The Bucket List

Over the years I’ve created numerous bucket lists, but never took the time to put them all together and see what I can accomplish. So here goes nothing! Below are all the things I want to accomplish during my time on this Earth. I’ll be marking items off as I go, and linking when I post about the experiences.

My overall goal is to enjoy life more. I have a goal of putting 365 items on this list, but if I think of even more then I’ll keep adding to it.

1. Be fluent in German
2. Sleep under the stars
3. Visit all 50 states
4. Travel to 10+ countries
5. Land my dream job
6. Land my dream internship
7. Adopt a child
8. See the northern lights
9. Run a 5k
10. Weigh under 150lbs
11. Read 365 books (67 as of 10/17/14)
12. Support someone in need
13. Watch 1,000 movies (914/1000 as of 7/13/2022)
14. Kiss a dolphin
15. Adopt a dog
16. Pay back my grandparents
17. Spend NYE in NY
18. Obtain my associate’s degree
19. Obtain a graduate degree
20. Give a student a scholarship
21. Read the entire Bible
22. Go 1 month without eating fast food
23. Give back to everyone who helps me reach my goals and believes in me
24. Use my world map/mark everywhere I’ve been
25. Thank Awo Eni for inspiring me to make this list
26. See a shark in the ocean
27. Swim in every ocean
28. Make a large donation to a non-profit organization
29. Go on a cruise
30. Practice yoga regularly for a month
31. Be in two places at once
32. If possible, donate blood
33. Try scuba diving
34. Save someone’s life
35. Regularly serve somewhere such as a soup kitchen or American Red Cross
36. Be debt free
37. Go to the airport and pick a random flight to take
38. Ride in a hot air balloon
39. Help make someone’s last wish come true
40. Plant a tree
41. Learn some sign language
42. Participate in a beach clean-up
43. Love myself
44. Come up with 365 things for this list
45. Go on a vacation
46. Knit something
47. Order room service
48. Vote
49. Send a postcard
50. Write my will
51. Change a flat tire
52. Plant a garden
53. Attend a professional sports game
54. Try to break a world record
55. Do a 365 day photo challenge(started 10/15/14) 
56. Make an origami crane
57. Send a postcard to post secret
58. Beat a video game
59. Donate money to a charity
60. Make a list of 100 things I’m thankful for
61. Make a habit of working out at least 4 days a week, every week
62. Be someone’s mentor
63. Learn to play a musical instrument
64. Live in a different country for at least 6 months
65. Make 1,000 origami cranes
66. Write the story of my life
67. Make a list of my all-time favorite quotes
68. Own everything on my amazon wishlist
69. Attend the Olympics
70. Support a child in another country for the rest of his/her life
71. Attempt extreme couponing for 2 months
72. Get a paracord bracelet
73. Watch every movie in my list
74. Have a job that I love
75. Choose a specific person to support on each race I run
76. Lose 50lbs
77. Lose 100lbs
78. Start a book club
79. Meet Ellen Degeneres
80. Spend a day in all 50 states, sightseeing
81. Visit every continent
82. Visit Mexico and Canada
83. Learn how to really prayer walk
84. Take 365 pictures of myself for transformation
85. Fill water balloons with paint and make art
86. Carve initials into a tree
87. Be good at tying ties
88. Be CPR certified
89. Learn to see again
90. Learn to no longer go to food for comfort, but to something healthier instead.
91. White water rafting
92. Be in 2 states at once
93. Be in 4 states at once
94. Get a picture in the “big” sign in Dallas
95. Do something crazy during spring break
96. Get an internship
97. Take pictures underwater
98. Go to a burlesque show
99. Try going to a club
100. Go to a gay club
101. Go to a strip club
102. “pay it forward” at least once
103. Skydive
104. Swim with dolphins or another sea creature (not just fish)
105. Go deep-sea fishing
106. Go offline for a week
107. Stargaze on a roof
108. Spend one full day doing nice things for strangers
109. Travel alone
110. Go to las vegas
111. Go to a weekend long concert
112. Learn how to play golf (even if I’m terrible at it)
113. Learn a new dance
114. Visit the Grand Canyon
115. Go to a musical
116. Do the color run
117. Watch a meteor shower
118. Stand on the equator
119. Travel first class
120. Watch the ball drop in Times Square
121. Go parasailing
122. Go paragliding
123. Climb a mountain
124. Go hiking on a mountain
125. Visit New York
126. Message in a bottle
127. Take 365 instagram pictures within a year
128. Visit Canada
129. Renew my passport
130. Volunteer at an animal shelter
131. Messy twister
132. Fly in a helicopter
133. Learn how to juggle
134. Attempt surfing
135. Raise at least $1,000 for a charity
136. Learn to make sushi
137. Learn how to fly
138. Take a self-defense class
139. Get 200 volunteer hours within 1 year
140. Go to a rodeo
141. Go to a Christmas parade with someone I truly love
142. Send at least 50 Christmas cards to troops one year
143. Be in the water with sharks (cage diving/swimming with sharks)
144. Go hang gliding
145. Give someone the holidays I never had
146. Pay for a stranger’s groceries
147. Complete at least half the items on this list before having children (119/183)
148. Leave change at a vending machine for a stranger
149. Send an unexpected gift to a friend
150. Help someone complete most/all of the items on their bucket list
151. Go on a real picnic
152. Leave a positive note in a book for someone to find
153. Make gingerbread men
154. Be a vegetarian for a day—roadtrip style!
155. Be a vegetarian for a week
156. Be a vegan for a week
157. Complete a challenge/dare
158. Buy stock
159. Learn to make a good mixed drink
160. Tour a vineyard
161. Learn to identify poisonous and edible plants in the wild
162. Kiss under mistletoe with someone I love
163. Learn how to shoot a real gun
164. Do the Christmas angel gifts thing/give a gift for toys for tots or something similar
165. Go skinny dipping
166. Be able to easily run a mile
167. Sleep on the beach
168. Solve a rubik’s cube
169. Get paid to travel
170. Come up with a list to the question “what would you do if you weren’t afraid?”
171. Do something creative and super sweet for someone
172. Go on the Polar Express
173. Have a “real” Christmas Eve (including a “fire” in the fireplace, lots of Christmas lights, & cookies and milk for santa)
174. Throw a housewarming party or something similar
175. Have an all-out birthday with metallic balloons, buying myself a gift I’ve been wanting, and dinner with friends or a partner
176. Read all the Harry Potter books
177. Go to Cirque du Soliel
178. Watch 100+ Ted Talks
179. Plant a tree on earth day
180. Get a henna tattoo
181. See penguins in their natural habitat
182. Ride in a limousine
183. Watch a movie from every year since moviemaking began
184. Write a living will
185. Have a philly cheesesteak in philly
186. Get a large, elaborate tattoo
187. Complete 101 things in 1001 days
188. Learn how to meditate
189. Go deep sea diving
190. Identify 100 things that make me happy
191. Try more than 50 new hobbies
192. Go practice at the batting cages
193. Visit all of the Iowa waterfalls
194. See all of Mall of America
195. Take an aerial class
196. Get a shark tattoo
197. Get a belly button ring
198. Go to the Van Gogh exhibit
199. Visit Kansas City
200. Visit Chicago
201. Visit the Dakotas
202. Take a belly dancing class
203. Tour the DSM Capital
204. See sunflower fields in bloom in person
205. Go actual mini golfing
206. Be consistent on IG
207. 10k IG followers
208. Consistently blog for 6 months

Completed Bucket List Items:

1. Go wine tasting
2. Go geocaching and find one
3. Kiss a girl
4. Watch at least 5 amazing scary movies(Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Jaws, Psycho, Nightmare on Elm Street, Carrie, and The Descent)
5. Have a scary movie marathon
6. Watch TFIOS
7. Buy at least 1 flannel shirt
8. Dinner in the sky
9. Try a new type of cuisine(Korean)
10. Go to a drive-in movie
11. Buy at least 1 beanie
12. Make a large purchase for my 21^st birthday
13. Own a shot glass
14. Move out
15. Visit all my extended family up North
16. Complete 7 goals within a week
17. Book a hotel room
18. Take a pole dancing class
19. Visit a farmer’s market
20. Buy a new interesting book I’ve never heard of before
21. Watch 365 movies (394)
22. Visit the Omaha Zoo and Aquarium
23. Go to Des Moines Pride
24. Come out to my immediate family (11/17/14)
25. Buy and use reusable grocery bags
26. Come out to my extended family
27. Come out to my friends
28. Do something crazy to my hair
29. Go on a staycation
30. Watch a sunrise and sunset in the same day
31. Own contacts
32. Give a stranger my number
33. Take the time to watch all of the Lord of the Rings movies and understand what’s going on in them
34. Do something crazy
35. Go to a gay bar
36. Go camping with someone I love
37. Spiderman kiss someone
38. Get a white ink tattoo
39. Have a drink at a bar
40. Have at least 1 “first drink” on my 21^st birthday
41. Go to the 21+ movies
42. Send someone flowers
43. Send a care package
44. Thank one of our current troops
45. Thank a veteran
46. Be someone’s biggest fan (Kayden’s)
47. Shop at a thrift store
48. Go to a casino
49. Fall in love (Christina)
50. Try smoking
51. Dye my hair a crazy color
52. Have a real first New Years kiss with someone I love
53. Obtain my undergraduate degree
54. Have sex
55. Have nice undergarments
56. Be able to fit in the clothes at Victoria’s Secret
57. Start a retirement fund
58. Have a signature drink
59. Create a college budget
60. Have a threesome
61. Buy lingerie
62. Ask someone out on a date
63. Ask someone to be my significant other
64. Take a bath by candlelight with wine/champagne
65. Change my hair color
66. Go to a drag show
67. Have a job lined up for when I graduate from college with my bachelor’s
68. Be an overly courteous driver for a week
69. Compliment a stranger
70. Complete 21 items on this list by my 21^st birthday(31/21)
71. Complete 75 items on this list by my 22^nd birthday (82/75) 
72. Go storm chasing (not just sitting outside during a storm, but actually chasing and planning)
73. Spend a romantic evening with someone
74. Try a starbucks holiday drink(PSL)
75. Learn to do taxes
76. Go to a restaurant I’ve always wanted to try but haven’t (Magic Time Machine)
77. Help someone cross something off their bucket list (real new years/fall in love kiss-Ash)
78. Take C to yosto
79. Try an exciting alcoholic drink
80. Try an exciting non-alcoholic drink
81. Create my own piece of artwork to display
82. Reach some sort of achievement (soda)
83. Walk across a long bridge without freaking out
84. Be on a boat with someone I love
85. Get a tattoo
86. Get a 3^rd piercing
87. Cut my hair even shorter than when I donated it
88. Eat something strange that I’ve never tried before(fried jalapenos, corn nuggets, BBQ shrimp, &BBQ bologna & cheese)
89. Get a library card
90. Buy real lipstick and wear it
91. Bake in the middle of the night with someone I love
92. Create melted crayon art
93. Go to the Texas State Fair
94. Try jell-o shots
95. Get rid of ½ the things I own
96. Learn to live with the things I already have ( no shopping for new things unless extremely necessary)
97. Cut my hair super short (almost shaved)
98. Take off on my birthday
99. Quit a job
100. Donate to locks of love (or a similar organization)
101. Visit a walk-through aquarium
102. Make a huge Thanksgiving dinner for friends who don’t have a place to go for Thanksgiving
103. Complete & upload pictures of 50 of the things on this list by January 1, 2015 (50/50 as of 12/11/14)
104. Visit an aquarium
105. Visit an art museum
106. Change someone’s life
107. Keep up my own blog for at least 6 months
108. Give an employee a 100% tip (Sonic 06/2015)
109. Go 1 month without soda (started: February 7, 2014)
110. Go 6 months without soda (started February 7, 2014)
111. Go 1 year without soda (started: February 7, 2014—Complete! Still going as of March 5, 2015)
112. Be truly happy
113. Get a tablet
114. Get a newer car
115. Learn to make my own successful website
116. Go to a concert of one of my favorite bands (Fall Out Boy with Kayden)
117. Conquer a fear (heights)
118. Complete 100 items on this list by the day I graduate from college (100/100)
119. Go see a big Christmas lights show
120. Visit an apple orchard
121. Visit a pumpkin patch
122. Visit a winery