My Bucket List

I saw a great movie recently entitled the Bucket List starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson. It was about two elderly gentlemen diagnosed with terminal cancer who were hospital roommates. They bonded over sick nights and chemotherapy sessions which left them relying on one another for strength and support. Upon completion of chemotherapy they decided to revert to an old bucket list. The bucket list is a list of things they wanted to do before they “kicked the bucket”. With one having the money and the other having the vision, these two hilariously funny gentlemen succeeded in plucking off items on their bucket list one by one.

How inspiring! I think we all should have a bucket list even if we don’t have a terminal diagnoses. We tend to assume that we will be here tomorrow or next week or next year for that matter. You can live to be 80 years old and never have as full a life as someone who died at 35. Instead of spending our time wishing we could have accomplished something, we should spend our time thinking, “Why haven’t I done this yet?”. We need to get things going. Life is not promised but death most certainly is and it can come like a thief in Nordstrom after hours!

I have a bucket list. I’m going to make it a point to finish over half of these things before I kick the bucket, or like my granny would say “head on over to boot hill”. I’m going to spend less time worrying about why something hasn’t happened and more time making things happen!

So here goes nothing!

I want to go on the Oprah show and ask her for her shoes at the end.

I want to swim with Dolphins

I want to have cucumber sandwiches and white wine spritzers with Marc Jacobs.

I want to visit La Louvre. (google it!)

I want to direct a movie, or at least let someone let me think I’m really directing just amuse me! (and not a porno you perverts)

I want to attend a Cowboys game in Dallas TX with my face painted gray and blue.

I want to go to a Prince concert.

I want to go on a week long vacation alone.

I want to buy a really expensive and completely non-functional purse and not feel guilty about it.

I want to drive on the Autobahn.


Please share your list of things to do before you head to the upper room…and keep it funky!