Friday, July 17, 2009

bucket list.


(to be updated as needed)
  • Visit England
  • Ice skate at Rockefeller Center
  • Go on a zipline somewhere that scares the crap outta me
  • Visit Mt. Rainier
  • Visit Whistler, Canada
  • Visit Africa
  • Spend an entire day lounging in a pool
  • Lose 50 lbs
  • Lose 50 lbs AGAIN and don't get pregnant after this time so it stays off
  • Participate in a triathalon
  • Have a room to designate as my own personal library
  • Have a backyard full of flowers
  • Go to Ireland with DH
  • Take my family to upstate New York
  • Drive across the country as an adult
  • Go back to Nags Head, NC
  • See Les Mis
  • See Phantom
  • Have monthly spa treatments
  • Watch the Sydney New Year's fireworks from Sydney
  • Visit Australia
  • Visit Europe
  • Spend a day at the Louvre
  • Visit the Met Museum of Art
  • Visit Frank Lloyd Wright's house in PA (the waterfall one)
  • Eat sinfully decadent chocolate
  • Hike Havasupai
  • Hike the Subway hike with my dad
  • Go to cooking school, or at least take cooking classes
  • Go to cosmetology school for pretty much every field but nails
  • Raise healthy, responsible, and independent children with strong testimonies
  • Go to the Saint George Temple with DH (updated: have finally visited, but DH wasn't with me)
  • Visit Zion
  • Visit Zion for more than an hour
  • Visit a tropical island
  • Visit Southeast Asia
  • Have a star named after me
  • Have a fully stocked and loaded gourmet kitchen that I feel free to do whatever I want in
  • Get my teeth whitened
  • Get Lasix
  • Go to Egypt and see the pyramids with my own two eyes
  • Be a National Geographic photographer
  • Hike in a rainforest
  • Write a book
  • Sew an entire outfiit
  • Find my mom's almond french toast recipe
  • Practice yoga religiously
  • Make digital copies of all our photographs and home videos
  • Watch the 4th of July fireworks show at Hills Park from INSIDE the amphitheater
  • Have a season pass to Disneyland
  • Own a beach house
  • Visit all of the National Parks
  • Visit Oregon
  • Ride a trolley car in San Fransisco
  • See the giant Redwoods
  • Have a house that stays clean
  • See Josh Groban in concert
  • See No Doubt in concert
  • Have my own art room
  • Go to Disneyworld
  • Stay in a treehouse or a yurt
  • Stay at one of those weeklong spa retreats like Red Mountain Spa
  • Take DH to Glenwood, CO- to the hot springs
  • Take DH to NYC and to Dixie and Grandma Leake's
  • See an original work of art by a Master artist
  • Make a piece of furniture
  • Go hanggliding or parasailing even if it frightens me
  • Be on The Amazing Race with DH
  • See a rainbow over a waterfall- particulalry Victoria Falls
  • See a Cirque du Soleil show
  • Meet a Blue Man
  • Go to a taping of Ellen
  • Win a big prize
  • Go from my house to Mt. Charleston through the desert just to see how close it actually is
  • Go to Hawaii
  • Spend a week in Hawaii and hike to at least one hidden waterfall there
  • Play Eponine in a production of Les Mis
  • Run in Ragnar with DH
  • Compete in IronGirl
  • Get a black belt