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WOOHOO
Am I a real blogger? I've officially posted 100 posts (miserable attempt in a year and a half, I'm fully aware).
I also realise that I probably should have done this for my 100th post, but I didn't realise until I'd scheduled my Londoner post and scheduled all the tweets, and ya gal isn't about redoing all that.

So for my 101st post, I thought I'd write a little list of things I want to do before I get to 100. I know there's the 1001 before 100 post but I don't have enough time on my hands to do 1001 things. Man, I barely have time to do 50, I'm of course procrastinating tidying my bedroom now.

Anyway, enough of the rambling. Here we go:

- Do another skydive
- Go back to Lapland (with kids probably omg)
- Ride a hot air balloon
- Travel more of Europe
- Do some day trips to different countries
- Become comfortable in a career
- Become comfortable in myself
- Get married
- Take my little old blog somewhere good
- Go in a shark tank
- Beat my phobia of mice/rats
- Teach myself to be confident with HTML
- Become more brave
- Not be out of breath running to the bus
- Run a 10k
- Improve my baking
- Go to Pompeii
- Go on a TV show (Like a quiz or something)
- Learn to actually live in an organised room
- Stop procrastinating
- Never regret anything
- Help people
- Stop being such a fussy eater
- Learn to live in the moment
- Ride an elephant
- Visit Japan
- Improve my (currently non-existant) Japanese
- Visit the Dead Sea
- Go to Oslo with Sophie
- Spend a night somewhere very different
- Take my children to Disney World
- Go zorbing
- Become a Guinness World Record holder (fun fact, once I almost was because I applied being the loudest 'tongue clicker' - sounds weird but it's very loud - but turns out there's a whole language based on it)
- Visit home more
- Go on more staycations with the blog squad
- Explore the UK more (spesh Ireland helllooooo Irish accent)
- Get my hair in good condition again
- Donate my hair to people who need it
- Island hop in Greece
- See ABBA perform if they were ever to reunite
- Learn to stop being so bitter
- Fly first class
- Roadtrip round America
- Do flyboarding jet packing (I think that's what it's called)
- Visit Canada
- Get that thing where the fish eat your feet
- Have another white Christmas somewhere
- Do the Groupon holiday where you don't know where you're going until you get to the airport
- Attend a flm premiere
- Be happy

(This was actually pretty tricky, when I got stuck I googled Bucket Lists and I'd already done quite a lot of them, whoops)

Is there anything you think I've missed? Or anything you'd like to add to your bucket list?

101th Post: 50 Things I Want to Do Before I'm 100

You know that episode of How I Met Your Mother when they all have to race across New York in different methods to prove a point, and Robin doesn't think she's a true New Yorker?

I'm a bit like that at the moment.

After coming to the disgusting realisation that five years ago this month I packed up my room on the Isle of Wight ready to move to Whytleleafe... or more important start studying and living in London.

FIVE. YEARS.

I could have had 5 kids in that time? That's half a decade? I could have walked about 21,000 miles? (Probably)

That thought sickens me. If you couldn't tell. But it got me thinking, am I a real Londoner now?

So I thought I'd write out a little list of things I think qualify you for being a true Londoner.

(Side note, I may have stolen a couple from HIMYM)

- Audibly sighed at people who stop in your way

- Witnessed some sort of funny drunken shenaningans on the Tube (once I saw some people having a fake table tennis match across the carriage and when people came on they joined in)

- Cried on the Tube and not given a ratsass what anybody thought

- Fallen asleep on public transport and ended up somewhere you didn't want to go

- Lost something on the Tube

- Walk around with the constant ‘I hate my life’ face

- Known the Tube map better than your own hand

- Told a story to a ‘non-Londoner’ about how expensive something once was in the capital (£14.50 for a single vodka and cranberry…?!?!)

- Not even winced at being pushed into someone’s armpit on the Tube

- Thought you could outwit Citymapper with some great shortcut

- Been wrong

- Crammed yourself onto a Tube when it looked like there was no room

- Rolled your eyes at someone who did the same

- Given someone evils as they ask if you can move down when there is about 0.00001 mm between you now, and you having your hand on someones bum

- Sighed at the WHOLE two minute wait before the next bus/train/tube/boat

- Always have your Oyster/contactless card ready for the gates

- Are fully aware of card clash

- You get shocked when you leave London and notice people actually smile at each other

- Whispered on the Tube to your mate because of the whole ‘don’t talk on the Tube’ unwritten rule

- You know what stations to avoid at rush hour, despite what Citymapper/TfL says (Bank at rush hour is a major no go… am I right?)

- You grumble ‘How hard is it to stand on the RIGHT?' at least 40 times a day

- You know where the doors of the train/tube open (and are maddened by stations making this obvious so regular peasants can beat you to the front of the line)

- Whenever you leave London you feel like you’re a billionaire because of how much you can get for your money

- Meeting a friend on the other side of the river is as likely as meeting them in Taiwan

- When you constantly consider leaving London before you remember how much you’d miss it

What do you think? Is there anything missing from this list? Are you a true Londoner?

101th Post: 50 Things I Want to Do Before I'm 100

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