every last one of these items is a dream...a wish. before i die, i will accomplish each and every one of them.
this is not a negotiation.
and the list continues to grow, day by day by day.
this seeker dares to dream.
do you have a bucket list? do you dare to dream big?
1. visit every continent AT LEAST once (North America and South America have been achieved...the rest are still to come)
2. read every Brian Jacques novel ever written
3. visit “The Wonderful Wizarding World of Harry Potter” AND buy my own wand.
4. cook my way through “The Art of French Cooking” by Julia Child
5. have dinner at the “Eagle & Child” in C.S. Lewis' booth
6. Take AT LEAST one semester of classes at Oxford University
7. go to Europe
8. Visit every state in the Union.
9. Adopt a Peruvian child
10. Get a tattoo {"elder sister" kanji tattoo with my sister, Abby, December 30th, 2011)
11. Learn how to make French macaroons PERFECTLY
12. Have a handwritten-letters penpal with someone I have never met in real life. (Grace Doolittle, June 30th, 2011)
13. Visit the Holy Land
14. Write a novel that actually gets published.
15. Make it onto the New York Time’s Best Seller list
16. Learn how to French braid
17. Ride an elephant
18. Perform as the Witch in Into the Woods
19. Perform in Wicked as ANY role
20. Visit the Eifel Tower
21. Visit Machu Pichu
22. Have dinner at Caprial and John Pence’s Supper Club
23. Meet Paula Deen AND cook with her
24. Meet J.K. Rowling
26. See Imogene Heap in concert
27. Attend culinary school
28. Get. My. Degree.
29. Stand on a Broadway stage
30. Meet Douglas Gresham AND have a conversation with him
31. Meet Adam Young AND have a conversation with him
32. Take an art class and actually apply myself this time
33. Get to the point that I am reading my Bible every day habitually
34. Perform in "Les Miserables" in some capacity
35. Direct a theatrical performance (Hansel and Gretel, Opening Night 9/24/2010)
36. Open my own Etsy shop
37. Have a one-on-one dinner with Chef Gordon Ramsey
38. Have a baby {Marian Abigail, 9-16-2012, 9lbs, 6oz, 21 1/2 in.}
39. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro
40. Purchase a Wreck This Journal
41. Complete my Wreck This Journal
42. Teach Creative Writing/Spoken Word/Acting at Masterpiece Ministries
43. Direct my first musical (OZ!, began on July 25th, 2011)
44. Hit 500 blog followers
45. Hit 1,000 blog followers
46.Be tweeted to/replied to by one of my heroes. {Chris Baty, founder of NaNoWriMo, November 16th, 2011. "Seriously, right?"}
46.
47. Re-learn how to tango
48. Go back to Hawaii
49. Take an extended trip ONLY via train
50. Go to Christchurch, New Zealand
51. Have someone write a song about me
52. Send a letter to P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney
53. Run through a sprinkler while fully dressed
54. Own EVERY classic animated Disney movie
55. Eat a French macaroon
56. Meet a member of the Harry Potter cast
57. Eat dinner at Hell's Kitchen
58. Meet one of my blog friends, and spend an entire day with them.
59. Spend a day with Grace.
60. See Breanne Duren in concert
61. Eat gelato in Italy
62. Visit the Sistine Chapel
63. Watch The Nutcracker Ballet performed by the Russian Ballet
64. Perform at at Open Mic or Spoken Word event
65. Meet Sarah Kay
66. be in the audience of The Ellen Show
67. eat at araxi in Whistler, BC, Canada
57. Eat dinner at Hell's Kitchen
58. Meet one of my blog friends, and spend an entire day with them.
59. Spend a day with Grace.
60. See Breanne Duren in concert
61. Eat gelato in Italy
62. Visit the Sistine Chapel
63. Watch The Nutcracker Ballet performed by the Russian Ballet
64. Perform at at Open Mic or Spoken Word event
65. Meet Sarah Kay
66. be in the audience of The Ellen Show
67. eat at araxi in Whistler, BC, Canada
=) I love your bucket list!!! I keep one and continue updating it when I get to cross something out or come up with something else to accomplish. I love your #18 goal. I played the Baker's Wife in "Into the Woods" for my high school musical production last year and it was GREAT! The witch is a VERY memorable character!
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In Christ,
Caitlin
You want to go to Christchurch, NZ?! Awesome! That's where I'm from.
ReplyDeleteThat place is the best place on earth. A little shaky at the mo with all the earthquakes, but earthquakes or not, it is still the best place in the world to me. When you go, take me with you!! lol
i love this.
ReplyDeletegolly....all the things we want to do, just for adventure, just for meaning, just to smile and say we did something we've always wanted to.
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I have to say, 52 is my favorite. Can we do that together next time we hang out?!?! And the combination of 55 and 11 made me actually, literally, laugh out loud! You crack me up Mrs. Puppet :)
ReplyDeleteI love this! I have one, too.
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This makes me want to write my own bucket list. I was blessed, indeed. While attending Wheaton College and working with C.S. Lewis' letters, I got the chance to meet Doug Gresham and have coffee with him quite often. He's a wonderful, caring individual. He even made a deal with me that we would exchange autographed copies when we each had a book published. He has his published (and I bought the copy - but not signed yet), but I'm still working on my end of that deal.
ReplyDeleteLove your list... just noticed it in your sidebar tonight. #13 is on my list, too... I went to #21 in 2004 during a missions trip to Cuzco. Absolutely spectacular! I would like to see #34 -- that's one of my favorites. :)
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