The Bucket List

Ladies and Gentlemen, Madamme, Monsieur....

I am enjoying a nice luke-warm cup of coffee...most likely brewed sometime this morning (it is now after 9 pm) and eating wine gums whilst waiting for a connecting flight at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport here in Houston TX...what a life. There is a 'code orange' security alert...apparently there are terrorists all year round in these parts as it was the same when I visited this airport in January. Nothing like a little mass hysteria to add a little spice to the journey. A little cynical today? Possibly...but isn't that why you read this?

For whatever reason, I always stray far away from the point of my posts on here...ADD maybe? My reason for blessing you with my heart felt words was to share my newly revised bucket list. I had so much fun with 'the 25' I decided to share my "things-to-do-before-i-croak" list coined "the bucket list" by Jack Nicholson in a box office hit. As if you didn't already know that. But, I had to clarify just in case some of my readers live or have recently lived under a rock...a rock with wifi but no tv...you really never know. On with it...

The Bucket List (Revised 06-2009) In No Particular Order....

1. Visit The Great Rift Valley
2. Dive The Great Barrier Reef (adding Palau Island onto this one too...apparently it is the best dive site in the world)
3. Snow Kite at one of the many ski-hills here in Canada (and gloat when going past the people waiting for the chair lift)
4. Climb Mt. Kilimanjaro (or at least part of it)
5. Learn to walk properly in high heels and wear them for an entire day without dying or taking them off and going barefoot like usual
6. Visit Tanzania (Sarengeti and Zanzibar)
7. Visit the Inca Ruins in Peru
8. Drive a race car (bonus points for not freaking out whilst doing so)
9. Make my own wine (Including stamping the grapes barefoot..I want the whole experience not just the wine kit stuff)
10. Visit the Maldives, Mauritius and Seychelles...hopefully in more than one trip
11. Bungee Jump the famous Bloukrans bridge in South Africa
12. Snowboard in Argentina
13. Visit China
14. Drink Molson Canadian out of the Stanley Cup (I realize that this dream might be totally unattainable since the Stanley Cup is more valuable than God in Canada...but its on the list anyways)
15. Learn to speak another language (Top 3: Canadienne French, Spanish and Portuguese)
16. Surfing (not the internet, the real deal)
17. Write a memoir about my experiences in the oilfield (and life in general) one that people will actually read...
18. Watch every episode of Seinfeld (preferrably in order)
19. Learn how to make my own pie crust and successfully carry out my lessons turning them into a lemon merangue masterpiece
20. See The Cure Live
21. With regards to the former, convince Peter to like The Cure
22. Successfully kiteboard....jumps included
23. Learn the caramilk secret (ok that one was a goal of mine when i was a teenager...thought i would include it to prolong my life)
24. Watch a live wrestling match (Yes WWE...preferrably Wrestlemania and preferrably when Batista is fighting)
25. Complete a full 42K Marathon (26 miles for you yankee folk)
26. Beat Jeff at Xbox Karaoke (this one is from Sylvan Lake...still standing)
27. Travel the entire country of Canada...Coast to Coast on the Trans-Canada Highway
28. Go ice skating at Rockefeller Center during the Christmas season
29. Learn to sew
30. Make a difference in the world (this one can be interpreted in a number of ways...i guess i will know when i have completed it as i will have some profound vision or feeling..well something crazy like that)

Voila the revised 'Bucket List'. That was fun, wasn't it? I had to revise it as I have completed some of the things on the list and have added different ones as a result of my recent travels. It's a big list, I had better not die anytime soon!

Completely un-related...I am very much in love with the new Spinnerette CD i recieved in the mail yesterday. Who the hell is Spinnerette Julie? It is Brode Dalle (former front lady of The Distillers and my secret celebrity lady crush)'s new music venture. The album has the same unique Distilleresque sound as her previous albums but a little less punk rock angst and a little more mature woman sound. Motherhood has done good things for Brody's music. Although nothing will be able to replace Coral Fang on my list of 20 albums to heal you, her new songs are a refreshing follow up to her 'angry-at-tim-armstrong' divorce anthems. I highly recommend the new album, Spinnerette is in this summer! (All Babes are Wolves is a wicked track!).

Time to board my plane for the dark side...Julie has left the internet.

Bisous xxx