My Bucket List

• Face my fear of mascots. (see blog post and pictures here)
• Face my fear of monkeys.
• Face my fear of the ocean.
• Sing “Off To See”(entire song) while skipping and singing with 3 others.
• Write a song, lyrics, music, everything.
• Get married.
• Own a record player.
• See a full orchestra live.
• Ride first class on an airplane.
• Own a car.
• Build(help build) a tree-house.
• Meet Alton Brown.
• Ride in a hot-air-balloon.
• Create a rose garden with a clipping from my grandpa’s rose garden.
• Successfully do the Moonwalk.
• Knit something useful without a loom.
• Go to the largest aquarium in the world.
• Go to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.
• Get as close, as safely possible, to the top of the largest building.
• Eat at a 5-star restaurant.
• Have my picture taken with a whale.
• See a whale in person. (not a killer whale like Shamu, that’s lame)
• Visit Canada.
• See Niagara Falls.
• Start a garden. (herb is our best bet)
• Eat at Serendipity in New York.
• Attend college. (August 21, 2011)
• Learn to french braid.
• Successfully french braid my own hair.
• Upload a video to Youtube of me singing.
• Participate in Operation Beautiful.
• Learn another language (one that I actually enjoy).
• Be fluent in at least 3 languages.
• Have a minimum of 30 people follow one of my blogs. (East Coast Insomnia — poetry blog)
• To be old enough to say I have lived half a century.
• Give blood.
• Live in a nifty apartment.
• Scuba Dive in spite of my fear of the ocean.
• Give a toast at someone’s wedding.
• Help an elderly person cross the street.
• Walk/run in a marathon.
• Plant a tree (just because I like trees and because I see a lot in a tree..not just bark and leaves.)
• Drive on the interstate.
• Own “mini-license plates” from every state.
• Have one/or more of my poems published.
• Write a book (preferably one that get published).
• Be done with high school. (January 2011)
• Read a an interesting biography.
• Learn to juggle.
• Go to the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History.
• See Fred Roger’s memorial statue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Participate in “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” day.
• See the Northern Lights.
• Get a blog view from someone I admire and don’t know personally. (Sarah Smith aka theoneinpink)
• Get a blog comment from a blogger I admire. (Sarah Smith aka theoneinpink)
• Be on a word related game show.
• Successfully climb a rock wall.
• Go sailing.
• Ride on the largest Ferris Wheel in the world.
• Travel by train. (I did when I was a baby, but that doesn’t count because I cannot recall this adventure.)
• See the Grand Canyon.
• See a glacier or an iceberg.
• See Big Ben in London, England.
• Get a picture with every state sign in the United States.
• Learn how to play chess and win against a decent player.
• Create a clay pot with my own hands.
• Solve a Rubik’s Cube.
• Make a quilt.
• Become an early riser (not just on the days I exercise).
• Volunteer at soup kitchen.
• Try turducken.
• Purchase a pair of Toms.
• Face my fears of watching Jurassic Park (one instilled in me as a child) (thanks to David and Netflix)
• Write an acrostic poem. (poem found here)
• See Jack Johnson live.
• Read the complete collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s work.
• Own a writing pen that fulfills all of my desires in said pen.  (my Seven Year Pen. I love it.)
• Donate (at least) ten inches of my hair to Locks of Love.
• See a movie in IMAX. (Contagion with David on August 10, 2011)
• Graduate with my AA.
• Graduate with my BA.

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