What the Bucket

Oh my ugh, this is a busy summer.

I received one challenge, from my grandmother, for my trip home with my sister:

I challenge you to go to the Casa Bonita restaurant in Denver on your return trip. See if it looks at all familiar!

The restaurant of Eric Cartman acclaim has been a semi-regular point of interest for my family on trips out west over the past four decades, and I hadn’t been there since I was about eleven. I think I found all the parts of the restaurant that I do remember, but there was a lot that apparently didn’t stick the first time for me. We were pretty underwhelmed with the food (fortunately a friend warned me that it’s “the worst food ever,” so I was prepared), but otherwise I could see it being pretty fun if you were there with kids. The sopaipillas did not disappoint, and no matter what, it would have been worth it for the joy that these two Google reviews bring me:

Holy crap. Such spectacular melodrama.

Anyway, I have about three thousand things on my to-do list this summer before I move to Boston. Even though “get rid of things” is patently on the list, I’ll be honest, I did not pick up the “get rid of things” challenge when I got home like I was supposed to-do, as per my promise in my last post.

What I did do is find the bucket list I organized and then lost a few months ago–I’ve been working on a lot of lists lately. I wanna post some of that one because I can get a little negative here sometimes, I like having hopes and dreams, and at least it’s content–I’ve even finito-ed some of the items 🙂 Maybe making it public will give me more accountability or something, too:

• Learn to juggle
• Get really good at building fires
• Be a barista
• Be a waitress
• Hug a tiger >>> Hug an adult tiger
  
• Live in Boston *pen hovers above item*
  
• Learn what my vocal range/type/whatever is for singing
  
• Get married
• Have kids
• Do a 5k
• Write a short story >>> Finish a short story
  
• Touch a London pigeon with my foot
  
• Visit all 50 states
• Learn to drive stick
• Learn to drive a motorcycle
• Get professional headshots
• Pinup photoshoot
• Kiss the Blarney Stone
• See Stonehenge in the early morning
• Learn a valuable zombie survival skill
• Start a retirement fund
• March in a televised parade
  
• Own a “FRANKIE SAY RELAX” t-shirt (just learned that this was apparently a thing with Ross on Friends when I was looking up a picture to link to here; he was definitely not the inspiration for this item)
  
• Drive from the right side of a car
• Ride as a front-seat passenger on the left side of a car
  
• See Breaking Benjamin in concert
  
• Learn all the words to “One Week” and “It’s the End of the World as We Know It”
• Eat poutine
• Eat haggis
• Make my own perfume
• Blow glass
• Go down and then back up the really scary huge dune they say not to go down right off of Lake Michigan at the Sleeping Bear Dune park
• Be able to do the splits
• Be able to hold a handstand
• Bake a rhubarb custard pie
• Bake perfect cookies
• Bake rum cake with pie cherries
• Go to a wine tasting
• Drive someone else’s car because they got too drunk
• Get stitches >>> Get stitches from an interesting injury
  
• Have a pleasant reading/speaking voice
• Do a backbend from a handstand
• Make a quilt
• Knit a blanket
• Learn how to use a gun
• Get waxed
• Be able to identify specific penalties in hockey
• Have a work husband
• Meet a Pittsburgh Penguin
• Read Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
• Read The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
  
• Go to a casino
• Make sourdough bread like my mom’s
  
• Bake with yeast successfully >>> Bake with yeast more successfully
  
• Smash a light bulb
• Weave a basket
• Organize my license plate pictures
• Skinny dip >>> Skinny dip in a river
  
• Use a claw foot tub
• Chug a Frappucino
  
• See Mt. Fuji
• Be in a movie or TV show
• Wear fake eyelashes >>> Wear fake eyelashes sometime that isn’t Halloween
• Take my youngest sister to see Chicago on Broadway

That’s not all of it, but I’ve literally filled out four notebook pages so far, I know there’s stuff I keep forgetting to add to it, and I suspect these goals are more interesting to me than to you 😛 I’ve got a to-do list to work on anyway, so I better go cross “New blog post” off of it.

Leave me comments about your bucket list!