Here is the rest of my always expanding, never-ending, amazing personal Bucket List!  I broke it down into categories: Life Experiences; Education, Certification, Awards, and Skills; Career and Finance; Personal Growth and Charity; Relationships (Family, Friends, and Romance); Style (Fashion, Beauty, and Belongings); Physical (Health, Fitness, and Sports); Home; On-Going; and One Day.

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Pheww!  So much to do, so little time!

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Life Experiences

• Attend a masquerade ball
• ✓ Attend an auction
• Attend a mystery murder dinner
• ✓ Attend the midnight screen of a Blockbuster movie on opening day – “Star Wars”
• ✓ Attend a White Party – Memphi White Party 
•  ✓ Be in a commercial
• Be published
• Be asked for my autograph
• ✓  Buy a lottery ticket
• ✓  Buy a car straight off the lot
• Buy everyone in a bar a drink
• Catch a ball in the stands at a baseball game
• ✓  Catch a bride’s bouquet – At Michaela’s wedding, Alicia’s wedding, and Lauren’s wedding… I feel like there may have been a couple more times… 
• ✓ Create a flower arrangement
• ✓ Complete a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle – I do this weekly.  It is an addiction. 
• Get backstage passes to a concert
• ✓ Get VIP passes to a show – “Phantom” (Phantom of the Opera) in Las Vegas 
• ✓  Go to a drive-in movie
• ✓  Go on a ghost tour – New Orleans
• ✓  Go caroling on Christmas
• Go on a real picnic
• Go to a paint party
• ✓ Go gambling
• ✓ Have my favorite author sign my book – Emily Giffin in the Atlanta airport coming home from Hawaii and Emily Giffin again at a book signing 
• Have my handwriting analyzed
• Have a Cuban cigar
• ✓  Have a water balloon fight – A new yearly, family tradition in Destin, FL 
• ✓  Have a pink bathroom or room
• Hit a target at a shooting range
• ✓  Hold a newborn baby –  So many babies 🙂 Tucker, Heloise, Eliza, Jameson, Annie, Briggs 
  

  Holding my newborn niece (for privacy purposes, her face is blurred out).

• Introduce two people who fall in love
• Join a book club
• Join Mensa
• Join a trivia team
• Join a book club
• Jump into a pool fully clothed
• ✓  Keep a book of inspirational quotes – A journal and on Pinterest
• ✓  Keep a journal
• ✓  Keep a journal of my travels
• ✓  Live without TV for a week
• Make homemade Christmas cookies and send Holiday cards every Christmas
• ✓  Make a wish on a shooting star
• Make homemade ice cream from scratch
• Marry Meet Michael Buble
• Meet a US President
• Meet a member of royalty
• Meet a celebrity
• Participate in a giant food fight
• Plant a tree
• ✓ Read 52 books in one year
• Saber a Champagne Bottle
• See a Civil War reenactment
• Send a message in a bottle
• ✓  Send a present to a soldier
• ✓  Sing in a karaoke bar
• ✓  Sleep on a boat 
• ✓  Sleep in a hammock
• ✓  Sleep under the stars
• ✓  Start a blog
• Stay up all night dancing and get home after the sun rises
• ✓  Take a camera everywhere I go (this one was on my list before cell phones had cameras)
• ✓  Throw someone a surprise party
• ✓  Take advantage of the whole bed
• ✓  Take photos in a photo booth
  

  The most epic photo booth in the world — Amurica!

• ✓  Teach a class – Research Methods and Statistics at The University of Memphis 
• ✓  Throw a huge party and invite all of my friends
• Try to accomplish as many goals as possible in one day
• Win it big in a casino
• Win first prize in a costume contest
• Wish upon a shooting star
• ✓  Witness an engagement – At the National Zoo in Washington, DC
• Write down the story of my life
• Write a letter to me and open it 10 years later
• Write my will
• ✓  Write my name in wet cement

Education, Certifications, Awards, and Skills

• Become fluent in Spanish
• ✓  Design a website – for The Pink Door and for Semmes Travel
• ✓ Get my Master’s Degree – In General Psychology with a concentration in Child and Family Studies
• ✓  Graduate the top of my class from college – Top 5% of my class and magna cum laude from Rhodes College
  

  Graduation Day from Rhodes College!

• Get a permit to carry a handgun
• Get certified in first aid
• Get my name on Wikipedia
• Have something named after me
• Learn calligraphy
• Learn how to ballroom dance (or dance salsa, tango, etc.)
• Learn how to cook
• Learn how to drive a stick shift
• ✓ Learn to play the piano – I did in college… mehh, I need to take lessons again!
• Learn how to sew
• Learn how to tie a tie
• ✓ Learn to ice skate – I use to… in my youth…
• Learn how to shoot a gun
• Learn CPR
• Learn how to change a tire
• Master several recipes
• Take a course in self-defense
• ✓ Take a cooking class – Tapas cooking class in Madrid
• ✓ Take a continuing education class – I have taken 3 at Rhodes College 🙂
• ✓ Win an award – I have personally won 2 awards from Lilly Pulitzer (and then my store has won several other awards from both Lilly Pulitzer and the Memphis community)

Career and Finance

I am not going to publically mark some of the finance points 😉

• ✓  Own my own boutique – Bought The Pink Door, a Lilly Pulitzer Signature Store
• Be someone’s mentor
• Become a self-made millionaire
• Create a passive income stream
• Have a successful career
• Have a sponsorship to travel
• ✓  Have a positive net worth
• ✓  Have no credit card debt
• Earn over $100k in one year
• Open a Swiss bank account
• Own investment Real Estate
• Save $10,000
• Save $50,000
• Save $100,000
• Save $250,000
• Save $500,000
• ✓  Start a savings account
• ✓  Start a retirement fund
• ✓  Start my own business/ be my own boss
• Write and publish a book (my Bucket List!)

Personal Growth and Charity

I feel like there is a lot that can put under the category of “Personal Growth.”  Overall, for me, it is important to constantly grow, challenge myself, step out of my comfort zone, improve myself, and to develop into a kind, loving, extraordinary person.

• ✓ Be an organ donor
• ✓ Become financially independent 
• ✓ Become self-sufficient 
• Become passionate about a cause
• Be a mentor
• Be INTENTIONAL (one of my favorite life mottos)
• ✓ Create yearly and monthly goals – Yay for my Type A Personality! 
• Change someone’s life for the better
• Do random Act of Kindness
• ✓ Donate items (i.e. clothes, books, etc).
• ✓ Donate to a charity every year 
• ✓ Entertain the elderly at a nursing home 
• ✓ Enjoy my own company 
• Establish a scholarship fund
• Establish life balance – meh, I try!  I do try to keep track each month of my life balance (career, financial, personal relationships, fun, mental health, physical health)
• Foster and bottle feed a baby animal
• ✓ Help raise a lot of money for a charity – Involvement with Carnival of Memphis
• Help someone to write or complete an item on their Bucket List
• ✓ Help save dogs and cats from euthanasia – I saved 6 puppies from being put down… And, I want to save so many more animals!  ADOPT don’t shop!
• Inspire someone
• Learn to establish better boundaries – this one is a work-in-progress
• ✓ Pay the Bridge Toll for the person behind me
• ✓ Pay a stranger’s tab at a restaurant 
• ✓ Practice gratitude – I created a gratitude list for a month
• Save someone’s life
• Take gifts to sick children in the hospital over the holidays
• ✓ Travel solo 
• ✓ Volunteer at a Children’s Hospital
• ✓ Volunteer at a school and tutor children
• Volunteer at an animal shelter
• Walk for breast cancer
• ✓ Write a charity in my will
• ✓ Write out my life goals – Say hello to my bucket list! 

Relationships: Family, Friends, and Romance

• Ask someone I just met on a date
• Appreciate my parents – I try
• ✓ Attend a high school reunion – Hutchison School 10 year reunion
• ✓ Attend a college reunion – Rhodes College 10 year reunion
• Be a good sister – I try
• Be a good daughter – I try
• Be a good friend – I try
• Be an awesome aunt – again, I try
• Be a Godmother
• Be a Maid of Honor
• ✓ Be a Bridesmaid – for Ashley, Lauren, and Lawrence
• Date a celebrity
• Date someone I find inspiring
• Carve our initials inside a heart on a tree
• Celebrate a 50th Wedding Anniversary
• Do a DNA ancestor test
• ✓ Fall in love
• Get engaged
• Get married
• ✓ Give my momma flowers for no reason – I am blessed with a wonderful mommy
• Have a big family
• Have a daughter and name her after my grandmother – For me, it is Eleanore
• Have a son
• Kiss a celebrity
• Kiss someone I love on New Years
• ✓ Kiss under the mistletoe 
  

  Sarah and me in Vegas. Best friends for over 25 years!

• ✓ Kiss in the rain
• Kiss in the snow
• Kiss beneath fireworks
• Make a scrapbook for every child
• ✓  Maintain a friendship for over 20 years – My best friend and I have been friends since 1992!
• Receive a love letter
• ✓ Receive breakfast in bed
• Slow dance in the kitchen
• Slow dance in the rain
• Start my own family traditions
• Take a moonlight walk on the beach
• Take a romantic walk in the rain
• ✓ Take my mom on the vacation of her dreams – To Europe and on a Windstar cruise
• Write a letter to my future husband
• Write a letter to my future child
• ✓ Write to an old teacher/mentor to say thank you

Style: Fashion, Beauty, and Belongings

• Create a skincare routine
• ✓ Find my signature scent – Thank you, Tory Burch! 
• ✓ Get a blowout
• ✓ Get a Blow Out
• ✓ Get a Bikini Wax
• ✓ Get a complete makeover
• ✓ Get acupuncture 
  

  I do love Louis Vuitton!

• ✓ Get my nails shellacked
• Get Botox – a lady never tells 😉
• Go on a no-budget shopping spree
• ✓ Have a facial
• Have a closet full of shoes
• ✓  Have my portrait painted
• Own a baby grand piano
• ✓  Own a Louis Vuitton purse
• ✓  Own a pair of Louboutins (red bottom shoes)
• Own a Range Rover
• Own something Channel
• Own a collection
• ✓  Own a Tesla – Well, I have ordered one (should come in late 2018/early 2019)
• Spend an entire day at a Resort Spa
• ✓  Try a hot stone massage
• Try a mud bath

Physical: Health, Fitness, and Sports

• ✓ Bowl a Strike
• ✓ Climb an Indoor Rock Wall
• Complete a Ropes Course
• Create a weekly fitness routine
• Go golfing
• ✓ Learn to ice skate – I use to take ice skating lessons… Maybe this should read “re-learn” how to ice skate! haha
• Participate in a 5k Race
• ✓ Play a Tennis Match
• Reach my goal weight
• Ride bikes on a beach
• ✓ Ski a Black Diamond Trail – When I was younger… I don’t know if I could do it again now!
• ✓ Snorkle
• ✓ Take a Bikram Yoga Class
• Try paddle boarding
• ✓ Water ski

Home

• Build my dream house
• ✓ Buy my first home 
• Create a happy, beautiful home – I try!
• ✓ Decorate my home for each holiday and/or season – I love pulling out my seasonal decor!
• ✓ Have a tree swing 
• ✓ Have a luxurious bathroom in my home
• ✓ Have a walk-in closet
• Have my own personal library in my house
• Have a treehouse
• Own a beach house
• ✓ Redecorate my formal living room – A work in progress… 😉
• ✓ Get to know my neighbors – I am very lucky to live in a neighborhood with such fabulous neighbors!  I probably could get to know them a little better, but I do try to attend all of our neighborhood events! 

On-Going

• Constantly grow as an individual
• Do something special for my birthday every year
• Journal
• Learn something new
• Start a ritual of something once a week
• Travel to a new place every year

One Day…

• Live to see cancer cured
• Retire and live in a beach house in Florida
• Take my grandchildren to Disney World