26 by 26: Because you asked for it...

I posted last week about two of the bookish goals on my list of 26 things I plan to accomplish before I turn 26, and several people asked to see the whole list. Here it is, in all its glory. I'll post now and again as I (hopefully!) check things off the list. 2 years, 4 months and 2 days left.

• Juggle three bean bags.
• Make 100 lovely things
• Throw a first-annual dinner party - and second, and third...
• Write thank-yous to my teachers
• Read all of Hemingway's works
• Plant a garden. Plant flowers.
• Open champagne with a knife
• Make a soufflé
• Buy a house. With a porch. And, therefore, a porch swing.
• Do a victory kneel at the end of my first completed 5K
• Eat an extra large popcorn at the circus
• Read (gulp) War and Peace
• Fire a gun.
• Sing "Buona Sera, Signorina" in Italy
• Sail on the Chesapeake in the fall
• Take myself on vacation
• Make a habit of sending cards
• Make a book stack lamp
• Spend the night in a bookstore
• Write a book (or at least a story)
• Decorate a house I am excited to come home to
• Fly an airplane
• Celebrate every week with a toast
• Make a new friend & reconnect with an old one
• Smell a book at the Library of Congress
• Make apple pie from hand-picked apples