One bucket
list item down, many to go. I decided to get a head start on my bucket list.
Last month in "Checking Things Off the Bucket List," I blogged about my goal of checking at least one item off of my
bucket list every year. That way I won’t end up on my deathbed wishing I had
accomplished more in life. My goal was to start with the list January first,
but I managed to take care of learning how to make peanut brittle this year.
Every year, my dad would make peanut brittle for us all to enjoy in the days
and weeks leading up to Christmas. I thought it would be fun to learn how to
make his recipe and have him teach me. The recipe isn’t difficult; it just
calls for careful concentration. The result tasted great and friends told me it
was some of the best peanut brittle they had ever tried. Looks like I have a
new holiday tradition to uphold, making peanut brittle for all of my friends. 
As the new
year draws near I think it is appropriate for me to take a look at my list and
decide which items I will attempt in the next twelve months. I have a Las Vegas
vacation planned in March, so that is a very appropriate time to take my dive
from the stratosphere. For good measure in case the trip doesn’t work out or I
am not able to jump (don’t worry, no chickening out here) I’ll pick another
item to work on. I’ll learn how to knit. My friend Alena has already said she
would teach me, which will work perfectly so I can accomplish me new secret
knitting goal. If I am lucky I will be able to check some more items off my
list in 2013, but this is a start.
Travel to Denmark
Ride in a hot air
balloon
Take a cruise to Alaska
Black tie New Years Eve celebration
Take a dive from the stratosphere in Las Vegas
Get my hair braided in the
Caribbean
Go on a relief mission for
vacation
Take in breakfast at Tiffany’s
See the red wood trees
See Niagara Falls
Throw a New Years Day
brunch
Visit all 50 states
Go on a bike tour
through wine country
Go windsurfing
Learn to salsa dance
Climb to the top of a
lighthouse
Send a message in a
bottle
Write my memoirs
365-day photo project
Throw a dart at a map and go there
Drive route 66
Take a cooking class
Visit Stonehenge
Hike up volcano
Knit a hat
Make a gingerbread house
Go to a professional
sports championship game/match
Visit a jazz club in New
Orleans
Ride trolley in San Francisco
Cook a soufflé
Go gambling in Atlantic
City
Invent a holiday and celebrate
it
Grow my own vegetables
Ski New England
Go on a couples camping
trip
Learn to dance the two-step
and show it off
Take a sculpting class
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