I did this as a series of posts in 2008; I’m just going to stick the whole list here so I can keep track of it.
July 2009: There are things that I’ve changed my mind about, which have been replaced by several new things. Also, I’ve added asterisks to 30 items; those 30 things are things I want to do before I turn 30. Stay tuned. 
June 2010: Added some more! 
March 2011: Added some more, again!
1. Get published.
2. Get a script produced.
*3. Go to at least one National Poetry Slam.
4. Meet all the members of U2.
*5. Take a train out west.
6. Watch the Perseid meteor showers.
7. Take each of my brother’s kids on a road trip once they turn 18.
8. Take at least one of my parents to Europe.
9. Help plant a church.
10. Eat at one of Mario Batali’s restaurants in New York.
*11. Watch every Oscar winner for Best Picture. [keeping track of that here at Listography]
12. Read every Pulitzer winner for fiction. [keeping track of that here at Listography]
13. Grow herbs. (No, not that kind of herbs. 
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*14. Make brioche.
*15. Lose 30-40 pounds. (Watch me do this at Number Fifteen.)
16. Dye my hair an unnatural color.
*17. See Bob Dylan live.
18. Plant a tree.
19. Make a piece of artwork and put it in a public place.
*20. Self-publish something and leave a copy on a bookstore shelf.
21. Participate in an Improv Everywhere event.
22. Kiss in the rain.
23. Paint a room red.
24. Hunt down my ancestors.
25. Do the MS 150 bike ride.
26. Do all of Jeffrey Yamaguchi’s 52 projects.
27. Get a bikini wax, just to say I have…
*28. Knit a sweater.
29. Win one of the screenplay Oscars.
30. Read and see all of Shakespeare’s plays. (seen Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; read Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and King Lear)
31. Meet a sitting president.
32. Be in someone else’s wedding. Sang in my friend Ashley’s wedding, 6/27/09.
33. Be there for the birth of my grandchildren.
*34. Play the lottery once.
35. Teach a kid how to play guitar.
36. Austin City Limits, South By Southwest, Bonnaroo, and Coachella.
37. L’Abri for at least a week.
38. Make a t-shirt quilt.
39. Shave my head, just once.
*40. Get a tattoo.
41. Throw my parents a gigantic 50th anniversary party (1/23/21–save the date, kids, and it’s a Saturday).
42. Give my brother and sister-in-law the wedding they never had.
*43. Read nothing but 100-plus-year-old books for a year.
*44. Go to a performance of Messiah.
*45. New Year’s Eve in Times Square.
46. Collaborate with a friend on a writing project.
47. Adopt a Compassion child. His name’s Sabuj and he’s from Bangladesh, and we have the same birthday. I should post a picture.
48. Pray at the Wailing Wall.
*49. Knit an afghan for Afghans for Afghans.
*50. Win a contest. (Proof here. I’m missmanders)
51. Eat a deep-fried Oreo at the Texas State Fair.
52. Do my own oral history project.
53. Eat gelato in Rome.
54. Spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.
55. Take my dad to Pike Place Market.
56. Learn the Shema in Hebrew.
*57. Go bowling in Canada.
*58. Write a long letter (10+ pages) to the president.
59. Write letters to my kids to be opened on their eighteenth birthdays.
*60. Play guitar on a street corner.
61. Climb up to the very top of Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh.
62. Learn how to do mehndi (henna tattoos).
63. Learn how to tango in Argentina.
64. Feed a penguin.
65. Diet Coke and Mentos on the Fourth of July.
66. Bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
67. Drive Route 66 (with a copy of this book, written by my great step-uncle that I’ve never met).
68. Photograph the sunrise from the top of a mountain.
69. Cover a wall in book pages.
70. Write a $1000 check to my church.
71. Get back to Korea somehow.
*72. Re-learn how to swim.
*73. Go snowboarding in Colorado.
74. Visit all 50 states. (Airports and driving through without staying don’t count.) [As of July 2011: Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Hawaii, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, New York, Washington, Louisiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky.]
*75. Stop shaving my legs for a month. November 2010. NEVER AGAIN.
76. Win NaNoWriMo or Script Frenzy. Script Frenzy won 4.30.08.
77. Meet everyone on my blogroll.
78. Help build a Habitat for Humanity house.
*79. Wear a skirt or dress every day for a month. (Don’t worry, this will not be combined with #75. )
*80. Go on a mission trip to somewhere in Africa.
*81. Organize an arts conference at the church I belong to.
82. Eat lunch with a homeless person.
83. Learn how to count to ten in ten languages. (English, Spanish, American Sign Language, Norwegian [yes, Norwegian], Italian)
84. Paint glow-in-the-dark constellations on the ceiling.
85. Audition for a symphony chorus.
86. Eat a fried cricket.
*87. Watch whales in Alaska.
88. Get to the point where I’ve read all the books I own at least once.
89. Learn how to french-braid hair.
*90. Take a road trip the whole length of I-35, from Laredo, TX to Duluth, MN.
91. See the Olympic opening ceremonies live.
*92. Get a person who is completely not a rock-show kind of person, dress them up like an emo kid or punk (hair dye and fake piercings will be involved, in any case), and take them to a rock show. And take pictures. (I already have potential targets for this, muaha.)
*93. Do The Rocky Horror Picture Show or a Sound of Music singalong.
94. DISNEY WORLD!
*95. See a taping of A Prairie Home Companion at the Fitzgerald.
96. Go without Internet for a month.
97. Bake communion bread.
*98. Get a second piercing in my ears.
99. Recite one of Paul’s letters from memory in the place it was originally sent to–like, Ephesians in Ephesus, or Colossians in Colossae.
100. Shear a sheep.
101. Wear a corset, just to say I have.
102. Go camping. I have somehow managed to never do this. I’ve been to camp, I’ve gone hiking, I’ve slept outside, I’ve eaten s’mores, but I’ve never done the full-blown “hi, i’m in a tent in the wilderness and might possibly be eaten by a large carnivorous mammal” thing. April 13-15, 2012 was my first time! I went out to Garner State Park with a bunch of friends and had a blast. Will certainly not be my last time.
103. Go to AMC Theater’s annual screening of all the Oscar nominees for best film. (They’ve split it up into two weekends now that they’re nominating 10 in that category, so at least you don’t have to sit through all of them in one go and have your brain melt.)
104. Cook my way through a cookbook, Julie and Julia style.
105. Read all the winners of the Rooster. (Cloud Atlas, The Accidental, The Road, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, A Mercy, Wolf Hall, A Visit From the Goon Squad, The Sisters Brothers)
106. Take a kid (any kid, doesn’t have to be related to me) to his or her first rock show.
107. Go deep-sea fishing.
108. Get a full spa treatment with a group of girlfriends.
109. Sort out my miscellaneous minor-but-still-annoying health issues.
110. Be at the finish line when my friend Dave finishes a marathon (no pressure, dude).
111. Run a full marathon myself (!!!).
112. See Bruce Springsteen live.
113. Learn how to actually chop things correctly, because what I do now is more like hacking them to pieces.
114. Attend a Catholic mass (which I’ve done before, but I was 10 and wasn’t really paying attention).
115. Learn how to bind books.
116. Learn how to do statistics.
117. Write my life history for my kids.
118. Fly first-class somewhere.
119. Go to TED or Q or SXSW Interactive (…or all three).
120. Throw a pot (as in make it, not literally throw it).
121. Eat caviar.
122. Leave my waiter/waitress a $100 tip.
123. Attend an Eastern Orthodox service.
124. Finish this giant list of projects I made a while back.
125. Go to Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God concert at the Ryman.
126. Write my will (morbid, but necessary).
127. Be in/start a book club.
128. Grow out my hair really long, then cut it off and give it to Locks of Love.
129. Attend a Passover seder.
130. Can something (tomatoes, jam, something like that) and give it away.
131. Pick someone and write letters–handwritten, in an envelope, with a stamp–every week for a year to them.
132. Hike the Camino de Santiago.
133. Get some friends together and split a bottle of wine that’s older than we are.
134. Go watch the bats at the Congress Street Bridge.
135. Get a professional bra fitting.
136. Go to a Sacred Harp sing.
137. See Next to Normal. Yes.
138. Write an epithalamion.
139. Audition for American Idol.
140. Go ziplining.
141. Organize a conference on women, theology, and the kingdom of God.
142. Go visit my Compassion kid in Bangladesh.
143. See The Frames live.
144. Take dance lessons.
145. Audition for a game show.
Let’s do #65 on Saturday
I found your list through your comments on Might Girl. I love the idea of only reading book that are older than 100 years.
I lived in Scotland for a bit. You should climb Arthur’s Seat at the beginning of summer. They get about 17 hours of sunlight so you can hike late at night. Very cool!