38 things to do before i die

tomorrow i turn 38. *gasp*
thoughts of my mortality always crop up near my birthday, and this time, it got me thinking of the things i want to do before i go (not so) gently into that good night:

1. join an archeological dig somewhere in the mediterranean
2. eat paella in valencia, spain
3. eat pizza in naples, italy
4. go on a luxury cruise (preferably on the queen mary 2)
5. ride the orient express (the venice simplon-orient-express that goes from istanbul-budapest-bucharest-venice)
6. learn how to make soufflé and macarons in paris
7. watch les miserables on broadway
8. ice skate in the lincoln center on christmas day
9. learn to make pasta from scratch, in tuscany
10. tour a winery in france
11. go to the top of the eiffel tower
12. spend an entire week touring the louvre
13. build houses for habitat for humanity
14. plant 100 trees
15. go to venice before it sinks and feed the pigeons at piazza san marco
16. visit rome, tour the vatican, look at each one of bernini's sculptures
17. eat a hotdog in the streets of new york while watching the macy's thanksgiving parade
18. watch a couple of matches in wimbledon (preferably with federer playing) --- i'll bring daddy along.
19. host a party at a vineyard in italy, in the fall, and invite all my friends
20. take a course in a very obscure subject that the world has no use for, like ancient egyptian bread-making or something like that.
21. go to london with mommy, it's got to be with mommy; and have afternoon tea at the ritz
22. tour all the castles in ireland
23. learn dressmaking
24. bring my kids to a dinosaur museum
25. spend a week at disneyland (with the kids, of course)
26. go to the opera (preferably la traviata or la boheme)
27. see all the major works of monet, gaugin, van gogh, and renoir
28. go on a gastronomic tour of italy and france
29. watch the sun set over uluru
30. fly a plane (it's one of my ultimate fears)
32. read all the classics
33. have my portrait painted
34. ride a camel in egypt and see the pyramids
35. teach someone illiterate to read (oh wait, i've done that with vito. hahahaha!)
36. drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring, or let manuel drive and i sit on the passenger seat. that's good enough for me. =)
37. go to walden pond and read thoreau while drifting on a canoe (manuel has to hold the oars, of course)
38. listen to beethoven's 9th symphony played live by the new york philharmonic orchestra

how about you? what's on your list?

wishing

i wish the queasiness would go away....
i wish my cough would get better (it's been 4 weeks)
i wish i wasn't this gassy and bloated
i wish i had lots of montaño spanish sardines on stock
i wish i wasn't gaining weight so fast