Day 16: What's At The Top of Your Bucket List?

So...

My To-Do-Before-I-Die bucket doesn't really have a list.  It's full of strips of ideas that I drop in there and they're all tangled together with no real order of importance.  If you reached in and grabbed a strip, it might be a silly little notion or a grand desire...who knows?!  

Here are some things you might find in MY bucket:

• See a real firefly.  I can't imagine how magical that would be!
• Go to an NFL game...I'm not picky, anymore.  Any game will do. 
• Make a souffle.  This is completely do-able, I've just never tried it!
• Paris. (France, not Texas)
• Ballroom dancing...I'd like to learn the good stuff, like tango and samba, AND I could wear heels!
• Somehow, get to each of my blog friend's homes for a visit...this would require getting to Texas, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Alabama, Australia and Rosebud among other places.  
• Read War and Peace.  Everyone jokes about it...I want to do it.  Somehow, I think if I did, I'd feel better about myself.  Or maybe it would be a colossal waste of three years...  :)
• Own a VW bus that runs at LEAST 55% of the time. (I've found this is very important when longing for a VW bus.)
• Play those Caribbean kettle drums like Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers have.
• I'd LOVE to see J. Buffett perform, now that we're talking about it.
• I'd like to try caviar. Really!
• Find a bobble head of Joe Montana to put in my car.
• See real live flamingos.

You get the idea.  

Do you know what I'd RATHER tell you about?
The cool things I've already pulled out of the bucket!

• Sailing...not only have I been sailing several times, but now I'm crew, too!
• Meeting the Pacific AND Atlantic Oceans.  
• Going to a Red Sox game at Fenway park.
• Singing karaoke. (It wasn't pretty, but it happened.  Never have to worry about that one, again.)
• Driving a sports car (1990 Chevy Camero) way too fast.  
• Eating at fancy, brilliant restaurants...my favorite being the Black Cat in Boulder.
• Pat Green in concert!  
• Seeing incredible, indescribable works of art...ORIGINAL Monets and Rembrandts and even Jackson Pollacks.  
• Having two babies when I thought there would be none. 
• Fly fishing!
• I was on Route 66 in California...why that was important to me, I don't know, but it was way cool!

Like the song says, "Dreams are nothing more than wishes and wishes are just a dream you hope to come true..."   

It's good to have them.

It's better to recognize them when they've come true.