Fifty Things I Want To Do

And the countdown continues! We are just over two weeks away! Make times stop!

So, I've listed fifty things I've done and now you get the other list, the bucket list per say, the more common list... the list of things I still want to accomplish in life. Well, some of them. Actually, I struggled coming up with this list, and yet, I know there are a ton more I could add.

Fifty Things I Want to Do

1. go on a writing retreat (particularly the Writing Excuses cruise!)
2. live in England for a summer
3. have a beautiful yard and garden
4. finish the hexagon quilt wall hanging
5. lose 20 pounds
6. visit all 50 states
7. go to San Diego Comic Con
8. ride in a helicopter
9. see the Northern lights
10. get published
11. meet Josh Groban
12. watch a shuttle/rocket/spaceship launch
13. visit PEI in Canada
14. visit other places in Canada.. Quebec/Montreal stand out
15. drive across the country on back roads, no freeways
16. put together, glue and frame a puzzle
17. finish a scrap quilt
18. see Donny and Marie in Las Vegas
19. finish my Classic Club list
20. be in the audience of a talk show (once upon a time I would have said Oprah or Regis..but now I don’t know what)
21. visit New England
22. visit all the continents
23. wade in all the oceans
24. have Jenni successfully teach me how to crochet something
25. see Markus Zusak IN Australia
26. watch all the Supernatural seasons
27. finish all the Buffy seasons
28. be “The Book Grandma”
29. buy a convertible
30. clean up my “craft” room
31. meet John and Hank Green
32. build, decorate and furnish a miniature doll house
33. go to a Sundance Film Festival movie
34. do Zumba for a year
35. try whole food eating for a month (maybe a week…)
36. take the Lord of the Rings tour in New Zealand
37. stay in a beach house for a week
38. try a vlog with Megs… at least try
39. start up journaling again
40. blow up vacation pictures onto canvases and make a collage on the wall
41. have an herb garden
42. finish putting home videos onto DVDs
43. cosplay at Comic Con, once
44. go to BEA
45. finish The Wheel of Time series
46. write life story essays
47. revamp my wardrobe
48. empty my email inbox
49. take up boxing
50. think happy thoughts and fly

Any suggestions for how to accomplish some of these things? :) How are you doing with YOUR bucket list?

Fifty Bookish Things To Do Before I Die!

I've loved this idea ever since I saw it at the last Bloggiesta (at least I think that's when I saw it!) I've been thinking and pondering my list ever since! And now it's an official Bloggiesta challenge hosted by Allison of The Book Wheel, so be sure to go and check it out and start on your own list!

This is a concept that she (Allison) and Rebecca (from Love at First Book) started awhile back and have since been encouraging the rest of us to make our own lists. For an idea of what these lists look like, here's Allison's and here's Rebecca's.

In pondering my list, I've come to realize that I've actually been working on doing these things for years (most of them since I've started blogging,) working form a list in my head and not actually writing them down. So as I now make the effort to write them down, I wanted to include some of the things I've already done, especially those things that weren't easy for me... the ones that got me out of my comfort zone! I need credit for these!


Bookish Things To Do Before I Die

Already Accomplished
(where it applies, I've linked to the proof!)

1.start a book club
2. host a read along (I've done a few now, but currrenlty this one!)
3. host a week long celebration of some kind on my blog
4. meet Markus Zusak
5. make blog business cards/bookmarks
6. connect with local authors
7. work at a library
8. be on a blogger panel
9. host a blog event (Bloggiesta!)
10. have get-togethers with bloggers IRL (the most recent here)
11. write real letters to book bloggers
12. meet book bloggers in other states (still in progress)
13. create a library corner in my house
14. run the book fair
15. compile my grandparents life stories
16. go to book signings
17. make bookish themed t-shirts

Yet To Accomplish

18. do a vlog
19. participate in World Book Night
20. put on a Utah book bloggers conference
21. go to ComicCon
22. succeed in The Classics Club quest
23. go to BEA
24. visit famous bookstores around the country/world (in progress)
25. visit famous literary sites around the country/world (in progress)
26. host a book themed party
27. write thank you notes to authors (actually I've done one, guess who to?)
28. be blurbed for a book or magazine or newspaper
29. plan and carry out a reading/blogging retreat
30. get a review published
31. collect different editions of Markus Zusak's books
32. participate in NaNoWriMo
33. meet John Green
34. finish the Wheel of Time series
35. read the books listed in the Lifetime Reading Plan
36. read the books listed in 1001 books to read before you die
37. create a meme that becomes popular and well loved
38. try an audio book
39. start a mother/daughter/father/son/parent/teen book club, maybe online?
40. write my own life essays then compile them
41. write out some of my grandparents' stories as a fiction story
42. write a picture book
43. write a novel
44. make some bookish crafts and give them away as presents
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Yeah, so I guess I have a few blanks to fill in there. Suggestions? What else do I need to be doing? Well, It will come to me eventually and I'll see all your lists and copy a few things over I'm sure!

Anyway, it'll be fun to see if actually writing them down will make me want to get some of them done.