I have decided to start keeping a blog of my "Bucket List" accomplishments. You can only go so far into the story on a Facebook picture caption.....so come here to get "....the rest of the story" as Paul Harvey would have said! Anyway, I am going to make it my goal to do updates once or twice a week. After I get through with the things I have already done, I will focus simply on updating as I cross things off. I feel it is important to put the list here so that people can see what my 138 goals are. The list was compiled from both new goals, as well as going back through journals, Facebook and Twitter posts, Pintrest pins, and asking friends if there was anything I had ever said I wanted to do....I eliminated the things that are totally impossible (go to the moon when I was 7, joining the military when I was middle school, skydiving when I was in High School, etc.). I can't go the moon because I am not healthy enough to do so....I have bad knees and ankles, as well as awful eyesight, so the military is out, even if I get into shape, and with bad ankles and knees, that also eliminates skydiving. It isn't formally on the list, but if ever given both the chance and the doctor clearance.....I don't think I would think twice! As time goes on, goals may be added to the list....but for now, it sits at 138 goals! So sit back, hold on, and enjoy the ride as we chase my dreams!
Here's the list!
1. Graduate High School
2. Graduate College
3. Collect all 50 state quarters
4. Collect 50 thimbles
5. Visit all 50 states
6. Put my feet in every body of water touching the US (Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic, Pacific)
7. Visit all 5 Great Lakes
8. Make my quotes go all the way around my dorm
9. Make it to Paris
10. Marry my best friend
11. Make a real scrapbook
12. Put my feet down in at least 5 continents
13. Write a love letter
14. Make a love interest a mix CD
15. Spontaneously do something you have never done before
16. Get a tattoo
17. Donate hair for a good cause
18. Donate at least a gallon of blood
19. Become a mommy
20. Become a teacher
21. Travel away from home for at least 2 weeks
22. Fly on an airplane
23. Finish a sewing project (outside of a school requirement)
24. Go to a club
25. Drink
26. Skip studying one night to just have fun
27. Go to a concert....slurge and get front row tickets
28. Put tire changing knowledge to good use
29. Go rock climbing
30. Carve a pumpkin
31. Climb to the top of the lighthouse in Hannibal
32. Visit a "Wonder of the World"
33. Watch The Breakfast Club
34. Sing Karaoke
35. Wind tunnel sky diving
36. Gamble in Vegas
37. Visit Niagra Falls
38. Statue of Liberty
39. Go to the top of the St. Louis Arch
40. Watch baby sea turtles go into the ocean
41. Go on a cruise
42. Become a Healthy Weight
43. Messy Twister
44. Reenact 5 movie inspired scenes in my own life
45. Go to a pottery throwing class
46. Slow dance in the rain
47. Go scuba diving
48. Go on a mission trip
49. Ride in a hot air balloon
50. Do a color run, or something equivilent
51. Go parasailing
52. Go to Disney World/Disney Land
53. Participate in a photography scavenger hunt
54. Watch a TV series from the first episode to the last
55. Own every season of Criminal Minds
56. Have a home library
57. Buy a home
58. Put a message in a bottle into the ocean
59. Adopt a puppy
60. Visit Neon Foot Bridge in Iowa
61. Own a teacup piglet
62. Start a family tradition
63. Read at least two of the greatest books of all time
64. Plant a tree
65. Go ziplining
66. Jump in puddles on a rainy day
67. Ride a mechanical bull
68. Shoot a gun (other than a BB gun or pellet gun)
69. Ride a gondola
70. Go to at least 5 live concerts (that aren’t part of the bucket list already)
71. Ride a ferry
72. Go kayaking
73. Participate in geocaching
74. Visit the Grand Ole Opry
75. Learn CPR
76. Hold an exotic animal
77. Ride a muti-person party bike
78. Be serenaded
79. Ride a camel
80. Ride an elephant
81. Get a charecture drawing at an amusment park or other venue
82. Visit 4 corners
83. Become an aunt
84. Get a butterfly tattoo
85. Write a letter to my future self
86. Camp under the Northern Lights
87. Watch a sunrise on the beach
88. Volunteer at a soupl kitchen
89. Be in a studio audience
90. Beat a game
91. Experience a different culture
92. Eat an exotic food...in it's country of orgin
93. Ride around a NASCAR/ race track
94. Write my own wedding vows
95. Go to a real horse race
96. Go to a casino
97. Write a children's book
98. Throw a boomarang
99. Make wine
100. Hit a target with a bow and arrow
101. Have a mud fight
102. Be a bridesmaid
103. Help someone complete a bucket list goal
104. Throw a dart at a map...go to the first land area it hits
105. Name a star
106. Get a degree
107. Meet someone famous
108. Get 10 autographs
109. Get a passport
110. Sign up to be an organ donor
111. Vote in a presidential election
112. Do the splits (on purpose)
113. Go to prom
114. Have a New Year's midnight kiss
115. Bury a time capsule
116. Read the Bible cover to cover
117. Own a car
118. Learn all the words to "Ice Ice Baby" and "Baby Got Back"
119. True. Love. Waits.
120. Go to a Keith Urban concert
121. Complete a 1,000+ piece puzzle
122. Go to an NFL game
123. Attend a professional hockey game
124. Sponsor a child
125. Experience a different culture
126. Be debt free
127. Take pictures in a mall photobooth
128. Meet Miranda Lambert
129. Meet Luke Bryan
130. Buy an external hard drive....back up importanat stuff
131. Start a blog...keep up with it
132. Read 10 book reccommended by friends in one year
133. Go to a concert for a band you've never heard of
134. Learn to tie a tie
135. Get a manicure
136. Give a toast
137. Donate 10,000 grains of rice on Free Rice
138. Ride a motorcycle
