*indicates mission accomplished, but not necessarily blogged yet
TBD = To Be Determined
- Have an Academy Awards party with the Diva (one of my BFFs) *
- Go to London *
- Write a novel (work-in-progress)
- Write a screenplay with my daughter
- Visit Australia
- Take myself out on a Saturday night date
- Go to a shooting range *
- Bake a souffle successfully
- Have a dinner party in my back yard (summer) *
- Start a book club *
- Start a Red Hat Society
- Make Creme Fraiche Flambe
- Retire at age 50 *
- Pay off my mortgage by age 50 *
- Meet Mel Gibson (nevermind)
- Sing Karaoke with Sarge (my husband)
- Sing Karaoke with my son
- Do a PowerPoint presentation on my family tree *
- Cruise Greece
- Stay in the south of France for a month
- Learn Spanish *
- Shop on the Champs Elysee in Paris
- Shop on Rodeo Drive
- Create a DVD of family interviews
- Attend a party in New York City
- Take my kids to Grand Canyon
- Take an extended Family Photo (* Only Sarge's family so far)
- Do DNA test to find my heritage *
- Visit Oklahoma to finish my genealogy search
- Attend a family reunion
- Visit Arkansas, Sarge's family home *
- Visit Rosarita Beach
- Redecorate my bedroom
- Spend Thanksgiving in New York City
- Ride the Orient Express
- Swim with a one-eyed dolphin
- Have my portrait painted
- Go skinny dipping *
- Be an extra in a film
- Write my memoir
- Send a message in a bottle
- Go to a pub in London *
- Tutor someone
- Spend New Year's Eve in Las Vegas *
- Volunteer on a political campaign
- Experience weightlessness
- Visit Rio de Janeiro
- Drive on the Autobahn
- Donate money and put my name on a park bench, adopt-a-highway, etc.
- Ride in a hot air balloon *
- Create my own website*
- Visit the Holy Land
- Cruise the Nile
- Be a bartender for only one night.
- Pray in the Sistine Chapel *
- Visit Griffith Park Observatory *
- Visit the Smithsonian again
- Be green *
- Visit Monaco *
- Visit Florida Keys *
- Give an all-girls pool party *
- Visit the Louvre *
- Go wild with the girls in San Francisco *
- Visit Hilton Head *
- Visit Savannah *
- Visit Lisbon, Portugal
- Make Crustacean's Garlic Noodles *
- Have lunch on the Seine *
- Visit the Roman Colisseum *
- Visit Cancun *
- Bike down a volcano in Maui *
- See The Color Purple in NYC *
- Go to Atlantis, Paradise Island *
- Lounge around in South Beach *
- Research my Family Tree *
- Dance the night away in Barcelona
- In Brugges *
- Kauai *
- Take the kids to Waikiki *
- Take a Sibling Sojourn to the homeland *
- Stay on a plantation in the south *
- Visit New Orleans *
- Road Trip with the Clippers Basketball team *
- New York with the family *
- Visit the Vatican *
- Go backstage at the Oscars *
- Have a rooftop party *
- Ride in a private plane *
- Become a published author *
- Go to Disney Hall *
- See President Obama in person *
- Executive produce a short film *
- Go to Rome
- Visit Malaga/Marbella, Spain *
- Have a dinner party in my back yard (Winter)
- Visit California wine country *
- Nice, France *
- Amsterdam! *
- Live to see an African-American be nominated for President *
- Live to see an African-American become President *
- Visit Vigo, Spain *
- The rock of Gibralter *
- Gather all of my genealogy research and put it into a book for my family
- See the great pyramids of Egypt
- Go fly a kite (like Sarge has sometimes suggested)
- Read in the New York City Library
- Serve in a soup kitchen
- Throw a "Destination Party"
- Watch fireworks at the Hollywood Bowl*
- Write in the Rose Room of the NY Public Library
- Be a trending topic on Twitter
- Go to the County Fair*
- Go away for a writing week, and live to blog about it *
- TBD
- Have 200 items on my Bucket List
- See First Lady Michele Obama in person *
- TBD
- Get to the Getty Museum*
- Have an author visit our book club*
- UCLA Writers Program
- Tour Santa Cruz wine country
- Host a Wine Tasting Party
- Go to a destination wedding
- Miscellaneous Moors
- Visit the Eiffel Tower
- TBD
- Vacation alone
- TBD
- Watch a tennis tournament in person*
- Farmers Market on Fairfax*
- Write a poem*
- Contact someone who bears the same name as me
- Visit Hearst Castle *
- Rent a houseboat
- Meet someone I met online in person
- Go to the Arclight Theater in Hollywood *
- Scrapbook Sarge's love letters written to me over the last 33 years
- Start a family tradition *
- Complete a 15-day photo challenge *
- Rent a beach house*
- See Prince in concert every single time he comes to town*
- Take a cooking class w/my daughter
- L.A. Times Book Festival*
- Shop at Neiman Marcus Houston, TX (on someone else's dime)
- Stay at Half Moon Bay Ritz Carlton
- Take a family cruise to Europe
- Drive up the coast on Highway 1 *
- Leimert Park Book Festival *
- Leimert Park Artwalk
- Stay at a Bed & Breakfast
- Chronicle all of Sarge's love letters in a scrapbook
- Attend Pageant of the Masters *
- Throw a party on a yacht
- Give a Christmas party
- Stay at a boutique hotel *
- Take the Diva & the Doc to eat at the Palace Grill *
- Visit a random town on a roadtrip
- TBD
- TBD