My Bucket List

I feel like lately I have heard so many people come up with their 'bucket list' and in the past couple of weeks I have been trying to figure out what would be on this list. When I shared my newest item on the list with my mom, she said "I don't like the term 'bucket list'...it makes it sound like you're going to die " I said "But that is what people call it...it's a list of things you want to accomplish before you die. What mom? Do you want me to call it a 'wish list of things to accomplish'? Because I feel like that's lame and long" "Well I would like it very much if that's what you called it" Whatever mom. Anyway, I've been thinking of what my actual bucket lists (or wish list of things to accomplish) is...so here it is:

College Bucket List

Go out of the country on a mission trip

Dress up the Martin Luther statue on campus in a tux for Reformation

Go to West Virginia

Go to Boone, North Carolina

Go to a hard core show

Spend Spring Break somewhere warm and not Minnesota

Learn how to wake board and be successful at it

Rest of Life Bucket List

Travel to England

Go cliff diving

Find a legit guy to get in crazy adventures with

Spend an entire year with out any family in the Hospital or E.R.

Get a tattoo of a star on my right wrist (see Genesis 15:4,5)

Spend New Years in Veil, Colorado

Speak at the National Youth Gathering

My list seems small with out anything huge like meet the cast of 'How I Met Your Mother' or go on David Letterman (my brother just had to go and ruin that one for me). The items on the lists are achievable for me. The one I keep coming back to is the newest one on my list. And that would be speaking at the National Youth Gathering. While some people think the idea of speaking to 35,000 youth is terrifying, I see it as amazing and something I want to do before I die. I decided this while watching the recap of the most recent youth gathering in hopes of getting a chance to hear a friend and our senior pastor speak at different mass events. What keeps going through my mind is how incredible it would be to be able to allow God to speak through me and use the gifts I was given to witness to 35,000 youth. Just typing that sentence gave me goosebumps.

So there it is. My bucket lists. I hope that I can cross everything off that list by the time I'm old (but still just as awesome).

Disclaimer: I was told by my friend Lindsey that I probably needed to post on this. One of my closest group of friends thought this blog would be all hilarious posts that all have to do with the goings on in my mind. So to Lisa, Sam, Ellen, Lindsey, and Adam: While my humor will be in what I write, most of the posts will be about real things that I come across because believe it or not, there are some people out there that take me somewhat seriously.