Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. Les Brown

 

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Mark Victore Hansen

 

My Bucket List

(In no particular order)

1. Marry a wonderful man 6/25/05
2. Meet my favorite actor Tom Hanks
3. Dance in the rain out of happiness
4. Go on a tropical vacation with just my husband 10/17/14 Antigua
5. Make a four course meal for my friends
6. Live in a house where everyone has their own room and at least 2 bathrooms 5/31/13
7. Meet Peyton Manning
8. To have children 4/24/09 & 5/09/12
9. Bring my family to Disney World 5/8/15
10. Travel to Norway to visit my Aunt & Cousins
11. Travel to Italy
12. Travel to Paris and climb the Eiffel Tower March of 2004 with my sister
13. Teach my kids to swim – Summer 16 One kid down… One to go!
14. Teach my kids to ride their bikes – Summer 16 One kid down… One to go!
15. Go to a Super Bowl
16. Attend the Olympics
17. Finish a 5K run
18. Finish a 10k run
19. Be debt free
20. Buy a vacation home
21. To enter a pie eating contest
22. Dance with my son at his wedding
23. Celebrate my 50 year anniversary
24. record a song
25. Take a photography class February 2015
26. Write a Children’s Book
27. Buy/rent a motor home and visit all 50 states when I retire
28. Pay for my kids’ college
29. Buy a VW Bug for myself after my kids leave the nest (I loved the one I used to have)
30. Work because I like to, not because I have to – 8/1/16  Started working at home
    
31. Visit Niagra Falls
32. Take a photograph every day
33. Get into a Bikini and feel good about it
34. Lose the baby weight  1/31/16
    
35. Climb a tree
36. Read a book a month for an entire year
37. Hike the Appalachian Trail.
38. Ride on a Sailboat
39. Try rowing
40. Try clay pigeon shooting
41. Make a hole in one
42. Go horseback riding along the beach.
43. Swim in all of the Great Lakes
44. Learn to ski
45. Learn 100  ASL (American Sign Language) signs
46. Learn how to play a song on the guitar
47. Swim with Dolphins
48. Go on a helicopter ride.
49. Race a sports car (where there is no other traffic)
50. Milk a cow
51. See the Grand Canyon
52. Go to Africa
53. See Stonehenge
54. Visit the Vatican
55. See “The Scream” for myself
56. Be an extra in a movie
57. Visit the Blarney Stone
58. Have a tea party with my daughter  Summer of 2014
59. Visit the Wizandry World of Harry Potter in Orlando, Florida
60. See Mount Rushmore
61. Learn to Sew (again)
62. Have a Harry Potter movie marathon.
63. Lead an extraordinarily creative life
64. Get a complete makeover
65. Discover if blonds really do have more fun  December 2013
66. Meet the President of the United States (not Trump)
67. Sleep in a castle
68. Meet my grandchildren
69. Write a letter to each of my children telling them  about my life and the lessons I’ve learned
70. Own a house by the water
71. Build a Habitat for Humanity Home
72. Join a Big Brother, Big Sister Program
73. Donate blood
74. Visit St. Jude and make a donation in honor of Carmela
75. Be a voice actor (I got to do a voice over in LA and loved it)  11/20/13 Olaf in Disney’s Frozen
76. Have over 50,000 followers on Twitter 4/1/15
    
77. See my kids graduate from High School
78. Eat a New York City Hot Dog
79. Host a Halloween costume party
80. Go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
81. Cook the Thanksgiving Turkey
82. Ice skate at the Rockefeller Center during Christmas time
83. Watch the fireworks over Sydney Harbor (Australia) on New Year’s Eve
84. See a psychic
85. Sit on a jury
86. Start a snowball fight
87. Visit a movie set January 2011 Saw the Muppets being filmed
88. Throw someone a surprise party
89. Attend the midnight screening of a blockbuster movie on the day it opens
90. Have a food fight (a real honest to goodness one)
91. Stomp grapes to make wine
92. Perform a random act of kindness every day, for a year
93. Watch a baby be born (in real life)
94. Learn to braid my daughter’s hair
95. Watch my son play sports on a team April 2015 Soccer Team Germany!
    
96. Read a book my husband wrote
97. Learn to fly a plane
98. Learn how to use Photoshop to edit my photos Feb 2015
99. Watch the 10 Greatest Movies of All Time – Ranked by the American Film Institute:

• Citizen Kane
• Casa Blanca
• The Godfather
• Gone With the Wind
• Lawrence of Arabia
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Graduate
• On the Waterfront
• Schindler’s List
• Singin’ In The Rain

100.  Live every day like it is my last!