Things I Want to Do
100(ish) things I want to do before I die.*
- Go to the Final Four
- Finish writing that novel
Return to EthiopiaMission Accomplished! (12/2015)- Learn to play guitar
- Complete my Master of Divinity degree
- Watch a meteor shower
- Visit a movie studio
- Take a week-long vacation with just my wife
Attend the Indianapolis 500Mission Accomplished! (5/2022)- Throw out the first pitch at a baseball game
- Secretly bring friends in from out-of-town for a big surprise party
- Learn to speak Kembatta
- Find an alien in Roswell, NM
- Build a well in Africa
- Walk a portion of the Great Wall of China
- Actively support a new church plant
- Have a candlelit dinner on the beach
- Memorize a book of the Bible
- Visit Mt. Rushmore
- Help build a house
- Eat a cheesesteak from Geno’s Steaks
- Watch a Tennessee Volunteers game with 100,000 of my closest friends at Neyland Stadium
- Finalize my will
- Give away $100,000
- Make a movie
- Catch a home run ball
- Advocate for the fatherless
- Give a voice to the voiceless
- Visit the Martin Luther King National Memorial
- Build an igloo
- Visit Abraham Lincoln’s tomb
- Tend my own garden
- Discover the secret to creating the perfect pitcher of sweet tea
- Learn how to preach a message without using notes
- Take a storytelling class
- Attend the National Storytelling Festival
- Celebrate the 4th of July at Boston Harbor
- Watch the Madison Regatta
- Research more information about my family tree
- Go to an Old Oaken Bucket game
- Go to an IU vs UK basketball game
- See the return of the Norris Family Reunions
- Serve as a poll worker during an election
- Visit my first grade teacher and thank her for the impact she had on me
- Learn to play the hammer dulcimer
Attend the Heartland Film FestivalMission Accomplished! (October 13, 2011)- Host an art show featuring local artists
- Write and record a love song
- Go Christmas caroling in my neighborhood
- Discover how to grill the perfect steak
- Be one of the first 100 people in line for a Chick-fil-a grand opening and get free Chick-fil-a for a year so I can Eat Mor Chikin.
Eat at a restaurant that Guy Fieri visited onDiners, Dine-ins, and DivesMission Accomplished! (October 13, 2011)- Find and play (and possibly purchase) the enclosed sit-down version of the Star Wars arcade game (from the 1980’s, not the re-booted game from the late-90’s)
Sit in the audience of the Late Show with David LettermanThe show no longer exists.- Be an extra in a disaster movie
- Watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – live and in person
- Host a podcast
- Find someone – anyone – who can help me fix my slice in golf
- Have a family portrait painted
- Convert our family home videos to DVD
Establish a college fund for my kidsMission Accomplished- Sing in the rain
- Tutor a child
- Transfer my seminary notes to digital format
- Get lost in a painting
- Throw a dart on a map of the US and take the family wherever it lands
- Cook a dessert that has to be set on fire in order to finish it
- Beat Christy at Scrabble
- Visit the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and meet an inductee
- Climb an active volcano
- Get Taco Bell to bring back the Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito
- Explore the Catacombs
- Worship with the underground church
- Bury the hatchet
- Memorize a poem and pass it on
- Test drive a car I can’t afford
- Pretend to be invisible
- Attend Game 7 of the World Series
- Get a poem published
- Paint a layer on the World’s Largest Ball of Paint
- Watch a tornado touch the ground (from a safe distance)
- Take Alyson to the Kentucky Derby
Take Aiden to a Colts gameMission Accomplished! (8/19/2011)- Watch
the space shuttlea rocket launch. Space shuttle is retired. Shake Peter Mayhew’s handSadly, Peter passed away April 20, 2019- Make a return performance at TubaChristmas
- Visit the old family homestead in Kentucky
- Build a model rocket with my kids
- Launch and recover the above-mentioned model rocket
- Hire a skywriter to…well…write a message in the sky
- Finally keep my promise I made to Christy on our honeymoon and take her to Nova Scotia
- Shave my head
- Be a peacemaker
- Learn to dance like no one is watching
- Find out which restaurant makes the better burger: Five Guys, In-n-Out, or Steak ‘n Shake
- Go 200 miles per hour in a car
Own a dishwasherMission Accomplished (11/2011)- Discover better ways to communicate with Christy in her love language
- Attend a black tie event
- Watch The Dam Busters, Seven Samurai, and Hidden Fortress
- Attend a Presidential inauguration
Visit the Holocaust MuseumMission Accomplished (February 27, 2020)- Attend Drums on the Ohio
Rock out at a Bon Jovi concertMission Accomplished (March 22, 2017)- Headbang at a Metallica concert
- Cross 5 things off this list every year
- Add 10 new things to this list every year
What’s on your list?
What should I add to mine?
* I totally ripped this idea off from my friend Joe of Lutheran Grilled Cheese fame. Go give him some love.
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Howdy. I'm Matt. My wife, Christy, and I have four kids and two dogs, I'm passionate about orphan care. I'm a die-hard fan of the Evansville Aces, the Indiana Hoosiers, and Star Wars. I'm trying to live life by the Todd family motto: "It behooves us to live!"
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Come visit us and you can knock 2 things off your list.
Sounds like a plan!
I got yer #33 right here for you. Add a pinch of Baking Soda to 2 cups of boiling water. Add 6 teabags (or three of the large ones)and let steep for 15 minutes. (Note: that means let the bags soak off the heat. Don’t continue boiling.) In a gallon pitcher, add 3/4 cup of sugar to half a gallon of water and dissolve. (Real southern style tea drinkers will double the sugar, I don’t like mine so syrupy.) Add tea concentrate to pitcher and then fill the rest of the way with water. Chill and enjoy…
The secret is in the baking soda. Glad I could be of service. 😉
I’ve never tried baking soda! I’ve tried brown sugar and I’ve tried honey, but never baking soda. I’ll definitely have to try it!
While I’m more Southern than most folk around here, I can’t imagine 1 1/2 cups of sugar for a gallon of tea. Might have to do 1 1/4 😉
Thanks for the advice!
Is it sad that I’m excited because I’ve crossed things off your bucket list? I’ve seen Letterman (I left the Broadway production of Les Mes to do it!), eaten a cheesesteak at Gino’s (I’ll tell you about that in a less public forum :), tutored a child and married a dishwasher. 🙂 (Actually,we have an electric one, too, but I like my human one.) Your list brightened my day and reminded me of happy times!
Nope. Not a sad thing. At least you’ve got stuff crossed off of someone’s list. 😀
The cheesesteak item was actually inspired by your trip to Philly a few years back.
We were oh-so-close to seeing Letterman, but he wasn’t filming the week we were in NYC. I have a picture somewhere that I probably should post at some point of me, Christy, and my brother standing outside the locked front door with overly-pitiful faces. I don’t know if I’d actually think Letterman was funny anymore, but it’s been a goal since we missed out on him 13 years ago.
I think Banta could count as 16…MAYBE?
maybe. 😉
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