My Bucket List--Past, Present, and Future

I had a bucket list growing up, and I have since lost it.  However, I remember a lot of what was on it, and I have plenty of new things to add, so here is the new one.  I will add to this as I think of things and accomplish things!  Also, afterward I will list what I have accomplished so far.

My Bucket List

• Spend New Year's Eve in Times Square
• Ride a hot air balloon
• Get a book published
• Get some of my poetry published
• Get a photograph published
• Get something published in a respected magazine (The New Yorker, etc.)
• Try surfing
• Learn to speak Spanish (or whatever language other than English) fluently
• Take a cooking class
• Take ballroom dancing class
• Live with Amish people for at least three consecutive days
• Drive on the Odoban
• Go inside the Tower of London
• Go white-water rafting
• Go inside the Statue of Liberty
• Go to Ellis Island
• Join the Mile High club ;)
• See the Mona Lisa in person
• Go to the Sistine Chapel
• See the Great Wall of China
• Take a ghost tour in Gettysburg
• Go to California--San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge
• Take a singing class
• Model in an ad
• Be on T.V.
• See the Vatican
• Go to a psychic
• Be in a movie with a speaking part
• Get hypnotized
• Live in a brownstone in New York City
• Make my family tree
• Kiss a complete stranger and walk away, never saying a word
• Smoke peyote in the desert
• Make a documentary and enter it in a competition
• See London, Paris, Africa, Tokyo, Italy (Calabria and Venice), Germany
• See concentration camps in Germany
• Set foot in all fifty states
• Go to Disneyland
• Volunteer somewhere regularly
• Volunteer in a foreign country
• Get a word in the dictionary
• Sell my artwork, to a stranger
• Invent something and get a patent for it
• Read poetry at the Bowery
• Succeed at spoken word
• Go to a cafe in Amsterdam
• Paint a mural
• Go to a fashion show
• Ice skate at Rockefeller Center
• See the Rockettes
• Go to a murder mystery dinner
• Have an art exhibit in New York City
• Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Take ghost tour while there.
• Buy stocks
• Watch "The Way We Were," It's a Wonderful Life," and Gone With the Wind."
• Sing "Oh Holy Night" at church on Christmas Eve while my family is there
• Hang out with really famous people--NOT politicians or athletes.
• Live in a foreign country for more than a month
• Give a lecture
• Teach a class
• Try food from as many countries as I possibly can
• Run a 1/2 marathon
• Ride a jet ski
• Be in a commercial
• Dance in the Nutcracker
• Buy everyone in my family something expensive they want
• Talk to a prostitute about her life
• Karaoke alone
• Learn to bartend
• Go to some sort of Michael Jackson event
• See the Pyramids in Egypt
• Graduate college
• Go to all continents

Some of what I have accomplished (in a rush--will add more later)

• Work at Victoria's Secret
• Go to the top of the Empire State Building
• Go to the top of the Sear's Tower
• Have an art exhibit of my own
• Get my artwork published
• Have my very own dog
• Read my poetry at an open mic
• Work at Westinghouse
• Learn to Waitress
• Volunteer at a soup kitchen
• Watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Learn to drive a stick
• Try wakeboarding
• Learn to snowboard
• Compete in gymnastics
• Write for my college newspaper
• Go to the south (Tennessee!)
• See Chicago
• See New York City

TO BE CONTINUED :D