Bucket List

Everyone should have a bucket list!  We all have big dreams- why not write them down?  So much satisfaction comes from crossing things off once you've completed them.  I've been adding to and editing my list for years.  It started as a goal list, then grew into a bucket list.
A few weeks ago I found this site, perfectbucketlist.tumblr.com, thanks to Pinterest.  The creator of the blog pairs up images with submissions from other people's bucket lists.  Its a simple idea, but very creative and inspiring. I loved scrolling though the pictures and discovering how many of my goals are on the lists of others.  This is my list with the completed goals crossed off.  Do you have a bucket list?  If not, I hope you are inspired to write one!

1.   Run a marathon

2.   Get braces
Braces at 26 years old! (with my friend Becky)

3.   Live in another country (as an adult)

4.  Have the courage to sing karaoke 

5.   Become certified in CPR

6.   Have an art project featured in an exhibit

7.  Play the drums in a band

8.   Take belly dance classes

9.   Go to Art School

10.   Become fluent in a second language

11.   Visit all of the Smithsonian Museums

12.   See a volcano

13.    Live as a complete vegetarian

14.  Stand on top of a mountain

15.   Get a tattoo with a meaningful back story

16.   Grow my hair long and donate it to locks of love

17.    Buy an old house and remodel it

18.   Become flexible enough to do the splits and a back walk over

19.     Be a hero- save someone’s life

20.    Paint a mural & film it with time-lapse photography

21.    Grow a garden full of vegetables to eat

22.    Skinny dip

23.   Write & illustrate a children’s book

24.   Design and sew a dress, then wear it

25.   Fly first class on an airplane

26.   Host a foreign exchange student

27.   Help a “make a wish” come true for a kid

28.   Learn magic tricks

29.    Live in complete wilderness for a week

30.   Visit Venice

31.   Have professional photos taken

32.   Fit comfortably into a size “small” (at least for a little while)

33.   Write & mail 365 letters to different people in one year

34.    Learn the choreography to the dance scene in Romy & Michelle to Time After Time with Jamie 

35.    Read through the Bible

36.     Live homeless for a week

37.     Finish a movie script and film it

38.     Take my parents back to Spain on a vacation

39.     Fall madly in love

40.    Spend a day getting spoiled at a spa

41.    Pay off my credit cards & live completely credit free

42.   Visit each of the 50 states, collect a charm & make a book about their stories

43.    Do something that causes a person to cry actual tears of joy

44.    Learn sign language

45.    Learn to read Braille

46.    Ride in a helicopter 

47.    Learn to type with both hands, not looking at the keyboard

48.    Meet my doppelganger

49.    See the Aurora Borealis

50.   Make a gigantic sand castle

51.  Win a contest

52.  Hold a baby lion or tiger cub

53.   Do a very important anonymous good deed for someone

54.   Live completely green for a month (no garbage at all)

55.   Have a solid knowledge of geography- each country and where it is

56.   Invest money into the stock market

57.   Go on an unplanned, undetermined road trip

58.  Get my Master’s degree

59.  Storm chase

60.  Go to the Olympics

61.  Read the list of 100 greatest novels (Time Magazine)

62.  100 Greatest novels (Observer)

63.   Participate in a flash mob

64.   Adopt a rescue pet

65.   Learn how to juggle

66.   Explore a pyramid in Egypt

67.   Have at least $10,000 saved up in a special emergency savings account

68.  Have the ability to lucid dream

69.  Learn to meditate

70.  Stay awake for 100 straight hours and record the experience

71. Go to the middle of the ocean were the is no visible land for 360 degrees around me

72.  Solve a Rubix Cube

73.  Spend New Year's Eve in Times Square

74.  Volunteer at an animal shelter

75.   Win (or have someone win for me) an enormous stuffed animal from a carnival

76.   See the place I was born in California

77.   Create a secret family recipe to pass down for generations

78.  Live with purpose

79.   Participate in a protest for a cause I am passionate about

80.  Go to Tokyo

81.   Do a Polar Bear swim in the winter

82.   Visit a shooting range and shoot guns

83.   Master walking gracefully in heels (not like Frankenstein)

84.  Open a shop and sell the things I make

85.  Volunteer in Africa

86.  Spend a week at Disney World with Patrick

87. Witness a baby being born

88. Explore an abandoned building

89. Ride in a hot air balloon