And they will have to stay on my list for next year, because I still have never done them. I actually meant to go to the big balloon blow-up this year, but I completely forgot to. (I didn't mean to go to the Parade.) Instead I spend a wonderful day with Andy, Jesse, Erez, Lucas, Josh, John, and Andy's Aunt Betty (all people I've spent Thanksgiving with before) as well as with Cindy, Mark, Marcio, Betty, and Steve (never done.)
I did do a few other things I have never done (unpacked the rest of my clothes from my move 6 weeks ago; took a Thanksgiving run in Prospect Park; made whipped mashed potatoes; bought paper white narcissus with Jesse that had not yet opened (because it felt more hopeful than the alternative, which was to buy some that were in bloom but just past their prime) only to see them actually open on the dinner table, during dessert.
But rather than write about any of this, it seems like the right day to list some of the things on my big list of things that I've never done, most of which I hope to do this year, some of which I hope to do before I am 50, and some of which I never hope to do.
Go to the Upright Citizen's Brigade
Kayak on the Hudson
Have a child
Get a tattoo
Have a community garden plot
Win one of those ice cream naming contests
Get married (I have never wanted to do this)
Ride a roller coaster (this either)
Travel to Corsica
Get fluent in Spanish
Make a duct tape dress
Join a book group
Drink absinthe
Sing in the Sing Along Messiah
Go to the World Series
Complete a mini triathalon
Go out on a lobster boat
Cook duck
Go a day without swearing
Sleep in past noon, not sick
Consult a street psychic
Go to the top of the Empire State Building
Visit all 50 states
Attend a cotillion
Submit to/ be a finalist in/win the New Yorker caption contest
Grow rice
Give an injection
Make a pinhole camera
Invent retractable ear buds
Create a mini golf hole on Governor’s island
See a puffin
Learn how to sew a zipper
Go to Kripalu
Visit all my Facebook friends
Sponsor a refugee
Have my big birthmark on my shoulder removed
Join a synagogue
Sell a screenplay (I am in negotiations right now...)
If you want to do one of these with me, please do join me. I especially can't invent retractable ear buds on my own.
I am calling DIBS on:
ReplyDelete--your visit to Michigan. Our lake house in Michiana awaits your visit, name the date.
--sewing a zipper. I happen to own 2 sewing machines (technically 3 but one of them is circa 1930 and would need a little tune-up) so we can sew together, in Michiana.
--and then we can make duct tape dresses together. And wear them to a cotillion. While we drink absinthe, shoot guns, and avoid swearing. Which might be hard to do after all the absinthe...
xoxo Karen