Bucket List

Yup everyone has their list of things they want to do/accomplish before they die. I honestly haven't given much thought about it but maybe I should. With all this talk about the world coming to an end soon, everyone has their own opinions about when the world is coming to an end, personally I hope it's soon! So here is my top ten things I would like to accomplish before I die in no particular order:

1. Visit Alaska: I have always wanted to go on an Alaskan cruise. I love the scenery of the snow covered mountains and the ice glaciers, well from what I've seen in photographs anyway. I want to stay in a little log cabin house on the mountains over looking a lake, pond, ocean, some kind of water. I just think that would be amazing in itself and I would feel like I'm already in heaven. Of course I would only go there in the summer, I don't want to be freezing the whole time I'm there.

2. Get a husky: For those of you who don't know me, I am seriously obsessed with huskies. I would love to have one of my own and raise it from puppy to adult. I have no real remembrance of when my obsession began or what started it but it has blossomed into this big loving adoration. Whenever I see a husky on the street being walked I usually have to go and say hi to it. I just think they are beautiful creatures and I would be honored to call one my own.

3. Write my life story in book form: I have been through a lot in my life and I feel as though I should share it with the world. Opening this blog is part of that reason, and for my own personal journal. I am sure everyone has their life story and they should, but I think mine is very story like. I always would say to myself this would only happen in a book. I believe that my readers would laugh, cry, get angry right along with me as they are reading the happenings of my life. As a promise to my future potential readers; I will not leave a single bit of information out no matter how hard it is for me to relive it.

4. Learn to dance: I wish I could dance I should probably say. I always love watching dancing movies like Step Up and I don't know but there are others out there. I just want to go out on the dance floor and shake what the good lord gave me, or something like that. I really would love to take hip hop dance lessons and be able to show off at the next wedding or dance party I attend.

5. Learn to play the guitar: My dad played the guitar while he was living and would try to teach me but I was never interested. Given this was back when I was 10 or 11 years old. However, now I would love to learn how to play but my loving father is no longer with us *RIP Dad* and I am sure if he was still living he would have already taught me how to play. I still own his guitar, it's standing behind my chair in its case. I do take it out every now and then and clean it up, try to play it, give up and put it right back where it was before. Some day I will learn how to play it so when people ask me why do I have a guitar, I can show them how I am a awesome guitar player.

6. Visit the moon: Of course this is one that may not happen, but I can wish right? I don't know what it is about the moon and its galaxy but it's so fascinating to me. I love stars, I always have and probably always will. I love looking up at the stars and just thinking or not thinking. It's one of those things where you wonder what really is up there and how far is it really from you. I would love to just be on the moon looking down  at earth and being able to say that I was that much closer to the stars. I promise if I ever do make it to the moon, I will take loads of pics for Facebook and bring back some moon cheese :)

7. Go on an African Safari: I want to see elephants, and giraffes and other African animals up close and personal. Just thinking about it makes me want to go even more. I see pictures and videos about people going on safaris and I envy them so much. Animals are such a mysterious thing to me, they each have their unique characteristics and behaviors. No one animal is exactly alike and I love that, I just want to go see animals in their natural environments and take loads of pictures.

8. Open my own photography business: This at one point was going to be my career, until I realized that it would cost more to open it then it would bring in. I have been taking pictures for most of my life now. Most everyone who knows me, knows that I am a photographer. I usually just take photos at friends' events for free just because I like to. I would love to have my own dark room but with film photography becoming non existent, that dream is slowly vanishing. I do however would love to have my own photography studio where I can take digital photos and showcase my work.

9. Fall in love: It's easy to say but to actually seriously fall in love with someone is very hard to do. You have to give your whole self to this other person and hope that they don't break you. It's a very scary feeling to love someone so much that you would do anything and I mean anything for them. I want to be able to feel love, not that high school love where you tell your boyfriend/girlfriend you love them after your first kiss or date or whatever. I'm talking about that serious romantic adult love that people fall into when they find their soul mates.

10. Go on a major shopping spree: To be able to go into all my favorite stores and buy whatever I want at the time and not have to worry about price or if I have enough money to get it. I want to come out of the mall with 100 bags and feel as though I have truly shopped. Now with this economy the way it is right now, this goal of mine probably won't happen for a very long time. I just want to be able to shop with out having to count how much money I have left and without worrying about how much I'm paying for an item. If I like then I buy it, that's the plan.

So there you have it, my top 10 things I would like to accomplish before I die. Some of these things are more achievable then others but I still would love to be able to say on my death bed that I accomplish most or all of these things. So what's on your bucket list?