and usable script and watch it preformed.
10) Go to college in city I can be happy in with people I like in a major I can be pleased with.
11) Star in a show.
12) Go to Africa and live there and help.
13) Watch myself on the big screen.
14) Look into adopting a child.
15) Learn to surf. And windsurf. And go hang-gliding.
16) Learn to speak French fluently. And dabble in some Italian and German.
17) Be homeless for a day and sleep in the park with a companion. Being homeless alone would suck.
18) Get married to someone I like. Have kids.
19) Befriend Jason Mraz and perform and take Polaroid’s with him.
20) Swim with dolphins.
21) Read Shakespeare in the Globe.
22) Write a story to be proud of.
23) Plant a tree in a park.
24) Live on an island.
25) Go to prom. And leave early for something more exciting. . .like ice skating or sky diving.
26) Learn to play the drums.
27) Consider the Peace Corps?
28) Create a new restaurant and name it Owen's. Offer Molly a job.
29) Do something spontaneous. Often.
30) Write a song.
31) Go on tour.
32) Learn how to fly a plane.
33) Go sailing.
34) Visit and beautify something in all 50 states.
35) Work with: Johnny Deep, Raviv Ullman, Matt Damon, Tim Robins, Reese Witherspoon, Adam Brody, Meryl Streep, James McAvoy, Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Williams, Sopia Coppola, George Cloony and more.
36) Live free from discrimination,
37) Keep a friend that I know now for 20 or more years
38) Keep an interesting journal. Because I already have an uninteresting one
39) Feed an elephant a peanut.
40) Have a cooking specialty. My apple pie/crisps are pretty good…
41) Join an improv group
42) Make a pizza from scratch
43) Fall in love.

44) Become a better dancer. &:
45) Learn how to swing dance.
46) Climb Lone Mountain and watch the sunrise over the Strip.
47) Not die of cancer.
48) Go to First Friday.
49) If necessary, have the guts to tell someone how I feel about them.
50) Learn to sing
51) Make ice cream from scratch
52) Do something worth talking about later.
53) Live in solitude and write about everything very Walden-esque.
54) Walk hand in hand through the streets of Paris with a gentleman.
55) Make someone’s day.
56) Kiss in the rain
57) Teach someone.
58) Be a flight attendant. But, not for long.
59) Assist in the casting of a show.
60) Come back to Rainbow and do something...
61) Design a theatre. Or just help suggest things.
62) Be featured in Vanity Fair.
63) Watch someone else become successful and feel like I knew them “Way back when…”
64) Go on a tour of Europe given by natives.
65) Learn to play a sting instrument.
66) To not regret anymore the things I should have done.
67) Learn to do pull-ups.
68) Remain able to do the splits for the rest of my life.
69) Design a roller coaster.
70) Find out the real name of “The Ice Cream Man”.
71) Date a well known actor.
72) Lose 10 pounds.
73) Attend a rugby match.
74) Go back to London and sit in the sandwich shop to see if “Pink Shirt boy” comes in.
75) Vote!
76) Have a pen-pal.
77) Survive a dangerous situation with a great story
78) Audition for a Broadway show.
79) Solve a mystery.
80) Learn to do a back-flip on a trampoline
81) Stay up all night with someone I like watching classic movies and eating Oreo’s.
82) Ride Space Mountain.
83) Be nominated for some sort of achievement award.
84) Dye my hair blonde. Laugh. Dye it back.
85) Build a tree house!
86) Invent something
87) Paint a self-portrait.
88) Win a game at Laser Quest
89) Hold a Koala.
90) Publish a book of photography featuring pictures of nature and portraits of people
91) Work at an animal shelter.
92) Have a professional photo shoot. Become a print model for a day.
93) Go on a safari.
94) Spend the night in a castle.
95) Film my entire day and see if anything interesting comes up.
96) Find a puppy.
97) Be sent flowers for no real reason.
98) Attend a movie premiere and be asked for an autograph.
99) Have my last name featured on a movie poster or a poster for a play.
100) Get straight A’s.
101) See every movie that has won the Best Picture Academy Award.
102) Say something worth quoting


What else do I want to do?
Wow, there's so much more too. I want to do some much. I think I'm going to condense this before I turn it in. I'm tired from thinking of the future. The possiblities are so vast they are giving me a headache. It's all so very exciting.

Also, his brother's name is Jason. Oh the irony. I wonder what he was coughing about tonight. Prom? What?

Things are good. And they could be getting better. :)

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7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well, I realize that I wouldn't be your first choice, but I would gladly be your park-sleeping companion. I'm going to try my hardest to get a place in Los Angeles ready for you to live in, and in the future, even a show for you to star in. When you're in the mood for something spontaneous, and you need someone to go with you, I'm there. I'm planning on our friendship to continue long beyond 20 years. I will teach you to sing, and you make my day more often than not. When we go to London, we can sit and wait for pink shirt boy.

I'm working on some other things.. surprises, I suppose you could call them. I'm wondering how many of these I could help you fulfill.

11:50 PM  
Blogger Think-itFilm-it said...

Lauren, you are too good to me. These surprises you speak of are intriguing.

I was hoping you would be my friend for the next 20 years. And the idea of you preparing a place for me to live in Los Angeles just makes me giddy with anticipation. And the idea of our dreams coming true adds to my shivery insides. I think you should make a list again. Don't be too noble.

1:02 AM  
Blogger moviemerlin said...

I liked this post. But let's be honest, when do I not? You have motivated me to continue my list. I have one, but it's nowhere near complete and just when you think it is, you remember something else.

I think you've motivated my blog in some ways. It has moved away from it's 'chasing celebrities' feel and more to the 'what's going on inside my head' feel.

I was reading your list and I'm sure you took at least half of the things off there from mine :-)

I have met Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Robin Williams, James McAvoy and George Clooney. They're all very nice and George smelt sooooo good!!!

I have attended the Academy Awards... well sort of. I went last year and was in a first floor apartment overlooking the red carpet and saw EVERYONE arriving. It was great! When you come to London, I'll show you the photos.

I am wondering if I'll still know you in 20 years (I'm hoping yes... wouldn't that be something!) and could I be your pen pal?

I'm also hoping you don't turn into the person on my list who 'I knew way back when'.

I've always wanted to do the same thing with hair dye. It'd be a laugh!

As always, thanks for the read!

3:36 AM  
Blogger Think-itFilm-it said...

Of course George Clooney would smell good.

I'm interested in reading your list. And seeing which things we want in common lol. My list is far from complete. And I thought it was getting a little long with 100 but almost everyday there is something else I remember I want to do. And I've yet to actually accomplish any of the items. I'm getting close to at least one though. The first time I get to cross something off with be a historic event. I'm sure I'll even make a whole post out of it.

I really would love to be on the carpet at the awards. But, it's amazing that you got to see them at all. "When I come to London.." I like the sound of that.

I'm rather jealous of your traveling experience. Where have you been?

Also, I would love for you to be my pen pal! How cool would that be? I had a pen pal in France once but I never figured out how to send him my letters. I still feel kinda bad about that.

I like your blog. Your celebrity encounters fascinate me. I wonder, as I fantasize about my future a bit here, if maybe I'll run into you at a premiere someday. How cool could it be if that was my picture on your page with a little watermark? That sounds vain. Maybe you can be on the other side of the gate too. I don't really know what your dream job is. I've never really asked. So, what is the one thing you've always dreamed of doing? Or what is it you're working towards? Or, have you found it?

1:40 PM  
Blogger moviemerlin said...

I am working on an answer for you on my blog. I wanted to ask your permission, can I use your real name? Or will I refer to you as 'C' or 'thinkitfilmit'?

The new posting will be up by friday.

As for the travels, I have seen 23 countries. Do you mind if I save that as a blog entry? I'll be able to explain my experiences in detail then.

And I had wondered if you'd ever end up with a 'watermark' on my page :-)

Mind you, I know a couple of celebrities personally and I wouldn't dare put their pictures up. I think the friendship is too important to ruin it over a photograph.

6:32 AM  
Blogger Think-itFilm-it said...

You can save all of the answers for new blogs. I find that so exciting.
And you are welcome to refer to me as Caity. Unless you would prefer something else lol.

I can't wait to hear about your travels and all other exciting things. I'm also intrigued by your celebrity friends.

11:01 PM  
Blogger moviemerlin said...

No, I prefer Caity. Thanks for that.

I have already written up your answer, but I will post it on Friday. I have put a poem up there today.

I thought you'd ask about the celebrities. One of them's famous enough. I believe he's won an academy award :-)

If you want to email, it's moviemerlin@hotmail.com
No doubt we'll have to get the ball rolling on the pen pal thing!

(Man, this post has had a lot of comments!!!)

4:14 AM  

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