Annnnd piggy-backing on the last post… my 2013 Bucket List!
A primer for those who are new. My senior year of high school, I sat down with my friend over sparkling cider and we wrote 20-item long bucket lists for the year. Not life-long, someday-I-will-get-around-to-doing-all-this-ridiculous-shit lists, but an annual list of goals. Big goals, small goals, things I’d never done, things I’d done plenty and just wanted to ensure I did that year, as well. We fed off each other’s ideas and started the year looking forward to all the awesome stuff on our lists.
I loved the idea of goal setting instead of half-assed new year’s resolutions that were forgotten my the time February rolled around. So I kept up the tradition, and now it’s spread to others—my family and friends. By sharing the list with the world, I am held accountable. And at the end of the year, I fess up and share what I accomplished and what I didn’t. They vary in length and content (My 2012 list has links to past years at the bottom), but are all super awesome, if I do say so myself.
So, ladies and gents, without further ado, what I think is my final draft of my 2013 BUCKET LIST!!
- GO HOME TO BOSTON.
- Finish my mystery project.
- Intern someplace new and exciting (and conclude this identity crisis).
- Revamp a pair of shoes.
- Learn to knit or crochet and finish a scarf (or other big project).
- Go to Berlin.
- Go to Istanbul.
- GRADUATE COLLEGE (Whoa).
- Attach a lock to a love bridge (even if my name is the only one on it).
- Buy myself a proper pen and learn calligraphy.
- Learn some beginner guitar.
- Go someplace wild for Spring Break.
- TURN 21!!
- Celebrate my birthday by doing (and chronicling) 21 random acts of kindness.
- Smoke hash with my dad in a hash house (NOTE: his recommendation for the list).
- Visit all the Emerald Necklace parks.
- Include a “word of the day” in my journal entries.
- Start a new story idea (methinks an anthology).
- Host a “Game of Thrones” dinner party.
- Throw a party for ’MURICA.
- Wear a corset in public.
- Get balayage highlights.
- Drink from a coconut.
- Compile a “family” cookbook.
- Host a “favorite things” party.
- Have a date with each new Kappa member.
- Ice skate on Frog Pond.
- Take a barista course.
- Go on a trip with my mama!
- Register with the DAR.
- Go to a BRUINS game.
- Have dessert at the Top of the Hub.
- Skydive (BAHH!).
- Meditate in the Buddha room at the MFA.
- Build a snowman (with weird props).
- Do something crazy.
- Buy something Kate Spade (again!).
- Plant an herb garden.
- Finish another journal (and buy a new one!).
- Run a theme 5K (color, zombie, mud).
- Be serenaded.
- Scrapbook my Europefest.
- Join a wine of the month club (and learn something!).
- Improve my half marathon time.
- Get some sort of certification (very open-ended).
- FINALLY volunteer at Hope Lodge.
- Participate in a new club.
- Play an intramural sport.
- Spend an entire day sin pantelones.
- Revamp my ugly-ass, heavy dresser.
- Drink mulled wine (omnomnomnom).
- Get laser hair removal.
- Road trip (with Lauren?).
- Learn to tie a tie on someone else.
- Go to a professor’s office hours.
- See an opera/musical.
- Get a Boston library card.
- Play hide and seek in the Prudential.
- Do a polar bear plunge.
- Go to a Turkish bath.
- Somehow reincorporate singing into my life (lessons, choir, karaoke).
- Ride a (mechanical) bull.
- Read at least a book a month. No excuses.
- Throw a pleasure party (LOL).
- Learn 10 phrases in Turkish.
- Buy a book on etiquette.
- Read two different books on religion.
- Learn to manage personal finances.
- Visit a castle.
- Get a henna tattoo.
- Skinny dip.
- See the Slutcracker.
- Buy myself a graduation present.
- Build a travel pin board.
- Go to Texas!
- Narrow down my allergy and/or go organic or vegetarian.
- Implement one day a week as my domestic day.
- Wear a tiara.
- DIY or purchase American flag shorts.
- Talk to my brothers more regularly.
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