My Bucket List

I was ecstatic to see this week’s writing assignment in my inbox this morning. Thanks Mama Kat!

Write a list of 100 things you want to do before you turn 100. Otherwise known as a “bucket list”.

After looking at the prompts I thought that the bucket list would be a really good challenge to accept. So here goes.

1. Visit Italy, Greece, Ghana, the Dominican Republic and Paris
2. Start a scholarship fund for my alma mater
3. Go on annual trips with my girlfriends
4. Spend a weekend at a spa in the Arizona desert
5. Go to Disneyworld
6. Own a home
7. Plant a vegetable garden
8. Go on a wine tour in Napa Valley
9. Go to a Dallas Cowboys game in the new stadium
10. See the pyramids
11. Have kids
12. Publish a book
13. Grill the perfect slab of ribs
14. See a play on Broadway
15. Visit the Smithsonian
16. Walk the Great Wall of China
17. Make a sexy home video (to be destroyed immediately following….LOL)
18. Take a cruise
19. Learn to speak French
20. Organize and host a family reunion
21. Go hiking in the mountains
22. Spend a weekend in a cabin in the woods
23. Meet Chele in person
24. Have a surprise birthday party thrown for me
25. Stain a piece of furniture
26. Find spiritual balance
27. Do pilates on the beach by the ocean
28. Be unafraid to do whatever it takes to have full peace
29. Grow my hair to the middle of my back
30. Make a perfect meatloaf
31. Wear a custom made dress
32. Drive fast enough to be scared
33. Participate in Race for the Cure
34. Light and sit in front of a wood burning fireplace
35. Make Boeuf Bourguignon
36. Visit Crater Lake
37. Meet Oprah
38. Drive a pickup truck
39. Have sex outside
40. Try gouda cheese
41. Get a tattoo of a panther on my lower back
42. Bowl over 113
43. Use liquid eyeliner….straight
44. Sing at karaoke night
45. Go parachuting
46. Win a Spotlight Award from Special Events magazine
47. Go to a WWE Pay Per View match and have good seats
48. See Phantom of the Opera
49. See the Nutcracker
50. Pole dance for my man…to his liking
51. Go horse back riding
52. See a waterfall
53. Learn to ride a bicycle
54. Learn to roller skate
55. Ride a boat on a nice summer day and have a picnic on board
56. Teach in a traditional classroom setting
57. Take a professional pastry course
58. Vacation in an Italian villa
59. Own a pearl strand necklace
60. Make homemade croutons
61. Read Moby Dick
62. See the original version of The Women
63. See Mommy Dearest
64. Get a Brazilian bikini wax
65. Get a breast reduction
66. Ride a mechanical bull
67. Eat oysters
68. Ride in a hot air balloon
69. Be on the cover of a magazine
70. Visit my great grandmother’s grave
71. Make a soft chocolate chip cookie
72. See Jill Scott in concert
73. Have a pizza bagel at the Old School Bagel Cafe in Stillwater
74. Eat a taco from one of those trucks in LA
75. Go ballroom dancing in an evening gown
76. Play charades
77. Go on a mystery train ride
78. Read an Agatha Christie novel
79. Get a doctorate degree
80. Get rid of my leather pants
81. See Cirque du Soleil perform
82. Go on an African safari
83. Read Star Jones’ book
84. Complete a “do it myself” project
85. Attend a scrapbook convention
86. Complete my family tree
87. Make homemade sangria
88. Become aware enough to effectively meditate
89. Sew an outfit for myself
90. Get multi-colored highlights
91. Wear green and/or blue eye shadow successfully
92. Make candles
93. Sleep on silk sheets at least once
94. Lay in a hammock
95. Swing on a porch swing with my man
96. Paint a picture
97. Go to a firing range
98. Learn to play golf
99. Do a photo shoot
100. Wear a crown

THIS WAS HARD AS HELL TO COMPLETE!

Thanks for visiting Diva (in Demand).  My blog escapades have followed me across 4 states, 3 jobs, a business venture, and a new husband. There are no mini divas yet but I have loads of nieces and nephews to slobber and wipe their dirty hands on me. I am an amateur pastry chef, certified cake decorator, and seasoned home cook who knows how to pair French cuiseine with fine wine, collard greens and cornbread. You'll find a little bit of everything around here.....where I take talking to myself to a whole new level.