Bucket List

Ah...I have a bucket list. I never thought of putting it up here until recently reading the one that Jenn posted on her blog (may I just say, Jennifer, that your list is rather short?).

About a month or two ago, I took down my most recent bucket list (...it was on the wall...) and tore it into pieces. Why? Because I thought that it was dumb to focus on a "bucket list" of petty things that I'd love to do instead of living.

...Hello, Caitlin? Doing things off of your bucket list is living. Duh. It's just a more specific type of living.

The strikethroughs are things I've completed.


Move out of my parents house

Snowboard in Colorado

Read all of C.S. Lewis's books

Hitchhike


Jump on a moving train, like the hobos during the Depression (sorry Jenn this one is sort of stolen from you. Shall we do it together?)


Go on a missions trip (Thailand Spring 2013)


Swim under a natural waterfall


Swim fully-clothed


Go with a friend to the theater in formal-wear


Bring someone to Christ

Finish writing a novel 


Publish a novel/short story/article

Graduate from high school [woot!] 


Buy a car

Climb a mountain


Fly a kite on the beach

Make a "road trip scrapbook" (like in Elizabethtown)

Complete NaNoWriMo 2010
          Write 100,000 words in one month
 
Learn swing dance


Learn hip-hop


Be in a wedding  (completed March 2011)


Ride in a hot air balloon


Go skydiving!


Scuba dive/snorkel


Dye hair an unnatural shade (Purple, blue, and magenta...it was kind of epic)


Go on a road trip with a group of friends


Go on a road trip alone


People watch for an afternoon (not something difficult to complete, but it was interesting) 


Sail in a sailboat


Take surfing lessons


Start a whipped cream/shaving cream fight 


Adopt a child (I don't know what God has planned for my life, but this is something I'd love to do someday...if I get married...)


Learn the constellations


GO TO EUROPE!


Go to Cedar Point (completed August 2010) 


Ride on a train (Chicago 2009)


Ride in a glass-bottomed boat 


Wear something crazy and go somewhere public [I think dressing up as a pirate and going to Easton qualifies ;)]


Learn how to knit 


Take a photography class


Learn graffitti from a street artist



See the Northern Lights


Go kayaking with friends

Hit someone in the face with hard-serve ice cream


Slap a guy (boo yah!!)


Start a blog 

Punch a guy. In the face. Hard. 


Invent something - no matter how big or how small.

Learn how to braid my own hair

Acquire a pair of RED shoes

Compose and record one of my own songs
 
Open a coffee shop

Create/design my own library 

Hopefully, there will be more to come...and whole lot more strikethroughs! 

(I do apologize for all that unnecessary to-do at the beginning. You really just wanted to see the list, didn't you?)