Bucket List

Hi! I’ve started doing micro-bucket lists and won’t be updating this list any longer to keep track of what I have completed. Feel free to read the original post below. If you want to witness the progression of this list here ya go:

• My Original Bucket List (published in 2011)
• My 40 by 40 List (published in 2011)
• How Did I Do On Completing My 40 by 40 List? (published May 2016)
• My 50 by 50 List  (published March 2018)

aaaand now back to your regularly scheduled blog post. 🙂

Last updated 09/15/2015
Includes items from my 40 by 40 list.

Things to do before the proverbial bucket is kicked:

• Paint a mural
• Visit the Mall of America
• Live a portion of the year in Virgin Islands and a portion in the states {not necessarily Missouri}
• See the Jay Leno Show live
• Make my income independent of a location
• Meet Alton Brown {again … long story}
• Take walks
• Start baking {again}
• Finish the  basement
• Spend the night on a private island
• Get hair removed from everywhere I need hair removed {case in point}
• Maintain my flyness {keep it tight, keep it right}
• Go on a Disney Cruise
• Take a train ride up the California coast
• Get a pet {a yorkie and or a cat}
• Have portrait photographed by Annie Leibovitz
• Regularly host a show
• Learn how to paint on muslin
• Attend a TED conference
• Compete on Dancing with the Stars
• See the Winchester Mystery House
• Learn to ride a bike | Ride the Katy Trail
• Stay at the Ritz Carlton
• Ride a segway
• Read the Bible from beginning to end
• Paint and sell artwork
• See the Brooklyn Bridge & walk across it
• See the Statue of Liberty (up close … seen it in the distance a gillion times)
• Visit Australia & see the Sydney Opera House
• See Niagara Falls
• Visit Paris & see the Eiffel Tower & The Louvre
• See Mount Rushmore
• See the Grand Canyon
• Visit Hawaii
• See the Pyramids in Eygpt
• See the Mona Lisa
• See the Bust of Queen Nefertiti
• See Big Ben
• Visit Las Vegas, NV
• Visit Pheonix, AZ
• See the ball drop in Times Square (which I had a chance to do and didn’t take, bad Ini)
• Visit Venice & ride in a gondola
• Drive across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
• Loc my hair
• Buy/build a house in Virgin Islands
• Ser domina en Español
• Learn to drive a stick shift
• Toe surgery (again)
• Be on the cover of national magazine
• Model in real runway show
• Do stand-up comedy
• Go camping
• Learn to play a guitar
• Teach a Zumba class
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Go on long road trip through U.S.A.
• Learn to play chess
• Trace my family history
• start a program for kids who want to pursue the arts
• start a ‘follow your dreams’ scholarship
• start several other scholarships
• pay my parent’s debts
• remodel my parents house
• build my parents a house
• get a personal trainer

Things I’ve done:

• Unplug from phone, internet etc. for 1 week minimum Accomplished April 2015 | link
• See Jonatha Brooke in concert {again} Accomplished August 2015
• See Sarah Mclachlan in concert Accomplished June 2014 | link
• Attend a BlogHer Conference Accomplished August 2013 | link
• Have children Accomplished July 2012 | link
• start Zone diet or something like it and/or get a dietitian/personal cook Accomplished April 2012 |  link
• Shave a side, the sides, or the back of my hair Accomplished May 2012 |  link
• See and/or meet Oprah Accomplished March 2012 | link
• See the Soweto Gospel Choir in concert Accomplished March 2012 |  link
• Get eyelash extensions Accomplished October 2011 | link
• Swim naked Accomplished October 2011
• Go on vacation with my “Fam” {core group of friends} Accomplished October 2011 | link
• Visit a winery Accomplished July 2011 | link
• Visit Italy (Florence, Tuscany) & see the Leaning Tower of Pisa  Accomplished May 2011 |  link
• Visit The Vatican City & see the Sistine Chapel, the Creation of Man, the Last Judgement & St. Peter’s Basilica  Accomplished May 2011 | link
• Visit Greece (Santorini, Athens) & see the Acropolis & the Colosseum  Accomplished May 2011 | link | link)
• Visit Monaco, & see the Grand Casino (May 2011 | link)
• Visit Turkey & see Ephesus (May 2011 | link)
• Visit France (Nice) (May 2011 | link)
• Visit Spain again (Barcelona) (May 2011 | link | link)
• Host anything (December 2010 | link | link)
• Stayed at The Four Seasons (May 2010)
• See/touch real pirate treasure! (May 2010)
• Met Malik Yoba (April 2010)
• Learn to cook
• Visit Europe
• Visit Africa
• Visit California
• Visit Canada
• Visit the MOMA
• Visit NYC
• Go on a cruise
• Join a church
• Own house
• Own car
• Own dog
• Own cat
• Earn a B.S. (1997)
• Learn to crochet
• Take singing lessons
• Learn to knit
• Win a pageant
• Met Mandela (1995)
• Invest money
• Drive more than 10 hours by myself
• Learn how to cartwheel
• See Guernica (Summer 1996)
• See a Broadway show
• Attend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
• Visit El Prado in Madrid, Spain (Summer 1996)
• Visit Rock of Gibraltar (Summer 1996)
• Fly a kite
• Meet a super model (1995)
• Go to a spa
• Eliminate stagnant debt
• Get married
• Have a professional full body massage
• Learn to cook
• Join a church