What's On Your Bucket List?

I actually have a document on my computer titled "My Bucket List." It's 96 items long at the moment, but I'll probably add to it over the years. As of right now, 5 have been achieved, and two more should follow this summer.

These are things ranging from donate blood to having a library room in my house. Also featuring seeing all seven wonders of the world, getting a novel published, going to Disney World on a Gay Day, and being fluent in 4+ languages.

I love my bucket list. I occasionally open it, highlight the things that are realistically going to be possible soon, and strive to achieve those goals.

 

Traveling the world, seeing the pyramids, seeing elephants in the wild, sky diving, and swimming with great whites.

 

I have just one bucket: a 5 gallon red plastic bucket.

:lol:

I don't have a formal list. Furthermore, the list would vary day to day, and as my optimism/pessimism cycles... I'd like to have some fiction published, for example, but I am feeling less than optimistic today, having gotten a "thanks but no thanks" e-mail from one magazine last night...

 

Meet Kaiser.

Oh, wait...

 

This was one item that was big when my mother was still alive. In the period between when my father left, and the time we moved out of my childhood home (when I was about 21), we actually changed the name of the "living room" to "library." But, alas, we never got around to adding the required bookshelves.

These days I'd like a "study." Same general idea of book filled room, but smaller scale, and more personal.

 

Get a girlfriend
Get married
Attend a Taylor Swift concert and meet her!
Attend a Star Trek convention
Visit Hawaii, Spain, New Zealand, and Harry Potter World

 

This is copied and pasted from a sticky note on my computer

go to 3 ghost towns
go back to costa rica, live there for a little while
go to alaska
hike ten mountains
cross the atlantic
go to 3 different countries
learn how to ski or snowboard
jump off the cliff at smalls falls in Maine
go to jerusalem
break the law
become fluent in spanish
go to some archaeological sites
go caving
go urban exploring
see an abandoned castle
not be a cat lady

 

Live life. I definitely want to do that before I die.

 

I haven't made one. Maybe I should.

I wonder what number one will be.

(Probably "get laid")
XD

 

A wooden bucket.
A plastic bucket.
A crystal bucket.

 

Learn Japanese! The only official thing.

 

a bucket list can only lead to regrets

 

Some items on mine:

-Attend an Olympic Games at some point.
-Visit South Africa and/or Madagascar. I've actually been to Kenya and Morocco, but there is more of the continent I would like to see, as the avowed Afrophile that I am.
-Be someone's best man at a wedding
-Publish a book. Whether it is a work of fiction or non-fiction, I'm not sure. But I would like to do that some time!

 

Travel all 50 states in the U.S.

 

Go to a lot of concerts, be in a band, write a book, go on a road trip with friends or a girlfriend-oh and settle down most probably with a wife and get a dog or a cat.

 

Travel to Japan, New Zealand, and the Netherlands
Get married and have kids
Build my own house
Live overseas (probably live in a foreign country for the rest of my life)

 

Travel as much as possible (especially to Japan, England, Italy, France, and more cities in the US), scuba dive, hang glide, practice ice skating, work with rescue dogs, learn as many dance styles as I can, watch Les Miz live preferably in a language I can understand but at this point I'd even be happy with seeing it in Chinese.

 

Posting on this forum! (this is my first post!)

I do actually have a book here with a list in it. There are a few things written in - most of them to do with travelling. I'd like see a Van Gogh painting in real life, visit Paris, travel internationally all by myself (I've done lots of travelling but never alone) etc.

Hopefully I'll be able to cross a few off this year! I'm just about to book a ticket online for some solo travel.. as soon as I work up the courage.

 

1. Not give a fck
2. That is ALL