My Bucket List

Have you ever watched the movie, The Bucket List?  It's an inspirational movie about two men who are dying and go on a journey to cross off item's on their "bucket lists".  

When I was in high school, my senior English teacher encouraged us all to make our own "bucket list".  I think we had to make a list about 20 long or so, but I really liked the idea and I came up with 100 things I'd like to do someday.  I used to have this list hanging in my bedroom and each time I completed something, I'd cross it off.  Who knows if I'll complete it all before I die...there are some things on there that have changed since I created the list and I no longer want to do.  I'm sure this list will go through many updates though my life, but it's fun to cross items off!  I've done a lot, but I still have much more to do!  Do you have a "bucket list"?

1.       Go skydiving

2.       Get married

3.       Have kids

4.       Adopt kids

5.       Visit all 7 continents

6.       Tour Europe

7.       Visit Mescalero (my birthplace)

8.       Perform for a large audience

9.       Go on a cruise

10.   Go scuba diving

11.   Take a dance class

12.   Fall in love

13.   Write a song

14.   Get a truck

15.   Open my own hotel/resort

16.   Swim in all the oceans

17.   Live in another country

18.   Go mountain climbing

19.   Be kissed on the top of a ferris wheel

20.   Shoot a gun

21.   Go hunting

22.   Parasail

23.   Design/decorate my own house

24.   Drive a Hummer

25.   Save a life

26.   Break my PR for discus and shot put

27.   Run 5 miles  (Accomplished June 10, 2011!!!)

28.   Work/advocate for a pro-life movement

29.   Ride a roller coaster with my hands in the air

30.   Go on a road trip

31.   Speak Spanish fluently

32.   Go backpacking

33.   Own my own business

34.   Meet the president

35.   Go surfboarding

36.   Learn how to knee board

37.   Publish a story

38.   Sell some of my photography

39.   Get a college degree

40.   Go to Las Vegas

41.   Sleep outside

42.   Be kissed

43.   Go to a major sporting event

44.   Get my belly button pierced

45.   Read the Bible all the way through

46.   Go to a movie on opening night

47.   Watch the sunset at the beach

48.   Live below my means

49.   Graduate high school

50.   Drive a motorcycle

51.   Go to a club

52.   Meet some one famous

53.   Play a real game of soccer

54.   Play on a softball team

55.   Stay out partying all night

56.   Cook a gourmet meal

57.   Spend time with all my aunts and uncles

58.   Hitch hike

59.   Go to Disney Land

60.   Go to Times Square on New Year’s Eve

61.   Buy something from a famous designer

62.   Go fishing and actually clean the fish I catch

63.   Go skinny dipping

64.   Make a prank phone call

65.   Be kissed while watching fireworks

66.   Host a dinner party

67.   Plan a huge event

68.   Go to a circus

69.   Get laser eye surgery

70.   Go to a spa

71.   Stargaze

72.   Go to Hawaii

73.   Visit a Ripley’s Believe It or Not

74.   Visit Stonehenge

75.   Ride in a limo

76.   Touch a giraffe

77.   Swim with dolphins

78.   Ride in a helicopter

79.   Bike around Mackinaw Island

80.   Bench press my body weight

81.   Start a blog

82.   Learn how to play guitar

83.   Go to the top of the Empire State Building

84.   Go to Ground Zero

85.   Eat a whole slice of cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory

86.   Live on my own

87.   Take a self-defense class

88.   Go on a trip with no destination in mind

89.   Watch a horror movie

90.   Go tenting in the middle of the woods

91.   Cook over an open fire

92.   Walk across the Mackinaw Bridge

93.   Ride a horse bareback

94.   Spend a night in a mansion

95.   Drive a Viper

96.   Choreograph a song

97.   Finish my photo wall

98.   Watch the Olympics in real life

99.   Live a day in the life of someone else

100. Ride in a hot air balloon