51 Dreams

Inspired by a recent post by Donloree Huffman about writing down your dreams I have decided to log my dreams and create a bucket list of things that I would like to achieve in this life.  I always say I’m going to do this, but I never set aside the time to create a list and get it down on paper or logged in cyberspace.

My Bucket List

1. Compete in a Fitness Model Competition
2. Compete in a Figure Competition
3. Achieve Premier Competition status in Highland Dancing
4. Travel to France and spend two days at the Louvre
5. Go snorkeling in Hawaii
6. Go scuba diving someplace tropical
7. Visit Russia and watch the Bolshoy
8. Own a Volkswagen Beetle – done!
9. Get Married an Elvis Impersonator – done!
10. Build a Eco friendly Dream house
11. Pay off all my student loans – will be achieved in 1 year and seven months
12. Learn to make mocassins
13. In 1 year and seven months put half of my student debt payment into retirement savings and the other half into a savings account for travel plans
14. Go to University and acquire my Fine Arts Degree
15. Knit my own pair of intarsia highland dance stockings – goal in progress
16. Open a yarn store (my retirement dream)
17. Have a personal winterized greenhouse
18. Attend the ScotDance Canada National Championships
19. See Cirque du Soliel – achieved, but I still want to see them again because they are amazing!
20. Visit Graceland
21. Obtain my PAL and Hunter Safety Course so I can continue to hunt and gather most of my meat (at the moment I rely on my father)
22. Learn to make Ukranian Eggs (this year) – goal achieved
23. Go back to the island of Hawaii and visit Kaui and Maui
24. Run another marathon (my past experiences were so great, I would love to be able to do it again), I also wouldn’t oppose to running the Boston Marathon, even if it takes me until 50 to qualify.
25. Take a yarn tour of Iceland
26. Visit Patagonia and or Antarctica
27. Go on a canoe trip in Quetico Provincial Park
28. Take road trip along the western cost of the United States, through Big Sur & San Fran.
29. Own a airstream camper or a bowler
30. Take a pottery class
31. Take a cake decorating class
32. This may sound ridiculous, but I’d love to work as a barista and learn to make fancy coffees
33. See Catherine the Great’s Castle, specifically the Amber Room
34. See an opera
35. Splurge and purchase some cashmere and knit myself something very luxerious, as a treat just for me.
36. Create an obstacle course on our property and or find a cool obstacle course somewhere and run it.
37. Participate in a triathlon (for shits and giggles)
38. Be able to do the splits
39. Be able to do pull ups
40. Be able to do verticle dips
41. Be able to do the plank for 5 mins
42. Go on a zip line in Costa Rica (even though I’ll probably crap my pants while doing it)
43. Knit an Icelandic sweater
44. Karaoke
45. Complete all of the trails in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park
46. Participate in the Sibley Ski Loppet
47. Take ballroom dancing classes
48. Travel to the East Coast of Canada
49. Knit a tacky Christmas sweater so that I may don gay apparel during the holidays.
50. Make armor out of Wonderflex for my first Fitness Model Competition Costume.
51. Visit Disney World as an adult & go to Harry Potter land at Universal studios