Bucket List

I promise to return to serious blogging shortly.  

One of my favorite movies is "The Bucket List"  I decided long ago to make a bucket list (although when I was 10, it was just a to-do list).  For those of you not familiar with the movie or the concept, a bucket list is a list of things you want to do before you die.  Having been ill for a few months and unable to do much of anything,  I've had plenty of time to work on my bucket list.  I decided to share it so that whoever wants can help me add to it, accomplish a goal on it, or copy and steal it.  Some of these items are old, some I've recently added.  These are in no particular order of importance, although some of them are definitely more important than others.  

1.  Own my own business (and make it succeed)

2.  Go to the circus at least once

3.  Read the complete works of Jane Austen (Done, many times)

4.  Learn how to dance

5.  Go to music school (2006)

6.  Ride a giraffe

7.  Own a home

9.  Adopt a child

10.  Go on a mission trip (Done, Mexico a couple of times)

11.  Learn to speak a foreign language fluently

12.  Work in a soup kitchen

13.  Make a difference in someone's life

14.  Write to a complete stranger (Yesterday)

15.  Run for public office

16.  Go on a cruise

17.  Go to England with my dad.

18.  Preach a sermon

19.  Write a book

20.  Read "War and Peace" (2000, 2011)

21.  Take the MCAT

22.  Go to Africa

23.  Go on a safari

24.  Backpack through the Grand Canyon

25.  Learn to hang-glide or para-glide

26.  Learn to make moonshine (2013)

27.  Make a quilt (1998)

28.  Graduate from college (2006)

29.  Go to medical school

30.  Have a pen pal (done, a lot of them)

31.  Write a blog (doing)

32.  Change the world

33.  Protest something

34.  Kiss a boy

35.  Own a horse (done, when I was a kid my siblings and I saved up and bought two horses.)

36.  Do something illegal (I speed,  all the time)

37.  Have one day with no physical pain

39.  Tell someone about my faith (done)

40.  Live in Alaska

41.  Learn to surf

42.  Work in a Level 1 Trauma Center

43.  Buy a grandfather clock

44.  Meet a Holocaust survivor

45.  Meet Pat Monahan from Train

46.  Go to a live concert (Done 2011 Maroon 5/Train with Priscilla Wiggins)

47.  Write a song

48.  Learn to play the guitar

49.  Be in Times Square at midnight on New Year's Day

50.  Drive a race car

51.  Meet the Queen of England

52.  Ride a train

53.  Scare a fainting goat

55.  Go on the ghost tour of Alcatraz

56.  Own a Diabatic Alert Dog

57.  Live by the ocean

58.  Buy a car (2013)

59.  Get married

60.  Grow a rose garden

61.  Buy a cuckoo clock

62.  Run a marathon

63.  Deep-fry a turkey

"If you're bored with life and you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals"   ~Lou Holtz