So heres mine!...these are not in order of how I want to do them, just put down as I thought of them!
1. Have a fairytale romance
2. Have a Christmas wedding with green and red as my colors and lots of white roses (my favorite flower)
3. Go with my friend, Peggy M., on one of her mission trips to Peru to work in the orphanage there
4. Go to Italy with someone I am in love with
5. Visit all 50 states
6. Bungee jump
7. Teach at least a year in an African school
8. Learn to speak Swahili and Lugandan so I can translate on my next trip to Uganda
9. Learn to play the piano and mandolin
10. Compose a piece of music
11. Write a childrens book
12. Learn to swim (I know its sad that I am 25 and don't know how, but I didn't have anybody that could teach me!)
13. Spend a week at one of those really fancy spas that i'll never be able to afford
14. See Beth Moore Speak live
15. See all of my favorite singers/bands in concert
16. Have or adopt children, possibly from foreign countries. I would love to adopt a Ugandan baby, but you have to live there for 4 years first.
17. Go on an African safari
18. Go whale-watching
19. Swim with dolphins (once I learn to swim lol)
20. Learn to salsa and tango and many other dances
21. Walk in the 3 day breast cancer walkathon
22. See the ball drop in Times Square
23. Go to Las Vegas
24. Build my house from the ground up
25. Work with Habitat for Humanity
26. I am certified in emergency disaster relief training with the SBCV and would actually like to go on a mission to use that training someday
27. Open my own daycare
28. Take a painting class
29. Drive a Dodge Viper, even if I never own one lol
30. Help clean up animals that have been affected by oil spills
31. See the Grand Canyon
32. Help rebuild the city of Detroit
33. See The Serengeti
34. Visit New Zealand
35. Name a star
36. See the Amazon Rainforest
37. Go on an Alaskan cruise
38. I want to reopen Boblo Island in Canada
39. See the lighthouses of the Great Lakes of Michigan
40. Visit The Holy Land
41. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans
42. Have season passes to see the Red Wings
43. Be in the stands when Michigan beats Ohio State in football
44. See a Detroit Tigers game
45. See a Detroit Lions Game
46. Go to a Rose Bowl game next time Michigan plays in the Rose Bowl
47. Go to Outerbanks
48. Go to a Broadway play
49. See the Trans Siberian Orchestra live
50. Help raise a wild animal from birth like they do in the zoo
51. See the Northern Lights
52. Go horseback riding
53. Ride a camel to the Pyramids in Egypt
54. Open a no-kill animal shelter
55. Have my portrait painted
56. Be a member of the audience in a favorite tv show
57. Work with abused children at a ChildHelp USA center
58. Work with the HSUS and ASPCA to help animals
59. Go on a vacation to the beach by myself
60. Go on a vacation to the beach with someone I am in love with
61. Teach someone to read
62. Visit the concentration camps
63. Visit Pearl Harbor
63. Research my families geneology
64. Spend a semester studing abroad
65. Be a Proverbs 31 wife/mother
66. I took a college course in archery, but i'd like to learn to be better at it
67. Learn to shoot a gun
68. Learn Karate - basically just to defend myself lol
69. I've been ice skating before, but I want to be able to do it without holding onto anything lol
70. Take singing lessons
71. Throw an octopus on the ice at a Red Wings game
72. Go to Margaritaville
73. Go on a helicopter ride
74. Ride a motorcycle
75. See the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York
76. Witness an Eclispe
77. Build a time machine - ok I know this will never happen but it would be cool!
78. See Igaussu Falls
79. See all the famous paintings
80. Go on a road trip through the United States
81. Study atronomy and astrology
82. Make a stained glass window
83. Buy a home for my mother with everything in it that she could ever want
84. Study gourmet cooking
85. Learn to brew beer
86. Go to a wine tasting in California
87. Learn to crochet
88. Learn how to make the beautiful necklaces they made in Uganda from trash and newspaper
89. Go see a movie/music awards show
90. Go to the Grand Ol Opry
91. Dance in the rain
92. Finish my college degree
93. Take time off to be a stay at home mom for awhile, at least until kids go to school
94. Walk on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
95. Take a trip just me and my sister
96. Take each of my nieces and nephew on separate trips
97. Take my nephew to a rock concert
98. Go on a trip with my bestest friend Chesney
99. Volunteer at a soup kitchen
100. Volunteer at a nursing home
101. Grow a garden
102. Learn to can my own food
103. Invent a new recipe and have it published in a cookbook
104. Own a beach house on Edisto Island
105. Finally learn to stand on my head in yoga without any help
106. Finish my cosmetology license, not to practice but just to have it
107. Become certified to teach spinning classes
108. Have college funds for my future children
109. Watch turtles hatch and run to the ocean
110. Build my own library inside my house
111. Start collections again, I used to love to collect music boxes, limoge boxes, and snowglobes
112. Read all the classics
113. Go to the Kentucky Derby
114. Touch the Stanley Cup or even skate around the ice holding it above my head lol
115. Learn to work on cars
116. Learn to play football
117. Go see a cheerleading competition
118. Take a line dancing class
119. Visit the Literary Watering Holes
120. Eat real Italian food in Italy
121. Eat at the Undersea Resturant Ithaa
122. Keep a gratitude journal
123. Swing in a hammock
124. Write letters to my future spouse
125. Write journals for my future children to keep when I am gone
126. See a volcano
127. Learn to sail a boat
128. Spend a night in a historic hotel
129. Watch a lightning storm at sea
130. Watch a meteor shower
131. Go parasailing
132. Write the story of my life
133. Build an igloo
134. Visit Alaska
135. Go to a fancy ball, all dressed up
136. Bury a time capsule
137. Ride in a limousine
138. Go kayaking
139. Protest for something I really believe in
140. Go to a lab that is testing on animals and set them all free
141. Be in a music video
142. Crowd surf during a concert -without anyone dropping me lol
143. Go zorbing
144. Go see Christmas Lights Gone Wild
145. I want someone to seranade me
146. I want my own plane so I can fly to Michigan to see my family whenever I feel like it
147. I want to work in a job where people are moral and its not just about the money
148. I want to own some sort of tiny dog that never gets any bigger
149. Decorate a house in Christmas lights -seriously we never did that at my house
150. Have a birthday party as an adult
151. Have an old fashioned Christmas where you string popcorn and make all homemade ornaments
152. Somehow become involved in a project that helps children of alcoholics
These are all I can think of right now, but I may add more later! Thanks for reading if you made it through all of them! I'll leave you guys with a few quotes below!
True Joy of Life
This is the true joy of life.
The being used for a purpose
Recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The being a force of nature
Instead of a feverish, selfish
Little clod of ailments and grievances
Complaining that the world will not
Devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life
Belongs to the whole community
And as long as I live,
It is my privilege to do for it
Whatever I can.
I want to be thoroughly
Used up when I die,
For the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch
Which I've got hold of
For the moment
And I want to make it burn
As brightly as possible before
Handling it on to future generations.
~George Bernard Shaw
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
~Helen Keller
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
~Leonardo da Vinci
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
~Robert Frost
Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seussffff
Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.
You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.
It's opener there
in the wide open air.
Out there things can happen
and frequently do
to people as brainy
and footsy as you.
And when things start to happen,
don't worry. Don't stew.
Just go right along.
You'll start happening too.
OH!
THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
You'll be on your way up!
You'll be seeing great sights!
You'll join the high fliers
who soar to high heights.
You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed.
You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead.
Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best.
Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.
Except when you don' t
Because, sometimes, you won't.
I'm sorry to say so
but, sadly, it's true
and Hang-ups
can happen to you.
You can get all hung up
in a prickle-ly perch.
And your gang will fly on.
You'll be left in a Lurch.
You'll come down from the Lurch
with an unpleasant bump.
And the chances are, then,
that you'll be in a Slump.
And when you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.
You will come to a place where the streets are not marked.
Some windows are lighted. But mostly they're darked.
A place you could sprain both you elbow and chin!
Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in?
How much can you lose? How much can you win?
And IF you go in, should you turn left or right...
or right-and-three-quarters? Or, maybe, not quite?
Or go around back and sneak in from behind?
Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find,
for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.
You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place...
...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.
Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
NO!
That's not for you!
Somehow you'll escape
all that waiting and staying.
You'll find the bright places
where Boom Bands are playing.
With banner flip-flapping,
once more you'll ride high!
Ready for anything under the sky.
Ready because you're that kind of a guy!
Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done!
There are points to be scored. there are games to be won.
And the magical things you can do with that ball
will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Fame! You'll be famous as famous can be,
with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.
Except when they don't.
Because, sometimes, they won't.
I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.
All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot.
And when you're alone, there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants.
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.
But on you will go
though the weather be foul
On you will go
though your enemies prowl
On you will go
though the Hakken-Kraks howl
Onward up many
a frightening creek,
though your arms may get sore
and your sneakers may leak.
On and on you will hike
and I know you'll hike far
and face up to your problems
whatever they are.
You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.
You'll get mixed up
with many strange birds as you go.
So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact
and remember that Life's
a Great Balancing Act.
Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3 / 4 percent guaranteed.)
KID, YOU'LL MOVE MOUNTAINS!
So...
be your name Buxbaum or Bixby or Bray
or Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!
I read all of them! :)
ReplyDeleteI would like to make my own bucket list, too!
What's interesting is that I have done a good number of things on your list...and I suppose I took for granted that I did those thinga. I appreciate them now. :) Very cool. :)