My Bucket List.

 Kind of.

I want to do all of the following things before I turn 30.  I think normal bucket lists are generally things that people want to do before they die.  Right?

I’m giving myself a time limit, though.  I have a little over 2 years, and now, I have NOTHING stopping me from doing whatever the heck I want to do. 

1)      Get another tattoo.  I want a white ink tattoo on my collarbone that says “delete the adjectives.”   That is part of one of my favorite lines from To Kill a Mockingbird, and I think it would be a fabulous, fabulous tattoo.

2)      Skydive.  I know, I know.  With my horrid luck, that is a disaster waiting to happen.  But I want to do it so bad.

3)      Spend the night on the beach.  (Since I am currently working on moving to Florida, this one may be quite easy to accomplish.)

4)      Kiss a complete stranger in the rain, and then walk off without even glancing back.  

5)      Go an entire week without my cell phone or the internet.

6)      Have one of my pictures published in a magazine.

7)      Change the life of a kid.

8)      Go on a cruise.

9)      Hand out food and supplies to the homeless.

10)   Smoke a really good cigar while reading The Great Gatsby and drinking a glass of wine.  (Every time I have tried to smoke a cigar before, I have thrown up.  I am going to figure out how to do it correctly.  I am.)

11)   Crash a wedding.

12)   Graffiti the side of a railroad car.

13)   Take a Greyhound bus to a city to which I have never been, spend the day, and come back home.

14)   Participate in a flash mob.

15)   Write a rap song about the parts of speech.

16)   Visit my brother in Hawaii. 

17)   Learn how to change the oil in my car.

18)   Quit biting my nails… for good.

19)   Fall hopelessly and stupidly in love.

20)   Give $100 dollars to someone, hug them, and walk away.

21)   Join a random group of protestors and picket like I truly believe in their cause.

22)   Somehow, someway, I am going to manage to work the lyrics of “My Heart Will Go On” into a regular conversation without the other person realizing it. 

23)   Go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve at a Catholic church.

24)   Master when to use “affect” and when to use “effect.”  Yes, I have a degree in English.  Yes, this still confuses the mess out of me.

25)   Kill a deer.

26)   Pick a random person to follow for a whole day. 

27)   Go to a casino, and stop while I’m ahead.

28)   Memorize all the verses in the Bible that talk about God’s grace. He is good, even though I’m generally not.  I need to be able to back up that statement with scripture.

29)   Have adventures with my best friends that are so insane we will never be able to tell anyone else about them.

30)   Live well.  After all, that is the absolute revenge.

Not going to lie… I’m pretty pumped about this.  If there are any of these with which you want to help me or of which you want to take part, let me know. 

When I set my mind to it, I'm pretty good at making things happen.  Just ask the girls that were in Nashville with me this past weekend... ha.