The List

It all started the first Sunday of the year when I decided to write a list of all the things I wantto do this year. They aren't goals that will make me a better person, just new adventures that I want to accomplish and thought, "Why not this year?" So I made that list and then started thinking of other things I wanted to do but wouldn't be able to fit into this year. I wanted to be able to remember what those things were so I started making a list. I didn't list these things in any particular order, just as they came to mind. And before I knew it I was at number seventeen and thought, "Okay, I'll try and get to twenty." By that time I only had five lines left on the page so I thought "Alright, I'll fill the page." And now I have myself a little bucket list.


Things I Want to Do Before I Die...

1. ride in a hot air balloon

2. take a trip to the Outback in Australia

3. go back to New Zealand

4. ride in a helicopter

5. ride a horse on the beach

6. see "Rigoletto" in Italy

7. visit all 50 states

8. design/create a cake with fondant

9. drive a semi-truck

10. go skydiving

11. join the Peace Corps

12. sleep in a sleep car on a passenger train

13. go to Vegas and walk the strip

14. do an amusement part tour back east

15. go hunting at least once

16. go to Greece

17. walk the beaches of Normandy

18. take a picture of the Swiss Alps

19. go back to Gettysburg

20. snow mobile through Yellowstone National Park

21. learn how to use the foot pedals on the organ

22. drive a stick shift without assistance

23. read the Book of Mormon in one month or less

24. drive a convertible

25. be in a taping of "The Price is Right"


So from that list...

Things I Want to Do This Year:

1. go skydiving (any takers? seriously? I'm not kidding so don't mess with me)

2. sleep in a sleep car on a passenger train (hopefully to a state I haven't been to before)

3. possibly get letters of recommendation for the Peace Corps (this depends on timing)


Things I Want to Do This Year That Aren't On My "Bucket List":

1. visit Colette in Wisconsin again

2. move (I really don't like my current house)

3. go on a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon (which has been planned but not yet paid for)

4. buy my own snow mobile helmet with goggles (visors are AWFUL)