Sunday, August 29, 2010
THE BUCKET LIST



A few weeks ago while blog-surfing (it's amazing, the blogs that are out there in cyberspace) I came upon one where the author, a woman, had made one entitled "100 Things I Want To Do Before I Die," or, in essence, a Bucket List. I wish I could find that blog to read it again; anyway, I filed away in my head the notion that I should make my own Bucket List; it might be inspiring, it might be revealing, and it might be a good post for my own blog when it's been a while since I posted and I feel lazy, at loose ends or not quite myself.


So I started listing stuff as the idea came to me, not in any order of importance whatsoever. Hell if I could come up with 100 things though. I couldn't even quite get to 50. (That is kind of why I want to read that girl's blog again.)


So here I sit (for the next 2 weeks) in northern California -- beautiful vineyard country, incredible weather, a lovely house full of good food and wine, a fun neighbor, a big flat-screen TV with On Demand, unlimited use of a Jeep Cherokee, and an old dog and diabetic cat with their own ideas of what I should be doing at any given moment, and I think I am just too surrounded with sensory -- not overload, what's a good word for it? -- stuff, and anyway, I figured this is as good a time as any to do a Bucket List post. I'll think of more stuff. Probably. I hope. I'm just tryin' to keep it real. Here goes!


BUCKET LIST (Not Necessarily In Order Of Importance) (yeah, right)

1) Become a great-aunt (or even a great-great-aunt!)
2) Visit Norway – cruise through the fjords
3) Paint oils
4) Pierce something besides my ears and nose
5) See marijuana legalized - one more strike against organized crime
6) Take lessons from the best pastry chefs in the world
7) Hang-glide
8) Fix all my teeth and have a beautiful straight white smile
9) Make jewelry
10) Climb a mountain
11) Have my own dog(s)
12) Go back to Scotland, spend more time & visit more areas, especially the outlying islands…would love to go north to the Shetland Islands, they fascinate me
13) Have a quaint old cottage and a cottage garden
14) Have a log cabin in the woods
15) Own a horse
16) Own a cow
17) Travel to Australia & New Zealand
18) Finish writing a book
19) Get the book published
20) Save at least one life
21) Travel cross-country by RV
22) Go up in a hot-air balloon
23) Pilot a small plane
24) Write poetry
25) Go back to college and get my B.A. degree
26) Have someone (who I love too) tell everybody that I am the love of his life
27) Tour Italy
28) Go on “safari” in Africa
29) Work for a vet
30) Live in a castle
31) Act in a movie
32) Swim with the dolphins
33) Go white-water rafting
34) Explore “big sky country” – Montana, Wyoming, et al
35) Ramble around South America
36) See cancer cured
37) See kittens being born
38) See puppies being born
39) Have a hot tub/Jacuzzi
40) Get a tattoo of a thistle somewhere on my body
41) Be very, very slim

Notice it does not say "Ride on the back of an elephant" here anywhere. I did this a long time ago. What, you haven't?