Bucket List

I think everyone should have a bucket list of all of the things they'd like to accomplish in their life. Here's mine....


1. Become a professor (Fall 2011 & Spring 2012 - I teach Strategies for Academic Success class)
2. Travel to Czech Republic, Ireland, Australia, Africa
3. Swim with the dolphins
4. Be a great mother
5. Own my own business (Jazzercise 2009-2010)
6. Participate in a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk 
7. Run a 5K
8. Create my own college scholarship fund
9. Learn to speak Spanish.
10. Earn my Masters degree (nearly there.....I graduate May 20, 2012)
11. Write and publish a book
12. Scuba dive
13. Coach
14. Ski
15. Serve on a School Board
16. Learn to ballroom dance - salsa, waltz, etc. (check! And I won the Dancing with the VU Stars Ballroom competition fall 2011)
17. Run a half marathon
18. Live in the "south"...even if it's just for awhile (Indiana does not count)
19. white water raft
20. zipline through the forest (YS falls in Jamaica March 17, 2012 with Matthew, my brother, Mark and sis-in-law, Amanda)
21. Experience The House of Blues
22. Spend NYE in New York
23. Go to a Jimmy Buffett concert
24. Go on a cruise
25. Find and experience true love
26. give a gift to the people who collect my garbage
27. read 12 books in one year
28. take a photography class
29. write my story
30. model (March 8, 2012 photo shoot with StudioThisIs)
31. become a certified personal trainer
32. ride a motorcycle
33. learn sign language
34. visit Elevation Church in Charlotte, NC
35. Be baptized (August 28, 2011 in Lake Michigan with 48 other people from Gracepoint Church by Pastor Ben)