I decided it was time for me to post a bucket list on my blog, a 100 by 40 list if you will and I have Amber from The Usual Bliss to thank for the idea.
Basically it’s 100 things I’d like to accomplish by the time I’m 40 so I’ve got until November 5, 2019 to complete it.
You’d think that would be plenty of time but there are a lot of things on this list that might be time-consuming or challenging. For example, the traveling section mainly because I’ll be trying to stick to a budget, building up some emergency savings and paying off debt.
But I see this as just another adventure a dog mom can have… I hope you enjoy the posts that are sure to follow!
Obviously items you see crossed out are things that I’ve completed while the ones in bold are a work in progress.
100 By 40 List
Food
Drink at least 1 cup of green tea a day
Drink at least 64 oz. of fluids a day (water or tea)
Eat more fish
Learn to like salads
Figure out a recipe for a strawberry lemon smoothie (that tastes good) I’m off to a good start!
Make homemade bread mmm… bread
Make jelly or jam
Make the perfect key lime pie
Make a lemon tart from scratch
Make the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich mmm… cheesy goodness
Grow herbs
Grow my own veggies
Go to the farmer’s market at least twice a month look what we found there
Try churros everywhere I find them yummy sweet goodness, more yumminess, even more yumminess
Learn how to make cheese
Eat from a food truck The Flying Stove, Feasting on Food Trucks
Have a lazy Sunday brunch
Sit on the patio and drink sangria
Design and have a cake made for a special occasion
Make my hubby dinner (one he would like)
Make a special meal for Boomer and Dottie doggie pumpkin pies
Feature a recipe of my own on my blog check out these no bake cookies
Sports
Lose 50 pounds
Take Boomer and Dottie to the dog park take a look at our adventure
Walk the long trail around the Keeper of the Plains it’s a good walk, you should try it
Take a yoga class at least once a month
Take a Zumba class
Learn to paddleboard
Go kayaking
Walk the long trail around Sedgwick County Park check out my smart yet stupid move here
Ride 50 miles in one week
Walk/jog a 5k for a cause I support
Go horseback riding
Try SUP (stand up paddleboard) yoga
Swim with/kiss a dolphin
Hobbies
Complete a 30 day photo challenge see the photos here
Become a better photographer
Become a better writer
Read 25 books
Make homemade gifts a Christmas success!
Knit a scarf
Learn to meditate
Have 100+ followers on my blog thank you wonderful readers!
Watch Lawrence of Arabia and wrap prezzies at the same time
Watch Gone with the Wind
Go stargazing with my hubby
Learn more about world cultures Welcome Year of the Snake, A Yummy Lenten Dinner
Family
Host my grandma’s 80th birthday party – October 10, 2012 see the awesome cake here
Spend more time with my grandparents
Have my in-laws over for dinner
Send a care package to my brother-in-law Travis once a month when he is overseas what goes in a care package
Take family photos with my hubby, Boomer and Dottie
Other
Stick to a budget
Build an emergency savings fund
Pay off debt
Go through my belongings and donate all unused items to charity
Volunteer with and support a rescue group
Get a tattoo in honor of Boomer on my foot where he likes to sleep (a brown paw print)
Get a tattoo in honor of Dottie (a black paw print)
Learn CPR for dogs
Attend a concert
Attend a musical
Comfortably walk around in a bathing suit
Take a spa day for a manicure, pedicure, massage and facial
Start getting up earlier in the morning
Live a more spiritual life
Have my palm read
Forgive things from my past
Plant a tree
Host a wine tasting
Host a fall themed party
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day of course we had mince
Celebrate Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)
Travel
Take a romantic weekend away
Take a 10 year anniversary trip
Visit my sister Joanna and brother-in-law Travis in Tennessee
Take a road trip the drive there… …and back
Take a road trip with Boomer and Dottie
Visit the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center
Ride the Pike’s Peak Cog Railway
Visit the Field Museum in Chicago
Visit Garden of the Gods
Visit wine country and go on wine tours/tastings
Visit Niagara Falls
Visit the Redwood Forest
Visit Pike Place Market in Seattle
Visit Santa Fe
Visit Albuquerque
Visit Austin
Take a fall foliage tour in Massachusetts
Write my name in the sand on a beach
See the ocean
Go on a cruise
Go whale watching
Travel to Hawaii and wear a fresh lei
Travel to Mexico
Travel to England
Travel to Ireland
Visit Best Friends Animal Society in Utah it was a grand adventure!
The End
Donate $10 to Best Friends Animal Society for every item not completed from this list
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These are so awesome! I see similarities in our goals, too- cool. I just wrote about my key lime pie… it’s not as hard as you think! These will be fun to read about as you complete them.
Thanks for being inspired by my list and letting me cross of “get a friend to do this with me!”
I made a key lime pie over the 4th holiday but it needs a little tweaking… I love the stuff!
And, thanks for such a great idea, this is going to be fun!
The crust! The secret is the crust!
Really? The recipes I’ve been looking at are a basic graham cracker, butter, sugar and sometimes cinnamon crust baked before being filled. I need to do some more digging!
I have my own homemade crust that I do, which is pretty basic. I’ve always wondered what a gingerbread crust would be like, or some other cookie other than graham. The difference between a pre-made graham cracker crust and a homemade one with this pie is VAST.
If I can make a homemade crust I will every time, HUGE difference!
The pre-mades are still totally delish!
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Love this list! I’m trying to get up the nerve to read Gone With the Wind before I watch it, but it’s just such a daunting task!
Thanks! I’m not sure that I could get myself to read Gone with the Wind… I like to read but that would take me a little longer than most!
I love your list and how it ranges from the simplest thing like making a nice dinner to traveling to Europe!
I will have to make one sometime.
Thanks for sharing this fab post with us today!
Isn’t it great how your hopes and dreams can vary so much? And, you really should make a list it’s fun!
I will!
Hi Emily,
Susie sent me
. Love your list…i am hoping in the near future i can write one too. I am sure you will get to do them all.
I sure hope so, especially the traveling bit. Thanks for stopping by!
Visiting from Susie’s blog. What a great list. I need to sit down and write one, too. Love the travel ones.
Thanks you! It was actually harder to make a list than I thought it would be.
Much as I’d like to see plenty of donations to the Best Friends Animal Society, I hope your contribution is slim due to your Bucket List achievements.
Very true… maybe I should change it to every item I cross off will get a donation!
Then everybody wins!
Wow! Found you via the awesome Susie’s party!
Great list and I adore the simple ones – I hope you achieve all of them!
Thanks for stopping by and as for the list, I’m working on it!
Susie sent me! Like the list – mine looks similat, but I’d have to adjust the ‘age to’ are as I’m working on my second half-century (but not acting it!) Some of the simplest ones are the hardest to accomplish – like forging the past or getting up earlier – they key is to make the days count whatever you do! thanks
Thanks for stopping over from Susie’s. And, you’re right sometimes the ones that look so simple are actually really hard!
I just danced on over here from Susie’s blog party. Seeing a bucket list in print helps make it far more real and attainable. Great post.
Thanks! It’s a work in progress!
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wow huge list! i want to try and eat more fish too
It’s a monster of a list that’s for sure, but I’m working away at it!
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Looks like grandma’s 80th is right around the corner! Another check off I hope! Congrats to you and Grandma from the crew at Sit. Stay. Squirrel!
Wags and Wells Wishes,
Whitney, Sascha & Hobbes
Aw, thanks. I do have the party planned for next weekend, she’s going to love it!
That is a very long bucket list. I love your tattoo ideas to represent Dottie and Boomer, I’ve been thinking along similar lines but not exactly sure what or where to put them.
Yeah it’s a big list, I don’t know that I will be able to do everything but I’m going to try!
I know what tattoos I want to get but I need the courage to do it, I’m such a baby.
It is good to have goals
My memory of the pain with my first tattoo was minimal and apparently if you choose a more fleshy spot rather than one where the skin is close to the bone then there is less pain. I haven’t gotten another one since because I’m so indecisive. You could always get a small paw print in each location and go for larger if you find the pain bearable
That’s kind of what I was thinking.
This is a really cool idea. I think I might need to make a list of my own!
Thanks, it’s a lot of fun to sit down and make and even more fun to cross things off!