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In My Life Time Bucket List

2 Jan
  • Travel to Costa Rica
  • Travel to all the Hawaiian Islands
  • Travel to Alaska
  • Travel to Italy
  • Travel to France
  • Take a cruise
  • Buy a house in Belize
  • Travel to all the Islands in the Caribbean
  • Move to the beach/coast
  • Travel to Washington coast
  • Travel the entire California coast
  • Hot Air Balloon Ride
  • Go Parasailing
  • Go Sky Diving
  • Go on a helicopter ride
  • Swim with dolphins
  • Swim with sharks
  • Go to a shooting range
  • Travel to New Zealand
  • Travel to Fiji
  • Travel to Bora Bora
  • Visit the wreckage of the Titanic aboard a submarine
  • Carnival in Venice, Italy
  • Travel to Galapagos Islands
  • Travel to Austraila
  • Travel to Greece
  • Travel to Egypt
  • Travel to Seattle
  • Travel to San Francisco
  • Go to Disney Land & Disney World
  • Learn Crochet
  • Learn Knitting
  • Learn Calligraphy
  • Own a 1968 red convertable mustang
  • Learn Origami
  • Learn Photoshop
  • Go to the Price is Right
  • Go on Ellens 12 days of Christmas Show
  • Be able to Adopt a Family for Christmas
  • Volunteer with animal organization
  • Donate Blood
  • Donate Plasma
  • Go to a strip club   1/18/2013
  • Donate stuffed animals to police crisis unit
  • Spend a week at a 5 star spa/resort
  • Charter a yacht
  • Learn how to sail
  • Vacation at Martha’s Vineyard
  • Own an Island
  • Ride a camel in the Sahara Desert
  • Go on a safari
  • Live in a house by a lake
  • Own a beach house
  • Have a jet tub
  • Take up yoga
  • Run a 5k
  • Horseback riding on the beach
  • Visit Antelope Canyon in Page, AZ
  • Learn basic spanish
  • Learn how to say “hello” in 30 languages
  • Learn basic Sign Language
  • See Witched on Broadway
  • Go to the Opera
  • Go rafting
  • Go ziplining in the rain forest
  • Watch turtles hatch and run for the ocean
  • Go to an elephant reserve
  • See all 7 wonders of the world
  • Buy a sewing machine and learn to sew
  • Leave a $100 tip for great service
  • Buy a small hotel on the beach in a tropical location
  • Be able to see 4 pack Abs
  • Get bellybutton repierced
  • get a small tattoo

~~ 30 Day Challenges ~~

2 Jan

January 2013:  No Fast Food 

February 2013: Exercise a minimum of 30 minutes a day on my spin bike

March 2013:

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Oct 2013:

Nov 2013:

Dec 2013:

Bucket List for 2013/2014

2 Jan
  • Eat healthy (by controlling my food portion)
  • Eat out a minimum of 1 time a week
  • Get Invisalign done  (Got my teeth scanned in January 2013, now just waiting on the trays to come in!! super excited!!)  (March update, had trays in for just over 2 weeks now)  another update oct 2013— only have 6 more trays left and then see if i need more after that 🙂 but loving the results soo much 🙂 UPDATE: 2/14. its been a year since i had them, i finished them at the end of Jan 2014 but need to keep the trays in for 6 months (til july) and then only wear them at night)
  • Work out at least 4 times a week (at least 30 minutes)
  • Walk Venus at least 4 times a week
  • Go on a hike at least once a week  (March 2013–have been getting in alot of hikes! the weather is perfect now!!!)  4/2013– got a lot of hiking in the past few months, now it’s starting to get really hot, so this will slow down some unless I go up north or it happens to be a cooler day. 10/2013– i have been hiking a lot, even in the summer, about 2 days a week early early in the morning. now i been going 3 to 4 times a week. i love hiking.
  • Pay off my Credit Card
  • Start jogging
  • Go to a Strip Club   1/18/2013
  • Figure out what is wrong with my leg its the muscle on the side of the leg, since everything else came back good. i just keep stretching it more. (so im guessing, but im tired of spending money on tests that i really do not need)
  • Save $$ & plan a budget so that I can go on a trip in 2014 (either to China/Taiwan; Hawaii; or Costa Rica)
  • Volunteer more
  • Start a blog & continue blogging
  • Read a book a month
  • Do a weekly photoblog   (didnt really start this, but might do for month project)
  • Learn a new thing a month
  • Take a crochet class; knitting class; & cake decorating class –10/2013 just found a groupon for a knitting class, that i’m going to buy. not sure if i’ll have time to go this year, it might be in january that i go. but i cant wait!! UPDATE: 1/14— took a knitting class. it was OK, i dont think i really care for it.
  • Stop drinking soda  (March 2013— been doing fabulous on this, i think i might have had 2 sodas all year, and now that i have my invisalign trays in nothing but water)
  • Learn yoga and/or pilates — started doing a beginners yoga dvd about 5 months ago, i need to work on doing it 3 times a week
  • Plan a trip to the beach (San Diego)
  •  Go visit my family back home in Missouri
  • Continue posting things that I am thankful for
  • Learn basic spanish
  • Pay if forward (at least once a month)
  • Give compliments
  • Have a Spa Day: massage, facial, pedi/mani  (completed on my birthday in feb)
  • Learn Photoshop
  • Stop eating sugar
  • Get my fortune told (psychic reading)
  • Learn to shoot a gun
  • Get a tattoo
  • Pick up trash as I walk Venus (did this for a while, but then started making my leg hurt more and more so i stopped doing it)
  • Attend the Color Run — (did not attend this year, 2014 I will)
  • Walk South Mountain Cancer Walk  (leg was still hurting/going numb so did not do this year 😦   )   (completed feb 2014)
  • Send flowers to Nana
  • Make a vision board
  • Paint Pottery more
  • Go to Spring Training game  (went with a friend a couple weeks ago in March 2013, dbacks vs cubs) had fun and got a tan 🙂 tooo bad the Dbacks lost
  • Write my will
  • Sleep under the stars
  • Update personal items
  • Learn how to say “Hello” in 10 different languages

Arizona Bucket List

2 Jan

Arizona Bucket List

  • Havasu Falls
  • Antelope Canyon
  • Grand Canyon, Skywalk
  • North Rim of Grand Canyon
  • Page AZ
  • See worlds largest Kachina Doll in Cave Creek Rd, Carefree
  • Sedona in the snow
  • Mystery Castle
  • Meteor Crater
  • Totem Pole Dunes
  • Desert Botantical Garden Luminaris
  • Wrigley Mansion
  • Devils Bridge in Sedona
  • Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff
  • Montezuma Castle
  • Fountain Hills Fountain
  • Go to Bumble Bee AZ
  • Go to Cave Creek Town Dump
  • Go to Seven Sacred Pools ~ Sedona, Arizona
  • Tonto Natural Bridge
  • Hike Camelback Mountain
  • Seven Falls (and actually see the 7 water falls)
  • Grand Falls
  • Hot Air Balloon Ride
  • Slide Rock Park in Sedona
  • Out of Africa
  • Color Run
  • Kartchner Carver
  • Cave Creek Hike
  • Kayaking
  • Eat pizza at Pizzeria Bianco
  • Train Ride in northern AZ in the fall
  • Visit Bisbee
  • Visit Lake Havasu
  • Go to AZ Renaissance Festival
  • Stay in a cabin in the woods up north
  • Visit Pine
  • Heard Museum
  • Hoop Dancers Contest
  • Hike West Fork in Sedona
  • Hike trail at Saguara Lake
  • Hike Flat Iron, all the way to the top
  • Hike Squaw Peak to the top completed on: 2/2014
  • Hike Fat Mans Pass/Mormon trail  completed on 2/2014
  • Complete the Phx Summit Challenge
  • Stay overnight in Flagstaff
  • Go to Phx Herpetological Society completed 4/2014
  • Kayaking in Prescott
  • Sand Falls (Upper Antelope Canyon)
  • Smeeks Candy Shop in Phx
  • Japanese Friendship Garden
  • Phx Art Museum
  • Clay mine at Cave Creek Regional Park, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Mystery Castle, Phx
  • Rosson House
  • Lake Havasu Balloon Festival
  • Tovrea Castle, Phx
  • Wildlife World Zoo
  • The Haunted Hamburger | Jerome, AZ
  • Civic Space Park in Phx
  • Encanto Park, Phx
  • AZ Science Center
  • Butterfly Wonderland
  • Weavers Neele
  • Bedrock in Williams AZ
  • Bearazona
  • Tombstone
  • Tortilla Flat