Before I die

So as I was on my noontime run today I started thinking about life in general. What I had and hadn’t done, who I know, what I’ve seen, blah blah blah. (This was all being done in an attempt to distract myself from thinking about how nauseous I felt from the run itself...booo...the Race to Wrigley is only a month away and I’m getting naseaus running. Don’t let me be that girl. I haven’t run a 5K since August. That’s a long time and my flabby arms and gut know it.)
Anyway, I decided to make a list of the top 10 things I’d like to do before I die...assuming, of course, that I will die of old age, peacefully in my sleep around the age of 82, wearing a white lace nightgown and a tiara laying on my four poster bed in my house on a cliff in the south of England, surrounded by my children, grandchildren and my husband, a very old but still disgustingly handsome George Clooney, as well as the Elvis impersonator I will hire to serenade me everyday as I lay there, fading away from this Earth.

So here it is: The top 10 things I need to do before I die (as of today, which will surely change tomorrow)

1. Swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco through once shark infested waters. The swim is every September (called Shark Fest, for those of you interested in doing it with me) and I’ve wanted to do it for 10 years now. This will happen before I’m 40. It has to.

2. Walk the streets of Tokyo pretending I’m Godzilla. This is a no brainer.

3. Rent a villa in Tuscany for a summer and live on wine and pasta with no car, no phone and hardly any clothes.

4. ONE show on Broadway. ONE. I don’t care which one. Just ONE.

5. Run the NYC marathon. But, unlike Katie Holmes, this girl will wear a bra. Maybe two.

6. Surf in Australia.

7. Drive on the Autobahn in a black Porsche.

8. Get to do the zero gravity room at the space center in Huntsville, AL. My friend Kaitie went to space camp there when she was a kid. God, I’m jealous.

9. Tour for a year as a back up singer for Tina Turner.

10. Wear a Darth Vader costume for a day and see what happens.