You Should Read My Bucket List
Here’s my bucket list, which is pretty damn long. I tried to separate it into a few categories to make it easier because I really want to do and experience everything. I’ve included things that I’ve already done because I see a bucket list as a list of things I’d regret if I HADN’T done them before I die. I’ve also included some “not-so-pleasant” things because I believe we learn more from the negative things we go through than we do from the positive things. Each time I complete one of my bucket list items, I’ll cross it off of this list and include the dates, and pictures if I have them, and probably post something in my blog. I reserve the right to add or change these at any time. :o)
My Bucket List
Major Life Events
This is all of the normal things I wanted and still want in my life.
1. Get my GED (12/02)
2. Go to college (09/05)
3. Get married (07/92)
4. Have kids (11/92, 11/94, 12/95, 07/98, 06/99, 03/04)
5. Buy a house (07/98)
6. See all of my kids graduate high school
7. Hold my first grandchild
Career Related
These are the things I want to accomplish in my chosen career field(s).
8. Write a novel (04/08)
9. Find an agent
10. Have a book published
11. Publish my 5th book
12. Publish my 10th book
13. Have a book on the New York Times bestseller list
14. Have one of my books made into a movie
15. Have books published in 3 different genres
16. Go to a writer’s conference
17. Go on a book tour
18. Sell a photograph to a magazine
19. Have my art work shown in a gallery
20. Open my own art supply store
21. Participate in NanoWrimo
Things to Learn
These are things I want to learn that would require classes and/or a bit of time.
22. Master oil painting
23. Learn to speak French fluently
24. Learn to speak Italian fluently
25. Learn sign language
26. Take salsa lessons
27. Learn archery
28. Learn to play guitar
29. Learn to play piano
30. Learn to say “hello” in 50 languages
31. Learn to swear in 5 languages
32. Learn to play chess
Things that are out of my control
These are things I want to experience in my life that are ultimately out of my control, or that I would never actively seek to do.
33. Experience a miracle
34. Have a near death experience
35. Lose somebody close to me (04/07, 11/07)
36. Save someone’s life
37. Have my heart broken (08/02)
38. Break someone’s heart (08/02, 06/03, 10/09)
All the places I want to go
These are just the specific places I want to go. There are more things in the next category that require travel but they aren’t to specific places.
39. Climb to the top of the Statue of Liberty
40. Drink margaritas on the beaches of Hawaii
41. See the pyramids in Egypt
42. Take photos in front of the Eiffel Tower
43. See the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
44. Visit a nude beach in southern France
45. Eat spaghetti in Italy
46. Ride a gondola through the canals of Venice
47. Sunbathe on the beaches of Cancun
48. View the Grand Canyon from a helicopter
49. Take photos in front of Mount Rushmore
50. Pet a kangaroo in Australia
51. Go to the top of the Space Needle
52. Go to the Pike Place Market in Seattle
53. Visit Yellowstone National Park
54. See the Northern Lights
55. Tour the White House
56. See a waterfall in Canada
57. Cross the border into Mexico
58. Take photographs by the Golden Gate Bridge
59. Go to Mardi Gras
60. Spend New Years Eve in Times Square
61. Experience autumn in New England
62. Feel the spray of Niagra Falls
63. Take pictures of Stonehenge, the real one
64. Drink tea in China
Other fun things I want to do
Here’s everything that didn’t really fit into those other categories.
65. Pan for gold
66. See a whale in the ocean
67. Go on a cruise
68. Take a photo with a celebrity
69. Milk a cow
70. Swim with dolphins
71. Go on a safari
72. Go scuba diving
73. Go skydiving
74. Take a photograph of me in all 50 states
75. Ride a camel
76. Watch the sun rise over the ocean
77. Have sex in 10 states
78. Spend a weekend at a spa
79. Go wine tasting
80. Ride on a train
81. Get my picture in a major newspaper
82. Learn how to change a tire
83. Taste sushi
84. Tour a brewery
85. Prepare a meal using food from my own garden
86. Own a home with a window seat
87. Sing karaoke (07/07 - me-singing1.jpg, me-singing2.jpg)
88. Bury a time capsule
89. Be there when a time capsule is dug up
90. Drive down the Oregon coast and take pictures of every lighthouse
91. Go on a vacation with no kids
92. Stay at a bed and breakfast
93. Go paintballing
94. Shoot a target at a gun range
95. Ride in a hot air balloon
96. Own a slug bug
97. Go to a play
98. Quit smoking
99. Go shopping on Black Friday
100. Cook a Thanksgiving dinner all by myself
101. Own a convertible car
102. Go to a Seattle Seahawks game
103. Join a gym and go there regularly
104. Live in another state
105. Go to the opera
106. Have 5 plants in my house and keep them alive for a year
107. Sit in a bathtub full of chocolate pudding
108. Visit a museum
109. Reconnect with an old friend
110. Find financial stability
111. Attend a poetry reading
112. Get a teacup Yorkie
113. Ride an elephant
114. Tour a castle
115. Learn to flip pancakes without using a spatula (01/24/10 - flippingpancakes1.jpg, flippingpancakes2.jpg, flippingpancakes3.jpg)
116. Visit a foreign country
117. Make my own fried rice
118. Take a photograph of lightning
119. Attend a black tie event
120. Ride on a motorcycle
121. Have sex in a limo
122. Hold a tiger cub (07/97 - tiger-cub.jpg)
123. Have a 9 to 5 job
124. Go to an art gallery
125. Sleep in a tipi
126. Visit a rain forest
127. Nap under a palm tree
128. Visit a fortune teller
129. Play golf
130. Go horseback riding on a beach
131. Invest in something
132. Wrap my arms around a Redwood tree
133. Eat lobster
134. Walk over hot coals
135. Watch the launch of a space shuttle
136. Plant a tree
137. Find a fossil
138. Eat a Rocky Mountain Oyster
139. Wear a 2-piece bathing suit…in public
140. Get a grown up haircut
141. Attend a luau
142. Take self-defense classes
143. Build a hut
144. Buy a business suit
145. Hold a monkey
146. Stay in a hostel
147. Get a massage
148. Get my 9th tattoo
149. Get my 10th tattoo
150. Get my passport
151. Build a house (03/98-07/98)
152. Make a will
153. Get my eyebrow pierced (2/12/10 - 20100212_78.JPG)
154. Order room service
155. Grow an herb garden
156. Take a road trip without a plan
157. Donate to a charity
158. Stay in a 5-star hotel
159. Build a tree fort
160. Go bowling
161. Ride a mechanical bull
162. Fly in a blimp
163. Mentor someone
164. Ride on a roller coaster
165. Make a quilt
166. Take a sabbatical
167. Volunteer at a homeless shelter
168. Invent something
169. Ride a dog sled
170. See turtles hatch and run for the ocean
171. Spend a weekend in a beach house (09/06 - beach-house.jpg)
172. Go on a retreat
173. Have a food fight
174. Walk in a parade (05/83)
175. Pet a lion
176. Have my palm read
Dawn said,
January 22, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Dee is smarter than me. I asked him what a bucket list was and he told me. I had no idea. I should get one of those.
Btw, your blogroll isn’t showing up.
Jennifer said,
January 23, 2010 at 12:34 pm
It only seems to show up on my main page. Weird.