The Bucket List

This past week, my friend Carrie and I each made a list of things we'd like to do before we "kick the bucket" (a la the Morgan Freeman/Jack Nickolson movie). Silly-ish movie, but based on a good idea. The list can be of realistic goals or crazy wishes, but here's mine. I'm glad I'm getting a fairly early start on it; I've already got a few marked off. I'll let you know throughout the years how I'm doing.

LIZ'S LIST OF THINGS SHE'D LIKE TO DO BEFORE SHE DIES

Spend the night in jail (for something that won’t go on my permanent record)

Kiss a stranger

Go a week in silence

Perform a stand-up comedy routine

Be in a rock band (perform on stage in an awesome show somewhere)

Join the Peace Corps or a similar organization and volunteer in a third world country

√ Skinny-dip

Play the Plant in “Little Shop of Horrors”

Sneak out with a boy that threw rocks at my window

Learn to juggle

Dye my hair black

Pose as a nude model

See the Northern Lights

Stage a fight in a really really ritzy restaurant with a guy, which ends in me throwing a glass of water in his face and storming out

√ Flash someone from a moving car

Publish my poetry (in a literary journal or magazine)

Play Peter Pan in “Peter Pan”

Perform in “Guitars Unplugged” and/or “Acoustic Café” at BYU-Idaho

Get a second piercing (ears)

√ Have someone offer to buy me a drink in a bar

Completely redecorate a room

Audition for “The Actor’s Studio”

Kiss someone at midnight on New Year’s

Have a letter to the editor published

√ Milk a cow

Volunteer at Sundance Film Festival

See every movie on the AFI Top 100 Films of All Time List

Back-pack Europe

Road-trip the United States (at least part of that on a motorcycle)

Get paid to DJ an event

√ Live alone in my own apartment

Live in New York City

Make friends with someone famous that I admire

Be a bridesmaid for a close friend

√ Sleep under the stars

See a bear in the wild in Yellowstone National Park (I've lived in West Yellowstone for two whole summers, and NEVER seen a bear!)