Life’s Goals
I will never ever call it my bucket list. That is not what it is. More of a to-do list. I cannot find the version that did not get transferred over here from MSN Spaces so I have only the hard copy to go by and things I say out loud and what I had last listed on 43things.com and anything else really.
As I slowly make my way through the list, I will post about my accomplishments (and more likely than not, hilarious failures). You can follow it by the tag Life’s Goals
- Eat an entire lobster, in Maine (so far have only eaten half a lobster roll, in Maine so it half counts)
- See the cherry blossoms in Washington, DC
- See the cherry blossoms in Japan
Get my G license(it was a stressful nightmare, i was called the “safest, most cautious driver” she had ever seen)Get my interpreting certification all done- Southwest BBQ tour in the States
- Have an awesome six-pack
- Have my work published
See the Grand Canyon- Eat NY Fries in NYC
See NYC- Scream really loud without worrying who will hear me
- Visit the liquor serving drive-thru in Louisiana
- Dance the Charleston while eating a Charleston Chew in Charleston, SC
Eat an NYC hotdog(it was not that good, I got ripped off, I call redo)Get another stamp in my passport(got new stamps in my new passport)- Buy a house
- Cruise the Cruisin’ USA route (only done in parts so far)
- See the cherry-on-a-spoon statue in Minneapolis
- Go to Yosemite Valley
- Go to Yellowstone
See the CA redwood forest- See the Rockies
- Learn to bellydance
- Work because I like to, not because I have to
- Work as a (freelance) travel & food photo-journalist
- Eat seacucumber
Eat a (rattlesnake) hot dog from Hot Doug’s in Chicago(has shut down, can’t, but did eat kangaroo hotdog)- Win an award
- (Self) Publish a book of my work
- Pay off student debt
- Visit the Dr Pepper factory/museum
- Go back to the Cumberland Gap… with a raccoon hat
- Buy a cheesehead hat in Wisconsin
- Buy a cowboy hat in Alberta/Texas
- Buy stock in Dr Pepper
- See the Coney Island Mermaid Parade
- Stay in the treehouse resort in Ohio
Eat a cannoli in Boston from Mike’s(best recommendation ever)Eat a boston cream pie in Boston, MA(ate the original one invented at Omni Parker Hotel)Eat at least one food featured on the show Man Vs. Food(have learned that even with two of us it’s a challenge)Eat Graeter’s ice cream(so worth it, despite melting soggy mess)- See Mount Rushmore
- Go to Geyser Park
- Eat a deep-fried Mars bar in Scotland (have already done the at-home thing)
- Go to Australia & New Zealand
- Own a piece of land
- Build a 5-star tower in Sim Tower
- Beat Mario 1 (at least beat 8-3)
- Successfully dress up as a pirate
- Successfully dress up as a zombie pirate
- Make bank account hit $2000 (… of non-OSAP money)
- Buy a suit of armour
- Travel
- Get as many licenses as possible (so far: bartending, G2, interpreter certification)
- Go to cheese rolling festival somewhere in Europe
- Go on Paris subway tunnel tour
- Go on catacomb tour in France
- Learn to ride a unicycle
- Take one drumming lesson/go nuts on a set of drums
- Visit a real castle… in Europe (Casa Loma does not count, nor does the castle in Midland)
- Buy a light saber
- Go to New Orleans
- See all of Poland
- Visit as many Pauline Ave/St/Rd/Blvds as possible
- See the northern lights
- Learn Adobe Illustrator
- Visit a real ghost town
- See as many giant roadside things as possible
- Submit a photo/photos to the Canadian Contemporary Photographers Museum in Ottawa
- Find a giant hammock (as in can fit multiple people)
Eat a foot-long hotdogEat a deep-fried nanaimo bar(in Nanaimo BC no less, best one ever)Go on the Nanaimo Trail in Nanaimo BC- Go up in a hot air balloon
- Print/make a “coffee table” book of my photos
- Go to Tatamagouche, NS to the train converted into a B&B
- See Jeff Koon’s “Puppy”
See the LOVE statue in NYC- Attend an evening auction at Christie’s or Sotheby’s
Stand in all 4 states… run around in circles, lay down on it, general tomfoolery(smacked my head off the payment as i lay down on all 4)Eat boar meat(tasty)- Eat at Big J’s diner in Idaho (from Napoleon Dynamite)
- Eat poutine where it was invented
- See Fallingwater (so far have seen the outside)
- See the Pinka River in Europe
- Go to the Pinkas Synagogue in Prague… and explore Prague while I am there, might as well
Glue the pages of a book together and hollow out a secret compartment in it, way cooler than buying it premadeReact to something/someone as if I were in a soap operaEat sea urchin (in sushi most likely)Buy an orange shirt, an orange shirt that is the right shade of orange- Make stuff out of Altoids tins
- See Sculpture Garden in NJ
- Play Texas Hold ‘Em in Texas
Explore the HighLine in NYC(need to go back after 2016 after Whitney addition finished)- Buy all the kitchen gadetry my heart desires
- See the 26-foot tall Marilyn Monroe statue from Chicago (now in its new home, California)
- Eat from/photograph the McDonald’s on the toll bridge going into Chicago
- Go BACK to Las Vegas- drink from plastic cowboy boot
- Successfully cook something from Modernist Cuisine
- Make my own bath products
- Make bread without the use of yeast
- Make a series of handmade books featuring my photos from travels thus far and more as they amass
- Successfully bake/cook a Julia Child recipe
- Drive all of Route 66
- Finish my Masters degree
- Combine all my travel photos into a series of scrapbooks
- EAT AT MOTO IN CHICAGO!!! (don’t care that I have been to Chicago twice now, must eat!)