Sunday, March 18, 2012

Bucket List Time...

 
My 'Bucket List' (or as it was known at that time, prior to the movie- 'My Bucket of Wishes') started many years ago when I would be staring out the window on a hot Friday afternoon in English class, dreaming I was somewhere else, doing something so much more exciting...

Over the past few years I have fortunately ticked a few of these off...but my ultimate dream is to complete everything on this list. I would hope that by doing so, meant 'I really lived my life! I conquered my life!'

Here's my wishes (my bucket list):

1.    Give your mother 50 roses and tell her, that you love her!
2.    Learn at least one foreign language
3.    Bathe naked in the sea on a warm summer night
4.    Climb Mount Kilimanjaro
5.    Kiss a lover in Paris
6.    Tell a child bedtime stories - DONE
7.    Stay in an over water bungalow in Bora Bora, Tahiti
8.    Act in a home movie - DONE
9.    Tell someone the whole story of your life, not hiding anything!
10.  Start at least one food fight
11.  Stay and relax in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland
12.  Learn to ride rollerblades
13.  Learn to THANK someone for a compliment
14.  Dye your hair in a bright colour - DONE
15.  Tell horror stories at night near a fire
16.  Have a painting done of yourself
17.  Sail around the Caribbean
18.  Look at stars through a telescope
19.  Find you own fashion style - DONE
20.  Jump with a parachute or climb a mountain
21.  Travel down the Nile River
22.  Ride a camel in a desert
23.  Smoke at least one cigar
24.  Visit War Crimes Museum in Vietnam with my friend Lauren
25.  Plant a tree
26.  Learn to say "yes" when you think "no"
27.  Spend a night with your husband/boyfriend in a expensive hotel.  Eat and sleep like kings and queens  - DONE
28.  Learn to dance ballroom - DONE
29.  Party at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
30.  Take a walk when it's raining in London
31.  Be a leader
32.  Fall deeply in love - DONE
33.  Visit all 4 farthest points of Australia
34.  Visit Asia
35.  Write a poem or paint a painting - DONE
36.  Post-it note your bedroom mirror - DONE
37.  Dance all night long - DONE
38.  Go on a Safari in Africa
39.  Go sex toy shopping - DONE
40.  Dive in to the warm waters of the sea from a yacht
41.  Become someone’s teacher
42.  Read one book from one author from each country
43.  Ride in a racing car - DONE
44.  Get married and have kids (not necessarily with the same person!) – ½ DONE
45.  Stay at Ice Hotel Sweden or drink at an ice bar in a country outside Australia
46.  Go camping - DONE
47.  Ask for a pay rise - DONE
48.  Learn to play at least one instrument - DONE
49.  Go to the Glastonbury Music Festival
50.  Own a really expensive handbag - DONE
51.  Tell some people what you think of them for real
52.  Learn to cook. Really good! - DONE
53.  Don't go cheap on a good pair of shoes. Buy an expensive pair, just because of how good they look on your feet.
54.  Visit a place reflective of each of the world’s religions
55.  Go to the North or South Pole
56.  Run 5 kilometres without stopping
57.  Go to an anniversary Woodstock Music Festival
58.  Take a photo at the Woodstock Music Festival Plaque
59.  Book in to see an eyebrow shaping expert
60.  Tell a friend he was your high school crush - DONE
61.  Act like a complete idiot at least once! - DONE
62.  Own one expensive and glamorous dress
63.  Buy a piece of jewellery from Tiffany & Co on Fifth Avenue NYC
64.  Have sex in an unusual place - DONE
65.  Complete one of your dreams
66.  Stay at the Hotel Igloo in Finland
67.  Sleep under the stars - DONE
68.  Tell only the truth for a whole week
69.  Eat bread and cheese and drink wine under the Eiffel Tower, Paris
70.  Take a yoga class - DONE
71.  Show off a different body asset
72.  Party at New Orleans Mardi Gras
73.  Defeat a big fear
74.  Run in a marathon
75.  Eat Macaroons from Ladure in Paris
76.  Spend the whole day in bed, reading a good novel
77.  Forgive the person who has hurt you most in your life  
78.  Dance at the Berlin Love Parade
79.  Go to the Super Bowl
80.  Start a Blog - DONE
81.  Live in a foreign country for a year
82.  Write 10 romantic letters to your lover
83.  Learn to juggle with three balls
84.  Go Rock Climbing
85.  Sun-tan naked
86.  Find a job that you really love - DONE
87.  Celebrate a white Christmas overseas - DONE
88.  Sing for an audience
89.  Surf in Hawaii and South Africa
90.  Go your old school and sit at your old desk again
91.  Own the Old Bank Building in Mittagong
92.  Donate some money for charity - DONE
93.  Design your apartment, the way YOU like it - DONE
94.  Take on some kind of sport for three months - DONE
95.  Visit every continent at least once
96.  Ride in a really expensive sports car
97.  LOVE yourself for the way you are!
98.  Start a small boutique clothing store, art gallery, patisserie/bakery
99.  Fly in a hot air balloon
100.  Take a photo in front of a piece of the Berlin Wall
101.  Go to a rock concert
102.  Learn to play checkers or chess
103.  Ride a horse - DONE
104.  Catch at least one fish. Not in a shop - DONE
105.  Host a party for all your relatives
106. Visit the seven wonders of the world
107. Wear a pair of leather pants
108. Go to dinner in a restaurant on your own - DONE
109. Watch entire TV series in one sitting - DONE
110.  Go to La Tomatina
111. Spend a weekend at Coachella