50X50 – The Updated Bucket List

by Sarah | Aug 21, 2017 | 45 before 45, 50 before 50, All About Me, All of Us, Personal, Redefining Perfect, Story of Me

Some years ago I created a 45X45 list of 45 things I wanted to do before I turned 45.  Over the past six(ish?) years I’ve revised it several times…adding things and taking others away.

This year, I turned 41. I’m creeping up on 45 faster than I like to think about, mainly because I didn’t feel I had enough of the items on the list done. Of course, there were a few things I wanted to add as well.

So I sat down with my list, looked it over. Once again I did some trimming, cut a few items, then I added some more.

I’m super excited to tackle the list. There are at least two items that I get to cross off within this next month, which will be really cool. The solar eclipse is a given, and I’m going to where there will be 98.99% coverage, so bonus! Then, at the end of the month hubby and I are heading to Disney World (which we will return to in December…woot)…which, since I went to Disneyland in May, will put me in both US based parks within a one year span!

After that…there’s a lot of options ahead of me. Take a look at my new list:

50 X 50

1. Take a real vacation. (Not to Buffalo, not w/ the kids) (Done 4/23/12)
2. Take my kids to Disney World. (Done, thanks to Make-A-Wish 10/28/14)
3. See my name in print (get published, e-zine, paper-zine). (Done 6/24/12 – Sirens Call June 2012 Issue)
4. Have a novel published. (Done 2/8/13 – Changing Tracks & 17 more times [so far] by 7/18/15)
5. Get my Dominion Falls books series in front of a producer.
6. Completely tidy my house [w/reference to KonMari]. (Started w/  my clothes. Lots left to do)
7. Take a photography class (or 2 or 3)
8. Perform on stage again (done 12/4/15 – Violet Grey in A Charlie Brown Christmas)
9. See Colorado
10. Camp – really camp in the Rockies
11. See Yellowstone
12. Go skydiving. [Yes, I feel slightly insane here]
13. Go to a blogger’s conference. (done 4/23/12)
14. Sit at a book signing.
15. Get on a regular exercise regime & stay on it for more than 3 months.
16. Hand craft (knit, sew) 1 item for ME for a change.  (DONE 4/1/12)
17. Make a complete Victorian era dress from skin out. (underthings complete, corset 50% complete)
18. Get some crazy color in my hair (purple, blue, pink highlites/streaks) Done 2/11/12
19. Read the Harry Potter series aloud to my girls. (2/3 of the way through by 8/4/17)
20. Sing Karaoke 
21. Get up close with the wolves & photograph them at Wolf Park.
22. Move to Florida.
23. Pay off debt.
24. Get a car that is less than 2 years old
25. Run a 5k. Done 9/22/12 
26. Do something daring (paragliding, zipline, etc.) Done 7/14/12
27. See the butterflies at the Indy Zoo (Done 3/19/13)
28. Learn sign language.
29. Go on a road trip with a girlfriend
30. Go on a hot air balloon ride
31. See Cirque du Soleil (Done 6/27/2012)
32. Ride a horse – not a trail horse. A real ride on a horse.
33. Volunteer
34. Stop drinking pop
35. Visit Disneyland (Done 5/2/17)
36. Get a tattoo (Done 7/16/11)
37. Go on a Cruise [preferably Alaskan, but I’m not picky]
38. Go on a wine tasting (Done 10/16/10)
39. Get a Henna tattoo
40. Take my husband to swim with sharks
41. Fly first class
42. Read at least 50 of the 100 Greatest Novels (I am saying the book can be from either of the 2 lists there. In total I have read 8/50 at this point)
43. Have a real spa day (Done, thanks to Hubs, 7/2014)
44. Visit a real haunted location (Done 7/16/16)
45. Sell a photo
46. Visit Salem, MA
47. Visit both US based Disney Parks in one year.
48. See a solar eclipse.
49. Have one of my pictures on the Indianapolis Zoo website.
50. Go through a sweat lodge ceremony.

So, I have to pick one to do next.  Which would you choose?