i'm adding to my 'lifetime to-do list'.

i guess my astronomy teacher sort of got me on this for today in particular. but these are things that have been swimming around in my head for a while. things i'd like to do before i kick the bucket, aspirations i've got. this is not the full list... but this is the list in the best entirety i can give you right now. (no particular order on these.)

-become proficient at both piano and guitar.
-learn to play the saxophone.
-learn to play the bagpipes.
-become fluent in French.
-learn Italian, along with whatever Dutch i can manage.
-get in shape, and maintain it.
-see the Aurora...Borealis or Australis, either one, i just want to see it.
-live, at least for a while, as a missionary.
-go to Israel.
-learn to play soccer well.
-see Monet's house. (a four hour train ride from Paris, plus a 45-minute bike ride...they have day tours of the place complete with picnic lunch. get to see the Japanese garden...ugh. i've heard it's a lovely trip.)
-work with children. i've toyed with ideas of what this would look like...teaching music in an orphanage overseas pops into my head a lot...perhaps just teaching in an elementary school...volunteering with children's ministries? and so much more. i could write a lot about just that.
-graduate from college. it seemed like something simple when i was younger. but now i know that if and when i get to that day i will appreciate all that the Lord did to get me there.
-learn how to drive a stick shift.
-write a song (and complete it). multiple, even. but even just one...let's start there.
-go backpacking through Europe.
-meet the little girl our family started supporting through Worldvision when i was in 8th grade. she's not such a little girl anymore.
-learn how to paint.
-get married. have children. yes, i know, i'm a girl, imagine that...and i eagerly long for children, even when i know all of that is still a long way off.
-eliminate the word "like" from my vocabulary and gum from my diet.
-return to Holland. sometime.

there is more but i know this has gotten rather long and tiresome...so...what are some of the things on the very top of YOUR to-do list??