Bucket List

Cancer has this crazy effect of making you suddenly realize that life is short and things that were important don't seem as much as important as before and all of those things you secretly dreamed or said one day you would do suddenly are first in your mind. As I neared the end of chemo I started making a list of all the things I have wanted to do but didn't out of fear or because there was always something more else to do. I have learned that I don't need to wait or shouldn't have waited on cancer to make things important.

My goal is to finish this list and to continue to add to it.

1) See a size 10 (or smaller)
2) Go ziplining
3) Go sky diving (even though I am insanely scared of heights)
4) See Ireland & England
5) Be Healy
6) Do one 5k a month for a year
7) Do a mud race
8) Learn to an instrument
9) Refresh my Spanish
10) Learn some Italian
11) Get my degree
12) New Year's in Times Square
13) Meet Donnie Wahlberg & speak to him
14) Educate people about Ovarian Cancer (daily if possible)
15) Learn to sew well
16) Hike part of the Appalachian trail
17) Go to Disney World with the family
18) Learn to swim
19) Read as many of the "classics" as I can
20) See the Yankees & The Red Sox play
21) Drive an antique Corvette
22) See University of Alabama play AT HOME
23) See Wicked
24) Stay at a haunted hotel in Louisiana
25) Mardi Gras ( I realize I am old but I just wanna do it ONCE)
26) Camp as much as I can & in as many states as I can
27) Take dance lessons
28) Take a Tai Chi class
29) See Lorissa graduate from college & get married
30) Wear a formal dress for something..anything
31) Masquerade Ball
32) Have a complete makeover
33) Learn how to use chopsticks
34) Build something, anything
35) Ride a train
36) Visit Northern California (where Mom  lived as a child)
37) Find my older, half-brother.
38) Spend more time with Kevin, Katie & Levi
39) Go hunting
40) Go shooting
41) Learn to crochet well
42) Go back to Vegas

So since I made this list a couple of things can be checked off.  I am fortunate to have been able to spend Thanksgiving with Katie, Kevin and lovable Levi AND crazy exciting is that the brother I found out about year & years ago is no longer a mystery. Fortunately he has an amazing, resourceful wife who was able to track us down.

So now I need to get busy checking some other things off and adding more to the list. Of course some are works in progress and some may need to wait until January 15th for that 4 mth check up. Little by little though, if at all possible, I will start living life instead of just visiting every once in a while.