Tuesday, July 20, 2010

MY BUCKET LIST

This partial list is a work-in-progress and is in no particular order of importance
*indicates mission accomplished, but not necessarily blogged yet
TBD = To Be Determined
  1. Have an Academy Awards party with the Diva (one of my BFFs) *
  2. Go to London *
  3. Write a novel (work-in-progress)
  4. Write a screenplay with my daughter
  5. Visit Australia
  6. Take myself out on a Saturday night date
  7. Go to a shooting range *
  8. Bake a souffle successfully
  9. Have a dinner party in my back yard (summer) *
  10. Start a book club *
  11. Start a Red Hat Society
  12. Make Creme Fraiche Flambe
  13. Retire at age 50 *
  14. Pay off my mortgage by age 50 *
  15. Meet Mel Gibson (nevermind)
  16. Sing Karaoke with Sarge (my husband)
  17. Sing Karaoke with my son
  18. Do a PowerPoint presentation on my family tree *
  19. Cruise Greece
  20. Stay in the south of France for a month
  21. Learn Spanish *
  22. Shop on the Champs Elysee in Paris
  23. Shop on Rodeo Drive
  24. Create a DVD of family interviews
  25. Attend a party in New York City
  26. Take my kids to Grand Canyon
  27. Take an extended Family Photo (* Only Sarge's family so far)
  28. Do DNA test to find my heritage *
  29. Visit Oklahoma to finish my genealogy search
  30. Attend a family reunion
  31. Visit Arkansas, Sarge's family home *
  32. Visit Rosarita Beach
  33. Redecorate my bedroom
  34. Spend Thanksgiving in New York City
  35. Ride the Orient Express
  36. Swim with a one-eyed dolphin
  37. Have my portrait painted
  38. Go skinny dipping *
  39. Be an extra in a film
  40. Write my memoir
  41. Send a message in a bottle
  42. Go to a pub in London *
  43. Tutor someone
  44. Spend New Year's Eve in Las Vegas *
  45. Volunteer on a political campaign
  46. Experience weightlessness
  47. Visit Rio de Janeiro
  48. Drive on the Autobahn
  49. Donate money and put my name on a park bench, adopt-a-highway, etc.
  50. Ride in a hot air balloon *
  51. Create my own website*
  52. Visit the Holy Land
  53. Cruise the Nile
  54. Be a bartender for only one night.
  55. Pray in the Sistine Chapel *
  56. Visit Griffith Park Observatory *
  57. Visit the Smithsonian again
  58. Be green *
  59. Visit Monaco *
  60. Visit Florida Keys *
  61. Give an all-girls pool party *
  62. Visit the Louvre *
  63. Go wild with the girls in San Francisco *
  64. Visit Hilton Head *
  65. Visit Savannah *
  66. Visit Lisbon, Portugal
  67. Make Crustacean's Garlic Noodles *
  68. Have lunch on the Seine *
  69. Visit the Roman Colisseum *
  70. Visit Cancun *
  71. Bike down a volcano in Maui *
  72. See The Color Purple in NYC *
  73. Go to Atlantis, Paradise Island *
  74. Lounge around in South Beach *
  75. Research my Family Tree *
  76. Dance the night away in Barcelona
  77. In Brugges *
  78. Kauai *
  79. Take the kids to Waikiki *
  80. Take a Sibling Sojourn to the homeland *
  81. Stay on a plantation in the south *
  82. Visit New Orleans *
  83. Road Trip with the Clippers Basketball team *
  84. New York with the family *
  85. Visit the Vatican *
  86. Go backstage at the Oscars *
  87. Have a rooftop party *
  88. Ride in a private plane *
  89. Become a published author *
  90. Go to Disney Hall *
  91. See President Obama in person *
  92. Executive produce a short film *
  93. Go to Rome
  94. Visit Malaga/Marbella, Spain *
  95. Have a dinner party in my back yard (Winter)
  96. Visit California wine country *
  97. Nice, France *
  98. Amsterdam! *
  99. Live to see an African-American be nominated for President *
  100. Live to see an African-American become President *
  101. Visit Vigo, Spain *
  102. The rock of Gibralter *
  103. Gather all of my genealogy research and put it into a book for my family
  104. See the great pyramids of Egypt
  105. Go fly a kite (like Sarge has sometimes suggested)
  106. Read in the New York City Library
  107. Serve in a soup kitchen
  108. Throw a "Destination Party"
  109. Watch fireworks at the Hollywood Bowl*
  110. Write in the Rose Room of the NY Public Library
  111. Be a trending topic on Twitter
  112. Go to the County Fair*
  113. Go away for a writing week, and live to blog about it *
  114. TBD
  115. Have 200 items on my Bucket List
  116. See First Lady Michele Obama in person *
  117. TBD
  118. Get to the Getty Museum*
  119. Have an author visit our book club*
  120. UCLA Writers Program
  121. Tour Santa Cruz wine country
  122. Host a Wine Tasting Party
  123. Go to a destination wedding
  124. Miscellaneous Moors
  125. Visit the Eiffel Tower
  126. TBD
  127. Vacation alone
  128. TBD
  129. Watch a tennis tournament in person*
  130. Farmers Market on Fairfax*
  131. Write a poem*
  132. Contact someone who bears the same name as me
  133. Visit Hearst Castle *
  134. Rent a houseboat
  135. Meet someone I met online in person
  136. Go to the Arclight Theater in Hollywood *
  137. Scrapbook Sarge's love letters written to me over the last 33 years
  138. Start a family tradition *
  139. Complete a 15-day photo challenge *
  140. Rent a beach house*
  141. See Prince in concert every single time he comes to town*
  142. Take a cooking class w/my daughter
  143. L.A. Times Book Festival*
  144. Shop at Neiman Marcus Houston, TX (on someone else's dime)
  145. Stay at Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton
  146. Take a family cruise to Europe
  147. Drive up the coast on Highway 1 *
  148. Leimert Park Book Festival *
  149. Leimert Park Artwalk
  150. Stay at a Bed & Breakfast
  151. Chronicle all of Sarge's love letters in a scrapbook
  152. Attend Pageant of the Masters *
  153. Throw a party on a yacht
  154. Give a Christmas party
  155. Stay at a boutique hotel *
  156. Take the Diva & the Doc to eat at the Palace Grill *
  157. Visit a random town on a roadtrip
  158. TBD
  159. TBD