The List

I remember making one of these when I was ten or eleven and I honestly have no clue where it is now so I decided to create a new one. A lot of the same stuff is on this one but the new list is very extensive. I researched other people's lists as well as online bucket lists. I'm pretty sure I'll be adding to this list and hopefully crossing more dreams off of it.


1. Fall helplessly and unconditionally in love with and marry my true love/best friend
2. Ride on the back of a motorcycle (Xàtiva 07/11)
3. Touch a blue whale/see one breach
4. Go kayaking in the ocean ( Catalina 05/04)
5. Visit Argentina
6. Get a tattoo
7. Play my guitar and sing in front of a live audience (Covina 9/10)
8. Cut my hair short (not touching my shoulders)
9. Go ice skating on a real frozen lake
10. Have or adopt children
11. Learn to speak French fluently
12. Take a self defense class
13. Go spear gun fishing in tropical waters
14. Take voice lessons (2/16/10)
15. Swim with a dolphin
16. Go scuba diving
17. Go parasailing
18. Go sky diving
19. See the ball drop in New York on New Years
20. Go to Washington D.C. for the Fourth of July
21. Visit New Zealand
22. Go to Spain (Xàtiva 07/16/11)
23. Go to Rome so I can say “When in Rome!” (7/26/11)
24. Work for Disney (preferably at one of their parks) for any amount of time
25. Go to Jerusalem
26. See the Egyptian Pyramids
27. Go on a cruise with friends to wherever (maybe a Disney one!)
28. Witness the Northern Lights firsthand
29. Get braces
30. Go fishing with my dad like when I was little
31. Be in a movie (extra or star)
32. Go skinny dipping (8/27/11)
33. Meet Oprah
34. Get my Ph. D
35. Watch the launching of a space shuttle
36. Learn to Salsa Dance (Learned in Monteverde Costa Rica 06/10)
37. Learn to Swing Dance (Learned for Matt's B-day 10/19/11)
38. Ride the Trans-Siberian Railway
39. Take the 10 freeway from Los Angeles to Florida
40. Experience weightlessness
41. See the Grand Canyon
42. Ride in a helicopter
43. Learn to successfully juggle three balls (Hals taught me 11/09)
44. Ride in a hot air balloon
45. Overcome my fear of failure
46. Do that one art project I keep saying I'll do (frame)
47. Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
48. Visit Canada
49. Go white water rafting (Fell out too in Heredia 06/10)
50. Grow and eat from my own garden
51. Snorkel around Australia's Great Barrier Reef
52. Go to the top of the Statue of Liberty
53. Be in a play at the Covina Theater
54. Sew my own dress that I'll actually wear in public
55. Run a half marathon or full...you never know ;)
56. Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
57. Ride a gondola in Venice
58. Go to Hawaii
59. Visit all fifty states
60. Stand on the Great Wall of China
61. See a show on Broadway
62. See a real snowflake fall from the sky
63. Throw a huge party and invite all of my friends
64. Take a hike to the Hollywood sign
65. Get a black mini poodle
66. Donate blood
67. Go to the Mayan Ruins
68. Gamble in Las Vegas
69. Play Spin the Bottle
70. Go on a date to a drive in movie
71. Make out to Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get it On
72. Ride a Segway





As I was writing it I began to feel very adventurous as I pictured myself actually completing things off my list but then a sense of sadness began to creep in as started realizing that I may not finish it. I love the sense of accomplishment and I would really like to feel that with this. But hey, maybe my children will discover it and complete the things that I was unable to finish. It will be like a part of me will live on.