Charlie and I went to see the movie Frozen (sing-a-long version), Saturday night. There is a scene at the beginning when Anna and Elsa talk about "the sky is singing"...it's the Northern Lights. Charlie looked over at me and said, "mommy, that's on your bucket list, right? I wanna see the Northern Lights with you, okay?"
Got me thinking, need to update my list and decided to change the name to "Life List"...I don't wanna wait to do any of these things...want to keep plugging away at them!
I have a special birthday in a couple of days...I'll be closer to 50 than 40 the day after...
My bucket list...2/4/14
- Visit all 7 continents (I have Africa, South America and Antarctica left to visit)
- Go camping in a yurt
- Be a glass blower for a day...or at least attempt it
- Visit all 50 states...still have AL, LA and MS on my list...(last few years I thought I only had two left, but I was wrong)...
- Walk a 1/2 marathon
- Run a 5k
- Walk to the top of the Statue of Liberty (done 10/31/99)
- Go do Disney World (done March '11 & Nov. '12)
- Go to the Grand Canyon (as an adult---at 8 weeks old doesn't count)
- See my daughter graduate high school and college
- Walk on the Great Wall (done Feb. '98)
- Dance at my daughter's wedding
- Fly in a helicopter
- Stand at the equator
- Go on our dream trip to Italy...
- Take a Zumba class
- Ride in a hot air balloon
- Knit a PAIR of socks
- Give a heart felt surprise to someone (I actually try and do this at least once a year)
- Keep my family blog going for 20+ years....It will be 5 years old in April
- Take a cooking class and learn to LIKE to cook
- Take one of the underground tunnel tours in Portland
- Learn to kayak
- Go on a power boat tour in Southern Oregon with Victor & Charlotte (done July '13)
- Get back down to my "ideal" goal weight
- Be part of a Relay that raises $250,000 in one year
- Start my own Etsy site (either sewing or crocheting items)
- Make cake pops
- Get to a place where I LOVE to exercise (I KNOW this is possible)
- Visit the Redwoods with my family
- Spend the Christmas/NYE season in NYC
- Take a cruise
- Visit London (done Nov. '90 & May '05)
- Learn wine appreciation
- Get a total make over
- Be in a commercial
- Go swimming with dolphins
- Pick a year and send birthday cards (via snail mail) to all my family & friends (2011 is out)...
- Read at least 10 books during one year
- Carpool to work everyday (did that in the mid-'90s with Rosemary)
- Go to my high school 25th reunion...(Summer of '12)
- Take my daughter AND my mom to get a pedicure..just the three of us
- Take my 3rd Intel sabbatical (spring of '13)
- Take Charlotte to Vegas on her 21st birthday
- Visit all 58 National Parks (I need to go figure out just which ones I've gone to--that'll have to be a separate post)
- Ice skate at Rockefeller Center at Christmas time
- Attend an event at an Olympics
- See the Northern Lights
- Go snowmobiling
- Walk from the Pearl District up to the Pittock Mansion
- Fly in a plane piloted by my father-in-law (done May '11)
- Go para sailing (done--Hawaii '08)
- Walk on a volcano with real lava (done - Hawaii 1/1/00)
- Walk/ride in a parade (done - St. Patricks in Hillsboro and Beaverton Celebration)
- Walk in Portland to Coast (on tap for August '11, '12 & '13)
- Attend 20 Relays in one year (came close summer of '09--still need to break that record)
- Go to KC during the holidays to be with my mom's side of the family
- Drive to AZ (versus flying) to see Victor's parents and Grandma
- Make fabric table napkins to use instead of paper napkins for home use
- Thank a teacher from grade school that had a huge impact on me (done--Miss K from 6thgrade--she's still in FG and a fellow Relayer to boot)
- Enter a quilt in the county fair
- Get my sewing space completely organized and functional (again)...
- Take swimming lessons...I never really learned the correct way to swim...I can swim, it's just not pretty! ;(
- Be on a Relay Team that raises $10,000 in one year---we are on target for that this year!!! (Done Aug. '11)
- Take a weekly photography class and really start to UNDERSTAND my camera!!!
- Volunteer in Charlotte's classroom at least once a month, but DO NOT volunteer to be the room mom!!!
- Work on being a better friend and reconnecting with people I've lost touch with over the past few years...
- Volunteer at the local animal shelter
- Make all my nieces and nephew hats for Christmas one year (Jack, Kaylie, Abigail, Zach, Sarah, Elena and Josie)
- Meet somebody really famous and get my photo taken with them (Drew Carney doesn't quite count)
- Take a golf lesson
- Go sky diving
- Climb a mountain (Mt. St. Helens DOES count..just haven't done it yet)
- Perform a kind deed to 5 people without anything in return
- Sing my favorite song to an audience (DONE...I'm COUNTING my karaoke last summer at Relay--cuz, I'm too sexy for this song)...
- Win a lucky draw (did that TWICE...March '10 & March '11--yarn crawl)
- Take a dance class with Victor
- Attend a rodeo
- Go zip lining
- Take a spinning class (bike, not yarn)
- Get on the jumbo tron and do something silly (done--Winterhawks game doing YMCA)
- Sleep under the stars (done - Relay)
- Have my photo in the newspaper (as an adult)
- Eat fried green tomatoes
- Have a booth at a local farmer's market
- See a Play or Musical on Broadway (done '86 & '99)
- Learn how to take a compliment (work in progress)
- Learn to juggle
- Sit on a jury
- Go to a Shakespearean play in Ashland
- Attend a Circus
- Get all my paper photos scanned and digitized
- Go clam digging
- See Angel Falls in Venezuela (I've watched the movie UP one too many times)
- Win at least $100 on a slot machine
- Have a blowout 50th birthday party (in 8 years) for Victor & I (since we are 5 days apart)
- Go 100% online payments for our monthly bills
- Eat no meat for an entire month...hanging out with a vegetarian doesn't count?? This one is for Libby... :-)
- Knit 100 baby hats for a local hospital
- Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras
- Tell at least 10 people about my bucket list and encourage them to make their own (if they haven't already)
