Bucket List
A “Bucket List” is a list of things that a person would like to do before the end of their life. I was inspired by Betty The Geek, who has an amazing bucket list of her own. I highly recommend composing a list. Even if you never actually acheive anything on the list, the freedom of imagining is delicious.
In no particular order:
1. Sing in a big choir
2. Go snowmobiling
3. Go dogsledding
4. Go back to Barcelona with my husband
5. Fully commit to wearing dreadlocks and don’t pussy out after two months
6. hand a stranger a $100 bill
7. own a motorcycle
8. finish my tattoo
9. walk the entire Appalachian Trail
10. Go to Burning Man
11. Learn that hula-hooping dancing thing
12. Go to India
13. Become very strong and brown from being outside
14. Grow a garden
15. See my girls marry truly great men, and stay happily married
16. Sleep on an overnight train
17. Live in an adobe house
18. Work in an orchard again
19. Take Bob canoeing
20. Ride a galloping horse
X 21. Be someone who entertains in their home all the time (done! 5/20/12)
22. Own a goldendoodle
23. Make a living from blogging
24. Be vegan for six months
25. Rock my grandbabies
26. Double pierce my nose
27. Make Karen and Don truly know how much I love and appreciate them
28. Develop some sort of personal style
29. Build some sort of beautiful place, like a garden, a home or a park
30. Celebrate my fiftieth wedding anniversary
31. Learn how to wear makeup
32. Go to Bali
33. Make a close friend of a different race
34. Be in a great coven
35. Get back in touch with Brian Nussbaum
36. Dress the kids up in costumes and photograph them
37. Wear a size 8 jeans
38. Drive a mini cooper
39. Give money to the women’s shelter in VA
40. Attend Darren Gawlik’s funeral. *NOT CAUSE IT, JUST ATTEND IT*
41. Paint 15 murals
42. Do graffiti and guerilla art projects
43. Go back to Fredericksburg, Va.
44. Join the Peace Corps.
45. Work for non-violence and pacifism
46. Be more “muchier”. Don’t beige out.
47. See the northern lights
48. Move to New Mexico
49. Have my photo taken nude
50. Cover myself in paint and roll on a canvas
51. Write a how-to book for my grandchildren
52. Go to Maine with Bob and look for Stephen King
53. Take Bob to The Smithsonian
54. Wear more dresses
55. Go to the catacombs in Paris (not the tour)
56. Go cave tubing in Belize
57. Go skinny dipping 15 times
58. Live in an artists’ loft
59. Own a big piece of stained glass
60. Go whale watching
61. Teach someone about anti-consumerism
62. Have an art exhibition
63. create a secret society
64. Go to an Ani Difranco concert
65. Own a peacock farm
66. Smoke a joint with my mom and Bob
67. Stay in “the best” hotel and get room service.
68. Go on some sort of spiritual retreat
69. Drive a squash bus-giving out out produce in the innercity
70. Plant a field of flowers
71. Own land
X 72. Help someone with a newborn (done! 5/20/12)
73. Make love in Venice, Italy
74. Start a bath service, making elegant bubble baths for people
75. Help Phoebe become a dogtrainer
76. Learn to breathe fire
77. Perform in a play
78. Ride with Bob in a carriage or sleigh
79. Go to Iceland
80. Learn more spanish
81. Eat as much Ben and Jerry’s as it takes to become disgusted with the stuff 1/20/12 Lactose intolerance made me disgusted with the stuff. 
82. Be in the top 1% of all mothers
83. Take mushrooms
84. Be an encouragement to others
85. Completely and totally let go of other’s expectations
86. Take a hip hop dance class
87. Become much more weird
88. Own jellyfish
89. Own flowy, 1920s style silk clothes
90. Play tennis with Nevie
91. Take a family vacation to Williamsburg, Va
92. Edit my belongings to only what is necessary
93. Raise guidedogs
94. Earn 50k, then 100K
95. Learn to do Icesculpture
95. Start throwing underground dinner parties
