Some people call it a Bucket List, but I’ve always called it my Life List. Call it what you want, it all means the same thing: a list of what I want to do before I’m not around to cross things off my list anymore.
My list looked different from when I started it in college from how it looks today. Now I’ve got the “With My Family” component. The addition of this part of my list is very special to me and has only just begun.
Thanks to the wonderful @deguia (Daniel De Guia) from twitter, I finally have compiled my list. Up until this time, I carried it around inside my brain. This is the first time I put it in written (typed) form. Want to see @deguia’s list? Go to his site and check it out.
So here it is; thankfully I’ve crossed quite a few things off my list in my 42 years on the planet.
Eileen’s Life List
Scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
Travel extensively on my own
Graduate from college
Own a home
Re-do our kitchen
Re-do our bathrooms
Have a wall of bookshelves in our home
Donate my ponytail to charity
Travel to Australia
Experience the hot air balloon festival in Albuquerque, New Mexico
See the stars on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame
Go to a movie at Grauman’s Chinese Theater
Be happily married
Dance with my father at my wedding
Kiss the Blarney Stone
Hear the bells of Big Ben
Go to Japan
Climb the Eiffel Tower
See the rose windows of Notre Dame
Go to the roof deck of the Empire State Building
See the arch in New York from When Harry Met Sally (NOT crossed off after my trip to NYC. Now I have a good reason to go back!)
Go to DisneyWorld
Go to Disneyland Paris (for free!)
Be a grandma
Celebrate my 100th birthday
Bunjee jump
See the pyramids
See the Mayan Temples
Shake a King, Queen, and the President’s hand
See the Petra Great Temple
Run a half marathon
Run the Bay to Breakers
Get re-married to the LOML in all 50 states before our 50th wedding anniversary (is this even legal?)
Have a son
Have another son
Have another son (notice: “have a daughter” is not on my list; we’re DONE)
Write a children’s book
Write a Christmas children’s book
See a taping of Oprah
See a taping of Saturday Night Live
Be a seat-filler at the Oscars
Go to the Price is Right
See a taping of the ‘Rosie O’Donnell Show
See a taping of Letterman
See a taping of the Ellen Show
See a taping of Johnnie Carson (sadly, this will never be crossed off; he was a genius)
Hike Half Dome in Yosemite
Go to the Galapagos Islands
Drink a bottle of beer on the Great Wall of China
Be Tinkerbell on the zip line at Disneyland and set off the fireworks
Go to Hershey, Pennsylvania and see the Hershey plant
Go to Vermont to the Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream factory
Be an elementary school teacher
Get my pilot’s license
Own a convertible
Own a convertible again
Be on television
Learn to ride a unicycle
Learn to juggle
Learn to surf
Drive a race car
Eileen’s Life List With My Family
Cheer and cry when my boys graduate from college
Dance with the LOML at my sons’ weddings
Find a bag of money
Go to Catalina Island
Camp in all the National Parks
Go to Rio and eat at our friend’s restaurant
Go to Alcatraz
Travel to Australia
Tour the monuments, Smithsonian, and White House in Washington D.C.
Hike Half Dome with at least one of my sons
See Europe
Run the Bay to Breakers with at least one of my boys
Dig ditches in a third world country
Go to Hawaii
Fly around volcanoes in a helicopter in Hawaii
Go to Disneyland
Go to DisneyWorld
Go to Europe
Go kayaking
Scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef
See the LEGO factory in Billund, Denmark
Phew! There it is, or at least there is what I can remember. As I go through life I say, “That’s on my Life List!” I’ll have to be sure to add to this as I discover new adventures waiting for me and the Calandro Clan.
What does your Life List look like? Do you have one? Let me know and share some of the things you want to do. I’m sure it will bring me right back here to add to mine.
Now I better get off this computer and get busy crossing some things off this list. Onward!
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Great list! I like how you’ve been able to do so many of the things you wanted to experience!