I discovered the idea of posting a Life List on a blog I read. This of course inspired me to put together my own little Life List since there are approximately 1 million things I want to do before I die. The list is open to interpretation or addition, since I know one’ll probably crop up in the middle of me brushing my teeth one night… (All completed activities will be highlighted in bold).

My Bucket List

1. Go to a Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey
2. Volunteer in Africa for three weeks with Cross-Cultural Solutions
3. Run a 5K race (9/20/09)
4. Live in another city for at least one year (5/13/12)
5. Write a memoir
6. Keep a savings account, with a balance, for a year + (2012)
7. Find my dream job – and work there (9/29/09)
8. Visit Auschwitz
9. Electrolyze every surface I currently have to shave
10. Meditate in a Buddhist temple (9/2011)
11. Marry my greatest love
12. Cook Thanksgiving dinner (11/21/10)
13. Become an entrepreneur – in a small or large way – or even better, CEO!
14. Take my parents to Ireland
15. Swim with dolphins
16. Get my teeth whitened, professionally (2012)
17. Stay in a little hut on a white sand beach with blue waters
18. Teach myself to video edit
19. Own a house with a library with floor to ceiling bookshelves and a ladder
20. Perfect one recipe and make it my “special”
21. Make amends (4/2011)
22. Order weekly organic produce for at least one month
23. [Redacted] for my private list
24. Live in one of the old, cute little houses in upper Queen Anne (my favorite neighborhood in Seattle)
25. Take an extended road trip to all the places in America I’ve wanted to see
26. Party my butt off (or my top, I should say) at Mardi Gras
27. Take a sushi-making class – (5/21/09)
28. Buy a condo
29. Go to Teatro Zinzanni - (12/18/10)
30. Spend a weekend in Vegas in one of the nicest, most expensive hotels in their nicest, most expensive room (minus a suite or penthouse)
31. Visit Bali and wear flowers around my neck (9/2011)
32. Squash grapes with my feet (11/5/11)
33. Donate a major lump sum to World Vision
34. Give birth to a little girl with curly hair, and name her Savannah
35. Further my education – either a certificate, art degree or Masters
36. Go on a vacation by boat (2012)
37. Print and assemble some of my 4,000 photos off my computer into a photo album of my 20s (or 30s, etc.)
38. Collect my friend’s addresses and send out holiday cards (12/6/11)
39. Take a yoga retreat (9/2011)
40. Own either a restaurant, breakfast place or winery
41. Read one book from all the “great” authors – Hemmingway, Kerouac, etc.
42. Figure out who all would be included on a list of “great” authors
43. Have only one credit card that I pay off every month
44. Close my eyes and feel that there’s nowhere else I’d rather be than right where I am at that moment (8/16/10)
45. Own a beach house
46. Take a Web site design class
47. Plant a vegetable/herb garden (5/9/10)
48. Make fresh salads and food with my homegrown veggies and herbs (6/2010)
49. Feel amazing in a bathing suit (2012)
50. Visit a rural village and bring gifts for the children
51. Be a member of the Bacon of the Month club for one year
52. [Redacted] for my private list
53. Buy a Seattle (San Francisco?) Zagat guide and go to at least 50% of the restaurants
54. [Redacted for my private list]
55. Be a KEXP Plutonium Club member just once
56. Live in a houseboat
57. Have a closet that dreams are made of – walk in, with shelves for shoes, and floor length mirrors everywhere, in lots of gold and cream with leopard print
58. Feel amazing with myself at my 10-year high school reunion (Chose not to go)
59. [Redacted] for my private list
60. Go in a hot air balloon ride
61. Own a license plate with my name on it
62. Live somewhere with a patio overlooking the water with wind chimes and flower pots
63. Become an expert in something – and offer my advice to others (11/2010)
64. Run with bulls in Pamplona, Spain
65. Treat myself to a manicure, pedicure, facial, massage, hair cut and color – all in one day
66. Buy satin sheets for my bed (9/2010)
67. Celebrate Oktoberfest in Munich
68. Learn to sew
69. Drive a Mini Cooper
70. Buy something really amazing for my grandparents and my dad
71. Release a butterfly
72. Take a shower by candlelight
73. Ride my bike to work (3/23/2010)
    
74. Go on a game show
75. Participate in Lent
76. Vacation by myself
77. Wash my face and moisturize every night for one month (2012)
78. [Redacted] for my private list
79. Finish the last quarter of my Life List (8/11/2011)
80. Learn to make jewelry – preferably earrings so I can make some fantastic big dangly ones and sell them on Etsy.
81. Learn to speak Spanish (2012)
82. Stop biting my nails
83. Make lipglosses, soaps or body scrubs from scratch and give them out as gifts (12/25/10)
84. Wine taste in Napa Valley (August 2011)
85. Meet a blogger whose blog I read regularly in real life (8/5/10)
86. Learn a little bit more about sake and explore the world of sake
87. Give up fast food for a year
88. Make a cookbook of my grandmother’s recipes before she passes (2012)
89. Plant an herb and or vegetable garden (5/9/10)
90. Go to dim sum for breakfast (1/2012)
91. Take a digital photography class so I can become more than an “automatic” setting photographer.
92. Spend a year, committing random acts of kindness once a month
93. Dine in the dark at San Francisco’s Opaque restaurant (2012)
94. Go to Toastmasters and kick my anxiety with public speaking (or improve it)
95. Feel great in a T-shirt again
96. Fly somewhere every month, for a year, to get more comfortable with flying (and less dependent on medicating myself for flights). (2012)
97. Make a wine corkboard from bottles of wine I’ve actually drank myself
98. Try authentic chicken & waffles (2012)
99. Go to The French Laundry in Napa
100. Party in Margaritaville at a Jimmy Buffet concert (not a huge Buffet fan, but sounds like to much fun to miss)
101. Island hop in Greece (2012)
102. Vacation in the dirty south
103. Stay in thermal igloos in Finland to watch Aurora Borealis through the glass roof
104. Participate in an organized bike race (such as STP)
105. Authentic barbecue at Texas’ best barbecue place – The Salt Lick