I have a Bucket List and I have had this list since I was in the 6th Grade. It is documented in my black colored paper journal that I wrote in with colored "Milk" pens. Gosh... I loved those things... (mental note: find journal when I'm home for Christmas) Things have been added to this list and currently I have been checking things off!! Whoop Whoop!!! So to name a few... That are still on there:
1. Surfing- I've done my research and I think that I want to go with the Long Board. I thought my chance to check this puppy off was going to be at my good friend Brittany Price's wedding in Costa Rica, but one look at those waves in Jaco and I was out! They were HUGE!! I will do it though!
2. Sky Diving- This is seriously something I want to do badly. I almost have a passion for completing this one. However, its not just sky diving anywhere and check your done! Nope! Its sky dive in INTERLAKEN, SWITZERLAND. I went to this destination a few years ago, when I was studying abroad and it hands down one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I am not a mountain girl! I'm an Aquarius; get me to a beach and I'm happy. So I found it odd that I loved this place, and even more odd that I loved all the extreme sports that came along with it! I went white water rafting, canyoning and just sleeping in the rooms were a activity themselves! My BIGGEST regret was not sky diving. A couple of people did it and watching their videos made me green with envy. I know that I MUST do this before I die. The views were beyond words!
3. Go to Greece
4. Go to Tahiti and stay in one of those huts like Allie the Bachelorette did or the Muellers haha.
5. Open up my "Store". We have discussed this in a previous post.
6. I know this sounds stupid or silly, but dye my hair Auburn/Brownish. Melinda keeps reminding me each winter that is one of my "to dos" but I am sooo scared!
7. Learn another language. I'm embarrassed that I do not, and the little bit of sign language and Spanish I know does not count! I want to become almost fluent. My children will definitely be able to speak another language! I'll put them in classes. Fo SHOW!
8. Go to a European Nude Beach and participate. I've been to a nude beach in France, but I was with two guy friends and I thought that may be a little awkward. I'll wait till next time... Hopefully, on my honeymoon. Whenever that is! ha ha!
Those are just a few from my HUGE "Bucket" List! I also think its good for me to share with you things I have crossed, checked, marked etc. off my list.
1. Study Abroad: This accomplishment seriously changed my life and for the better! It gave me a taste for the world and let me know that anything is possible! This trip gave me the passion to want something more for my life and to go out and get it! I know that sounds insane but its what I got from it. Just traveling through London, Rome, Paris, Normandy, Nice and Scotland just to name a few; opened up my eyes and changed me for the better! I loved studying abroad so much I did it twice!! Paying off that student loan is still totally worth it.
2. Karaoke: This one has been a high priority for a long time and this past Spring I marked it off the list. I sang Black Velvet by Alannah Myles in front of about 50 to 60 people!! INSANE!!! Soooo not like me! I am terrified of groups of people! I kind of got into it at the end!! I raised my little fist up and belted out the tunes... I also gave a second performance in front of about 10 co-workers. INSANE!!! Especially, if you know me!
3. Move to New York City: (in the voice of that annoying salsa commercial) This has been my dream ever since I saw Coyote Ugly!! I wanted to move here sooooo bad after I saw that movie and dance of the bars in cowboy boots! Just kidding... but not really hahaha... . It looked so magical and fun! The feeling was even more solidified after watching season after season of Sex and the City. And to my amazement, unfortunate circumstances in my life gave me the opportunity to achieve this one. I seriously never thought I would ever move here and I'm glad I did. I will never have that "What if" feeling. It was a great decision! I'm learning that I am much stronger and braver than I ever thought!
4. Ride a Mechanical Bull: (while wearing a muschatche) I decided I really wanted to ride the bull freshman year at the Kappa Sigma Valentines party, but me being me; I just watched and silently cursed myself out for being such a shy FREAK!!! However, I will say that me and my partner ( I won't name names) won the Flip Cup Competition. So that was a plus of the night. Any who... the other night we had an after party for work for celebrating reaching our Movember Charity goal. Movember is a charity were men grow mustaches and people donate to their page/stache and the money goes towards prostate cancer research. Long story short, we went to a "Southern Themed" bar where there was a mechanical and I rode it twice. If you want to call it that; I basically hoped on and fell off in point five seconds. LAME! But hey! I got a check off my bucket list! I also got a massive disgusting bruise which I still have and its been like three weeks or so!
5. See/Touch the Pacific Ocean: I did this at my friend Brittany's wedding (mentioned earlier). My dear friend Megan Watts and I had a day date in Jaco, Costa Rica and explored. We went on a little field trip and found the beach. I walked out there and stood shin deep in the Pacific! It was sooo cold, but while we were there it was during their rainy season and all the rain water had trickled down into the ocean and made it extra cold. It is actually my goal to "touch" as many oceans/seas as possible! Mediterranean! Check!!! I swam and went under in Nice, France! There was so much salt in the water you could see it all over your skin when you got out.
Any who, there are just a few things from my "Bucket List" and I will definitely update as I accomplish!
