Bucket List

I am 20 years of age, and I decided it's about time to make a bucket list. I just watched The Shawshank Redemption for the first time last night, and obviously thought it was phenominal like every other person who has seen it. But when Andy Dufresne said "Get busy living, or get busy dying" it really hit me. I had heard that quote many times before, but never knew it's origin. I'm ready to start living. And I believe this bucket list, and the rate of it's completion will be a good record of living.

What can I say I have done so far? Sure I've been to Ireland loads of times, I've climbed the Wicklow Mountains. I've been to Canada and gone camping in the boonies.  I've gone swimming in man-made lakes. I've fished in Lake Ontario. I've sailed around LBI. I've seen sunsets and sunrises in the Carribean. I've walked across swingsets. I spiked my brothers orange soda out of his hand and all over his clothes. I've had my fair share of road trips. I've wandered the streets of Manhattan at midnight with a load of friends looking for trouble. I've partied until 7am. I've had that airport experience, where there's a huge group running as fast as they can to make it in time. I've had the airport experience, where you're running as fast as you can to reach the ones you love that are waiting at the end of the terminal. I've cried my eyes out. I snook out of my house in the middle of the night to see a boy. I've kissed passionately. I've read the classics. I've been to concerts. I've snowboarded all over New England. I've caught line drives and stolen home base. I've driven barefoot, with the windows down, and the music jacked up, screaming my lungs out with my hair flying in my face, with hours of highway in front of me... But there are many things I have not done. And here's a list of what I need to do in the next 20 years.

1. Write a song.
2. Learn how to play guitar (well)
3. Go skinny dipping
4. Go sky diving
5. Bungee jump into a river
6. Kiss in the rain
7. Road trip across the country
8. Have the typical Vegas experience
9. Get to my goal weight
10. Love, really love someone
11. Travel without an agenda
12. Read more
13. Be happier
14. Have 3 kids.
15. Get a brazillian
16. Get a temporarily permanent tattoo
17. Die my hair a crazy color
18. Sleep under the stars
19. Flirt shamelessly with a stranger
20. Grow a pair
21. Speak up
22. Read the newspaper everyday
23. Clean my room daily
24. Own the entire 24 series
25. Own the entire Curb Your Enthusiasm series
26. Take dance lessons
27. Floss.
28. Organize
29. Learn how to change my own oil
30. Learn how to cook
31. Forgive everyone, Forget nothing
32. Collect all my favorite quotes
33. Make a scrapbook (a nice one not like the ones from when I was 12)
34. Get married to the love of my life
35. Become an actuary at a respectable company
36. The previous one is contingent on my passing Exam P, so Pass Exam P
37. Join the fellowship of Actuaries
38. Don't miss any of my kids practices or rehersals or what have you
39. Be a better sister, daughter, friend, coworker.
40. Join a gym and actually go.
41. Get over the fact that I turn red super fast.
42. Get a full body massage
43. Swim with dolphins
44. Go to Australia
45. Go to the Olympics
46. Go to a World Cup game
47. Be more graceful
48. Plant a garden
49. Go back to Disney
50. Have no regrets.