A friend of mine recently made a life list and has been crossing item after item off of it as she tries to make her life better after her divorce. I thought it was a great idea, so I've been working on my own. I'd love additional book or movie suggestions too.
Jennifer’s Life List:
1. Buy a house/apartment
2. Go shopping for and buy Christian Louboutin/Jimmy Choo/Manolo Blahnik shoes with Linzie
3. Learn to play guitar
4. Learn to speak Italian
5. Learn to speak French
6. Swim with dolphins
7. See the aurora borealis
8. Attend New York Fashion Week
9. Complete a major sports event (marathon, triathlon, AIDS lifecycle)
10. Learn to sail
11. Own a yacht
12. Get married
13. Be in-house counsel for a major fashion house
14. Go into space
15. Tour NASA headquarters with Dad
16. Tour the White House
17. Live in Italy
18. Make lasagna completely from scratch (including noodles and sauce)
19. Read the 100 greatest books of all time
20. Watch the 100 greatest movies of all time
21. Go on a roadtrip without an itinerary or plans
22. Visit all 50 states
23. Take dance classes
24. Weight 130 pounds
25. Attend a movie premiere
26. Be in a parade
27. Save 6 months living expenses
28. Be debt free
29. Do a press handstand
30. Watch a sunrise or sunset over the pyramids
31. Attend the Olympics and watch gymnastics
32. Stay at the ice hotel
33. Snorkel off the Great Barrier Reef
34. Catch fireflies in a jar
35. Drive a Ferrari with Dad
36. Ride in a gondola in Venice
37. Kiss someone on the top of the Empire State Building
38. Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
39. See the Dave Matthews Band at the Gorge
40. See the Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center
41. Celebrate New Years Eve in Times Square
42. Visit Salem, Massachusetts
43. Learn to surf
44. See the sunrise on the east coast and the sunset on the west coast
45. Be able to do right-leg, left-leg, and center splits again
46. Go to a Renaissance Fair in costume
47. Learn to play the drums
48. Ride in a hot air balloon
49. Go on a cruise
50. Buy a telescope
51. Pass the New York Bar Exam
52. Get a 4.0
53. Attend the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
54. Visit all of these places:
a. Aruba- with Renee
b. Australia
c. Belgium
d. Anywhere in the Caribbean
e. Cuba
f. Egypt
g. France
h. The Galapagos Islands
i. Germany
j. Greece
k. Ireland
l. Italy
m. Japan
n. Kenya- with Linzie, Kume, and Mercy
o. Monaco
p. Morocco
q. New Zealand
r. Norway –with Linzie
s. Russia
t. South Africa
u. Switzerland
v. Turkey
w. United Kingdom
Greatest Books of All Time (Random House)
1. ULYSSES by James Joyce
2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov
5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley
6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner
7. CATCH-22
8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
13. 1984 by George Orwell
14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara
23. U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
24. WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson
25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
31. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell
32. THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James
33. SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser
34. A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh
35. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner
36. ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
42. DELIVERANCE by James Dickey
43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell
44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
52. PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
57. PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford
58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton
70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell
71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes
72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul
73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West
74. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway
75. SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh
76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark
77. FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce
78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
79. A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster
80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh
81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow
82. ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner
83. A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul
84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
85. LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad
86. RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow
87. THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett
88. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London
89. LOVING by Henry Green
90. MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
96. SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron
97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
My Own Additions:
1. THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
3. DUNE by Frank Herbert
4. THE STAND by Stephen King
5. BELOVED by Toni Morrison
6. SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury
7. ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert Pirsig
8. THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER by Tom Clancy
9. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST by Ken Kesey
10. MY ANTONIA by Willa Cather
11. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
12. THE COMPLETE SHERLOCK HOLMES by Arthur Conan Doyle
13. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Fyodor Dostoevsky
14. GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell
15. JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte
16. MOBY DICK by Herman Melville
17. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen
18. ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe
19. THE SCARLETT LETTER by Nathanial Hawthorne
20. A TALE OF TWO CITIES by Charles Dickens
21. UNCLE TOM’S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe
22. WAR AND PEACE by Leo Tolstoy
23. WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
100 Greatest Movies of All Time
- Citizen Kane (1941)
- Casablanca (1942)
- The Godfather (1972)
- Gone with the Wind (1939)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- The Graduate (1967)
- On the Waterfront (1954)
- Schindler’s List (1993)
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Sunset Boulevard (1950)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- Star Wars (1977)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The African Queen (1951)
- Psycho (1960)
- Chinatown (1974)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- E.T. (1982)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
- Apocalypse Now (1979)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Annie Hall (1977)
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- High Noon (1952)
- To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Midnight Cowboy (1969)
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Double Indemnity (1965)
- Doctor Zhivago (1965)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- West Side Story (1961)
- Rear Window (1954)
- King Kong (1933)
- The Birth of a Nation (1915)
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Jaws (1975)
- Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (1937)
- Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid (1969)
- The Philadelphia Story (1940)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- Amadeus (1984)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
- The Sound of Music (1965)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Fantasia (1940)
- Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Vertigo (1958)
- Tootsie (1982)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Network (1976)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- An American in Paris (1951)
- Shane (1953)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- The Gold Rush (1925)
- Dances with Wolves (1990)
- City Lights (1931)
- American Graffiti (1973)
- Rocky (1976)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Modern Times (1936)
- Giant (1956)
- Platoon (1986)
- Fargo (1996)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- Easy Rider (1969)
- Patton (1970)
- The Jazz Singer (1927)
- My Fair Lady (1964)
- A Place in the Sun (1951)
- The Apartment (1960)
- Goodfellas (1990)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- The Searchers (1956)
- Bringing Up Baby (1938)
- Unforgiven (1992)
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
- Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
The first place we saw was Saint Patrick's Cathedral
We got there just as mass was letting out. Great (coincidental) timing on our part!
Mass just wouldn't be complete without protestors. There were about 5 people with signs. These people have nothing on Eugene! (sorry about the bad photo)
U of O friends, doesn't he look like Professor Moffitt?
The back of the peep lady
The front of the peep lady!
This woman was kind enough to pose for me since she saw I was trying to take her picture
Cute little family
Victoria and I are going to go traditional next year and dress like these people! Any guys willing to wear a top hat and tails?
Another cute family
Another cathedral. St. Thomas maybe?
This was one of my favorite hats
Creepy marionette. Maybe just creepy to adults because the kids were certainly interested.
I loved these hats as well!
Near the Plaza Hotel there was a dance performance going on. It is the Morris (Morse?) dance from England. One woman was playing the accordion and all the dancers had bells on their costumes.
I'm under the impression this woman just has a rocking horse costume lying around her house and was just waiting for an excuse to wear it.
When we were done parade wandering, we stopped near the Plaza to watch the dancers.
We ended our glorious Easter day at this French restaurant for brunch. I had delicious crepes filled with smoked salmon and a mimosa. All in all it was a lovely day.
