Bucket List

These are the things I want to do in life (crossed off and dated once complete):

*disclaimer:  There are other things I would like to do (ie. get married, have children), but I will only put things on here that I have 'control' over.  While I know that things can change in an instant, for the most part, I can at least plan things.  However, there are some things in life that I just can't plan for, no matter how hard I try (I cannot find myself a man, make him marry me, or convince my ovaries they want to produce offspring...)

*disclaimer #2:  This page is continually under construction

1. 'Growing up':
1. get my driver's license (July 23, 2010)
2. buy a house
3. get a Canadian passport (July 22, 2010)
4. own a car (July 31, 2010)
5. buy a washer and dryer
2. Make a [global/local] difference:
1. go on a missions trip to the third world (January 10-21, 2011)
2. volunteer at a Ten Thousand Villages store
3. work, in some capacity (locally or globally) with IJM
4. take part in a "Take Back the Night" rally
5. build a home with Habitat for Humanity
6. Be a Big Sister
7. work with trafficked children and women in Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe
3. HAVE FUN!!!:
1. take dance lessons
2. go skydiving (June 22, 2013)
3. pierce my nose (May 15, 2010)
4. take a ride in a hot air balloon
5. go to Disney World
6. attend a Blue Jays game
7. attend a CANUCKS game
8. have my hair braided in the Caribbean
9. ride a gondola in Venice
10. watch Medieval Times in Toronto (March 26, 2011)
11. eat at a 'Dine-in-the-Dark' restaurant (June 23, 2011)
12. attend a CD release party (May 15, 2010) - The City Harmonic
13. ride a motorcycle
14. ride in a helicopter
15. snorkeling (January 15, 2011 - Haiti)
16. fire walking
17. go zorbing
18. OktoberFest
19. ride a unicycle
20. be an extra in a commercial/film/tv show
21. mush a dog sled
22. watch the Olympics, LIVE
23. see a Broadway play
24. watch a sunrise and sunset in the same day
25. hold/touch the Stanley Cup
26. experience weightlessness
27. watch a live rocket launch
28. eat octopus (June 23, 2011)
4. Travel:
1. African Safari
2. Alaskan cruise
3. Hawaiian islands
4. Australia
5. Ottawa (May 10, 2012)
6. skate on the Rideau Canal
7. East Coast (of Canada, in particular, PEI)
8. Tian'anmen Square
9. Grand Canyon
10. Eiffel Tower/Paris (August 2, 2012)
11. ice skating at the Rockefeller Centre
12. attend Edinburgh's Military Tattoo
13. gondola to the top of the Matterhorn
14. Maid of the Mist at Niagara Falls (August 19, 2011)
15. every province and territory in Canada
16. attend Hamilton's Military Tattoo
17. see the Northern lights
18. Noah's Ark replica in the Netherlands
19. Socotra Island
20. Loy Kathrong (Thailand)
21. Victoria Falls
22. Great Barrier Reef
23. Fjords of Norway
24. see a volcano
25. the Pyramids
26. Stonehenge (July 27, 2012)
27. St. Peter's Basilica
28. Buckingham Palace (July 26, 2012)
29. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
30. Mount Rushmore
31. Ellis Island
32. Hike the Bruce Trail (885 km)
5. Jobs/Education:
1. work as a stewardess
2. become an Early Child Educator
3. run a daycare out of my own home
4. take event planning classes
5. take a cake decorating class
6. learn how to say hello in 50 languages
7. conversational Spanish
8. get a B.A.
6. Being creative/DIY:
1. learn to crochet
2. knit a toque
3. learn to quilt (November/December, 2009)
4. build a bookshelf
5. make a scrapbook
6. keep a book with photos of handmade cards
7. finish a cross stitch projec
8. make my own laundry soap (January 2012)
7. 'Self Improvement'
1. complete a 16 week weight loss study at McMaster (May 6, 2010)
2. get my bike in working order again - and use it! (September 2012)
3. learn to play tennis
4. learn sign language
5. memorize the book of James from the Bible
6. take singing lessons
7. spend a week at a silent retreat
8. take a 365-day challenge

Want to create your own?  Visit 100 Things for ideas (I got a lot of mine from there).