I realize that having kids is a great thing when it comes to complete the tasks of the Before I am Old and Boring-list. Today me and my kids finished another two of the 101 things, only 98 left then :).

Here's some evidence caught on camera.

no. 16 - Make a swear box

- Check!

My 5 year old son helped me creating the swear box. He also wrote the adorable sign which says "Bad Words 1 SEK" :). I believe I am the one in this family who will contribute most to this box...

  

no. 66 - Have a Snowball Fight and Fun in the Snow

- Check!

 

Today after preschool we took a walk on request by my youngest son Philip. The weather has been wonderful today so we decided to bring their plastic sledges with us. Luckily we found this perfect little hill not so far away from home, where we rode the sledges, threw snow balls and rolled around in the snow. As the spring is closing in on us being March already, it is a must to enjoy every beautiful snowy day now. This winter has truly been remarkable.

 

  

 

Well, I congratulate me on checking off my first task! Although it wasn't such a great effort as blogging come as a kinda natural effect on this "listing-thing" :).

no. 36 Start your own blog!

- CHECK!

     

101 Things To Do Before I´m Old And Boring

As I wrote in my first submission to this blog, the BOB-list is mainly addressed to younger people (students). Yet, I think it is the perfect way to stay in touch with my inner child, and it also allow me to submit more frequently in my blog. If you want to see which ones of these tasks I've completed, take a look at my presentation on the right, where I update the lists.

 

1. Send a Message in a Bottle

2. Run up an Escalator the Wrong Way

3. Make an Origami Crane

4. Learn How to Tell When Someone Fancies You (and When They Don't)

5. Keep a Dream Diary

6. Touch These Creatures

a) Mice and rats

b) Butterflies and moths

c) Worms

d) Birds

e) Spiders

f) Snake

g) Frog

h) Fish

i) Some sort of bug

7. Prepare Yourself for Fame

8. Learn to Play an Instrument

9. Play a Computer Game to the End

10. Have an Embarrassing Moment and Get Over It

11. Get Your School Involved in a World Record Attempt

12. Paint a Picture Good Enough to Hang on the Wall

13. Learn to Whistle (and Make Other Noises)

14. See a Ghost

15. Fart and Burp

16. Make a Swear Box

17. Act in a Play

18. Win Something

19. Make a T-shirt

20. Stay Up All Night

21. Sleep All Day

22. Invent a Secret Code

23. Learn to Do a Card Trick

24. Grow Something from a Seed

25. Start a Collection

26. Help Save the Planet

27. Turn Back Time

28. Learn to Do a Party Trick

29. Climb to the Top of a Mountain

30. Make a One-Minute Movie

31. Host a Party

32. Visit...

a) A safari park

b) A carnival

c) A castle

d) A theme park

e) A farm

f) An aquarium

g) The countyside

h) Another country

i) Your capitol city

33. Learn to Bake a Cake

34. Hide Treasure and Leave a Map for Friends to Find

35. Learn How to Ask Someone Out (and How to Dump Them)

36. Start Your Own Blog

37. Write Lyrics for a Song

38. Make a Time Capsule

39. Be a Genius

40. Take Care of an Animal

41. Learn to Like These Foods

a) Broccoli

b) Shellfish

c) Lettuce

d) Brussels sprouts

e) Carrots

f) Smelly cheese

g) Coconut

h) Peas

42. April Fool Someone

43. Do Something Charitable

44.Teach Your Grandparents Something New

45. Invent a New Game

46. Go As Fast As You Can

47. Make Your Own Badges

48. Watch These Films

49. Read These Books

50. Pretend to Be Ill Convincingly

51. Save Your Pocket Money for a Month and Spend It All at Once

52. Learn to Swim

53. Succeed At Something You're Bad At

54. Be a Daredevil

55. Invent a New Trend

56. Know Who Your Friends Are

57. Plant a Tree (and Climb It When You're Older)

58. Start a Band

59. Camp Out in the Back Garden

60 Learn to Live without Something You Love for a Week

a) TV

b) Mobile Phone

c) Computer Games

d) Junk Food

e) the Internet

f) Other...

61. Join a Club

62. Cook a Meal

63. List the Things Your Parents Say They'll Tell You When You're Older

64. Make Your Bike or Skateboard Look Cool

65. Learn to Juggle

66. Have a Snowball Fight and Fun in the Snow

67. Build the Ultimate Sandcastle and Have Fun in the Sun

68. Take Part in a TV Show

69. Make a Scene in a Public Place

70. Spend Christmas in Another Country

71. Do Something Nice without Being Asked

72. See Your Music Idol Perform Live

73. Have a Sleepover

74. Become a Spy

75. Watch a Tadpole Grow into a Frog

76. Learn to Say Useful Phrases in Other Languages

77. Make Your Own Greeting Cards

78. Hold a Jumble Sale

79. Build an Igloo

80. Start Your Own Secret Society

81. Research Your Family Tree

82. Learn to Skim Stones

83. Dye Your Hair

84. Lobby Your Local MP

85. Write a Story and Get It Published

86. Sing in Front of an Audience

87. Learn to Use Long Words (and Drop Them into Conversation)

88. Blame Someone Else

89. Learn to Stick Up for Yourself

90. Get from A to B Using a Map

91. Send a Valentines Card

92. Have Your Own Plot in the Garden

93. Build Your Own Website

94. See Your Name in Print

95. Make a Unique Milkshake

96. Glue Coins to the Floor

97. Learn to Take Great Photos

98. Drive Something

99. Be Vegetarian for a Week

100. Meet Someone Famous

101. Decide What You Want to Be When You Grow Up

 

101 Things To Do Before I Die

There are certain criterias for every task that need to be fulfilled before I can check the task as "completed". These criterias can be read in the book by the same name as the list. I have also added a critera for my own participation, and that concludes that I cannot use any previous experience prior to my 30:th birthday.

 

1. Write a Best-seller

2. Swim With...

a) Sharks

b) Whales

c) Dolphins

d) Tropical Fish

3. Win an Award, Trophy or Prize

4. Catch a Fish With Your Bare Hands

5. Make a Discovery

6. Throw a House Party When your Parents are Out.

7. Be Part of a Threesome

8. Realise Your Childhood Dream

9. Learn That Instrument

10. Leave Your Mark in Graffiti

11. Storm Chase a Tornado

12. Get a Piece of Art into an Exhibition

13. Meet Someone with your Own Name

14. Ride the World's Biggest Rollercoasters

a) Top Thrill Dragster, Cedar Point, Ohio

b) Steel Dragon 2000, Nagashima Spa Land, Japan

c) Colossus, Thorpe Park, England

d) Superman the Escape, Six Flags Magic Mountain, California

e) Incredible Hulk, Universal Studios Island of Adventure, Florida

f) Son of the Beast, Paramount's Kings Island, Ohio

15. Stage Dive or Crowd Surf

16. Get in to The Guiness Book of World Records

17. Own a Pointless Collection

18. Study the Kama Sutra and Put Theory into Practice

19. Master Poker and Win Big in a Casino

20. Get Backstage and Get Off with a Rock God

21. Be a Human Guinea Pig

22. Go Up in a Hot Air Balloon

23. Get Arrested

24. See a Space Shuttle Launch

25. Capture the Moment in an Award-winning Photograph

26. Bungee Jump

27. See an Erupting Volcano

28. Sky Dive

29. Meet Your Idol

30. Stay in the Best Suite in a Five Star Hotel

31. Experience Weightlessness

32. See the Aurora Borealis

33. Get to Score a Hole in One

34. Design Your Own Cocktail

35. Play a Part in Your Favourite TV Show

36. Visit Every Country Continent

a) Asia

b) Antarctica

c) North America

d) Europe

e) Australasia

f) South America

g) Africa

37. Make Fire Without Matches

38. See These Animals in the Wild...

a) Panda

b) Rhino

c) Hippo

d) Grizzly Bear

e) Elephant

f) Hummingbird

g) Giraffe

h) Koala

i) Manatee

j) Gorilla

k) Lion

l) Monkey

m) Penguin

n) Kangaroo

o) Tiger

p) Crocodile

q) Orangutan

r) Eagle

s) Polar Bear

t) Coelacanth

39. Go to the Dogs

40. Get a Free Upgrade on a Plane

41. Be Friends With Your Ex

42. Hit Your Targets

43. Throw a Dart into a Map and Travel to Where it Lands

44. Attend a Film Premiere

45. Do a Runner From a Fancy Restaurant

46. Scuba Dive

47. Milk a Cow

48. Be Present When Your Country Wins the World Cup

49. See Both Solar and Lunar Eclipses

a) Solar

b) Lunar

50. Write Your Name Over a Star on the Walk of Fame

51. Learn Another Language

52. Read the Greatest Books Ever Written *

53. Complete a Coast to Coast Road Trip Across America

54. Make at Least One Huge Purchase You Can't Afford

55. Score the Winning Goal/Try/Basket

56. Gatecrash a Fancy Party

57. See the All-time Greatest Films *

58. Live in the Place You Love

59. Leave a Job You Hate

60. Take Part in a Police Line-up

61. Get Away with the Perfect Practical Joke or Hoax

62. Join the Mile High Club

63. Make the Front Page of a National Newspaper

64. Drive a Car at Top Speed

65. Shout 'Drinks Are on Me!' in a Pub or Bar

66. Be Part of a Flash Mob

67) Visit...

a) Colosseum, Rome, Italy

b) Uluru, Australia

c) Machu Picchu, Peru

d) The Pyramids at Giza, Egypt

e) Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

f) Sydney Harbour, Australia

g) Taj Mahal, Delhi, India

h) Great Barrier Reef, Australia

i) Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

j) Grand Canyon, Arizona

k) Angor Wat, Cambodia

l) The Great Wall of China

68. Save Someone's Life

69. In Various Languages, Learn to...

70. Invent a Word That Makes it into the Dictionary

71. Have Adventurous Sex

72. Have Enough Money to Do All the Things on This List

73. Stand on the International Date Line

74. Learn to Fly a Plane

75. Get a Tattoo and/or a Piercing

76. Invent Something

77. Learn Astronomy and Read the Night Sky

78. Drink a Vintage Wine

79. Answer a Personal Ad

80. Spend Christmas on the Beach

81. Get Barred From a Pub or Bar

82. Build Your Own House

83. Skinny Dip at Midnight

84. Sell All Your Junk on eBay and Make a Profit

85. Visit the World's Tallest Buildings

a) Burj Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirate

b) Russia Tower, Moscow, Russia

c) Freedom Tower, New York

d) Taipei 101, Taiwan

e) Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China

f) International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong

g) Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

h) Sears Tower, Chicago

i) Jin Mao Building, Shanghai, China

j) Two International Finance Centre, Hoong Kong

k) Citic Plaza, Guangzhou, China

l) Shun Hing Square, Shenzhen, China

m) Empire State Building, New York

n) Central Plaza, Hong Kong

o) Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong

86. Run a Marathon

87. Conquer Your Fear

88. Get Married Unusually

89. Throw Away the Instant Noodles

90. Join the 16-Mile High Club

91. Publish a Cult Website

92. Own an Original Work of Art

93. Complete the Monopoly Board Pub Crawl

94. Get Something Named After You

95. Get Revenge

96. Be an Extra in a Film

97. Live Out of a Van

98. Go on a Demonstration

99. Confess

100. Reach 100 Years of Age

101. Continue Your Gene Pool