Well, I've recently joined the face book group "XX High School 10 Year Reunion Planning." Yikes! In honor of this momentous occasion I've put together my own personal list of things I want to do before I die...my "bucket list." This list is kind of fluid and will be updated from time to time. What is on your bucket list? Did I forget anything?
- Bring my weight down into the healthy BMI range
- Find a career where I can be incredibly successful AND enjoy going to work everyday
- Have babies
- Upgrade the condo so the babies don't have to sleep in the bathtub
- Make sure I can afford to send babies to college
- Kick so much ass in my job that I can hire someone to clean my house
- Buy a summer house on a lake in the mountains
- Host the ultimate weekend parties at my summer house
- Visit St. Petersburg for at least a week during the white nights
- Attend Hogmanay
- Spend two weeks in Bora Bora
- Visit the black beaches of New Zealand
- Shop until I drop in Singapore
- Take a self guided culinary tour of France
- Gorge myself of truffles at Alba International White Truffle Fair
- Build a wine cellar, including an impressive stock of champagne
- Build a collection of hardback literature to stock a library
- Choreograph several burlesque routines
- Write a book
- Turn my blogging empire into an LLC, but only as a side job
- Find the perfect skin care regime
- Find my hairstylist soulmate
- Build the perfect collection of vintage barware
- Start an underground supper club
- Collect enough high quality vintage gems to open my own jewelry store...but keep it all for myself!
- Become a fantastic chef and memorize a collection of signature recipes
- Regularly practice yoga
- Have my own studio space for my artsy hobbies
- Learn how to play golf
- Get back into tennis
- Be on track, by 50, to have a VERY comfortable retirement
- Be on the board of directors of at least two charities whose missions I really respect and want to support
- Attend a legendary party (like the black and white ball)
- Watch a game on the Wimbledon center court
- Go skinny dipping in a public body of water after midnight
- Set foot on all 7 continents
- Live in another country for at least a year
- Learn to scuba dive, dive the great barrier reef
- Participate in a Carnival parade in Brazil
- Learn a seriously sexy tango routine
- Swing dance with the kinds of moves that result in me getting thrown in the air
- Write a column for a print publication
- Attend Burning Man
- Attend Oktoberfest
- Ride the transsiberian railway
- Visit Machu Picchu
- Sunbathe on a nude beach
- Spend a weekend at a spa
- Have a showing of my art in a gallery
- Climb a mountain (a really big one)
- Become proficient in horse back riding
- See the northern lights
- Become an excellent seamstress and learn to make my own patterns
- Keep a journal
- Have the perfect capsule wardrobe
- Read the entire Bible
- Learn how to pick a lock
- Learn to ski
- Participate in an all out food fight
- Cross stitch family Christmas stockings
- Bake a 3-tier cake
- Witness a solar eclipse
- Take a float trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River in Idaho
- Build a tree fort
- Find a pen pal, or several, with whom I can regularly correspond via snail mail
- Hit the bulls-eye at a shooting range with a hand gun
- Ride a mechanical bull
- Smoke a cigar in Cuba
- Etc...I'll keep adding, promise...