Bucket List

Be a Better Me

Live so that it truly matters that I was here and leave a legacy that will carry on when I’m gone

Be “that person” who changes someone’s life

Apologize to someone I wronged terribly - 2010

Go on a mission trip overseas
Complete 100 Acts of Kindness

Be a Big Sister with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Mississippi - done 2011

Pay for a strangers groceries (actual groceries, not just gum and milk or something)

Donate my hair – 2015

Give my car to someone who needs it rather than trading it in on a new one

Make Christmas Cookies and take them to the ICU waiting room on Christmas Eve-2015,2016

Write an encouraging letter to someone in prison- done 2014

Serve food in a soup kitchen – 2016,2017

Tape a dollar bill to a vending machine with a note that says...”this is a random act of kindness, your snack is on me today!” Done 2014

Adopt a missionary for a year and send the family gifts, letters, cards, etc. to encourage and support them.

Win someone to Jesus - 2015, 2016, 2017

Write a letter to myself and open it in 10 years (Open December 2024- it’s in the lock box at the bank)

Complete 12 Thirty Day Challenges in 12 months (note to self...have most of these saved to Pinterest)***

        Throw one (different) thing away every day

        Don’t complain

        Take lunch to work

        Eat Vegetarian

        Go to the gym

        Burpees

        Plank

        Squat

        Photo Challenge

        Pushup

        No Fast Food

        Write an encouraging note (on paper) to a different person each day

        

Try Something that Scares me every month for 12 consecutive months    ***

Learn a new skill every month for 12 consecutive months (need list of 12 skills to learn)

Go Offline one day per week for 52 consecutive weeks

Start a support group for Suicide attempt survivors

Identify and write a description of my ideal self

GET OUT OF BED at 5am every single day for 30 consecutive days

Family

Make my first marriage my only marriage

Have a 50^th anniversary

Be a mom –-1999, 2005

Raise confident, independent kids

Watch my children get married

Live to meet my grandchildren

Keep Learning

Read the entire Bible***

Memorize the Sermon on the Mount***

Read 52 books in a year*** done! 2019

Learn to speak conversational Spanish

Learn to say “hello” in 10 languages ***

Learn to say “thank you” in 10 languages***

Learn how to play chess (and win)

Learn American Sign Language

Learn how to Crochet- done 2014

Learn how to tat- Done 2015

Learn to decorate Cakes – Done – 1994

Type over 50 WPM

Learn to play the piano 2020

Learn to play the guitar

Re-learn how to play the flute

Learn to knit***

Learn Calligraphy***

Learn to Sew

Go back to college***

Get my Bachelor’s Degree

Get my Master’s Degree

Painting

Sell my paintings in a store – Done 2013

Sell paintings in a craft show - 2018

Have a painting featured in an art show

Paint with oils

Paint a landscape- Done 2017

Sell a painting for $100 – Done 2017

Sell a painting for over $250 - 2018

Crafting/Hobbies/$

Make a quilt

Crochet an afghan- 2016 – baby Afghan counts, right?

Sell a cake I decorated –2009

Work on a pottery wheel

Make Soap

Sell an Afghan – 2017

Blow Glass

Make a Candle

Knit a scarf

Take an art class

Take an IQ test

Make Sour Dough Bread***

Beat Cancer

Survive Cancer – done – 2009 and 2011

Sing in a choir again (post cancer) done 2013

Sing a solo (post cancer) - done Easter 2014

Be 2 years Cancer Free- August 31, 2013

Be 5 years Cancer Free- August 31, 2016

Be 10 years Cancer Free – August 31, 2021

Writing

Be a regular contributor to an online devotional site- 2015-2017 (ICDevos)

Be a guest contributor to a magazine

Blog once a week for 52 consecutive weeks

Settle on title and idea for book – Joy in the Valley (When God’s Plan is Painful) – done 2015

Get laptop and writing program***

Set a page per week goal for book

Write book
Have book published (goal – 2025)

Buy my own book off a shelf in a bookstore

Be a guest contributor on online devotional site(s) – 2015, 2016, 2017

35,000 visitors on ITB

100 followers on ITB ***

250 followers on ITB

500 followers on ITB

1000 followers on ITB

50,000 visitors on ITB

100,000 visitors on ITB ***

Random

See Trans-Siberian Orchestra - 2017

Finish a whole tube of Chap Stick –May 2015

Have my Christmas Shopping done by October 31

Make a gingerbread house-2016

Get a small tattoo that means a lot December 2015, 2017 (not so small)

See a tornado – on purpose, not because it is heading for my house

Learn to use chop sticks- 2018

Sing with the Mississippi Chorus – Done 1996

Go Christmas caroling with a BUNCH of people through neighborhoods riding on a trailer filled with hay and blankets

Have a Christmas Cookie Decorating party with my kids (and friends)

Lay in the middle of a road – done – with Amy George in 8^th grade

Go on a vacation with my friends –January 2013

Be in a theater production

Host a cookie exchange ***

Tie a cherry stem in a knot with my tongue- Done

Watch a meteor shower

COMPLETE Project 365 ***

Sit on a Jury – Done 2017

Learn to Juggle

Try all 31 flavors of Baskin Robins Ice Cream ***

Have a cutting garden ***

Have an herb garden 

Have an outdoor living space (covered porch, fire pit, chairs, table, etc.)

Have a vegetable garden – 2016

Physical

Climb a rock wall – Done 2002

5k –2012

Color Run (Color Me RAD) - 2013

½ Marathon

Full Marathon

Warrior Dash

Tough Mudder

Spartan Race

Have my dream body (36/24/36)***

Weigh 220lbs ***

Weigh 200lbs

Weigh 180lbs

Weigh 160lbs

Weigh 140lbs

5 minute plank

50 push-ups (not girl push-ups)

100 Burpees in 8 minutes

10 Pull ups

Drink 80- oz. of water a day for 6 consecutive weeks. ***

Go to the gym (and actually exercise) for 6 weeks straight 2015

Go to the gym (and actually exercise) for 12 weeks straight 2017

Size 6 ***

Bench Press my body weight

Squat 1.5X my body weight

Deadlift 2x my body weight

20 unbroken dips

8 minute mile

18% body fat

Black Belt

Self Defense class

 Financial

Have a credit score above 750

Have 500 bucks in my savings account***

Have 1000 in my savings account

Have 2500 in my savings account

Be debt free (maybe with the exception of a house note)

Be able to quit working outside the home.

Write and Paint full-time

Travel

Float in the Dead Sea

Visit the Holy Land

Sit in the Garden of Gethsemane

Visit all 50 States

Visit the Grand Canyon

Go white water rafting – Done 2002.2003.2004.2014. 2015.2016

Go rock climbing (actual real rocks)

Climb a waterfall – Done 2003

Go Skiing in the Mountains

Touch an iceberg

Go on an Alaskan Cruise

See the Northern Lights

Take and African Safari

See Cats – on stage -done - 1990

See a musical on Broadway

Ride a subway in New York

Visit Ground Zero

Spend New Year’s Eve in Times Square

Visit a volcano

Go to a NFL game

Go to a professional Baseball game

See Whales

Go on a Louisiana Alligator / swamp tour – 2013

Read all the books on my book list

Complete my bucket list



100 Acts of Kindness: ***

1. Put a surprise note in loved ones’ lunch, bookbag, car, etc.
2. Give Cold Gatorades to the Mailman and Garbage men on a hot summer day
3. Cook an extra portion of food for a shut in
4. Operation Gratitude
5. Make care packages for homeless people and give them out
6. Bake cookies for the office
7. Make breakfast for the office
8. Stop at a kid’s lemonade stand and buy a drink
9. Leave a 100% tip
10. Donate a small sum of $$ to a charity
11. Tweet or FB a genuine compliment to 3 people
12. Complement a parent on how well-behaved their child is
13. Cook a meal or do laundry for a friend who just had surgery
14. Donate an old piece of clothing when you get a new one
15. Write an old teacher to let them know they made a difference in your life
16. Compliment someone to their boss
17. Write someone a letter – on paper – and mail it
18. Give someone a book you think they’d like
19. Bring fun office supplies to liven up the the workday
20. Sincerely compliment your boss
21. Put a sticky note with a positive message on the restroom mirror
22. Babysit for a single mom for free
23. Adopt a rescue pet
24. Compliment someone in front of others
25. Compliment your child in front of others.
26. Compliment your spouse in front of others
27. Frame a friend’s favorite quote and give it to them
28. Take baked goods to your neighbors
29. Compliment a stranger
30. Praise a child to their parents where the child can hear it.
31. Support your friend’s kids at their recitals and games
32. Sing Christmas Carols at a Nursing Home
33. Send a care package to a soldier
34. Send a care package to a missionary
35. Give Chocolate
36. Bake a cake for the birthday person
37. Buy a struggling family a season pass to the pool
38. Take coloring books and crayons to the pediatric wing
39. Leave a bouquet at the hospital and tell the nurses to give it to the patient who needs it the most.
40. Drop off toothbrushes, combs and socks at the soup kitchen
41. Send a thank you note to the police station and Fire station
42. Arrange to anonymously pay for a soldier’s meal
43. Bake cookies and take them to the fire station and police station
44. Give your mom a shout out on your birthday
45. Treat an elderly person to a pedicure
46. Leave compliments on sticky notes
47. Leave a note on a public bathroom mirror that says “You’re Beautiful”
48. Write a letter or send a card to a child who could use some extra attention
49. Send a card to a friend
50. Leave money in the vending machine for someone
51. Leave notes of encouragement on people’s cars
52. Tutor a struggling student
53. Give kid’s valentines cards to people in your office
54. “Here’s $20 for the next person in line” at the grocery
55.  Leave a positive sticky note on someone’s desk.
56. Tell your boss how much you like working for them and why
57. Tell people how much you've learned from them
58. Tell people what you appreciate about them
59. Share overheard compliments
60. www.sendkidstheworld.com
61.  You Matter" cards   youmattermarathon.com
62. Check in with friends who have lost their mom or dad on Mothers/Fathers day
63.  Amazon Smile
64.  Cut out an article and share it with someone "I thought about you when I saw this"
65.  Make a prayer book for someone. Record your prayers for them for a year.
66.  Check in with someone
67.  Buy food for a homeless person
68.  Involve your kids in community service
70.  Give to the school, club, or sports organization taking up money outside the grocery
71.  watch for pet food sales and donate to a local shelter
72.  collect newspaper for an animal shelter
73.  Collect used towels for an animal shelter
74.  babysit for a young couple.





Read :

1. The Bible**
2. Huckleberry Finn
3. The Great Divorce
4. Absalom! Absalom!
5. Don’t Waste Your Life (Piper)
6. Schilinder’s List
7. Radical (Platt)
8. Chronicles of Narnia
9. What’s so Amazing about Grace?
10. David Copperfield
11. Old Yeller
12. A Tale of Two Cities
13. The Reason for God
14. The DaVinci Code
15. Crazy Love
16. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
17. The Knowledge of the Holy (Tozer)
18. Winnie the Pooh
19. Follow Me (Platt)
20. Life of Pi
21. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
22. Mary Poppins
23. Delirium – Lauren Oliver
24. Pandemonium – Lauren Oliver
25. Requiem  - Lauren Oliver
26. Dune
27. Counter Culture (Platt)
28. Count of Monte Cristo
29. Oliver Twist
30. Don’t Waste Your Life (Piper)
31. Dracula
32. Ulysses
33. A Christmas Carol
34. The Color Purple
35. Future Grace (Piper)
36. Charlotte’s Web
37. The Velveteen Rabbit
38. Braveheart
39. The Last Jihad (Rosenburg)
40. The Host (Myer)
41. Enders Game
42. The Historian
43. The Jesus I Never Knew (Yancey)
44. The Maze Runner series
45. Think (Piper)
46. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
47. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
48. Interview With a Vampire
49. The Outsiders
50. The Giver
51. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
52. A Game of Thrones
53. The Problem of Pain
54. Jane Eyre
55. Not a Fan (Idleman)
56. Gone With the Wind
57. The Divine Conspiracy
58. Alice in Wonderland
59. The Wind in the Willows
60. Crime and Punishment
61. The Divergent Series 2014
62. Hunger Games Series 2014
63. Great Expectations
64. Redeeming love (Rivers)
65. Harry Potter Series
66. Wuthering Heights
67. Knowledge of the Holy
68. 1984
69. Darkfever (Moning)
70. City of Bones
71. The Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoffer)
72. Animal Farm
73. The Thornbirds
74. Catcher in the Rye
75. The Weight of Glory (CS Lewis)
76. The Hobbit
77. The Lord of the Rings
78. To Kill a Mockingbird
79. The Grapes of Wrath
80. The Great Gatsby
81. Surprised by Joy
82. The Scarlet Thread (Rivers)
83. The Never-ending Story
84. The Princess Bride
85. Where the Red Fern Grows
86. Unbroken
87. Of Mice and Men
88. The Lord of the Flies
89. Little Women
90. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (Edwards)
91. Pride and Prejudice
92. This Present Darkness
93. Water for Elephants
94. The Auschwitz Escape (Rosenburg)
95. Moby Dick
96. The Explicit Gospel (Chandler)
97. Hamlet
98. Twilight Series 2015
99. The short second Life of Bree Tanner
100. The Sound and the Fury
101. The Screwtape Letters
102. Mrs. Dalloway
103. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
104. Evidence that Demands a Verdict
105. The Diary of Anne Frank
106. Erasing Hell (Chan)
107. Hush Hush (Fitzpatrick)
108. A Passage to India
109. A Bend in the River
110. The Bell Jar
111. Brave New World
112. Birdsong
113. Pilgrims Progress
114. The Fireman - Joe Hill
115. Evermore Allison Noel
116. Never Let Me Go – Ishiguro
117. The City of Enber
118. Gathering Blue
119. Wise Blood (Flannery O’Connor)
120. The Lovely Bones
121. Mere Christianity
122. Beautiful Creatures
123. Treasure island
124. Ben Hur (Lew Wallace)
125. Slaughterhouse Five
126. Clockwork Angel
127. Clockwork Prince
128. The Oath (Peretti)
129. Clockwork Princess
130. All the Light We Cannot See
131. Forgotten God (Chan)
132. The Selection
133. The Visitation (Peretti)
134. Risk (Geoffrey Wood)
135. The Lost Hero
136. Legend – Marie Lu
137. The Sense of Ending
138. Advice for Seekers (Spurgeon)
139. Christy (Marshall)
140. Before I Go to Sleep
141. Helter Skelter
142. Soon  (Jenkins)
143. The Deal (Kennedy)
144. The Air he Breathes  (Cherry)
145. Prince Lestat (Rice)
146. Outlive Your Life (Lucado)
147. The Secret Life of Bees
148. Silence (Shusaku Endo)
149. Itch (Geoffrey Wood)
150. Wolves Among Us (Ginger Garrett)
151. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
152. Dark Matter - Blake Couch
153. The Hideaway - Lauren K. Denton
154.  The Perfect Nanny - Lelia Slimani
155.   All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
156.  The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
157.   The Broken Girls - Simone St JAmes
158.  The Outsider - Stephen King
159.  Winter People - Jennifer McMahon
160.  Red rising Trilogy - Pierce Brown
161. Before We Were Yours - Lisa Wingate
162. Into the Water - Paula Hawkins
163. Girl, Wash Your Face
164. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
165. Knowing God - J.I. Packer

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