Go girl, it's your birthday...

Today is my 34th birthday.  They say you're only as old as you feel.  And since I feel like I'm 54, I figure actually BEING 34 isn't such a bad thing.

In spite of all the aging stuff, I love my birthday.  I always have.  It's a new day.  A new year.  And it's always made complete with cake!  So today, I'm starting the 365 Project, documenting a photo a day for one entire year.  I figured I practically do it anyhow, that I might as well make it official.

Which leads me to the promised, and previously agonized about, "Jennifer's 100 Things" list.  They are in no order of importance, and have no timeline to complete, except that before death do I part thing.  They are just a list of things, both big and small, long- and short-term that I want to someday be able to say "I've done that".

1. Get one of my photos shown in a gallery
2. Manage to do the splits again
3. Whitewater raft down a river
4. Climb Kilimanjaro
5. Learn to speak German
6. Swim 100 meters in a pool without stopping
7. Taste the water of all 5 oceans (need the Arctic and Southern)
8. Step on all 7 continents (need Oceana, Asia and Antartica)
9. Visit all 50 US states (need Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island)
10. Visit 30 different countries (17 done)
11. Be in a play
12. Serve food at a meal kitchen
13. Ride the train up Jungfrau
14. Successfully navigate a hedge labyrinth
15. Spend a night in a lighthouse
16. Own a cool car (read: not a momobile)
17. Write a book
18. Hold a rummage sale
19. Camp in the Grand Canyon
20. Watch the Kentucky Derby in person wearing a big hat
21. Take my picture in the Cloud Gate ball in Chicago's Millennium Park
22. Go to the top of the Willis Tower
23. Eat at Xoco
24. Visit the observation deck at the Shanghai World Finance Center
25. Take a cooking class with a famous chef
26. Deep sea fish
27. Hide a geocache of my own
28. Play in a softball league
29. Watch Casablanca and Breakfast at Tiffany's
30. Take a photography class
31. Spend Easter at the Vatican
32. Bike across the Golden Gate Bridge
33. Take C-man camping
34. Soak in hot springs
35. Build an exercise room in the basement
36. Take a boat trip through Bangkok’s floating market
37. Ride an elephant
38. Own a Vespa
39. Eat an apple from a tree I planted
40. Hike on the Appalachian Trail
41. Throw my arthritis into remission
42. Start and finish Project 365 (started 5/5/10)
43. Spend a birthday on the top of a mountain
44. See the Olympics
45. Take a mud bath
46. Renew my wedding vows with Beerman, barefoot on a beach
47. Learn to flamenco dance
48. Gather lavender from a Provence field
49. Sail the Greek Isles
50. Drink water from the Lourdes sanctuary
51. Host an outdoor party with white Christmas lights everywhere
52. Make a pie from berries I pick
53. Be a nude model for an art class
54. Take part as a guerilla gardener
55. Build a gallery wall in my house for any family artwork
56. Become a certified herbalist
57. Own a place in Switzerland
58. See a World Cup game in person
59. Taste 50 different sparkling wines/champagnes
60. Get First Stage theater season tickets for the family
61. Bathe in the Dead Sea
62. Bike the Tour de Farms
63. Learn to tie all those intricate Boy Scout knots
64. Tiptoe through the Dutch tulips in May
65. Take an Indian cooking class
66. Earn a promotion to Director
67. Learn how to tile a floor
68. Cruise the Nile
69. Find Great Grandpa Salzmann’s boyhood home in Moutier, Switzerland
70. Take a meditation class
71. Visit an Ashram
72. Spend a weekend on a houseboat
73. Send in a postcard to PostSecret
74. Eat roasted corn with mayo and chile powder from a street vendor in Mexico
75. Own a house on a river
76. Learn to make luxemburgerli
77. Live in another country
78. Learn to sail a boat
79. Own a zero turn riding lawn mower
80. Go meatless for 30 days
81. Eat at Felidia
82. Haggle at a bazaar in Morocco
83. Stand in two continents at the same time
84. Visit the Haglia Sophia
85. Attend services at a Jewish temple
86. Kayak down a river DUH! I've already done this. I'm therefore replacing #86 to be Go 30 days without eating out
87. Ride in a hot air balloon
88. See a fjord
89. Learn to snowboard
90. Harvest saffron I’ve grown
91. Eat a paczki in Poland
92. Learn to play the guitar
93. Read 10 classic books I’ve never read
94. Enter something into the Wisconsin State Fair
95. Take a cake decorating class
96. Learn how to properly use knives
97. Lay on the virgin’s altar on Machu Picchu (and laugh and laugh and laugh)
98. Ride the Trans-Siberian across Asia
99. Photograph Loy Krathong
100. Drive a car over 100 mph

And because I can never seem to get this song out of my head lately...