My Bucket List

Updated 12/28/2021

I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of having a bucket list. I love reading everyone else’s and would always say things like, “oh that’s on my bucket list!” but I never actually had a physical list.

I had a bucket list this past summer because I was spending my time in a new location that I’d never been to before (Pittsburgh). I had a really good time keeping up with the bucket list and it forced me to try new things and discover new places. I realized that this was how I wanted to live my whole life, not just my summer.

I bought myself a pack of Moleskine notebooks last month and had one left that I didn’t know what to do with. When I was coming up with the idea of writing this post, I realized that it would mean much more to me if I had a physical paper copy of the list rather than just a virtual one. Therefore, I’m making it my goal for this bucket list to be a physical bucket list first and foremost, not just a virtual one. I wrote everything down in my notebook and then transferred it to this post!

The Bucket List

Travel

Go on a cruise

Travel to Greece

Visit the Greek Isles

Visit someplace in the Caribbean

Travel to Italy

Go on a gondola ride

Travel to Amsterdam

Travel to Ireland

Travel to London (again)

Go on the London Eye

Ride in a double decker bus

See the crown jewels

Travel to Paris (again)

Kiss Ryan in the Eiffel Tower

Add a lock to one of the love bridges

Travel to Africa

Go on a safari

Travel to New Zealand and Australia

Travel to Costa Rica

Take a road trip across the United States

Visit California (our new favorite place!)

Do the Hollywood sign hike

Visit Hawaii

Travel to all 50 states (18/50)

See Niagra Falls

Visit every continent (except maybe Antartica) (2/7)

Volunteer abroad

Visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras

Go to Las Vegas

Travel solo

Blogging

Write a sponsored post (read my first sponsored post!)

Make money blogging

Make $100 in one month (September 2015)

Make $500 in one month

Make $1,000 in one month

Have my own logo designed (Thanks, Sarah!)

Get to 1,000 Instagram followers (November 2015)

Get to 1,000 Twitter followers

Get 20,000 page views in 1 month (July 2015)

Get 30,000 page views in 1 month (August 2015)

Get 50,000 page views in 1 month

Get 75,000 page views in 1 month

Get 3,000 page views in 1 day

Get 5,000 page views in 1 day

Attend a blog conference

Meet a blogging friend in real life

Blog consistently for 1 year

Create a media kit for the blog

Post once per day for a whole month

Work with 10 companies

Create some blog-specific hashtags

Monetary

Get my own credit card

Keep track of my budget

Be entirely self sufficient

Invest in some stocks (with Ryan’s help)

Open an IRA (with Ryan’s help)

Donate $50 to a charity I truly care about

Career

Graduate from Temple University

Graduate with at least a 3.5 GPA

Get into graduate school for speech-language pathology

Survive graduate school for speech-language pathology

Get a job working with children at least part of the time

Love my job

Open my own SLP practice

Life

Be a bridesmaid

Be a maid of honor

Buy a house (read about our home buying journey!)

Buy a car

Say “yes” to a proposal (get engaged)

Have a pen pal

Start writing in a journal again (I started journaling again in 2021!)

Pay it forward

Have a picnic in a park

Make a scrapbook of my high school Europe trip photos

Make a scrapbook of Ryan and I’s relationship

Buy a lottery ticket for myself (and win something)

Get drunk on my 21st birthday

Have my parents buy my first legal drink

Write a letter to my future self

Buy a “big girl” purse (Tory Burch York buckle tote!)

Own (and wear) a watch (I love my Apple Watch!)

Get my cartilage re-pierced

Register to vote

Vote in an election

Be someone’s mentor (Became a Big Sister in November 2015)

Be a guest at a wedding

Send out Christmas cards

Have a better makeup routine/learn more about makeup

Win a giveaway (I won a monogrammed ring from Alicia Renee Obsessions!)

Own a Lilly Pulitzer dress

Own a Polaroid camera

Hold an officer position in NSSLHA

Be a committee head or an E-board member (I’m a founding e-board member of Special Olympics Temple University!)

Be in two places at once

Fly first class

Skills

Take a writing class

Take a photography class

Knit something (a scarf, maybe?)

Learn how to drive stick shift

Paint a decent-looking picture

Learn how to french braid on myself

Adventures

Look at the stars in a truck bed full of blankets

Ride a horse

Road trip with my brother

Go on a vacation with friends

Dance at Hootathon

Be an audience member of a TV show

Drive a jet ski

Fitness/Health

Try yoga

Go to a spin class (now I’m obsessed!)

Run/walk a 5K

Go to the gym consistently for a semester

Go to the gym consistently for a year

Drink more water! At least 8 glasses/day consistently

Meditate

Relationship

Get professional pictures taken with Ryan

Surprise Ryan with a gift

Spontaneously take Ryan on an adventure

Buy our tickets and popcorn at the movies

Participate in a “love journal” or book

Go on vacation sans-technology

So, that’s what I have for now! I will be updating this post as I cross items off of my list. I hope to include photo or video documentation of everything here but for some of the items that might not be possible!

Do you have a bucket list? What are some things that are on it?

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57 Comments

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:09 pm

      Yay! Be sure to send me it, I’d love to read!

  1. August 3, 2015 / 12:42 pm

    What a lovely bucket list — I have a 101 in 1001 days list, but I’d love to create a general life bucket list.

    xoxo, Jenny || Breakfast at Lillys

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:09 pm

      If you do create one, I’d love to read it 🙂

  2. August 3, 2015 / 1:16 pm

    This is an awesome bucket list! I always talk with my boyfriend about how I want to make a bucket list but I still haven’t made one yet — definitely need to get on that!

  3. Ashley Vickney
    August 3, 2015 / 1:53 pm

    I love your bucket list! I plan on making one once I graduate! For Valentines day I made my boyfriend a couples bucket list, and can’t wait to cross things off together!
    xoxo

  4. August 3, 2015 / 3:30 pm

    Some awesome goals on your bucket list! I’ve been thinking of doing the 101 in 1001 days. I believe I need to sit down and actually write one up. I hope you get to cross everything off your bucket list. 🙂

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:09 pm

      Thank you Jazmine! I’d love to read your 101 in 1001!

  5. August 3, 2015 / 7:24 pm

    You have so many great goals! I might make something similar!

  6. August 3, 2015 / 8:16 pm

    I love this! We have a lot of similar goals, especially travel-wise! I can’t wait to see what you accomplish!

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:08 pm

      Thanks Samantha! I have more travel goals than just this but I felt I should keep the bucket list relatively small for now, haha!

  7. August 3, 2015 / 8:48 pm

    This is a great idea. I haven’t put together my own bucket list- but I’ve definitely thought about what would be on it. Good luck with your list!!

  8. August 3, 2015 / 8:52 pm

    You have such a fun bucket list! Going to a blog conference is on mine, as well! The biggest item on my bucket list was to see Aerosmith in concert again, and I just found out that I’ll be seeing Steven Tyler in concert this fall! Not exactly the same thing, but I don’t have to pay for it, and I’m tickled pink! I can’t wait to follow along with your progress 🙂

    XX, SS || A Little Seersucker Sass

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:08 pm

      OMG, that’s awesome! Can’t wait to hear about your concert experience! Thank you 🙂

  9. August 3, 2015 / 8:58 pm

    This is a great bucket list. I love that you have some big goals (like buying a house) and some smaller goals like riding a horse. I think it is important to have small attainable goals and big life goals, both keep us motivated in different ways (:

  10. August 3, 2015 / 9:35 pm

    These are great. I’m looking forward to seeing you cross them off!!

  11. Miss ALK
    August 3, 2015 / 10:21 pm

    I love love love your bucket list! I have an old bucket list on my blog but I really want to change it to a 1001 in 101 or whatever that thing is that’s going around the blogging world!

    PS Vegas is AWESOME!!!! You really need to go. 😉 One of my favorite things I ever checked off my bucket list!

    xoxo A
    http://www.southernbelleintraining.com

  12. Lauren Ashley
    August 4, 2015 / 12:25 am

    Oh! this is a great list! You really did get inspired! I love everything. I really need to do one of these…

    Lauren

    The Fashionista’s Diary

  13. Cat
    August 4, 2015 / 6:24 am

    I love making bucket lists! It’s the first step to making smaller goals to make our big dreams come true.

  14. August 4, 2015 / 7:58 am

    I love reading bucket lists, it helps me get to know a person so much better! Love the travel goals, cannot wait to keep reading along and see you cross these off one by one!

    xo, Alicia | http://www.aliciatenise.com

    • August 4, 2015 / 4:06 pm

      Thanks Alicia! I love reading other people’s bucket lists too!

  15. August 4, 2015 / 8:21 am

    Lovely bucket list… You have so many great goals!!

  16. August 4, 2015 / 9:10 am

    Tons of great goals to strive for on this list. I have never really made my own bucket list. I did make a list of things I wanted to do in college though!

  17. Allison Ellzey
    August 4, 2015 / 9:47 am

    I love this list!

  18. Ally Gagliardo
    August 4, 2015 / 2:05 pm

    This is a great all inclusive list! I can’t wait to see you check all of them off!

  19. August 4, 2015 / 11:28 pm

    I love this! I could easily steal every single item on this list, I guess we’re very similar people!

  20. August 5, 2015 / 10:23 am

    I JUST made a bucket list the other day because I figured I needed some #goals, right? I love yours! I’m hoping to get to the Caribbean for my honeymoon, so fingers crossed…

    Coming Up Roses

    • August 6, 2015 / 12:33 pm

      I’d LOVE to read your bucket list, Erica! Where else do you want to travel to?

      • August 8, 2015 / 8:58 am

        Oh my gosh, everywhere?!?! Is that an acceptable answer?? haha
        We’re doing Hawaii for our 5 year wedding anniversary, but I definitely want to backpack Europe.

  21. August 6, 2015 / 12:30 pm

    Love this list! I have a 101 in 1001 list that I’m trying to complete and this reminds me to get back on track!

  22. August 16, 2015 / 8:15 pm

    There’s a lot of great ideas on here! I love have you have all your blogging/social media stats goals. I need to do the same for myself! Wishing you many checkmarks in the future!

  23. Kayla
    August 19, 2015 / 1:34 pm

    There are so many good ideas on here! I was wondering what major your working towards to be a speech-language pathologist?

    • August 20, 2015 / 3:53 pm

      My major is speech, language, and hearing science. With my major I could either choose to go to grad school for audiology or speech-language pathology!

  24. A∂яιєииє Dαкσтα
    April 22, 2016 / 12:08 am

    I absolutely love your blogs. They motivate me so much to get active in blogging and become organized. I wish you luck in SLP, my mother loves it!

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    June 28, 2017 / 6:57 pm

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