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Day 29: A photograph of something you want to do before you die.

Wow. Biggest question of the month, I feel. I can't pick just one, or five, or one hundred. So yes, I am posting my entire bucket list. Judge me..

[x] Find out why they call it a "Bucket List."

[ ] Swim with sharks.

[ ] Grow an orange tree.

[x] Graduate from high school.

[ ] Graduate with a Master's degree from college.

[ ] Get married in the temple.

[ ] Go skydiving.

[ ] Witness a miracle.

[ ] Learn how to whistle with two fingers.

[ ] Spontaneously buy a puppy.

[ ] See a ghost.

[ ] Have an authentic tea party.

[x] Hit a homerun.

[ ] Convert someone to the LDS church.

[ ] Kiss 26 boys, each of them having a name that starts with a different letter of the alphabet.

[ ] Date a midget.

[ ] See the biggest ball of yarn in Kansas.

[ ] Get glasses, and enjoy them.

[ ] Say thank you for the thing I've been delaying.

[ ] Get rid of a habit in my life that is dragging me down.

[ ] Take the train.

[ ] Go to a magic show in Las Vegas.

[ ] Have a walk-in closet.

[ ] Survive a natural disaster.

[ ] Help someone recover from a natural disaster.

[ ] Plant a garden.

[ ] Get dreadlocks.

[ ] Do a hurricane simulator.

[ ] Donate my hair to Locks of Love.

[ ] Get a professional massage.

[ ] Become a master of playing footsie, and practice it often.

[x] Burn bridges.

[ ] Mend bridges.

[x] Write my name in wet cement.

[ ] Dance with my daddy at my wedding reception.

[ ] Read the Bible.

[ ] Visit all 50 states.

[ ] Break up a relationship.

[ ] Master an instrument.

[ ] Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

[ ] Learn how to speak German.

[ ] Find the perfect black dress, and wear if confidently.

[ ] Attend a world series rugby game.

[ ] Design my wedding dress.

[ ] Milk a cow.

[ ] Donate a body part.

[ ] Get something that I write, or a photograph that I take, published in something that people will actually see.

[ ] Repay my parents for college.

[ ] Go to Disneyland.

[ ] Attend a Catholic mass.

[ ] Touch someone really famous.

[x] Have a song written about me.

[ ] Swim in each of the seven seas.

[ ] Learn how to drive stick shift.

[ ] Go to the airport, pick a flight, and go.

[ ] Find my soulmate.

[ ] Have a barbie made after me, even if I have to make it myself.

[ ] Attend a Startrek convention.

[ ] Make a blanket out of my old t-shirts from high school.

[ ] Volunteer at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving Day.

[ ] Attend and participate in and open mike night.

[ ] Take a homeless person to dinner.

[ ] Learn how to say "I Love You" in at least ten different languages.

[ ] Pay off and own my own house.

[ ] Visit the house I was born in.

[ ] Fingerpaint an entire canvas.

[ ] Eat a really hot pepper.

[x] Catch a fish.

[x] Be cheated on.

[ ] Never inflict the hurt of being cheated on, on someone else.

[ ] Chop wood and built a fire.

[ ] See the jungle when it's wet with rain.

[ ] Own a massage chair.

[ ] Discover my favorite classical music composer.

[ ] Leave cookies in the mailbox for the mailman.

[ ] Attend the symphony.

[ ] Ride in a submarine.

[ ] Drive over 100 mph.

[ ] Learn how to ride a unicycle.

[ ] Volunteer at the zoo.

[ ] Be the last one standing.

[ ] Attend a political convention.

[ ] Attend a professional fashion show.

[ ] Go up to my lover's ex, shake her hand, and say "thank you."

[ ] Attend a masquerade ball.

[ ] Try acupuncture.

[x] Ride a horse-drawn carriage at Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

[ ] Learn how to love wrinkles.

[ ] Go on a roadtrip.

[ ] Rent a billboard and pronounce my love for someone.

[ ] Have partial ownership in a summer house somewhere far away.

[x] Keep a secret.

[ ] Make and keep a New Year's resolution for an entire year.

[ ] Overcome my worst fear.

[ ] Attend a protest.

[x] Go cliffdiving.

[ ] Embrace chaos.

[ ] Have two (or more) shower heads in the shower of my home.

[ ] Be a faithful penpal.

[ ] Be a matchmaker.

[x] Pull an all-nighter.

[ ] Ride a gondola in Venice.

[ ] Be a vegan for a week.

[ ] Make a valentine.

[ ] Learn a new word every single day for a whole summer.

[ ] Live in a different culture for at least a year.

[ ] Ride an elephant.

[ ] Go to the circus.

[ ] Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

[ ] Ride in a helicopter.

[ ] Invest in the stock market.

[ ] Have a picnic in the park.

[ ] Interview a serial killer.

[ ] Do jury duty.

[ ] Talk myself out of doing something that will get me in trouble.

[ ] Learn how to do a French braid.

[ ] See Mt. Rushmore.

[ ] Perform a perfectly believable April Fool's Day prank.

[ ] Buy and name a star.

[x] Ride in the back of a police car.

[ ] Host a foreign exchange student.

[ ] Become a foster parent.

[ ] Plant a tree.

[x] Forgive, but never forget.

[ ] Bungee jump off of a bridge.

[ ] Run a marathon.

[x] Haggle, and win.

[ ] Teach a child English.

[ ] Eat a goldfish.

[ ] Learn to sew (well).

[ ] Bake bread from scratch.

[ ] Leave someone, who looks like they really need it, a $100 tip.

[x] Kiss someone in a hot air balloon.

[ ] Go skinny dipping.

[x] Go streaking.

[ ] Go paintballing.

[ ] Ride a bicycle built for two.

[ ] Visit the Great Wall of China.

[x] Swim with dolphins.

[ ] Spend a week in an Amish community.

[ ] Bury a time capsule.

[ ] Dig up a time capsule.

[ ] See the pyramids in Egypt.

[x] Visit the Louve in Paris.

[ ] Love someone so much that it hurts.

[ ] Inspire.

[ ] Learn how to say the alphabet backwards.

[ ] Make a future for myself with a solid career.

[ ] Spend New Year's Eve in Times Square and have my first midnight kiss.

[ ] Ride in a limo on a date.

[ ] Own, in both aspects of the word, a pair of leather pants.

[ ] Set an example.

[ ] Learn braille.

[ ] Be happy to go to work.

[x] Visit a concentration camp.

[ ] Wet my pants laughing.

[ ] Learn how to skip rocks.

[ ] Plan and carry out a project that makes $1000 for a group/community in need.

[ ] Find out how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop.

[ ] Go to the moon (or at least somewhere that is anti-gravity).

[ ] Join the Peace Corps.

[ ] Enjoy eating sushi.

[x] Catch the bouquet at a wedding.

[x] Get a fake tattoo.

[ ] Get caught in the rain, and stay there.

[ ] Dedicate a song on the radio to someone.

[ ] Visit Yellowstone National Park.

[ ] Find out where the world's largest roller coaster is, and go ride it.

[x] Throw a surprise party.

[x] Have a surprise party thrown for me.

[ ] Attend the Festival of Colors in India.

[ ] Learn how to accept failure and how to give up, and never, ever practice it.

[ ] Wear a large African insect on my blouse.

[ ] Attend group therapy.

[ ] Drive an ice cream truck.

[ ] Write my will in the form of a scavenger hunt.

[ ] Cross the international dateline and travel to the past.

[ ] Follow my favorite band on their tour.

[ ] Solve Rubik's cube.

[x] Be in the Guinness Book of World Records.

[ ] Crowd surf.

[ ] Make a voodoo doll.

[ ] Administer the Heimlich maneuver successfully.

[ ] Perfect my posture.

[ ] Hold a political office.

[ ] Go on a mission.

[ ] Ride in an ambulance.

[x] Climb to the top of Chichen Itza in Mexico.

[ ] See the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.

[ ] Take a trip to Rome solely for the architecture.

[ ] Hire a private detective.

[ ] See the Taj Mahal in India.

[ ] Witness someone dying.

[ ] Have a gay best friend.

[ ] Play Russian Roulette.

[ ] See the Northern Lights in Alaska.

[ ] Have a "usual" at a restaurant.

[ ] Live out of my car for at least a week.

[ ] Ride a mechanical bull.

[ ] See a president in person.

[ ] Visit the four corners.

[ ] Let go of 1,000 balloons at my wedding.

[ ] Visit every continent.

And lastly,

[ ] Define happiness.

And there you have it. My incomplete bucket list. My original was in my school bag that got stolen over the Holidays. But I'm slowly remaking it. I can't even wait to start putting my traveling ones in there. (:

My most recent check mark came from when Joe took me to go see the lights on Temple Square on the first of January and he surprised me with a carriage ride. What a sweetheart.

<3-schwab.