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Bucket List

Got the idea from Through the Waters of Life to post my bucket list here. Maybe it will prompt me to get more done! :) Bear with me, it's a fairly extensive list.

Personal Fitness

·      Run a marathon (it'll have to be short unless I somehow gain an ironman body overnight)

·      Hike in the mountains

·      Do an indoor rock-climb wall

·      Bungee jump

·      Learn to swim

·      Learn to surf (I got up twice in Hawaii, but would like to get better at it)

·      Do P90X

·      Lose 25 pounds

Hobbies

·      Learn Cricket

·      Complete a crossword puzzle

·      Learn to quilt

·      Solve a Rubik’s Cube

·      Learn to play bridge (I watch too many old tv series)

·      Go fishing at sunrise

·      Listen to Bach and Mozart

·      Own a horse

·      Milk a cow (despite living in the country, I have never milked a cow)

·      Win Super Mario Bros on Nintendo (I am absolutely HORRID at video games)

·      Start a fire without matches

·      Hold a snake (the sheer thought of this scares me silly!)

·      Finish crocheted green blanket (more than half way done with it as a queen sized)

Home

·      Grow an herb garden (I would LOVE to be able to cook with my own spices)

·      Buy a home, with a window seat

·      Host 10 dinner parties

·      Have a plant, and not kill it

·      Watch no TV for one week

·      Own a piano

·      Pay off all school loans.

·      Splurge on a pair of shoes (DONE! -- TOMS)

·      Have a secret room behind a bookcase (I don't think I'll tell if this happens)

Charity

·      Volunteer at a soup kitchen

·      Help to end slavery

·      Spend a day talking with an orphan

·      Spend a day talking with a homeless man/woman/child

·      Own 5 pairs of TOMS

·      Mission trip/expedition (kaya) every year

Language

·      Learn French fluently

·      Learn an accent well (British or Irish preferably)

·      Learn HTML coding

·      Learn basic sign language

·      Expand vocabulary

Writing

·      Write a book

·      Learn calligraphy

·      Practice handwriting

·      Write a paper, just because

·      Write a sitcom

·      Write your autobiography

·      Compile a cookbook

·      Use typewriter frequently for writing letters

Food

·      Eat a jalapeno pepper, whole

·      Anchovies

·      Escargot, Lucy style

·      Make homemade ice cream

·      Put up root beer

·      Avoid fast food for six months

·      Cook every dish from the ’69 Betty Crocker cookbook

·      Eat Haggis

·      Learn to make Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon

Phrases To Say

·      Sit on it!

·      Quick, follow that car!

·      I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship

·      Go ahead, make my day

·      A martini. Shaken, not stirred.

Read

·      The works of  e.e. cummings,

·      The works of Thoreau

·      The works of Emerson

·      Bible, cover to cover

·      Entire Encyclopedia Britanica

·      100 NY Best Sellers (2/100)

Films

·      Watch all of the AFI’s greatest films

·      Watch every single Hitchcock film

·      Be an extra in a film

·      Become a still photographer for a movie set

·      Watch every Academy Award for Best Picture

Photograph/Travel/Adventure

·      Eiffel Tower

·      England

·      Ukraine, Hungary (E. Europe)

·      Greece

·      Corrie ten Boom’s home

·      Holy Land

·      Italy

·      Ireland

·      Peru (Machu Picchu)

·      Maine lighthouses

·      Prince Edward Island

·      DC in the spring

·      Oregon (Multnomah Falls)

·      Sundance

·      Gondolas in Venice

·      Big Ben

·      Abbey Road

·      Chase a storm

·      Fly in a hot air balloon

·      Take the Amtrak from Seattle to the East Coast

·      Learn the ins and outs of Photoshop

·      Re-learn geography

·      Change a flat tire

·      Drive stick shift

·      Visit all countries of heritage [Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, Scotland, Russia]

·      Live in Europe for a month

·      Start photography business

·      Visit Holocaust camps, after re-reading The Hiding Place

·      Fly first-class overseas

·      Photograph for National Geographic

·      Visit all 50 states (21/50)

·      Drive down route 66

·      Go behind a waterfall

·      Attend the Olympics

·      Watch the sun rise every day for one week

·      Photograph war

·      Photograph a wedding

·      Visit a castle

·      Explore a cave

·      Impromptu road trip (Denver, Devils Mountain)

·      Human Trafficking Photography Expedition via Kaya travel