The List

So I made a list. Like a good student I searched other people's lists, consulted a few books, and then added in a few of my own. I chose 52 goals. Which means I need to do approx. one per week. Some are much easier than others. Some will take weeks to do, or much planning. I will create a post for each and every endeavor. No holds barred. If you have any suggestions, or amendments please let me know!

Things to do before I graduate:

1. Learn to ski/ snowboard - I used to know how, but now I suck.

2. Grow a Bonsai Tree.

3. Volunteer for a cause that matters to me.

4. Spend 24 hours naked.

5. Skydive.

6. Learn a proper ballroom dance.

7. Shoot a rifle, gun or pistol, but not kill anything, or anyone ...

8. Take a weekend break more than 1000 miles from home.

9. Use a whole roll of gaffa tape in one day.

10. Refill an ink cartridge - messy.

11. Tip the waiter something other than money (oh dear).

12. Completely dismantle an object larger than myself - I will have to think about this one.

13. Get drunk on absinthe.

14. Drive at least 600 miles on 2 lane roads - I love road trips.

15. Watch all the Monty Python movies in one sitting - never seen any of them.

16. Make a bet I can't afford to lose - tear.

17. Read a 500 page book in one sitting.

18. Fly a kite.

19. See the northern lights (Maybe this could be the goal of my road trip?)

20. Learn how to play guitar. Even just one song.

21. Publish. Something.

22. Pull an all nighter and watch the sun come up. It's been awhile.

23. Learn to meditate.

24. Do something that scares me.

25. Date someone who isn't my type (also requires learning who is my type)

26. Learn to cook one exceptional dish. Or many.

27. Play hooky. It's about time.

28. Get a mani-pedi. Just as soon as my foot heals.

29. Get a brazilian. Ouch.

30. Get my eyebrows professionally shaped.

31. Learn to love champagne like Mariah.

32. Finish school.

33. Sing Karaoke.

34. Train for a marathon.

35. Throw a huge party.

36. Drive a wickedly, cool car. Maybe I'll just rent one.

37. Scream at the top of my lungs.

38. Start a food fight.

39. Eat green fried tomatoes. Like the movie.

40. Have a snowball fight. On a beach. Ala Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

41. Walk across a frozen lake.

42. Learn the Heimlick maneuver

43. Change a flat tire.

44. Learn to change the oil (yup I'm a girl).

45. Send a drink to a stranger's table.

46. Learn to whistle.

47. Donate blood.

48. Attend a large concert/ music festival.

49. Create my own website .

50. Kiss a complete stranger.

51. Plant a tree.

52. Buy myself flowers.

I also made a list of things I want to do, but will most likely need way longer than a year (and a lot more money).

1. Set foot on each of the 7 continents. I would actually like to live for at least a month on each continent, with the exception of Antarctica ... I would be quite content to just visit there.

2. Learn another language. And use it. Preferably while traveling.

3. Dive with a whale shark. I loved Sharkwater ...

4. Get braces - so I can have a pretty smile

5. Get my M class license and buy a bike/ moped.

6. Learn to play the piano well enough to perform something for my mom

7. Run a marathon (notice I only put train in my actual list)

8. Fly a plane

9. Attend the Olympics - sadly no 2010 Vancouver for me

10. Learn to play chess. Well.

Quarter Life Crisis

First off - I am not into self-help books. That aisle, the one with the crying women, and the overexposed anonymous, is my equivalent to publicly branding yourself as the dude from the fallsview casino lucky seven commercial.

That being said, I am a single twentysomething female, in my last year of university and about to start the rest of my so called life. Going to university, including the couple victory laps, has been like living in a bubble. I have lived, slept and breathed school. I am a nerd. Not a geek. A nerd. Top of my class naturally, but pretty darn close to the bottom of the social totem pole. While I love my program, and chosen field of study, I fear I have become *boring.* I wasn't always like this, but having to relive your glorified past at my age is pretty pathetic.

So, I am on a search for a fabulous life. Call it whatever you want, a bucket list, finding a hobby, a quest, suiting up, by the time I graduate, I want a life outside of work and school. Granted my timing couldn't be worse (last year of school + two part time jobs doesn't exactly leave a lot of spare time), my budget is non-existent, and this will most likely be pretty humiliating. But, I am determined.

So, I am going to suck it up and get a couple books as jumping off points. God help me.