I’m not a big bucket list person. Maybe because it sounds super morbid or I found Nicholson and Freeman to be underwhelming, I don’t know, I just don’t dig the whole thing.
But, when I was approached by Go Mighty a few months ago to be a part of their new site, I was like sure… until I realized I needed a list. A life list. Goals I wanted to accomplish in my life.
But, what if my goals are weird?
That’s fine.
Stupid?
They won’t be.
Impossible?
Nothing is impossible.
Right. Okay fine, so I needed goals, and I swear to God, actually sitting down and thinking about what you want to accomplish is fucking hard. I mean, you can’t fail at things people don’t know you are trying to do, right? Say yes.
So anyways, I sat down and made the weird list that I’m going to share with you now, because I like to share things and I want to make you comfortable enough to share your crazy shit with me.
1. Play Scrabble with David Sedaris.
2. Write a sitcom.
3. Meet Bill Murray.
4. Climb a volcano in Hawaii.
5. Start a daily vlog series. (Kinda. I have a weekly Google show launching the first week of April, so totally countsies!)
6. Get Hypnotized for my fear of flying.
7. Learn how to play the ukulele. (HOLLA! I now can almost play songs that have four notes, and I can tune it all by myself. Youtube videos to come!)
8. Attend NY Fashion Week.
9. Visit with my family in Nijmengen.
10. Launch a body workshop for teens and women. (Almost done!)
11. Create a girl’s weekend travel show. (CHECK! We are now in final edits and getting ready to pitch to networks! FINGERS CROSSED!)
Four down. How is your list looking? Share it with me, and then check out Go Mighty and load your list there, because their whole purpose is to connect people with a means to achieve their life list goals, and hey, who doesn’t want their crazy dreams funded!?
Pssst. I wasn’t asked to write this. I just like to find cool stuff on the internet, especially if it means the people I love (y’all) can get money to do the things you want to do in life. Like making out with Peter Venkman. Which I have dibs on.
I love #1.
Damn it! I wanted dibs on Venkman!
I have an entire Vietnamese contingent in my family. On New Years Eve I was asked what my goals were by my little brother — who is technically the patriarch now, which makes him “the boss” of the family — and where did I see myself in three months. I had just left a bad marriage, and moved five states back to the West Coast. I said “happy”. That wasn’t the correct answer. I didn’t have any other answer. “I just want to feel alive again, the rest will fall into place”. Again, it was a no-go. *le sigh* The point? When people want a list, you should have one on the ready, just for the fuck of it. It makes inquisition much more comfortable.
Psssssst. When you climb that volcano in Hawaii — make sure to bring a hoodie or something warm with you, because it’s cold up there. True story. You’re welcome.
Awesome list! I had to Google where Nijmegen was though.
I’d like to write books. A children’s book for kids with cancer told from my dog’s point of view. He has cancer, and I think kids could relate to his story. I’d also like to take him into cancer units as a therapy dog. They could see his scars and bald spots from radiation and know that losing your hair does not make you any less beautiful.
I’d also like to write a popcorn novel.
And I want to start a dog rescue.
That is one of the sweetest things I’ve ever heard. I hope it happens!
1. Graduate college. As an adult and single mom this is like climbing Everest. I’m working on it!
2. See every country in the world. Maybe by volunteering or teaching English? I teach you English you make me a native dish. Boom. We both win.
3. Go scuba diving somewhere fantastic. While praying not to get eaten by a shark.
I have quite the list of things I’d like to learn how to do but who has time to read that :)
I’m an an adult single mom, too – I’m also working on finishing college now. It’s a 2 year program that I’m doing evenings, but I’m doing it! That was the first thing in my bucket list, too.
Lose some weight?
I don’t know. I’m bad at this!
I think there are so many things that I can’t even write them all down lol! Learn how to play the guitar electric and acoustic. Learn Spanish and French. Find my soulmate? that one seems super difficult but it would be nice!!
It can be anything you want :)
1. Work for the Smithsonian
2. Take a riverboat tour of Europe
3. Meet Amy Poehler
4. Publish a book about my mom
5. Invent a board game
6. Somehow market the game I invented about romance novels, and become an internet sensation
7. Read every book on my bookshelf
8. Have a baby
it is so endearing to hear these. we are all so similar and different at the exact same time. it’s heartfelt and i want us all to accomplish these.
I really, really want to write books. I don’t know what they’d be about, though, and I’m terrified nobody would read them. So I don’t do it.
But I want to, and I beat myself up about not doing it becuase I feel like I could really do it if I could get over the fear of failing.
I am in the same boat Amanda. I really want to write, but am paralyzed with the fear of being no good at it.
1- See Bette Midler in concert and then go shopping with her. Similarly, I’d like to visit Miranda Lambert and have her teach me how to shoot and be less of a wimp about the outdoors.
2- take my parents to Disneyworld. They are big DisneyLAND people b/c we are in CA but we’ve never been to Disneyworld because FL is far yo.
3- Open a private birthing center in my town that has all available birthing options and run it is a family business.
4- Have more babies (maybe)
5- Lose 30 more pounds and then get my boobs pulled up off the floor.
6- Get my Master’s degree. I am not sure in what; over the years I have considered: Public Administration, History (what my BA is in), and Marriage and Family Counseling. I think I would worry about people too much as a counselor and well the other two are boring. Perhaps I should get an MBA to better run my birth center.
7- Find a way to show my Mom how rad she is.
8- Surprise my Husband with a meeting with George Lucas or Peter Jackson.
9- Go on an all girlfriends spa trip.
10- Drive across the United States to sight see with my entire immediate family.
My dream is to actually make money blogging, eek gads is that a tough egg to crack.
after that I’d like to
-visit England
-audition for So you think you can dance
-write a sitcom
-learn to sew all of my clothes
-make out with Taran Killium (total stretch he and I are both taken)
Big dreams.
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See a narwhal.
Write a novel and have it made into a movie.
I seriously just started a “bucket list” about a month ago.I currently have #65 things on it and counting…Lol I won’t bore you with my ENTIRE list but a few things on it include:
1.See the Aurora Borealis
2.Take a boxing/kickboxing class
3.Sing in a band
4.Empower girls/young women
5.Have Ted Gibson give me a “hair make over”
6.Spend an entire day “outside the box” ie. not following the rules (HUGE issue for me)
7.Become financially literate
8. Trace my family tree
9. Live in NYC for a year
10. Do an anonymous act of kindness that has a significant impact on someone’s life
1. Be the best at something
2. Get my Phd, working on the Masters now
3. Go to Africa (I got a research opportunity in Malawi and now I just need to get it funded!!!)
4. Pull off a pixie cut (this will never happen)
5. Get a dinosaur tattoo
6. Fit back into my skinny jeans
Here are the highlights off my current list of goals…
1. Get my PhD (working on the Masters now)
2. Be the best at something
3. Go to Africa (just got a research opportunity in Malawi, just need it funded now!)
4. Pull off a pixie cut (not gonna happen, I have a weird bald spot)
5. Get a dinosaur tattoo
6. Fit back into my skinny jeans
7. Move back to Baltimore
Man, after seeing the other comments, I want to hang out with all of you and especially Brittany. We have so much in common!
First figure out what I should major in, then graduate college. I want two majors and a phd in one
2. Go somewhere besides Mexico. Italy, Ireland.
3. Build something with wood, without my husbands help
4. Tell a story in front of an audience
5. Write a story…;)
6. Get out of this depressed and anxious state and be the ME I know I really am.
I want to write a sitcom, too. We should totally write one together. I have an idea for a TV show, and you would make it so much funnier.