Sunday, May 9, 2010

Life's Expedition: My Official Bucket List

My best friend Katelyn encouraged me to make on of these, so I did, and boy am I glad! It is so fun!!! Here is my Bucket List, 100 things that I want to do before I die.

1. Guess the flavors of a whole box of chocolates
2. Ride a snowmobile (in Alaska?)
3. Go to a Disney theme park
4. Enter an eating contest
5. Go Trick-or-Treating
6. Fly an airplane
7. Stand under the Eiffel Tower
8. Witness to someone in another country or language
9. Decoupage something in Bible verses
10. Sneak out for a night to be with God
11. Have a photo collection worth a thousand words and smiles
12. Paint a room full of bright colors
13. Adopt an old lady/work/volunteer in a nursing home to listen to history’s stories
14. Buy something useful at a pawnshop
15. Give myself as a surprise gift in a box
16. Visit all 50 states and have something to show for it (Picture collage of each state shaped like each state?)
17. Be in four places at one time (state lines?)
18. Give a homeless man a gift card for food
19. Volunteer at a homeless Gospel outreach center
20. Be able to play the trust game and have someone catch me
21. Get into the habit of going for an early morning run
22. Invent a new kind of candy bar
23. See the Northern Lights
24. Go to New York City
25. Buy a random kid an ice cream
26. Go to the Olympics to watch
27. Sell a photograph I’ve taken
28. Use $1,000 worth of coupons
29. Eat a wooden chair
30. Keep a notebook for my kids and grandkids
31. Win a radio contest
32. Be in a magazine or write something that’s published in a magazine
33. Do everything on this list
34. Design a tract and give it out to people
35. Get a massage
36. Write something for Campbell’s Soup for the Soul
37. Be on a TV (game) show
38. Be an extra in a movie
39. Live in a poor third world country
40. Go on a mission trip
41. Get my ears pierced
42. Dye my hair red
43. Put “Jesus” or a reminder of Him on my nail
44. Show someone the “How Great is Our God” video by Louie Giglio
45. Go stargazing with a friend
46. Take my kid to soccer practice (or any other sports practice)
47. Paint a room for someone else
48. Start a fire with a magnifying glass
49. Bonneville Utah 130 club
50. Go skydiving
51. Own a starfish
52. Have a working ant farm
53. Pay $1,000,000 in taxes
54. Be my kids biggest cheerleader
55. Run a marathon
56. Take a picture of the Bellagio Fountains
57. Win money in a lottery
58. Buy something from Billy Mayes off a TV commercial
59. Dye an egg
60. Volunteer for Habitat 4 Humanity
61. Scuba Dive (on the Great Barrier Reef?)
62. Go to a New Year’s/Thanksgiving/Rose Bowl parade
63. Go to the top of the Eiffel Tower
64. Play tic-tac-toe in a crazy way
65. Write “Jilli was here.” in some random place with a Bible verse
66. Get a weird pair of glasses for me and Katelyn and make a photo album of us wearing them in random places and doing funny things
67. Go to the spa
68. Have a made up persons birthday announced (Flat Stanley?)
69. Wake someone up with “The Good Morning Song”
70. Bury something in the sand for someone else to find later
71. Write an encouraging letter and put it in a strangers mail box
72. Go on a road trip to see Yellowstone and Mount Rushmore
73. Burn a lot of great road trip CD’s
74. Put this list on a piece of paper so I can mark them off when done
75. Design and make a cute bag
76. Make a fun shaped candle
77. Speak in only questions for a day
78. Bet money on a horse race or professional game of some kind
79. Learn to be conversational in another language (Spanish?)
80. Get all my children purity rings that actually have meaning
81. Write a series of devotionals
82. Make a head covering
83. Go to or host a masquerade party
84. Make a rubber band ball as big as a softball
85. Sing karaoke in front of a crowd
86. Have something on a menu named after me (Jilli’s Chilli?)
87. Have a 12 hour movie marathon
88. Foster/Adopt a child
89. Learn to juggle and have 100 great moments
90. Help build a Habitat 4 Humanity home
91. Do a cartwheel
92. Weld a work of art
93. Make a huge domino trail (then watch it all fall down! )
94. Ride in a hot air balloon
95. Be in New York City to watch the Ball Drop on New Year’s Eve
96. Have a Seniors Only Pancake Breakfast at my house before Graduation
97. Take a computer apart and put it back together, in working condition
98. Complete my list of 10 things to do before graduation

-Make a priest laugh at confession (I'm not Catholic)
-Change a tire
-Go to a ROMCOM (Romantic Comedy) by myself and convince someone to sit by me
-Design and make a toe ring
-Prank call someone, like really really good
-Play Farmville
-Wear a pair of skinny jeans
-Call into the local Christian radio station to share my opinion/play a game
-Finish my t-shirt quilt
-Hot glue a card tower
*Bonus List*
-Ride in a police car with the lights and sirens on, without being in trouble
-Wear cute makeup to school
-Watch the winter olympics
-Win at Jenga
-Take a picture of my snowman
99. See the Seven Wonders of the World
100. Read over 100 books

7 comments:

Jilli said...

Things I have already finished:
20
31
43
44
45
58
64
69
74
96
97

98: 4, 6, 8, 10 are finished and from the bonus list 1, 2, and 3 have been accomplished! :)

Jilli said...

98: 7-wear a pair of skinny jeans
Today I found a pair of skinny jeans for $4 at Goodwill-AWESOMENESS! so now I only have to figure out where I will be wearing them :)

Jilli said...

10. Sneak out for a night to be with God
Done :) Monday night I was at a friend's house for one final Girl's Night before graduation, when randomly a friend (MJ) decided to run outside to lay on the trampoline and look at the stars. A friend and I followed, as we were talking about God...I was telling the story of Jesus at that moment :) We ended up staying up all night long and watch the sunrise...God is amazing! He provided some amazing shooting stars for us to see!

and if you have never seen the stars fade as the sunrises, I would encourage you to try it, there really is NOTHING like it! :)

Jilli said...

I completed number 65 (Write “Jilli was here.” in some random place with a Bible verse)the other day at Six Flags.
Ephesians 3:20
"Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or imagine, according to the power that works within us"

:)

Jilli said...

While visiting Katelyn's house (which has never happened before!) we accomplished #66!!! :) And we will continue to take pictures of ourselves and add to the collection! :)

Also while with Katelyn, we stopped by her friend's work (a dry cleaners) who did alterations. Katelyn found the end of a dress, with a super cute brown and teal pattern. It became a head covering for camp. Check of #82 thanks to Hannah! :)

Jilli said...

18. Give a homeless man a gift card for food

I did this when I was in Nashville this past week. :) $5 to McDonalds makes a great meal lol :)

Jilli said...

#35 Get a massage.
Done! :)
And let me tell you, it was an amazing thing! My chiropractor works in a group office and so for my birthday I was given a free massage at their clinic. That was an amazing birthday present!
It was so relaxing and rejuvenating! Everyone should try it! :)