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.
