My Bucket List

Before I graduated from college (and before the movie "Bucket List" hit theaters) I came up with a list of things I want to accomplish before I die. As I look at this list, I can't help but laugh that almost half of it is countries of the world and others are extremely open-ended. Let's take a look at how much of a dent I've made in this list (bolded items have been accomplished):

• Scuba Dive
• All 7 continents
• Backpacking through Europe
• Sky Dive
  
• India
• Egypt
• South Africa
• Australia
• Vietnam
• Biking cuisine vacation
• Windjammer cruise
• Write a children’s book (Finished the draft of "Dumpster Bear." Now looking for a way to get a publisher to look at it.)
  
• See Wimbledon
• Learn to write a grant
• Write a story about Somali refugees in Columbus
• Water ski
• Rustic canoe trip
• Be a writer
  
• Peace Corps (I think this was my solution to living overseas. Not so much a goal these days.)
  
• Own my own coffee shop
• Pilates/Yoga extraordinaire (One year in. Becoming extraordinary with every downward dog.)
  
• Perform Belly Dancing (My hips have lost their wiggle since I took the class two years ago, but there's still a chance I can make this happen one day.)
  
• Move to a big city (I think Phnom Penh counts, but in case it doesn't, I did live outside L.A. for 3 months.)
• Volunteer for a cause I believe in (Like I said, some of these are so vague, but hey, it got done and want to do it again!)
  

I'd like to add a few more items to my list:

• Read more of the classics (especially Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, William Faulkner)
• Learn to make things that we usually buy at the grocery store (I started tonight with yogurt. Thanks Alison for your recipe!)
• Go backpacking (the outdoorsy kind)
• Ride my bike instead of drive my car

What things are on your bucket list?