My Life Goals/Bucket List

Looking in my old diary at my "before I am 21..." list:

• go clubbing
• get drunk
• buy something very expensive with my own money [my treasured 1st laptop]
• buy cigarettes for fun
• buy a lottery ticket
• sneak out of my house
• find my passion career-wise 
• get to 2nd base [not really sure I knew what 2nd base entailed at the time... actually I still don't]
• get a piercing. either: 
• 2nd set of ear piercings
• cartilage
• nose
• eyebrow

Okay, I'll admit it, judging by these aspirations I was a pretty immature idiot. In my defense, I was sheltered and these are the things that meant freedom and adventure to me at the time. Anyway, I think I accomplished everything before I turned 22 except for buying a lottery ticket (go figure, the easiest one), finding my passion, and getting that piercing. 

I've grown since then though and the goals are at least somewhat more inspired and true to the person I want to become... kinda. 

My Life Goals and Bucket List:

• Get a cool piercing - cartilage, nose, or lip [this one's a keeper!]
• Ride a camel across the Sahara Desert. 
• Sky dive
• Travel! Visit: Thailand, Britain, Travel across Europe, New Orleans, NYC, The United Nations HQ, Washington D.C.  
•  See ancient runes [Tulum]
• Try scary foods
• chapulines [fried crickets! salty and crispy resembling sunflower seeds]
• frog legs
• alligator 
• chicken heart 
• See an Olympic event or a world-class tennis tournament in person. 
• Live in another city on my own. 
• Go on an archaeological excavation
• Discover an ancient artifact  (on that excavation I pulled out a pouch of beads that ended up being a huge part of the archaeologist/master-student's dissertation). 
• Be an actress  [standardized patient]
• Go on a cruise
• White water river rafting
• Go kayaking
• Read more!  (I'm up to 156 on Goodreads and counting!) As of mid 2014 I'm at 227 books!
• Smoke some Mary Jane
• Try Ecstasy 
• Try amphetamines or "uppers"
• Ride a motorcycle
• Ride an elephant
• Get close and personal with an elephant
• Touch a buffalo 
• Touch a llama [Cattleman's]
• Touch a camel [San Diego Zoo]
• Ride a horse across a long distance 
• Write a novel 
• Cross-country train ride
• Find my calling
• Learn a 3rd language 
• Start a Drive-in Theater 
• Present research at a conference 

and still adding!

Goals to be achieved this summer:

• Write a story, article, part of a book 
• Get anything published
• Make handmade jewelry
• Finally DO some fashion DIYs
• Work out and have a sexy beach body
• Internship or future oriented work