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Bucket List

06-05-2011
Man it has been a good few weeks since I last posted. I actually wrote a post last week following my first attempt at baking an apple tart. My granny used to always bake them and my god the woman had it down to a T so it is something I always wanted to try. I wanted to chorinicle the attempt and my reasons for trying it. However myself and technology don't always go hand in hand and the post disppeared. Natually I hadn't copied it and so I lost the entire entry. Being the stubborn person that I am I swore at the screen, gave up and refused to go near my site ever again. Obviously I have as much staying power as I do patience and so I am back on the interwebs again.

Last week myself and the other half were having one of our many half asleep conversations in bed where we share stories and talk general rubbish late into the night. We call it 'the words' stupid I know but it is something I really enjoy.

Anyways during one of these conversations I was mocking him (as I often do) about turning 30 and the way my train of thought works I got to thinking about 'bucket lists'. You know those lists of things you would like to do before you die. Morbid sounding. I actually don't have a list and I thought I wouldn't mind having one, a sort of list pushing me to experience the things I want to in life. I could add to it over time always having something new to aim for. So without further a-do, I present to you, the beginnings of my bucket list, some of the things on the list I have already done (obviously) and others I am aiming to do.



1. Learn a foreign language

2. Run a marathon - hell run even a half marathon

3. Visit New York

4. Go to the top of the Empire State building at night

5. Resign with flourish from a job I hate

6. Get a tatoo

7. Get my belly button pierced

8. Go to a real piano blues bar

9. Climb a mountain

10. Make a real difference in someones life

11. Take a hot air balloon ride

12. Visit Berlin and check out all the historical sites

13. Go Skiing

14. Write a book

15. Have something published

16. See the Northern Lights

17. Experience a sunrise

18. Take a romantic weekend in Venice

19. Throw a house party that gets ended by the police

20. Own a pet

21. See the Grand Canyon

22. Go out with friends and come home at dawn

23. Get married

24. Live in a foreign country

25. Learn to ride a horse

26. Own a house

27. Go on a road trip

28. Take a cross country trip across Italy

29. Go on a wine tasting trip to a vineyard

30. Have children

31. Learn to knit

32. Go scuba diving

33. Cook a great meal for an evening with my loved ones

34. Dance in the rain

35. Fall in love with a no holds barred kind of passion and recklessness

36. Have a old fashioned picnic like something from the movies, tartan blanket and everything

37. See the Great Wall of China

38. Free wheel on a bicycle down the hills in San Franscisco

39. Get closure on any hurt, grievances and unhappiness of the past

40. Work in a bar

41. Work in a bar in New York

42. Eat sushi

43. Fly first class

44. See the Mona Lisa

45. Take a helicopter ride

46. Make someone happy for the rest of their lives

47. Volunteer with a charity

48. Go to a ball

49. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower

50. Read Pulitzer Prize winning book

51. See a broadway play

52. Stay in a castle

53. Go to a match in Old Trafford

54. Go to an All Ireland Final in Croke Park

55. Go to a outdoor music gig

56. Camp on a beach

57. Drive along the famous route 66

58. Do an abseil

59. Go to the airport and take the first flight out

60. Swim with dolphins

61. Go on safari

Is there anything exciting I should be adding?




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