I love lists. If you say that you don't like lists, then you're in serious list denial and need to go write a list about it. Everyone makes lists, from the mega, i.e. 100 things to do before I die (number one, meet Zac Efron) - to the not so mega, i.e. things to buy at the supermarket (number one, Zac Efron). They help put our lives in order. When things get way to stressful, write a list about and suddenly everything is in one neat, orderly package. What's not to like?

Many magazines, TV shows and movies throughout the ages have used lists to try and make people laugh, bring up ratings and basically fill in that extra page on the back of their magazine. I personally love Jamie's list in A Walk To Remember, but the unreputed master of list making must of course be David Letterman. His 'Top Ten' Lists are legendary and give inspiration to us lowly listmakers. My personal favourite is his "Top Ten George Bush Moments", at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w73dVVPRk0. It's a list AND it insults George Bush! Snaps!

Now, here is where my previous promise comes into play. You know, about making my blogs a bit more personal and trying to shift that hazy mist that always seems to develop whenever I start to mention anything whatsoever actually about me. I could continue this blog by putting in some funny lists off Google, but no, I'm going to tell you the start of my list of Things To Do Before I Die. It's very dodgy and nowhere near completion. Here goes, in no particular order...

1. Swim with a dolphin
2. Take the next to taxi to the airport and catch the next plane leaving
3. Run a marathon
4. Go parachuting
5. Plant a tree
6. Do standup
7. Bungee jumop
8. Learn to fly a plane
9. Go in a hot air balloon
10. Ride a camel along a beach
11. Make a meal from only the ingredients in my backyard
12. Teach someone to read
13. Go stargazing
14. Have my portrait painted
15. Go to the opening night of a ballet
16. Be in three places at once
17. Go to my school's 20th reunion
18. Shower under a waterfall
19. Fall in love
20. Have my heart broken
21. Learn to yodel
22. Jet ski
23. Learn a foreign language
24. Go skinny-dipping at midnight
25. Send a message in a bottle
26. Learn to ballroom dance
27. Write a novel
28. Experience weightlessness
29. Drive across Australia from coast to coast
30. Sleep on a beach under the stars
31. Drive a convertible with the top down
32. Have a midlife crisis
33. Scuba dive
34. Go to a football match
35. Go to a rock concert
36. Visit every continent on the planet

Any suggestions? What's on your list?

xx Miss Moi

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