In addition to having a Life List, I make it a point to do 100 new things every year. Sometimes I seek out these opportunities, and other times they just present themselves to me. These things might be small, insignificant tasks that I’ve never done before, experiences that just happen to me or massive journeys that turn into life-changing events.

2012 is the third year I am participating in the 100 Challenge.

1. Wrote a bona fide business plan.
2. Fell in love with a class at the gym.
3. Adopted an all black cat.
4. Made a welcome sign for someone I was picking up at the airport.
5. Hosted a foreign exchange student.
6. Registered a student in school.
7. Reconnected with a friend from elementary school.
8. Ate escargot.
9. Received a sugar scrub treatment.
10. Watched a professional dance company practice in its studio.
11. Attended a Mardi Gras ball.
12. Ate a pistolette.
13. Ate boudin.
14. Rode on a Mardi Gras float.
15. Ate alligator.
16. Took zydeco dance lessons.
17. Wandered through the world’s largest display of Mardi Gras costumes.
18. Decorated a king cake.
19. Ate king cake and found the baby inside.
20. Tasted crawfish.
21. Participated in a traditional running of the chickens parade.
22. Attended a Mardi Gras royal gala.
23. Received a chocolate sculpture as a gift.
24. Witnessed a world record being broken.
25. Had a caricature drawn of myself.
26. Went to Disneyland.
27. Introduced someone else to true Americana.
28. Made juice.
29. Took a class about holism.
30. Did yoga on the beach.
31. Got a pedicure.
32. Walked across the Hoover Dam bridge.
33. Set foot in New Mexico.
34. Visited the Four Corners.
35. Helped a friend cross something off of her bucket list.