Goals

Last night I was watching this horrible show on E! called Taradise. If you have been lucky not to have wasted a half hour of your time on this, it is basically Wild On with Tara Reid hosting and not nearly as intelligent. In this particular episode, Tara went to Pamplona for the running of the bulls and kept wavering back and forth about whether she should run with the bulls. So as I am watching this train wreck, I think to myself "I want to run with the bulls." The I just stopped. What did I just say? Um, am I crazy? Of course this is not something I would ever want to do. That's just plain crazy. But it did get me thinking...

Many people have given themselves goals they want to achieve before some important milestone, be it their 30th, 40th, 50th birthday or before they die. I don't have a list like that. As I child I set one goal for myself, to graduate from college, and once I accomplished it I never gave myself a new one. It's time I did that.

So here, in no particular order, is my list of things to accomplish/do/achieve before I die:

1. Write and publish a book
2. Backpack through Ireland
3. Have children
4. Share my life and my heart with a man I truly love who loves me back just as much
5. See and/or chase a real, live tornado
6. Visit the seven natural wonders of the world (I only have six left! Maybe one day I will tell you what happened to the pictures.)
7. See the world's most amazing sights - the Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore, the Leaning Tower of Piza, etc.
8. Visit great historical landmarks, like Gettysburg and L'Arc de Triumphe, around the world.
9. Cook an entire Thanksgiving dinner all by myself for my loved ones and have everyone like it.
10. Drive cross country
11. Whistle just once

I don't care how long it takes me to do this. I don't care if I am not 100% successful, as long as I try each of them I will be happy.