Monday, May 10, 2010

Bucket List

Come up with (at least) 1000 items for this list.
Visit 25 nations (airport terminals don't count).
Visit all 50 states.
Visit Mount Rushmore
Walk on the Great Wall of China.
Helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon.
Go to a drive-in movie theater.
Design and program a video game.
Write and sell a book.
Make a website
Marry.
Send a message in a bottle.
Sleep a night in a snow fort I built.
Fly a kite.
Learn how to swim.
Swim across a large lake.
Flatten coins on a train track.
Lie in bed an entire day.
Eat a large, live insect.
Ride a mechanical bull.
Ride a rollercoaster.
Write a letter to the editor.
Grow and eat my own vegetables.
Sleep under the stars.
Have a meaningful conversation with a beggar.
Hit a home run.
Learn how to bat.
Adopt an accent for an entire day.
Take a long road trip with friends.
Sing karaoke enthusiastically.
Start a business.
Call or write my congressperson.
Have cosmetic surgery.
Fire a shotgun.
Be an egg donor.
Have my picture in a newspaper.
Kill and prepare an animal for eating.
Build my own PC.
Dye my hair nonsensically.
Live abroad.
Do 100 pushups in a row.
Write a letter of thanks for a good product or customer service.
Write a letter of complaint for a bad product or customer service.
Call a “How Am I Driving?” number.
Climb a tall tree all the way to the top.
See the Harlem Globetrotters play.
Put on and act in a stage performance.
See the northern lights.
Yell "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!" in a crowded area.
Conquer a powerful addiction, 'cold turkey' style.
Learn to say the alphabet backwards really, really fast.
Meet someone I met on the Internet in real life.
Fast (intake nothing but water) for 72 hours.
Tutor a mentally challenged student.
Build a working piece of furniture.
Get professionally certified.
Converse with a parrot.
Learn a programming language.
Vote.
Have your clothes ripped off your body, like in the movies.
Actually comprehend my finances and taxes.
Host an outdoor barbeque.
Be on TV.
See an annular solar eclipse.
Make a once-in-a-lifetime basketball shot.
Provide the police with an anonymous tip.
Shower in the rain.
Visit an intentional community.
Hitchhike.
Be successfully self-employed.
Use another religious worldview for a whole day.
Practice meditation.
See a lunar eclipse
Attend Carnival in Brazil
Fly in a hot air balloon
Go on a safari
Swim with dolphins
Earn your degree
Get out of debt
Save about 6 months worth of expenses in case of emergencies
Max out your 401K
Honor your parents
Live with an animal its entire life
Get arrested for protesting something
Go wading in a public fountain
Have a child
Hop a ride in the back of a truck without asking
Pull off an April Fool’s joke that effects over 30 people
Steal a sign
Collect a complete set of U.S. quarters
Take a night course in something (French I)
Spend a whole day just watching DVDs
Order 3 Subway subs I haven’t tried
Go scuba diving
Go sledding
Go hang gliding
Chase a tornado
Bartend
Learn at least three different languages proficiently
Go parasailing
Ride a sky coaster
Worlds of Fun (Kansas City, MO) - 180ft
Sky Coaster (Orlando, FL) - 300ft
Go to Tokyo Disneyland
Eat sushi from a sushi bar
Own a house
Redecorate and organize my house
Eat crepes in Paris
Sit front row center
Stay in a 5-star hotel
Live off of room service for a while
Kiss under fireworks
Kill a zombie
Visit a grave
Visit the Harry Potter theme park
Visit the Great Barrier Reef
Go to Iceland
Build a time capsule
Visit the pyramids of Egypt
Meet someone famous (John Travolta)
Go fishing
Swim in the ocean
Learn how to belly dance
Learn salsa
Learn how to waltz
Learn how to swing dance
Shoot a bow and arrow
Shoot a handgun
See the Earth from space
Find that job you love
Learn to relax
Try all 31 flavors
Have grandchildren
Live by the beach
Live by the mountains
Live in the plains
Drop something off a cliff
Make my first million
Become a better cook
Learn everything about cars
Learn how to sail
Build a house
Volunteer to help someone you don’t know
Gamble in Las Vegas. And win.
Attend a wine tasting
Tell a taxi cab driver to, “Follow that car!”
Ride a gondola in Venice
Upload something onto YouTube
Fall in love
Fall out of love
Fall in love again
Take the subway
Study abroad
Teach English
Go on a road trip with no predetermined destination
Learn to play an instrument
Bake brownies
Achieve my ideal weight
Love my body
Dance like no one is watching
Cry out in happiness
Go on a cruise
Donate blood
Read a book in a day
Play chess
Eat pizza in Italy
Plant a tree
Go to a sports event
Adopt a pet
Let go of a grudge
Know what it’s like to be dirt poor
Experience what it’s like to be extremely rich
Go a month without the internet
Stay up all night just to watch the sun rise
Go camping
Sleep in a hammock
Go horseback riding
Go horseback riding on a beach
Write a will
Go on a honeymoon
Lick the bowl clean
Be an extra in a movie
Ride a motorcycle
Own a summer home
Play truth or dare
Have breakfast in bed
Make breakfast in bed for someone else
Research my family tree
Grow food in my backyard
Get a promotion
Watch the sun set
Ace a test
Take a dance class
Take a cooking class
Volunteer at a nursing home
Win a raffle
Attend a concert at Carnegie Hall
Learn sign language
Be financially independent
Overcome shyness
Live in New York City
Get honors in school
Learn to play the piano
Spend a night in a haunted house
Have something named after me
Learn to juggle
Befriend someone I don’t like
Throw a huge party and invite every one of my friends
Learn how to take a compliment
Accept myself
Make a hole-in-one
Get asked out by a stranger
Fly first class
Be in a food fight
Do yoga
Meet the U.S. President in person
Learn to ski
Board a train
Visit an all-inclusive spa
Watch an IMAX movie
See an active volcano
Take a course in self-defense
Buy a telescope
Go to a comedy club
Have a candlelit bath
Learn to use chopsticks
Crash a party
Have a yard sale
Have more than one job
Make ice cream from scratch
Follow a rainbow
Surprise someone with a visit
Go a month without junk food
Go a year without fast food
Watch a meteor shower
Wish upon a star
Take a walk in the rain
Get caught in the rain
Build a sand castle
Go clubbing
Give money to someone homeless
Do a favor for a stranger
Go vegan
Make new friends
Have a pen pal in another country
Take a bubble bath
Go to Niagara Falls
Ask someone to dance
Send flowers for no reason
Learn a magic trick
Have a picnic
Read a classical novel
Find a four-leaf clover
Learn to drive a stick
Ride in a limo
Go whale watching
Impact someone
Be a mentor
Do Tai Chi
Draw a picture of something and give it to someone at college, even if it’s just taping it on their door
Take lots of pictures
Make a scrapbook
Fill up a room with balloons
Give someone a box in a box in a box type of gift
Kiss someone just because
Tell someone the complete truth
Eat ice cream outside in winter (in Florida)
Treat someone to dinner
Try every flavor of Jones Soda
Send 1000 postcards into the world (postcrossing.com)
Receive 1000 postcards back (postcrossing.com)
Give a stranger a Christmas gift
Go up a down escalator
Go down an up escalator
Get my tarot cards read
Make a 3.5 GPA this semester
Take a homeless person to dinner
Talk to a stranger on a train
Grow a bonsai tree
Earn a 4.0 GPA
Keep a New Year’s resolution
Have a New Year’s kiss
Get so drunk I can’t remember the evening before
Get a passport
Workout consistently
Pet a tiger (two baby Siberians)
Hold a panda bear
Be in a friend’s wedding
See the Mona Lisa
Solve the Rubik’s Cube
See a play on Broadway (Off-Broadway: Beauty and the Beast)
Ride an elephant
Stay in an ice hotel
Read the Lord of the Rings
Straighten my teeth
Look good in a bikini
See an orchestra live in concert
Make wine by stomping on grapes
Take advantage of the whole bed
Learn how to change a tire
Hone a signature lingerie style
Plan a wedding
Start a pleasure ritual that a relationship status change can’t disturb
Set up a home in a way that fits my needs (coffee maker in the bathroom)
Throw a wild and crazy party
Eat what I want when I want
Get finances in order
Go to Las Vegas before marriage
Throw away all traces of past relationships
Get plastered and sleep as late as I want
Go on a weekend getaway alone
Buy my dream item
Enjoy life
Dance with a stranger
Learn to play golf
Have a fling with someone who doesn’t speak English
Earn my master’s degree
Get a Ph.D.
Have a library of movies
Travel somewhere alone with no intention of meeting someone else there
Figure out how the numbering system in this list is off and by how many numbers (just one - see #114) - not applicable on blogger.
Fix the numbering system - not applicable on blogger.
See my great grandchildren
Deface something
Punch someone in the face
Slap someone in the face
Own a pet rock
Send something around the world (to China) (to Brazil)
Tell someone off
Own the complete works of Leonardo DaVinci
Visit Walt Disney World
Visit Disneyland
Live in Walt Disney World (Aug. 2007-Jan. 2008)
Work at the #1 ride in Walt Disney World (Epcot: Soarin’)
Go out of state for a spring break
Ride a double-decker bus
See Casablanca
Lose 30 pounds
Test drive a really expensive car
Visit the HofbrÀuhaus in Munich, Germany
Give up all collections except for one
Move in to my first house
Have a class and teach the elderly

3 comments:

  1. you totally boarded a train
    and there is a drive in by my house... next time you come we'll go!

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