My Bucket List

In an unorganized, unfinished list, here’s my bucket list. I reserve the right to add or subtract from this list.

1. Visit “Middle Earth” in New Zealand
2. Sit in the pub where the Inklings met.
3. Be debt free by the time I’m 30. November 2016
4. Work at movie theater.
5. Move to a new city where I don’t know anyone.
6. Watch a concert or big event from a VIP box
7. Visit every continent
8. Stand in running water in the mountains somewhere wearing those funny pants
9. Start my own company with my friends and siblings where we get to play everyday
10. Develop a company that people want to work for and where they’re taken are of.
11. Get to invest in other people’s dreams.
12. Own a debt free company
13. Attend Comic Con with Leo Partible and other Act One people
14. Meet Zachary Levi at Nerd HQ
15. Publish a children’s book
16. Write and publish a book series
17. Write a screenplay
18. Turn a book series into movies and other new media
19. Give away 90% of my income and live on 10%
20. Get married
21. Go on adventures with my husband
22. Adopt
23. Take my kids on adventures
24. Be a foster parent, loving kids who need it and telling them that they’re worth it
25. Live in a van for awhile, traveling around the country, taking pictures and telling stories
26. Design and own my own home
27. Own a place where other creatives can rest and create for a season like others have done for me
28. Come to the end of my life, spent, having lived my purpose and given all I have. Live well.
29. Visit London, the British Isles, Iceland and Germany
30. Take classes at Oxford
31. See the Swiss town that was the inspiration for Rivendell
32. Learn to do handstands and aerial/acro yoga
33. Tell stories that remind people that there’s hope, they’re made for more and they’re worth it
34. Help pay for my nieces and nephews education
35. Love without strings attached
36. Take a singing lesson  November 2016
37. Take martial arts or boxing lessons
38. Learn to rock climb
39. Jump from a plane
40. Meet Malcom Gladwell
41. Hug Bob Goff
42. Shake Donald Miller’s hand
43. Shake Scott Harrison’s hand
44. Meet and work with Jeremy Cowart
45. Discover the best chocolate chip cookies and be able to make them at home
46. Work in some way shape or form with Pixar and ILMxLAB
47. Meet and work with Kathleen Kennedy
48. Live in Israel for a season of my life
49. Own homes with my siblings across the country so we can travel and stay together.
50. Pay for my parents home, so they can retire and travel without worrying about having what they need at the end of their lives.
51. Travel to places along the East Coast where America began
52. See shows on Broadway
53. Hike all over Yosemite, Yellowstone, Glacier National Park and all the parks in Utah
54. Pick blueberries in Maine
55. Watch a season of Sherlock when it’s released in England
56. Visit South Africa to see Kruger National Park
57. Own a hat from Worth & Worth