A few more to add to my to dos:

• Ride a horse
• Defend an opinion to a news program or paper
• Sell something that I created

More to come... happy living:)

Bucket

Hello cyberworld! Its been quite awhile! This is my problem with these sites - I love to write, but I always feel like I need to write about something huge. Then I end up complaining.... wa wa waaaaa. Time for a different approach - here goes nothing!


I am a planner. I am an organizer. I am a dreamer. As such, I have an amazingly lenthy, ever-growing bucket list that has quickly become one of my favorite topics to think about during the work day (its right up there with my loving boyfriend Wes and sunshine!). I want to travel to the 190+ countries on this wonderful earth. I want to speak to the people of this world in the 7,000+ languages of this world. I want to learn and experience as much as I can. I want to know everything there is to know and do everything there is to do. From taking classes, to changing careers, to going back to school, to jumping from a plane, I want to experience it all. I want the thrill and the enjoyment that life brings us. And with every medicore day that passes, I add items to my bucket list, though I'm sure I'm missing A TON! Here is my challenge to myself: I'm going to continue to write on here whenever something moves me or I need an outlet for my thoughts, but I'm also going to track my bucket list on here - adding new ones and crossing off those accomplished along the way. This will put my thoughts all in one place (as opposed to the multiple sheets of notebook paper that end up floating around any given purse of mine, never to be read again). I also would like anyone out there reading (*ahem* you know who you are) to add suggestions. I will start with a few lists: things that were on my bucket list that I've accomplished in the past year and those that are still "to-dos". This should be fun!

Accomplished

• Take a long weekend romantic trip
• See the Grand Canyon
• Hike the red rocks of Sedona
• Go to Vegas
• Take a long weekend girl-only trip
• Win money by gambling
• Take prerequisites for a graduate program in education
• Earn a 4.0
• Travel out of the country (okay okay, it was a few summers ago, and technically only one of the islands was not in the US, but I'm counting it!)
• White water raft
• Fallen in love

To-Do

• Run a 5k
• Learn Hungarian
• Learn Italian
• Learn French
• Travel to Italy
• Travel to Spain
• Travel to France
• Travel to California
• Climb a real mountain
• Buy a house
• Start a family
• Earn my Masters and/or PhD
• Earn my teaching certification
• Coach cheerleading
• Read the Bible - cover to cover
• Snowboard
• Waterski
• Take Salsa Dancing lessons
• Enter a beauty pagent or modeling contest
• Write a book
• Make an appearance (speaking) on national television
• Help someone
• Volunteer consistently
• Try out for a silly reality tv show (America's Next Top Model anyone?!?)
• Become a fitness instructor
• Become published
• Laugh so hard that I pee my pants
• Visit a winery
• Stomp grapes
• Learn Arabic
• Paint
• Take a sculpting class (pottery not buns and abs)
• Make a difference in a child's life
• Open my own company
• Participate in a triathalon
• Surf
• Teach a college course
• Learn to play the piano
• Learn to play the guitar
• Read all of the books I own
• Get my weight back down to 155 - and keep it there
• Create my own website

I think this is all I have for the moment, but I know I forgot a bunch! I will continue to add to this list as I see fit. Lata gatas!