My Cliche

I wrote a bucket list. Maybe it's because my birthday is nearing. It's still 2 1/2 months away, but I have felt a year older for months. Maybe not. I do really like lists. I make lists for everything: grocery shopping, travel plans, weekly menus, restaurants I'd like to go to in cities I have no pan on going to... So a bucket list is kind of my thing. 


Actually I ended up writing two bucket lists, a list of things I want to do and a list of things I really wanted to do and have already done.


So here they are. As I cross off new items, I will blog about them.




Bucket List

1. Germany/Austria
2. England/Ireland
3. New Zealand
4. Raise a puppy
5. Convalesce an old dog from shelter
6. Live north of San Francisco
7. Update my photo albums
8. Start a new hobby, maybe scrap booking
9. Be a size 16
10. Visit all 50 states
11. Learn Spanish
12. Be conversational in three languages
13. Live in a foreign country
14. Go to a famous play
15. Go on a cruise
16. Go white water rafting
17. Go up in a hot air balloon
18. Visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Smithsonian
19. Travel to a Pacific Island
20. Visit Hershey Pennsylvania 
21. Take college classes I'm interested in just for fun
22. Invest and save enough for a comfortable retirement and afford travel
23. Stay close to The Boy as he gets older
24. Ride in a limo
25. Cirque du Soleil
26. Take cooking classes
27. Attend a murder mystery dinner
28. Own a big fancy bathroom with a jacuzzi tub
29. Dye my hair a funky color
30. Have a best friend
31. Cook all of the recipes in a cookbook
32. Start a food/cooking blog




Bucket List I've Accomplished

1. Travel to Paris
2. Travel to Italy
3. Get a tattoo
4. Sing Karaoke
5. Own a home
6. Have a vegetable garden
7. Get a Master's degree
8. Be a gourmet cook
9. Eat at a famous chef's restaurant
10. See a Vegas show
11. Been to Oregon, Hawaii, California, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,  Wyoming, Montana, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Louisiana, Illinois
12. Go to a ballet
13. Go to a concert
14. Take a road trip with Alex
15. Go snorkeling
16. Fly in a helicopter
17. Visited the Lourve, the Orsay, the Uffitzi, Art Institue of Chicago, the Getty
18. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
19. Write
20. Get a professional massage
21. Go to a nudist camp
22. Get a pedicure
23. Get a boob job
24. Dye my hair red
25. Travel with The Boy
26. See the Grand Canyon
27. Go to a comedy show
28. Have pierced ears
29. Have a committed relationship
30. Raise my child successfully