Alright, everyone. Today's post is very simple. These are things I want to do before I cash in my chips in a couple hundred years. You may have read my partial one which I posted a couple of weeks ago; this one is my complete one. Mr. President, I realize that you are an avid reader of my blog and yes, it's true. I would like to meet you. However, if you are voted out of office before I get the opportunity, I will want to meet the next one.
Also, readers, you will notice that my bucket list includes the item "Have 100 blog views in a single day." That one is entirely up to my readership. I guess I could track my own views and look at my own bblog 100 hundred times in a day, but I will not do that because that's cheating. I am leaving it in your hands, readers. It's all up to you whether that one comes true for me or not.
Bucket List
1. Ride a bike down the Great Wall of China .
2. Catch a marlin in the Caribbean .
3. Write a book which unexpectedly lands on the New York Times best-seller list.
4. Appear on a Food Network TV show. I'd make burgers wrapped in pancetta and smothered in gouda
5.Teach in a university classroom on the twentieth-century authors who have received a Nobel Prize for Literature or Peace. That includes, Marquez, Wiesel, Camus, Soyinka, Beckett, and Hemingway.
6. Attend a Baltimore Ravens football game.
7. Sit on a bridge overlooking the Seine , eating baguettes and Emmentaler Grand Cru.
8. Sing "London Bridge is Falling Down" on the London Bridge
9. Be somebody's wish.
10. Win a raffle
11. Have at least one bookshelf dedicated to all of the things I’ve published
12. Own and read every book that C.S. Lewis ever wrote
13. Learn Arabic
14. Learn how to build a computer from parts
15. Repel down the Malad Gorge
16. Go on ten fossil digs
17. Make an archeological find
18. Have a picnic on a pyramid
19. Write a song that gets on the radio
20. Climb a very tall mountain
21.Learn a type of martial arts
22. Invent something useful
23. Be in a movie
24. Attend the Super Bowl
25. Bench press 350 pounds
26. Make a giant Jack o’ lantern and leave it on someone’s lawn, aflame for all to see
27. Build my own canoe out of a tree I cut down myself
28. Learn how to paint (for real) with oil and canvas and acrylic and watercolors and other things
29. Go to the Nobel Prize convention in Sweden
30. Learn to ski without killing myself
31. Bury something cool then dig it up fifty years later (or allow someone else to dig it up)
32. Use a reference from Carlo Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio in my dissertation
33. Shoot a large animal and have its head mounted
34. Float down a river on a wooden raft like Huck and Jim
35. Have an exotic pet, or at least pet an exotic pet
36. Roll down the street in a tire (see To Kill a Mockingbird)
37. Meet the current President of the United States
38. Go to a General Conference session
39. Attend a Celtics game
40. Get to the Pro level on Wii Boxing
41. See an opera in the Teatro Massimo
42. Visit Pompeii
43. Visit Brindisi
44. Have a hot-air balloon ride
45. Eat shark
46. Own a telescope
47. Learn calligraphy and make an illuminated script on parchment
48. Have a Where the Wild Things Are birthday party and have a wild rumpus (and maybe send everyone home without supper)
49. Visit Mayan ruins
50. Spend a long time in Ireland
51. Read Will Durrant’s The Story of Civilization (all 11 vols.)
52. See Jerusalem and climb Mt.
53. Wear Utes shirt to a BYU-Utah football game, then rip it to shreds like the Incredible Hulk
54. Play Moonlight Sonata on the piano without a mistake
55. Build a cabin of clay and wattles (I don’t want to live in it more than a day though) like W.B. Yeats
56. Go up a hill to fetch a pail of water then roll down without breaking my crown
57. Pan for gold in the Yukon
58. Have a dog named Buck
59. Visit the Sistine chapel
60. Make a YouTube video that gets 1,000 views
61. Get 100 blog views in a day
62. Publish a children’s book
63. Catch a salmon in Alaska, roast over a fire, and eat it with dill and lemon juice (Not totally something that Bear Grylls would do, but I'm not Bear Grylls)
64. Visit the Sacred Grove
65. Go to a game show (not be on a game show. Martha!)
Anyway, this is my life, reversed and put in list format. I would also like to know if any of my readers have done these things. If so, feel free to tell me how it went. If they aren't everything they ought to be, I may replace them with something else. But probably not.
By the way, how's your bucket list coming along?
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