Bucket List

Everyone needs goals. I just happen to have 101 of them.

1. Live in Europe for over a year and visit all the countries

2. Visit Greece and sail to the islands

3. Go on a Mediterranean cruise (for my honeymoon)

4. Exercise regularly (4 times a week) for one year

5. Hitchhike over 100 miles

6. Go on another Greyhound adventure

7. Publish a book

8. Get on New York’s best sellers list

9. Go scuba diving

10. Get my ear pierced again

11. Learn how to surf real waves

12. Swim under a waterfall

13. Audition for an off-Broadway musical

14. Learn how to play the guitar

15. Backpack through Europe

16. Visit Prince Edward Island—see the places of Anne of Avonlea

17. Go horseback riding on a beach

18. Visit Australia

19. Swim with manatees

20. Teach a college English/Writing class

21. Dance in the rain

22. Get proposed to in a very creative, romantic way

23. Marry the man of my dreams

24. Have 7 children: 3 biological, 4 international adoption

25. See a musical on Broadway in New York

26. Develop an accent (other than American) naturally

27. Stay up all night with a stranger

28. Sleep in a train station

29. Work in a publishing firm

30. See Jared Seachris again

31. Skinny dip with husband in a mountain lake

32. Race a car without fear of being pulled over.

33. Design and buy a 4-door Mini Cooper

34. Sleep on the streets like a hobo

35. Learn Tagalong

36. Get Lasik eye surgery

37. Get laser hair removal in my armpits

38. Volunteer in an orphanage

39. Run through a field of flowers

40. Buy a professional camera and take pictures for enjoyment

41. Meet Michael Buble

42. Get a medi/pedi and a complete spa treatment

43. Attend a world cup soccer game

44. Attend a world cup rugby game

45. Get serenaded in a romantic way

46. Play Aravis in the “Horse and His Boy” film

47. Manage a homeless shelter/rec hall/youth center

48. Have my first child by the time I’m 30

49. Take a boat ride through the Indian Ocean

50. Travel the Middle East and dress like the women

51. Visit Egypt

52. Attend a southern Baptist black church

53. Visit Mount Rushmore

54. Work in a DoDDs school

55. Learn how to fence

56. Take a spontaneous vacation somewhere

57. Go rock climbing up a real cliff

58. Learn to fly a plane

59. Get pulled by a dog sled in Alaska

60. Marry royalty from another country (preferably England)

61. Wax my legs (eek!)

62. Cry my way out of a ticket

63. Sleep on a roof or barn

64. Design and own my own home

65. Be debt free in 6 years (starting 2010)

66. Live on a ranch

67. Sing in a jazz club back east

68. Try blue/green contacts

69. Kiss a stranger

70. Take professional voice lessons

71. Sew a quilt out of old sports/school shirts

72. Design/make my own dress

73. Find the Lochness Monster

74. Take ballroom dance lessons

75. Punch someone in the face – legitimately

76. Make my own decorative furniture

77. Finish scrapbooking Europe pictures

78. Go on a real first date

79. Spend a week “blind” and learn Braille

80. Ahem....have a personal and private experience.

81. Be the “cool” mom for my children

82. Learn how to play the harp

83. Own a spirited horse

84. Do Camp Adventure again

85. Be a recreational/outdoors guide

86. Lead someone to Christ

87. Road trip through all 49 states (excluding Hawaii)

88. Ride a trolley

89. Go on a safari and ride an elephant

90. Visit South Africa to observe culture

91. Live in downtown above shops

92. Go to the Love Parade

93. Visit India and go to a monastery

94. Pretend to be pregnant for as long as I can with strangers

95. Go up in a hot air balloon

96. Tour a southern plantation

97. Spend a full 24/48 hours in jail

98. Climb a coconut tree and pick a coconut

99. Write letters more

100. Do a professional photo shoot

101. Obtain a magical power