bucket lists

Tonight I stumbled across the blog of another SK girl called Something Under the Sky. As I perused her entries I saw her bucket list. I've seen a lot of those lately and have been figuring I should dig out the one I wrote about fifteen years ago. It's somewhere downstairs in a box.

I was visiting with a friend  yesterday who is four years shy of 50. She started to say 'It makes me think..." and I said "don't say it!!!" I knew what she meant. She was going to say that she really didn't have much to show for herself for someone who is almost 50. In fact she did say it.

I commiserated with her, thinking that I haven't really done anything fantastic with my life either. School, university, married, kids, job.

Anyways, I thought about the hopes and dreams one has for a bucket list. Places to go. Experiences to have. Memories to keep. Things one can look back on and say "ha! I did this".

I scanned her list and saw her hopes and dreams and wishes. there were some I could agree with. Some that I will add to my list. Others that really aren't for me, and that's ok. What made me happy was that there were 22 items on her list that I've done. Now granted I am probably double her age (and size) and have had more time to have these experiences. but it made me think that even though my life hasn't been OMG !!! every minute of the day, I've done a few of the things that others hope to. Maybe I'm not such of a boring person after all.

so thank you, mysterious stranger from SK who knows what spitz are, for giving me some much needed pats on the back tonight. I know that when you reach my venerable age, you will have a great many of these crossed off your list.

Here were the items on her list that I could cross off mine (if they were on mine, and if I can find mine)

My Already done Bucket List

1. Own a house

2. Send someone flowers

3. Take silly pictures in a photo booth

4. Walk on a glacier

5. Watch the sunrise on a beach.

6. Have a picnic.

7. Make snowangels.

8. Travel alone.

9. Go camping.

10. Learn how to change a tire.

11. Go canoeing.

12. Make homemade jam.

13. Learn a new language.

14. See a broadway play.

15. Fill up my spare change jar (ok it was a Texas Mickey)

16. Get my Tarot Cards read.

17. Zipline.

18. Participate in relay for life.

19.  Give my mom flowers for her birthday and for mother’s day.

20. Sing karaoke.

21. Watch a movie at a drive in theatre.