Bucket List...

I have had this a while. But today we were talking about Bucket lists...aka things we want to do before we "kick the bucket." Here's mine. It grows (and shrinks due to accomplishing things) daily.

Abbie's Life List:

-Get my education paid off and eventually get enough money to pay my parents back for what they have given me to further my education.

-Be able to show my community that you can make something of your life even if you are from a small town in the middle of no where.

-Gain more confidence in all areas of my life. **2009

-Write to somebody famous, and get a REAL reply **Jonathan Safran Foer 2007 (writer of one of my favorite books.)

-Save somebody's life **2007

-Take a road trip with a few friends and document the whole thing. **2006

-For somebody who doesn't know me or anyone i know to know my name.

-To step foot in every state in The US

-To throw out the first pitch at a major league game

-Ride on a passenger train.

-To attend the Olympic games

-Go to every continent

-Dance in the streets of a major city **2006

-See one thing that is the “world’s largest"**2007 Drove on the world's longest bridge

-Stay out all night and go to work the next day without having gone home **2008

-Drive across America from coast to coast.

-Find a job I love. **2007 CAMP!

-Overcome my fear of failure.

-Give a phenomenal speech in public **2004

-Make myself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.

-Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.

-Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium **1994

-See the Northern Lights.

-Go to top of the Empire State Building

-Visit Mt. Rushmore

-Walk every stair up and down the Eiffel tower

-Own a laptop **2007

-Drive down route 66

-Cook something for a celebrity

-Fall in love....a real love beyond just some high school romance **2008 and more and more everyday since... Oh man do I love that boy! :P

-Get painted like a statue and sit in a park and shock people all the while filming every moment of it.

-Make a dream come true for a friend

-Make a comedian laugh**2008 Mark Lowry

-successfully do a stand-up comedy act **2007

-Learn to do “the worm"

-To meet a really famous person and to pretend I don't know them

-To ride in a limo for a cross-country trip

-To read the Bible cover to cover

-To go Scotland, and sleep in one of those old castles

-To walk down the red carpet at one of those famous movie premiers

-See Angel Falls in Venezuela

-Kiss the Blarney Stone

-Take a cruise

-Teach somebody to read

-Teach somebody to ride a bike **2007

-Take a martial arts class **2009

-Drive at more than 140mph.

-Have my name spray painted on the side of a railroad car **2005

-Get my name in the "thank you" section of a CD

-To be able to say....in everything...whether success, or failure...I Tried

-For somebody to dedicate a book to me **2008 (discovered it in 2008....)

-To have a song dedicated to me on the radio **2000

-To Sky Dive

-To sell a soda at a pro baseball game

-To be a person with a nick name **2007 Bagels...long story. lol

-Crowd surf at a concert **2007

-To sleepwalk somewhere in public **2002

-Fly in a glider

-See every movie that ever won an oscar for best film

-Go to a major league baseball game **1994

-Have my photo taken with a leg on each side of the equator

-Design a video game

-Do something that no one expects of me **2007

-Break a really large plate glass window

-Tip a waiter with something other than money **2008 "Movie Bucks"

-Kick open a door **2006

-Spend a night in a "haunted" house **2004

-Swim with dolphins

-Fly a plane

-Learn to play an instrument well.

-light a match with a gun (my grandfather used to be able to do it with a .22)

-make a movie

-Fly first class

-Jump off of a bridge(into water...duh) with some friends to prove to everyone that “yes I would jump off of a bridge if my friends did."

-Perform an Anonymous Favor **2006

-be on national television for something I have accomplished **2007 Operation Purple Camps

-Work for a cause I believe in. **2005

-SING in the rain! **2002, 2006

-Be able to send my parents on a 2nd honeymoon

-get a tattoo **2006

-Save up $5,000

-Learn to drive a stick shift **2004

-Go to a drive-in movie

-See the ocean **2006

-Go sledding on a food tray **2008 (@Tech! lol)

-Watch the sunrise/sunset from the roof of at least one university-owned building.

-Throw a huge party **2003

-Watch the launch of a space shuttle

-Receive a dozen red roses…just because **2009

-Be a member of the audience in a well known TV Show

-Send a message in a bottle

-Ride a camel in the desert

-Learn a new dance **2006

-Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it. **2009 MCH

-Experience weightlessness.

-Learn to juggle.

-Stay in a penthouse apartment in NYC

-Win a contest of some sort **2002

-Buy a house

-Drive in a car race

-meet my heroes of comedy: Ellen DeGeneres, Dane Cook, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, among others...

-Graduate High School **2004

-Graduate College **2007 Associate's

-Pull a prank on someone I just met **2006

-Ride in a horse drawn carriage

-Help my dad quit smoking

-stop procrastinating...now....well...maybe later... :D

-exercise more

-lose 20 or more pounds **2006...25 over the summer! woo!

-get an iPod

-run in a marathon

-Learn a new language....fluently

-Attempt to climb Everest.

-have a newspaper story, other than in my small town, with my name on it **2006, 2007, 2008

-spend new years eve in NYC

-be a motivational speaker that travels across the US talking to youth and kids

-get my passport and start filling it up with adventures I have taken...

-have something to show for my life by the time I am 25

-own a horse

-learn to ballroom dance

-make a positive difference in a child's life **2007, Camp

-try sushi **2007 in California! I like it!

-eat a piece of food for every letter of the alphabet

-tell the people that mean most that I love them everyday...and mean it everytime

-go somewhere besides prom that requires a formal gown

-visit an orphanage and become really involved in helping **2009

-not be afraid to step out on faith and do something**2006(roadtrip and camp)

-be completely carefree for a day**2006

-show my friends, who have truly been there more than anyone could have imagined, that I really care for, love and appreciate them then help them make a dream of theirs to come true...

-Buy a sportbike

-get back into riding dirtbikes and race a bit

-Learn to surf

-Get my PhD

-Sleep under the stars**once a year almost every year

-Kiss in the rain

-Write a book

-Change the world for one person**2007, at least he made me feel like I changed the world for him. RIP

-become something great



This is pretty much what my Life List consists of...I encourage ya to write one of your own...if you write it down then you are more likely to actually do the things on there! later yall!