What Is On Your Bucket List?

[HaventGotALife]

Not too long ago, about a month, I had done very little long-term planning. My life was about surviving from day-to-day. and I was miserable. I already started to tell this story in the thread about "My Favorite Things." But, to get back to thinking long-term, I gave myself some assignments, including a bucket list. I thought is was a good thing to get others to think about, hence, the thread.

Bucket List:

1. Finish College. Walk across the stage with mother and brother in the audience.
2. Become a Social Worker.
3. Visit Paris.
4. Take in an NBA basketball game in Boston. Visit the original Garden, and Springfield Hall-of-Fame.
5. Visit Chicago (again).
6. See a great play on Broadway, walk through Central Park.
7. Be 200 lbs., lose the weight.
8. Quit smoking.
9. See a Sugarland concert.
10. See Garth Brooks in concert.
11. Live to my 90th birthday, maintain health.
12. Fall in love (again) and get married, but never divorced.
13. Get season tickets to a local theater.
14. Go on vacation the December, with my cousin.
15. Maintain a job that pays the bills until I retire.
16. Retire to northern Michigan.
17. Have at least $20,000 dollars in savings (outside of retirement fund).
18. See a Presidential victory speech with my brother.
19. Be debt-free again.
20. Earn my legacy of helping others where I could, of showing love to the love of my life, and being a reasonably happy person.
21. Seeing my death, not as a release, but crying, when it comes because I loved my life so much, and don't want it to end.

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

^ Nice list!

1. Find someone to share my life with.
2. Get married.
3. Move to a country where it's warm all-year-round.
4. Try to get the creative juices flowing again and write something.
5. Attend a Taylor Swift concert, and meet her.
6. Meet Lucy Lawless.

 

[Guy Gardener]

1. Buy bucket.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I only had one thing on my bucket list and I did it last year.

Life is good without goals, I HAVE WON.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Congratulations, teacake What did you win? A lifelong supply of chocolate is the absolute minimum for reaching such a goal, I'd say.

Funny coincidence, only this week I was thinking it'd be about time to make a bucket list, what with having reached 2/3 of my lifespan (statistically). But somehow I never seem to get around to doing anything, these days.

So far there's on my list:

• finish all started needlework projects
• tidy up attic
• eat healthier and don't waste so much food
• go on a vacation asap
• have the courage to take your time as nobody will give you any

 

[Miss Chicken]

1) Visit Iceland
2) Live a longer life than my Aunt Eva who was longest lived person in out family. She died a few months after her 100ty birthday so I am hoping to make 101.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'm aiming for 103 - we could make it a race

 

[lurok]

I'd quite like to go into space before I die.

Other than that I don't really have a bucket list in the sense of 'things-to-die-before-you-shuffle-off'. But if it was like, you have six months to live, I'd like to visit friends in US one last time, and fit in Cuba too. And then off to Australia/NZ. So I guess basically travel

 

[Doom Shepherd]

Most of my goals are small, simple stuff like:

Own and read a copy of every Star Trek book. (Pretty much done)
Collect all the Starships collection ships.
Live long enough to witness the first detection of a truly Earthlike world (liquid water, nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere, etc.)
Visit family ancestral lands in Scotland.
Simply Walk into Mordor (Visit NZ, take the hike between the places where the Shire and Mt. Doom were filmed, like two guys from RoosterTeeth did.)
Go back to Disneyworld (my vacations as an adult have pretty much sucked or been at-home. I last saw Disney in... 1987, I think it was.)
Touch the Pacific.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I really want to go to the Calgary Stampede next year. I hope I can get enough time off work to see the whole thing. It combines two things that I really love: 1) Canada, and 2) rednecks!

I'd also love to visit Montreal, even though I don't speak French. I've been told this won't be a problem.

 

[Australis]

Finish some writing projects which are important to me, and see some of them published/filmed.
Travel: spend a year in the UK, visit Santorini, Greece, Spain, France, and travel across the US.
There's more, I'll get back to you.

 

[Green Shirt]

1. Buy bucket.

Me too. Then promptly kick it.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Touch the Pacific.

I recommend the western banks of the Pacific or at least Hawaii. Its eastern banks - the part along the US coast - suffers from a very cold arctic current so that even in summer it's not exactly of a temperature you'd want to expose more than your feet to. On the other hand, you get a chance for whale watching in fall and spring =) Particularly humpbacks like the area.

 

[Santaman]

Fools.. DO NOT buy that bucket, that is what you KICK remember!

 

[rhubarbodendron]

You surely know that prob: lots to do and somehow you never get around to do it. So what I do is: I write all the things to do on bits of paper and throw them in a huge gherkin-jar. Then, when I'm in the mood to do a little work, I randomly pick one task from the jar and finish it.
This method might also work for a bucket list, when you're not sure with what to start.

btw, does anyone happen to know where the phrase "kicking the bucket" comes from? In German, you don't kick the bucket but bite into the grass or hand in your spoon.

 

[trekkiedane]

btw, does anyone happen to know where the phrase "kicking the bucket" comes from? In German, you don't kick the bucket but bite into the grass or hand in your spoon.

A Danish wording is: 'stille træskoene' ~ take of the clogs (and put them away).

 

[Naira]

1. Have kids.
2. Visit the two continents I have not (Africa is do-able, Antarctica seems harder...)
3. Owning a nice house with a garden.

 

[Gryffindorian]

• Hawaii
• London
• Rome/The Vatican
• Alaskan or Mexican Cruise

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Visit the two continents I have not (Africa is do-able, Antarctica seems harder...)

depends. If you manage to avoid dying, sooner or later the continental drift will push them to your doorstep

 

[SPCTRE]

1.) Nepotism.

Oh, looks like I'm done already. Phew, that wasn't too hard.