Bucket List

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A fairly new term used in society today taken from the 2008 comedy-drama film, The Bucket List.  The purpose of this list is ambitions and goals you would like to accomplish before you die.  Top Her Couture started her list last year and would like to share it with you now.  She will continue to mark off and add as things happen in her journey.
  1. Get married in Holy Ghost Church/destination wedding/Ranch
  2. Have children
  3. Take a trip outside the US
  4. Get jewelry from the heart
  5. Start clothing company
  6. Take a trip somewhere new
  7. Message in a bottle
  8. Take enrichment course in science
  9. Go to Mother Cabrini
  10. Ballroom Dance
  11. Buy & name a star
  12. Voice lessons
  13. Learn a strangers story
  14. Go to the ballet
  15. Go camping, fishing, hiking
  16. Listen to a latin choir
  17. See Tut Exhibit
  18. Visit the Planetarium
  19. Be 2 places at once
  20. Go to the Opera
  21. Skydive  4/19/2015
  22. Go to Cirque du Soliel
  23. Promise Ring
  24. Cook without a recipe
  25. Go skinny dipping
  26. Meet Topher's dad
  27. Random act of kindness
  28. Visit the Aquarium
  29. Go to Italy
  30. Pay for the person in front of you
  31. Surf
  32. Play in a puddle
  33. Befriend a person I don't like
  34. Witness a miracle
  35. Compete and take 1st
  36. Learn to pray the rosary
  37. Change a life
  38. Learn to let go of what you love most
  39. Take a risk
  40. Learn to sew
  41. Make a quilt
  42. Get a kitten and name it Lettuce
  43. Smile when you don't want to
  44. Save a life
  45. Learn something new
  46. Read the bible 
  47. Get a rottweiler
  48. Buy a house
  49. Zip line through the jungle
  50. Get a plaque/statue for my dad
  51. Give away a treasured possession
  52. Visit Pittsburgh
  53. Be asked out on a date
  54. Visit Bora Bora
  55. Try a new food    Thanks Andrew for the Pho lesson
  56. Learn stations of the cross
  57. Go to a rugby game
  58. reach 5000 views on my blog
  59. Make love
  60. Own a 6-speed
  61. Learn to fly fish
  62. Go to Rascal Flatts Concert [7/16/14: Rewind Tour]
  63. Be a kid for a day
  64. Marry my best friend
  65. Start a new tradition
  66. Ask for help even when pride is trying to get in the way
  67. Be less emotional/judgemental when a loved one is expressing their wrongs, weaknesses, etc.
  68. Get season tickets to the Opera
  69. Start a POSITIVE ONLY journal
  70. Find a pen-pal
  71. Let go
  72. Attend the Olympia
  73. Start a vision board/journal
  74. Open a boutique or expand online store
  75. Ice Skate at Rockafeller Center
  76. See a show on Broadway
  77. Try a new hair color/cut
  78. Make a new friend
  79. Go to FAO Schwartz
  80. Have a valentine's Day
  81. Go to a paper fashion show
  82. Take top 5 at National show 
  83. Go to Central City Opera 
  84. Swim with the Dolphins
  85. Go to an NFL game out of state
  86. Be Honest to myself and those around me each and every day
  87. Be kinder to myself
  88. Get flowers for no particular reason
  89. Girls Only vacation
  90. Own a LV
  91. Real pearl earrings
  92. Smile or give a stranger a compliment
  93. Kissed under misteltoe
  94. Take a vow of silence
  95. Earn PRO card & do at least 1 PRO show
  96. Haiku Stairs
  97. Take a senses walk [all senses separately]

  1. What are your ambitions, dreams, goals?  Where will your bucket list take you?

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