Bucket List
Here’s my current bucket list, and it’s progress so far:
Actively working on
- Learn to juggle (better) (started Christmas 2010)
- Earn a black belt (started January 2011, yellow belt March 2011)
- Become a [store manager] at [redacted] (started as [employee] March 2010, Promoted to [first level manager] July 2010, next step is [second level manager], then [store manager] comes after that)
Stuff planned later
- Hang Gliding
- Learn a foreign language
- Go scuba diving
- Climb a Mountain
- Drink the screech and kiss the cod
- Attend a political protest
- Have lunch with a trained monkey
- Swim with Dolphins
- Swim at the Devil’s Pool at Victoria Falls
- Become a grandfather
- Watch my kids succeed
- Backpack through Europe
- See Venice
- See the pyramids and the sphynx
- Go to Burning Man
- Go to Outer Space
- Learn to Surf
- Join a cover band (added Nov 3.2010)
- See the blue grotto and the emerald grotto (added Jan 12, 2011)
Completed Items
- Take my kids to Disneyworld (done, March 2011) (discussion)
- Run a marathon (done oct 17/2010) (discussion)
- Skydiving (done, sept 11/2010) (discussion, video)
- Fall in Love
- Get Married
- Go Zip-lining through a jungle (Jamiaca, on my honeymoon, Aug 2007)
- Go to Disneyland/world (twice as a kid)
- Run through Central Park (3 times, New York vacation, Summer ’09)
- Visit Strawberry fields (New York vacation, Summer ’09)
- See the blue man group (New York vacation, Summer ’09)
- Visit a nude beach (honeymoon. Aug 2007)
- Become a father (first to Haylee, second to Jackson)
- Become a stay-at-home father (started in November ’09)
- Have a job that I actually enjoy (started March ’10)
- Go to a rave (did a few in highschool/college)
- See a rock concert (too many to list)
- Graduate High school
- Graduate College
- Fly away on a business trip (twice, don’t remember what year)
- Get so drunk you don’t remember what happened the night before