Day 338

It's REALLY hard not to be super jealous of these guys right now. Making a living by living out their wildest dreams while encouraging and helping others do the same. Shoot that's what I wanna do! Who doesn't.

A year ago I made a "bucket list" because I didn't want to wait until I was old and crusty to do all of the things I wanted to do. I wanted to do them now. I was still at my old job and every day I'd sit there, bitter because I felt like I was wasting my best years in a cubicle instead of embarking on adventures with people I know and people I don't know. I didn't want to grow old without some good stories under my belt so I made a list and tried to make everyone I know make them too so we cross things off together. I have a long way to go but I'm inspired all over again.

Here's to 4 dudes to had an incredible idea and executed it brilliantly. Here's to crossing out everything on my list and everything off my friends lists and then making a whole new list. Here's to finishing something you start. They did.

My list as of Feb '10:

run a 5k

book a trip abroad and leave on the same day

catch fireflies

write/photograph a coffee table book

go to the sundance film festival

go skinny dipping

take drum lessons

take my mom to venice

publish an article in a magazine

teach nicole how to swim

work on a vineyard

plant a garden

get a tiny tattoo on my wrist

put a prayer in the prayer wall in Jerusalem

float in the dead sea

climb mount masada

bartend (preferably in a hotel bar!)

decorate my sister's classroom

tomato fight in spain

take a dip in a hot spring

go to carnival in brazil

give a college commencement speech

ride in a canoe under a bridge

go on a photo adventure in CUBA

attend an opera in italy

catch a fish

drive a vespa

live in another country for 1 year

take cooking classes all over the world

see an aurora

hitchike

honk a horn in a semi, preferably the one i hitchike in

go white water rafting

sing in a choir at a black church

throw a block party

attend a european soccer match

ride in a helicopter

drive a helicopter

see wynton marsalis in concert

take a homeless person out to dinner

eat an oyster

wear a bikini to the beach

wear a big floppy hat to the kentucky derby and bet on a horse and drink a mint julep

learn to write my name and a note to my grandma in arabic

go on a road trip in Ireland

take a latin dance class and participate in a performance

kiss someone under the mistle toe

see a live taping of SNL

experience zero gravity

become a bone marrow donor

edit a music video (a real one)

learn how to play an entire song on the piano

take a bellydancing class

go sailing

see the nutcracker on broadway

sleep under the stars

ride a bike with a bastket in the French countryside

kiss a hot stranger in the rain

learn how to tie a man’s tie

sell a painting

cut down and decorate a real Christmas tree

ride on an elephant, a camel and a donkey (not in the same day)

smoke pot

go horseback riding on a beach

send a message in a bottle

celebrate chinese new year in china

stay at the plaza hotel in nyc

sky dive

teach in the inner city

throw a Great Gatsby party for my friends

jump off a cliff with a waterfall

take a nude drawing class

cook a thanksgiving turkey

drive the pacific coast hwy in a convertible, stop for wine in napa

attend jazzfest in new orleans

open a “third place”

finish my screenplay

become a grandma

when I have a family, make up our own set of holidays and celebrate them religiously

elope

do one of these on 11.11.11