This summer I took Business 101 with Brother Mark Nygren (FYI, this crazy man is a complete blog to himself. I highly recommend taking a class from him if you happen to be taking business classes at BYU-Idaho. And RANDOM, but does he look like Chevy Chase to you?!).
Anyway, he assigned us to create our own “Bucket List,” partly inspired from the movie that came out this summer with Jack Nicholson, and a newspaper article by Wendy Swallow Williams from the Washington Post. Basically he had us write a list of at least 50 things we wanted to do before we die.
And now, switching gears, this Friday, November 21, 2008, 10 A.M. EST, I will be at the oral surgeon’s office, awaiting all sorts of painkillers & drugs & even needles to put me to sleep in order to remove my lower two wisdom. Not that I’m a pansy or anything, but it does alarm me about the whole “there-is-a-chance-you-could-die-or-be-seriously-injured-for-life-from-this-procedure-so-sign-your-name-here-on-this-waiver-so-we-won’t-get-sued” form. Hmm.
If that didn’t pump me up enough, everyone has been telling me their own horror stories stories. These all have been so random, ranging from my sister, Charika-Freaka having the 2nd worst case of wisdom teeth removal as noted by her surgeon, to the Mr. Masculine being so upset about that he actually broke down and started crying, to Mr. Joe Average getting up the next to go water-rafting. Therefore, I have no clue what to expect other than maybe pain, tears, or even slight possibly of water-rafting on Saturday. We’ll see.
So what does this have to do with Brother Nygren and his “Bucket List?” Just made me look over my list and realize that if I died (sorry to sound morbid), I pretty much would not have anything accomplished from my “Bucket List.” Here’s just some of the stuff I put on it:
1. Learn piano & guitar & just overall be more musically inclined
2. Work on my mad cooking skills & take a cooking class
3. Grow a vegetable garden
4. Grow a flower garden….aww cute!
5. Complete a triathlon (I was sure ambitious when I was putting this list together!)
6. Drive stick-shift, ok, so NOT as ambitious as the triathlon
7. Get Married…hmm, I guess I didn’t think that would be assumed
8. Have babies
9. Meet HARRISON FORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (I better do this last, because I might very well die of shock the moment it happens!)
10. Own a home
11. Learn to wakeboard
12. Ski/Snowboard and be good at it
13. Learn to cut hair
14. Learn to sew
15. Be on a volleyball team and actually be good at my overhand serve
16. Golf
17. Travel to CAMPINAS, BRAZIL!!!
18. Travel to Italy; however, I will have to take a class just to prep me on all the history there before I go. Once I’m there, I WILL buy a pair of shoes.
19. Be involved on the PTA for my kids
20. Run for a local office someday
21. Get a manicure (I’ve yet to do this!)
22. Keep an updated journal
23. Learn to ride a horse and actually enjoy it
24. Visit NYC and Paris, France
25. Get season tickets for an NBA team one year. I guess it depends on where I live, but my heart belongs to the Dallas Mavericks! Go Mavs!
26. Fish frequently—and actually skin, cook, and eat the fish I catch.
27. Skinny-dip…maybe more that once…
28. Graduate College, and hopefully a Masters Program
29. Perform in a community theatre play
30. Adopt a Grandparent (I actually already did this, so that’s one to cross off!)
31. Learn Spanish
32. Learn to juggle. It’d be fun!
33. Improve my hula-hooping skills
34. Hike around the Grand Canyon
35. Camp at Zions National Park
36. Take a random beach trip to Florida
37. Learn to make gourmet homemade ice-cream
38. Take a cruise
39. Do the splits. Ouch!
40. Take a ride in a hot air balloon
41. Visit a game show as an audience member
42. Have laser eye surgery performed
43. Pick up photography and be good at it!
43. Pick up photography and be good at it!
44. Learn calligraphy
45. Start to scrap book
46. Get a real estate license
47. Learn to make bread, and have it taste better than my mother’s.
48. Go on a mission for my church (hopefully to Brazil!!!)
49. Run a mile in under 8 minutes
50. Be an extra in a movie
So some are events, some of these are life-long goals, and some I may actually never get to. We’ll see with life’s twists and turns what will actually happen. But as soon as I regain consciousness from my oral surgery, you could say I’ll definitely have my work cut out for me. Wish me luck!
So some are events, some of these are life-long goals, and some I may actually never get to. We’ll see with life’s twists and turns what will actually happen. But as soon as I regain consciousness from my oral surgery, you could say I’ll definitely have my work cut out for me. Wish me luck!