My 100-Item Bucket List

So I’ve been thinking about this ever since Geoff Livingston published his list of 101 things he wants to do before he dies. Then Jayme Soulati published a list of 20 things and Gini Dietrich published a list of 10. Well, I’m somewhere in the middle – sort of. I thought I’d come up with a list of 100. So here we go.

1. Get a puppy (hypo-allergenic please)

2. Get a house (hypo-allergenic please)

3. See London

4. See Paris

5. See Rome

6. Tour Italy in general – I’d love to see Florence, Venice..all of those ancient cities

7. See Eddie Izzard live – before he gets too old or senile

8. See Louis CK live – my brother has done this 4 times now I think. I should get one roll, right?

9. See Neil Young live

10. See Elvis Costello live

11. Run a marathon (even still)

12. Adopt a kid or 3

13. Learn French

14. Brush up on my Spanish

15. Learn some new language – Chinese maybe

16. Attend a rally of great magnitude for a cause in which I believe

17. Start an NPO

18. Learn how to quilt

19. Write a book about something historical

20. Travel the Lewis & Clark trail

21. Visit the Shiloh Battlefield

22. Meet you in person if I haven’t already

23. See a Broadway show

24. Start my stand-up comedian career (I have the name already – Yes I’m Really Standing)

25. Tour Scandinavia

26. Take a cruise – just so I can say I did. A trip around the Bahamas would be ok.

27. Visit New Zealand and take a hobbit tour

28. Visit Australia – as much of it as possible

29. Tour Scotland

30. Try to find my ancestral home in Ireland

31. Try to find my ancestors in Russia

32. Buy a whole new wardrobe

33. Knit a sweater (so scary)

34. Speak at a conference that is big and illustrious

35. Meet Johnny Depp

36. Meet Paul Rudd

37. Go to California, specifically San Francisco

38. See the Grand Canyon

39. Visit the Black Hills

40. Try to track down my Cherokee ancestors

41. Visit Savannah, Georgia

42. Get a seaside condo – somewhere. And post as many pictures as I can

43. Learn how to cook lamb chops – really. This intimidates the heck out of me

44. Learn how to make sushi (see above)

45. Achieve my goal weight of 80 pounds (hopefully this happens long before I cease to exist. I’d like to enjoy it.

46. Swim in the Mediterranean

47. Swim in the Caribbean

48. Learn how to use a sewing machine without breaking it (major hurdle)

49. Visit the Alamo

50. Visit New York City – the outskirts mainly

51. Visit Montreal (so close and yet so far)

52. Visit Kauai

53. Hike part of the Appalachian Trail

54. Camp on a Civil War battlefield

55. Watch a Civil War reenactment (hi – dork)

56. Get an article published based on my Master’s thesis – I still believe in Phillis Wheatley

57. Earn my doctorate in history

58. Earn an MBA

59. Boost our company into worldwide reknown

60. Get a tattoo – not sure of what or where

61. Become an efficient bicyclist

62. Watch Wimbledon live and in person

63. Find my second grade love and reconnect

64. Go on an African safari (Before the animals all are gone)

65. Visit the rainforest

66. See the remains of the Incas in Peru

67. Do a Yoga handstand thingy – (one could add – learn the name of it)

68. Visit Mozart in Austria

69. Tour the Vatican

70. Tour Israel (if things ever calm down there)

71. See Mozart’s Requiem performed live

72. Sing in a choir that does gospel music

73. Go to the Rhinebeck Yarn & Fiber festival

74. Learn how to spin yarn properly

75. Grow my own food (Plant matter – not sure I could kill and prep an animal. I know my limits)

76. Learn how to make bread

77. Make a great big Thanksgiving turkey dinner rivaling my mom & grandma

78. Learn how to make pies

79. See a concert at Carnegie Hall

80. Visit the Holocaust Museum in DC – it will be difficult but it must be done

81. See Ground Zero in NYC – see above

82. See the Jon Stewart & Steve Colbert shows live

83. Have a giant party where I get to enjoy as many of my friends and family as possible

84. Find that super special dude who wants to put up with me for the rest of his life

85. Visit Spain – Barcelona, Madrid, Salamanca

86. Visit Anne Frank’s House and the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam

87. See Hamburg and Berlin

88. Go on a huge canoe trip (hopefully someone else wants to do most of the rowing)

89. Visit Seattle

90. Make a life-changing impact for the better on a person

91. Travel with Doctors Without Borders to help in a catastrophe

92. Encourage other women to join the business world

93. Travel cross-country on a train

94. See the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Missouri (I think)

95. Visit Monticello

96. See Oxford and Cambridge for myself

97. Tour Athens

98. Read all of Shelby Foote’s books

99. Guest teach a class or five

100. Help someone else’s big wish come true

Now it’s your turn 🙂

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12 comments

  2. 94 is in Minnesota.  decent list that is totally doable.  The MBA is really not necessary unless you intend on working for a Fortune 500 company.  As for items 90 and  100, you could help me promote my soon to be published Christian book entitled Sex Education For Adults, Secrets To Amazing Sex and Happily Ever AFter Too.  It is predicated on the church doing such a lousy job on sex and never teaching all the sex positive messages from the Bible.  It is about the church teaching little girls that sex is bad, dirty and wrong and that good girls don’t do it.  This often leaves a woman negatively conditioned for life over her sexuality and suffering real ambivalence over it.  It is about the fact that there is no “school for sex” to teach men to give their women great sex and it is about how to teach couples how to have good conflict resolution skills instead of fighting with each other.  The lack of these skills is responsible for the fact that we have the highest divorce rate on the planet.  It is a serious book about serious problems designed to alleviate them.

  3. Well, I didn’t number mine, and I’ve actually knocked off several of these this year (like skydiving, half marathon, etc.), but this was my list as of Dec. 31, 2011: http://sportingthesmallstuff.com/whats-on-your-bucket-list/
     
    Good luck – many of those are definitely doable!

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  5. I’m allergic to animals too and JB is a perfect pet. He has really short hair so it doesn’t shed much and it doesn’t have dander in it. There are other breeds like him.
     
    It looks like you need to take a long trip to Europe! And…I’ll teach you how to make bread.

    1.  @ginidietrich You can teach me how to make bread and then I’ll pack the car with it when you do your bike ride. I think I’m on to something here 🙂
       
      I have my heart set on a miniature schnauzer – they are very hypo-allergenic and I love them. I might even try to NOT dress them in little sweaters 🙂 

  6. I just read your last post (apparently I am going in reverse chronological order) and I will miss this blog. In the meantime, if you ever realize #37, let me know, as I am based in the Bay Area and then you could realize #22 as well. It would be fun to meet you someday.

    1.  @DanielleSherman I will do so! My friends are coagulating in New York City and San Francisco, so it’s very convenient 🙂 

  8. 1. Juanga made this happen. 
    2. I got one might need to get another one after I lost it to foreclosure. 
    13. I learned some fresh need to brush up on it. 
    14. I always need to brush up on my spanish. 
    23. See a broadway show ( Fiddler on The Roof in 2004, Play by Martin Short 2006, and In the Heights in 2010)
    35. When you are going to meet him make sure to invite me. 
    37. San Francisco one of my favorite cities. 
     
    43. I am going to skip this one I rather learn how to cook a solid Vegan meal! 
     
    50. I will switch this for London since I worked in New York City and had clients in the outskirts. 
    54. I camped and slept in the field at Fort Pickett, Virginia not sure if that counts
    60. Will skip a tattoo
    75. I helped Lucy with planting our own food. In an apartment makes it more difficult. 
    80. first museum I visited on our first visit to DC in 2005
    81. I have not return to Ground Zero after they opened the memorial so I will like to go again. 
    90. you can scratch that one off I am an example. Thanks for always bringing my spirits up. 
     
     
    The most important one is #22 meeting you. 
     
    Great List! 
     
     

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