Monday, December 8, 2008

Nicole’s List of Things to Do Before I die

1. Talk to my dad on the phone for a half hour
2. Help someone stop cutting…. Forever
3. Hold onto one friend for the rest of my life
4. Dance with my dad at my wedding
5. Learn enough ASL to have a conversation with a deaf person
6. Get in touch with all of the friends that I have pushed away… and apologize
7. Name a child for someone
8. Keep to a work out routine
9. Let go of my fears
10. Hold a spider
11. Own my own dog
12. Get my license
13. Cry on someone’s shoulder
14. Be a better friend
15. Accept myself as I am
16. Go to mass every Sunday and on all Holy Days… regardless of my life
17. Run a mile
18. Read 50 books in a month
19. Read the bible
20. Get married in a church full of red roses
21. Make someone smile everyday
22. Send my parents on a trip
23. See all 3 of my brothers graduate from college
24. Watch my mother hold my child for the first time
25. Accept Craig and Jamie’s deaths
26. Work for St. Judes Hospital
27. Work at Children’s
28. Get my PsyD
29. Open my own IPTC
30. Go through an entire Lenten season without talking about people
31. Be completely honest
32. Go on a mission trip
33. Get a real job
34. Travel through Europe
35. Change people’s lives as often as possible
36. Smile when I want to cry
37. Teach my kids ASL
38. Show my mom how much she means to me
39. Knit a sweater
40. Donate an entire weeks pay to someone in need
41. Foster a child
42. Go a whole semester without putting anything off to the last minute
43. Finish every page in a journal
44. Foster a child
45. Go a whole semester without putting anything off to the last minute
46. Finish every page in a journal
47. Collect 10, 000 can tabs
48. Make something important
49. Publish research
50. Thank my therapists
51. Have surgery on my shoulder
52. Pay off my parents house
53. Be someone’s godmother
54. Be a CORE member in Dedham
55. Let go of the bitterness
56. Let someone change my life
57. Make dean’s list
58. Get a scholarship
59. Row a single in HOCR
60. Cover a wall in pictures that I never have to take down
61. Learn to let people walk away when they need to
62. Visit Medujorge, Lordes and La Sallet
63. Drive a red camry
64. Learn to scuba dive
65. Donate a World Youth Day trip to SMLT
66. Teach someone to row
67. Deliver a baby

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