Bucket List, Phase 1

I am a bucket list kind of girl. The following items need to be finished up before my 40th birthday. A very few have been completed (you will see the date/place next to the item). I'd best get to it.

1. knit something
2. go to Egypt
3. get a BS
4. get a Master’s
5. take an art history class
6. be licensed for Real Estate
7. sew on a button
8. parasail
9. zipline
10. drive a boat
11. whale watch
12. deep sea fish
13. Morocco!
14. read 100 classics
15. be married!
16. go to an NFL game (Vikings! 1/4/10)
17. go to an opera in Prague
18. baseball game @ Wrigley field (...no game: tour Oct 2010...)
19. take my kids on a trip
20. go tropical with my husband
21. have house at least 2/3 pd off
22. stop chewing gum (i think i can check this...MAR 2012)
23. get a promotion (or 5)
24. run 5 miles
25. go to salem (Oct 2010)
26. go to England
27. go on safari
28. go see E & E! wherever they be (SWITZERLAND 2010)
29. learn how to garden
30. write a letter and mail it
31. write a song
32. publish a letter to the editor
33. ride in a hot air balloon (Cappadocia, Turkey 2011)
34. inca trail
35. white water raft
36. go to Antarctica
37. ride in a helicopter
38. bake a pie
39. ride a camel (DUBAI 2009)
40. volunteer (2009, 2010, more to come...)
41. learn a 2nd language
42. do jury duty!
43. write my will
44. stop sharing too much
45. stop sharing other ppl’s stuff too much
46. take yoga class (NOV 2010)
47. ride a bike again
48. start a business
49. have board game nite regularly with my kids
50. have a spa sleepover with my kids
51. swim with penguins @ the Galapagos islands
52. haggle (1/10/11 NYC)
53. go to a high school reunion (July 2011)
54. be free of credit debt
55. pay off student loans
56. quit smoking (attempt #50..1/1/11...)
57. learn to belly dance
58. try to surf hahahahaaha
59. figure out my beliefs
60. see the rainforest
61. see the desert (DUBAI 2009)
62. see the taj mahal
63. skip down the great wall of china
64. see Pompeii
65. learn how to back comb
66. spend a whole day at the Louvre
67. eat caviar
68. eat an oyster
69. eat healthier
70. see a broadway play
71. picnic in central park
72. own the alma
73. cruise the nile
74. go to a hindu temple
75. attend synagogue
76. visit a mosque (DUBAI 2009)
77. tour eastern and central Europe
78. fly business class overseas (DUBAI 2009)
79. learn how to order sushi (ATL 2010)
80. take a cooking class
81. camp with my family
82. have 8 mos. expenses in acct
83. save index funds/CDs for my kids
84. make sure my babies understand value
85. sleep in a castle
86. have fiscally responsible children
87. go sailing
88. go lobstering
89. go to Disneyworld!
90. walk on a glacier
91. dogsled
92. use my mixer (all year, and it was amazing!! 2011)
93. make one good dish my family loves
94. send tj to the Stanley cup
95. trek Nepal
96. learn the basics of Wicca
97. figure out what Mormons believe
98. get reflexology
99. get acupuncture
100. do a cleanse
101. learn how to make potica
102. have a meaningful conversation with my grama
103. celebrate my 30th birthday someplace amazing!!
104. go to an ashram in India
105. run a ½ marathon
106. be enlightened
107. see SNL tape
108. go to a game @ Target Field
109. watch Kasey Jo graduate
110. go to Ireland with my husband

Do you have a bucket list? What's on it? Any tips on fulfilling this stuff?

Boom! Ice broken.

Another ice breaking post...I refuse to be intimidated by the length of time that lapses between one post to the next. Refuse.

These are the things I need you to know from this silent time we've had:

I am not painfully thin, yet. And God is still hiding from me. I'm flirting with becoming a Muslim. Non-practicing, of course. I can't devote time to real religion.

Wicked is the best thing ever. People are saying this all the time, I know, but you should start believing them. My girly friend, BKJ, and I went two weekends ago. My mind was blown by the wonderfulness. The music, the plotline, the pace, the costumes, the actors, the theater (the Orpheum, Mpls)...amazing.



The Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the MN Science Museum is good, but I liked the IMAX about "Arabia" even better. Both of items make me pine for the middle east, anyway.

The Saint John's Bible was on display at the museum, as well...I didn't think I would find this interesting, but it was completely gorgeous.

KCjo is in public school now. It's ok...minus the flannel pant wearing 300 lb. moms with suckers and friends at orientation. (?) WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY


Baby E looks a lot like Whitney Houston's stalker in The Bodyguard these days. Crazy eyes, crazier hair.

I am going to watch T's band play tonight in St. Paul at Station 4. There will be a bus and a lot of beer. I'm very nervous. I'm not very good at drinking beer all day. Especially after book club night. Uffda. He is excited, though, and it should be fun anyway.

Till next time.