Whether you're after ideas for your own 2DO List, or simply looking for something intriguing to do this weekend, we've posted below a few of our favorite goals from recent list submissions sent into to the site.

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Rica, 24, Thousand Oaks, CA
Submitted: Nov 18th, 2005

- Learn to become a flair bartender
- Live in Japan for at least one year, learn the language & absorb the culture
- Learn to play the piano
- Learn to play the harp
- Become a singer in a jazz band that performs in dark, smoky martini lounges
- Spend a considerable amount of time on the Greek Isles
- Live in Australia long enough to pick up the accent
- Swim with dolphins
- Go scuba diving in Micronesia
- Go to Mardi Gras
- Go to Carnivale
- Attend a school for the circus arts & learn to be an aerialist
- Get back into ballet classes
- Get back into singing & voice lessons
- Have a no-frills, barefoot wedding on a beach somewhere like Tahiti
- Get married to someone who has a sarcastic sense of humor, who challenges me intellectually & is able to keep up with me...
- Pursue rock-climbing
- Visit Amsterdam
- Retire in a different country

Melissa, 22, Warrington, UK
Submitted: Nov 12th, 2005

- Do a parachute dive
- Go white water rafting
- Write a best selling book
- Marry my one and only and have lots of children
- Earn my degree and graduate
- Visit Australia
- Do a fundraising event for charity
- Own and run a nightclub
- Have my picture in the local paper
- Spend a full 24hours partying

Elizabeth, 36, Tucson, AZ
Submitted: Nov 11th, 2005

- Be my kid's best friend when they grow up
- Become a Buddhist nun
- Work in the arts
- Spend six months in India
- Live in Thailand
- Create a koi pond in my backyard
- Take care of myself--first

Mark, 20, Blackburn, Lancashire, UK
Submitted: Nov 10th, 2005

- Become a good cook
- Buy a hat and wear it every day
- Own a second-hand book store
- Visit every Cathedral in England
- Watch a sunrise

J, 19, Torrance, CA
Submitted: Nov 9th, 2005

- Start up my own (successful) clothing company
- Buy a Welsh Corgi and name him Ein
- Lose weight and keep it off
- Tour/live in Europe and Japan
- Live in Portland, OR (again)
- Get full sleeves (tattoos), a back piece, and a hip piece
- Have a smart baby that I've trained before birth to be trilingual
- Eat shark fin soup
- Visit Montreal
- Own a mansion with the following ameneties: Recording studio (for the bf), Design Studio, gi-normous bathroom, a front gate complete with 20' statues in the classical greek style of myself and my boyfriend (complete with gems for eyes), and a gaming room
- Obtain a position of influence

Lorna, 18, Stamford, Lincs, UK
Submitted: Nov 8th, 2005

- Complete my make-up course
- Be a well known make-up artist/Designer
- Be eco-friendly
- Go back in time and change things for better
- Have my own brand
- Watch my kids grow
- Fall down Angel Falls
- Travel round south east Asia
- Prove people wrong

Tom, 15, Marlow, UK
Submitted: Nov 8th, 2005

- Go on safari in Africa
- Achieve dream job (concept artist)
- Have sex (for bonus - while on laughing gas)
- Own an ultimate gaming PC

Pete, 22, Vermont
Submitted: Nov 1st, 2005

- Live in Rome for a year
- Clash swords in a battle re-enactment
- Take a photo portrait of my baby boy every month of his childhood
- Start writing my memoirs

Mo Mo, 33, Pennsylvania
Submitted: Oct 30th, 2005

- Divorce and find true love

Thea, 58, Dallas, Texas
Submitted: Oct 25th, 2005

- I want a chocolate fountain.
I don't want one to own, but I want to be somewhere that has one. A glorious running stream of chocolate - dark or light, don't care - to dip fruit or marshmallows or cake into, like fondue but never-ending, utterly decadent!

Scott, 39, Dallas
Submitted: Oct 17th, 2005

- Run naked in a desert
- Visit all major Civil War battlefields
- See a game at all Major League ballparks
- Read all works by Shakespeare, Hemingway, and Ian Fleming
- See Liverpool play at Anfield
- Summit one of the world's top 20 highest peaks (probably #20)

Camille, 15, Dallas
Submitted: Oct 6th, 2005

- Run naked in a desert
- Dye my dog pink
- Have my comic strip published in a newspaper
- Drive a sports car in a department store
- Spend 1 night in an aboriginal village
- Paint my floor gold
- Model for a major couture company (like marc jacobs or Lacoste)
- Dress like a spatula and walk around Times Square

Christopher, 19, Denton, Texas
Submitted: Oct 6th, 2005

- Fly my own hot air balloon from my backyard to some local in Sweden
- Hike the Appalachian Trail
- Float up the Nile and down the Mississippi on a raft
- Drop everything, shave my head and become a Tibetan monk

Sonja, 21, Arlington, Texas
Submitted: Oct 6th, 2005

- Paint a self portrait
- Learn to dance ballroom &/or swing and then dance at my 5 month old's son's wedding

Holly, 17, Hood River, OR
Submitted: Oct 6th, 2005

- Travel to New Zealand
- Learn to salsa
- Get married and start a family
- Learn to play the piano
- Travel to Scotland
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Scuba Dive
- Have my own photo gallery
- Join Americorps
- Graduate from college

April, 28, Bakersfield, CA
Submitted: Oct 4th, 2005

- Kayak along side Orcas in Canada
- Graduate law school
- Be photographed in the nude

- Fly in a bi-plane
-
Get a mermaid tattoo on my back

Sara, 24, Reno, NV
Submitted: Oct 3rd, 2005

- Go back to college and not flunk out
- Go to Belfast, Ireland
- Find and marry my best friend
- Have a porch swing
- Be happy

Nicole, 33, Kingston, NY
Submitted: Oct 3rd, 2005

- Find the right man
- Have children and or adopt
- Own a house with charm
- Swim with Dolphins
- Become an expert photographer
- Become a jewelry maker
- Own a successful, sustainable interior design firm
- Live by the shore
- Go to Thailand and photograph the buddhist statues
- Help save the Oceans
- Help Animals
- Become cyst free of endometrosis
- Learn to meditate
- Become a buddhist
- Own a horse

Jim, 68, Geneva, ILL
Submitted: Oct 2nd, 2005

- Design, build, develop, construct and own a dream home

Elizabeth, 36, Tucson, AZ
Submitted: Sept 24th, 2005

- Backpack to Everest base camp
- H
ave a vow of silence for a week
- Learn to tango
- See a massive iceberg
- S
ail the Carribean on a tall ship

Clara, 28, Bay Area, CA
Submitted: Sept 21st, 2005

- Visit the Library of Congress and read everything I can in 3 hours
- Visit family in Italy
- Adopt a child
- Win an Oscar for "Best Original Screenplay

Emily, 25, Reno, NV
Submitted: Sept 8th, 2005

- Spend a whole day in bed, watching TV and eating nothing but ice cream
- Live in a home with an outdoor kitchen

Raisin, 48, Phoenix, AZ
Submitted: Sept 3rd, 2005

- Transfer idea in head into gripping novel

Danielle, 13, Truro, Nova Scotia
Submitted: Aug 21st, 2005

- Go To La Tomatina in Spain
- Name My Own Star
- Witness the Migration of Monarch Butterfly

Nikki, 27, Manila, Philippines
Submitted: Aug 21st, 2005

- Hike up Taal Volcano
- Go to Slovenia
- Make a new friend every month

Ann, 26, Mystic, CT
Submitted: Aug 19th, 2005

- Become a master crepe maker
- Get in touch with my inner artist
- Have a pet hedgehog

Monique, 26, Norfolk, VA
Submitted: Aug 14th, 2005

- Quit my job, & live in a tiny apartment in New York while trying out for acting gigs.
- Learn the flamenco in a club in Sevilla Spain
- Take my mother, born in Ethiopia, to see the country's holy land

Bethan, 25, Melbourne, Australia
Submitted: Aug 8th, 2005

- Have a collection of my photographs published in a book
- Live in New York
- Learn how to leave the perfect answering machine message

Maureen, 21, New Jersey
Submitted: Aug 7th, 2005

- Learn how to juggle
- Ride in a hot air balloon

Dave, 14, Birmingham, UK
Submitted: Aug 5th, 2005

- Live in a tent for 2 months
- Work as a holiday rep
- Touch a penguin

Gypsy, 44, Rockford, Illinois
Submitted: Aug 1st, 2005

- Take the ultimate roadtrip from Nome Alaska to Baja California

Janet, 49, Arlington, Texas
Submitted: July 31st, 2005

- Do Taiko drumming
- Be an ordained an Interfaith Minister
- Write a book about my life

David, 15, Little Falls, Minn
Submitted: July 28th, 2005

- Start a micro-vineyard
- Invent something that will help mankind
- Retire at 55

Sam, 15, St Charles, Minn
Submitted: July 23rd, 2005

- Go pool-hopping
- Climb the school bandstand
- Tell a stranger my whole life, leaving out no details

Allison, 29, Fredonia, NY
Submitted: July 23rd, 2005

- Live in Colorado
- Be completely debt-free
- See both my kids graduate college

Deborah, 50, Pittsburgh
Submitted: July 15th, 2005

- Buy a beach house in Wilmington, N.C.
- Get a tattoo of a strawberry on my shoulder
- Have a one-night-stand with a hunk of a man who speaks with an accent

- Sing a song in a honky-tonk bar and get an ovation
- Publish my romance novel titled 'The Backstreets of Savannah'
- Buy a house for a large, needy family
- Rescue some seniors from an "old folks" home and take them to a dinner-dance

Nancy, 30, Rotterdam, NL
Submitted: July 11th, 2005

- Ride a snow scooter
- Swim under a waterfall
- Be in an Oprah audience

Jess, 21, Jacksonville, Florida
Submitted: July 4th, 2005

- Complete an Ironman Triathalon
- Work on a hospital ship in a foreign country
- Speak 8 languages (5 to go)

Penelope, 27, Queens, NY
Submitted: July 2nd, 2005

- Get a belly ring
- Learn to shoot a gun
- Have my grandmother teach me how to make her delicious home-made bread

Nico, 15, Fort Lauderdale
Submitted: June 28th, 2005

- Sex
- Steal bowling shoes
- Go down a sewer

Jenny, 33, San Jose, CA
Submitted: June 21st, 2005

- Design and make costumes for a children's theater
- Build a strawbale house
- Forgive my father being an alcoholic

Meghan, 15, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Submitted: June 21st, 2005

- Stargaze from the hood of my car
- Road-Trip across the US
- Learn to bartend

Prithvi, 27, Chennai, India
Submitted: June 14th, 2005

- Go to Antarctica
- Fly an F16 Tomcat / F18 Hornet
- Go to all the airshows in the world

Mike Ogden (no relation), 29, Jay, OK
Submitted: June 13th, 2005

- Learn Japanese
- Buy and fly an airplane (before it becomes a standard thing to do)

Molly, 17, Toronto
Submitted: June 11th, 2005

- Live on a Kibbutz
- Adopt a child from every continent
- Bathe in a bath of evian water

Robert, 33, Whittier, CA
Submitted: June 7th, 2005

- Visit: Devil's Tower WY - Yosemite Nat'l Park - Area 51 - every state in the US
- Visit: Chichanitza, Mexico - Moscow - the Taj Mahal - Tahiti - every continent
- Retire to a deserted beach

Chris, 56, Pennsylvania
Submitted: June 5th, 2005

- Learn to play the keyboard
- Get an RV and travel around the country
- Howl with wolves

Julie, 30, Dallas
Submitted: June 1st, 2005

- Have my artwork displayed in a gallery
- See the Sistine Chapel

Angelica, 32, L.A.
Submitted: May 25th, 2005

- Travel and live in Australia
- Meet Debbie Harry
- Have the body of my dreams

Carl, 40, Chicago
Submitted: May 20th, 2005

- Photograph the sunset from 30,000 feet
- Fly a plane, then skydive from it
- Drive the Pacific Coast in a convertible

Brittney, 22, Illinois
Submitted: May 17th, 2005

- Thow a dart into a map and travel to where it lands

Dee, 57, Montana
Submitted: May 11th, 2005

- Own a pontoon
- Learn to play the piano
- Become a syndicated cartoonist

Lynn, 68, Illinois
Submitted: May 9th, 2005

- Live to see my son be successful
- Conquer my breast cancer
- Go on an archeological dig

Pamela, 41, Ocean Springs, MS
Submitted: April 30th, 2005

- Color my hair
- Buy new furniture
- Get my dog groomed

Ashley, 16, Cambridge, UK
Submitted: April 27th, 2005

- See a ghost
- Identify a new species
- Get in the 2DO Before I Die Book

Steven, 25, Kent, UK
Submitted: April 27th, 2005

- Be completely debt free
- Build some muscle tone in my abdomen
- Go on a search for lost treasure

Sarah, 24, Dublin
Submitted: April 23rd, 2005

- Get a tattoo
- Learn how to play the violin
- Have a massive pillowfight with all of my family and friends

Andy, 16, Manchester
Submitted: April 23rd, 2005

- Be thought of as a hero
- Change from strange/weird to the "norm" without losing the ability to be unique...
- Lick my own elbow

John, 27, Indianapolis
Submitted: April 22nd, 2005

- Patent an invention
- Visit the great wall of China
- Make a pilgrimage to the first Starbucks store

Pablo, 24, Carcass Cobh, Antartica
Submitted: April 22nd, 2005

- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Save the North European Earth Worm
- Invent a cure for depression, epilepsy, diabeties, kidney failure, schizophrenia, brain damage and eating disorders
- Become good at something meaningful
- Own children

Mark, 33, Portsmouth
Submitted: April 22nd, 2005

- Swim a pool length underwater
- Streak at a major sporting event
- See my son lift the FA Cup

Emily, 24, Reno, Nevada
Submitted: April 22nd, 2005

- Live for at least 6 months in Manhattan
- Eat a Swensen's Ice Cream Earthquake
- Live on the verge of being a crazy cat lady, without crossing the line

Simon, 23, London
Submitted: April 21st, 2005

- Rap in an open-mic competition in an underground club in New York
- Find a real cure to the common cold
- Go bodypainting in Africa

Annie, 50, Aberdeen
Submitted: April 21st,2005

- Stand in front of Michelangelo's David with my love by my side
- Learn to weld
-
Visit Samarkand

Leo, 15, Wyoming
Submitted: April 11th, 2005

- Go to college
- Build an invention to benefit mankind
- Have kids (1 boy & 1 girl)
- Live till I'm at least 70 years old
- Visit all 50 states
- Make an animation for the internet
- Be thought of as someone's hero
- Go on all the roller coasters in Cedar Point
- See a natural phenomenon
- Buy a penguin
- Go to the Playboy Mansion
- Learn how to play poker
- Go to a baseball game with my dad

Lori, 25, Anchorage, Arkansas
Submitted: March 19th, 2005

- Take a night-time carriage ride through Central Park
- Publish an article in a national magazine
- Go white water rafting
- Teach somebody how to read
- Visit Green Gables on Prince Edward Island
- Host a family reunion
- Become a pen pal
- Attend a world series baseball game
- Visit Europe by myself
- See the pyramids of Egypt
- Become 100% debt free
- Involve myself in a non-profit group
- Join a softball team
- Design and have built my dream home
- Rescue a dog from the pound
- Have a child

Iyad, 23, Toronto
Submitted: March 17th, 2005

- Weigh 220lbs
- Own a house
- Go sky-diving
- Win the Poker Tournament series

Josefin, 18, Stockholm
Submitted: Feb 20th, 2005

- Taste Stilton cheese
- Recover from my anorexia
- Own a house in Provence, France
- Make a low-budget movie
- Study quantum physics
- Ride a Greyhound bus through America
- Work on Rachmaninov's piano concerto no 3

Loni, 19, Dallas
Submitted: Jan 31st, 2005

- Get it on with a Scottish man...

Bees, 16, Houston
Submitted: Jan 20th, 2005

- Live in a loft in a hip neighborhood
- Ride in the MS 150
- Intern for a non-profit that works for social causes
- Travel to Berlin
- Run for political office
- Write and publish a book that receives at least moderate success
- Get a tattoo
- Fall in love
- Be a pin-up girl
- Write in a newspaper/magazine
- Send out my own holiday cards
- Establish solid beliefs
- Become bilingual
- Make amends with my sister
- Witness natural phenomena

Susan, 33, Frederick
Submitted: Jan 19th, 2005

- Own a Christmas tree farm
- Have my artwork displayed in a gallery.
- Go on a spiritual retreat in Sedona, AZ.

Deb, 49, Thomasville, NC
Submitted: Jan 18th, 2005

- Finish writing my book
- Spend a year living in Italy
- Own a home on the coast

Tony, 41, Manchester, UK
Submitted: Jan 9th, 2005

- Learn to skate
- Learn Japanese
- Pilot a plane
- Drive to Moscow

Christi, 17, Orlando
Submitted: Jan 8th, 2005

- Ride a rhino down a beach...

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The first few goals from our own 2DO Lists, just to show we have nothing to hide (and little to be proud of).

  Photograph the Northern Lights

  Start a family

  Record an album - proof


  Grow a beard - proof

  Travel by train to St Petersburg

  Go to the New Orleans Jazz Festival

  Smoke a pipe - proof

  Learn the saxophone
- (still) in progress...

  Start a family - proof

  Design a toy

  Refuse a lucrative opportunity on the basis of principles

    (chance'd be a fine thing...)

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