Wednesday, January 17, 2018

My Bucket List

I might wind up transitioning this to its own blog at some point, but for now, here it is in all it's glory. All bloded and underlined items have been completed.

1]Find the one.
2]Change someone's life for the better.
3]Do a lap at Daytona and Indy in my vehicle.
4]Go on a cross country road trip(this could be its own bucket list/blog. Stay tuned). -So far I've driven to Chicago and D.C.
5]Cook thanksgiving dinner.
6]Complete a state magnet collection.
7]Run the NYC marathon. -Nov. 2017!
8]Write a message in wet cement.
9]See the northern lights
10]Walk the big NYC bridges. -So far I've done the Verazzano, Brooklyn, Queensborough, Willis Ave., Koszucio
11]Climb a Worlds Fair Tower.
12]Tour Hart Island.
13]Walk around Manhattan.
14]Meet a President.
15]Fix an old pickup.
16]Kiss in the rain.
17]Mix m&m's and skittles in a bowl and see what happens.
18]Get to the top of the Chrysler Building.
19]Dye my hair lime green.
20]Rebuild my Grandmothers house.
21]Build an accurate Airwolf replica out of LEGO.
22]Cut a giant ribbon with giant scissors.
23]Fly with the Blue Angels.
24]Watch the snow fall on a field with the girl of my dreams.
25]Go on a running date.
26]Play hide and seek in IKEA.
27]Eat In An Underwater Restaurant.
28]Make Ice Cream.
29]Cook A Turducken.
30]Have a paint fight with the girl of my dreams.
31]Go apple picking. - Done Oct. 2018!
32]Drive Route 66.
33]Learn How To Use A Bo Staff.
34]Have a picnic in Brooklyn Bridge park.
35]Slide down a bowling alley lane.
36]Drive a speedboat.
37]See a tornado in a field/Go Storm Chasing.
38]Watch a slinky go down the stairs. -Done Jan. 2020!
39]Send and get a reply for a message in a bottle.
40]Complete a Rubik cube.
41]Drive a Corvette and Lamborghini Countach.
42]Ride the Cyclone.
43]Go to a live tv taping.
44]Go to all 5 boroughs in one day. -Did this the day of the marathon! Nov2017
45]Go scuba diving.
46]Have Dinner at Tavern on The Green.
47]Sit in a Batmobile.
48]Make homemade Cheez-It's.
49]Slap someone with a fish.
50]Drive a big or famous boat.
51]Play a game of chess.
52]Write more letters. -Ongoing.
53]Finish Super Mario Bros. for NES.
54]Make tacos. - Done! Jan.2017
55]Successfully complete a "Dukes of Hazard" style hood slide on a car.
56]Work a job that makes me happy.
57]Carve something out of Spam. Do not eat it.
58]Ride in a motorcycle sidecar.
59]Run a 5K dressed as the Flash.
60]Duct tape someone to a ceiling or wall.
61]Swing from a rope into a lake.
62]Sleep under the stars on the beach with the girl of my dreams.
63]Legally get inside the Grand Central Terminal sub-basement.
64]Make a garbage bag sized water balloon and drop it off a roof.
65]Learn Archery. -Done! June 2016, Thanks Mari, Elyse and Lauren!
66]Go whitewater rafting.
67]Ride a mattress down a snowy or muddy hill.
68]Acquire a piece of P.S. 11
69]Eat an oyster.
70]Sculpt Superman out of clay.
71]Eat an entire pizza. -DoneOct. 2017
72]Go ziplining.
73]Leave a note in a library book or bookstore book.
74]Walk up a lighthouse.
75]Have a paper airplane race in a mall.
76]Finish a coloring book.
77]Have a Lightsaber battle in public.
78]Meet a Superman actor.
79]Plant a tree.
80]Hit an apple with a baseball bat.
81]Publish a book.
82]Own a piece of space-flown NASA material.
83]Enter an eating contest.
84]Build a tree house.
85]Tour the Jelly Belly factory.
86]Do a then/now photo shoot.
87]Go snow-tubing.
88]Swim with turtles.
89]Drive Bigfoot.
90]Get dunked by a giant Gatorade jug.
91]Clean a hotel room before the maids.
92]Slide down a giant water slide.
93]Jump a ramp on a jetski.
94]Make homemade bagels that actually taste good.
95]Attend a hockey game.
96]Drive at Bonneville Salt Flats.
97]Do a photo shoot at AMARC.
98]Mount a cow or Mythosaur or Krayt dragon skull to the front of my vehicle.
99]Make a potato alarm clock.
100]Eat a decade old Twinkie.
101]Acquire the 1992 Hess truck. -Done! Feb.2018, Thanks Billy and Dawn!
102]Blow a train horn.
103]Go swimming in honey.
104]See all the space shuttles.
105]Steal a pen from the White House.
106]Go fishing or swimming in Washington Square Park fountain.
107]See a white Christmas(snow has to start on xmas eve and accumulate at least 4 inches into Christmas morning/day).
108]Have my work exhibited in a Photography museum.
109]Go to CNN HQ, ask what it is, hope they say, "This is CNN." and leave.
110]Meet a cop with the first name of Dan, watch him arrest someone so I can say, "Book em, Danno."
111]Go to Coke HQ wearing a Pepsi shirt.
112]Wreck something with a front end loader.
113]Go to a Cubs game.
114]Learn how to weld and make a book holder out of steel plates in the shape of my initials.
115]Cosplay as Tim Drake 90's Robin.
116]Set up a really good Lionel train display with my dad's trains.
117]Dive to Challenger Deep.
118]Hit a home run at a softball game, or a minor league ballpark.
119]Go to Mardi-Gras.
120]Make a house out of toothpicks.
121]Have an underwater kiss.
122]Interview my favorite people for a Youtube show or podcast.
123]Do the Empire State Building run-up.
124]Buy a book for a random stranger.
125]Go to Quoddy Point for New Years Eve.
126]Take a picture at the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota, send to Weird Al & have him autograph it.
127]Attempt to run the Badwater marathon, finishing is another story.
128]Have an astronaut sign a can of Tang.
129]Watch a Roller Derby live.                
130]Work at San Diego Comic Con for at least a shift.
131]Install field turf instead of buying a carpet.
132]See the 4th of July Fireworks from Roosevelt Island.
133]Go to the Thanksgiving parade.
134]Go on a transatlantic cruise.
125]Read "War and Peace."
126]Find a secret spot with the gal of my dreams.
127]Donate to new charity each month for a year. - Done! 2021 
128]Bake cookies with the gal I love.
129]Make a fairly accurate Empire State Building or WTC sand castle.
130]Photograph someone on an empty railroad track.
131]At some point binge watch Dr. Who. -I started.(April 2017)
132]Take cute photos with a gal in a photo booth.
133]Learn how to kick box.
134]Visit Mianus.
135]Wear clogs for a whole day.
136]Attend Bristol night NASCAR race.
137]Go on a stargazing date.
138]Outdoor hot-tub in the snow.
139]Watch a sunset with someone while having a great chat.
140]Touch the Canon 1200mm lens.
141]Open a lava lamp.
142]Do at least one voice over acting role.
143]Drive a DeLorean and reach 88mph.
144]Make a gingerbread house. -Done! Dec.2022
145]Build my ideal desk.
146]Buildd Jupiter 2 out of LEGO.
147]Be photographed by Google Streetview.
148]Release a paper airplane from the top of Rockefeller Center.
149]Legally reach the top of the Verrazano bridge.
150]Get photographed diving for a volleyball.
151]Wear a Yankee hat to fenway.
152]Put soap in a fountain.
153]Build a brick bbq.
154]Knit a hat.
155]Dive in Alvin.
156]Get a Polaroid camera. -Done! fall 2017
157]Drive a fire truck.
158]Put a small bit of Washington D.C. reflecting pool water in a bottle.
159]Walk every path in Central Park.
160]Operate a true size remote control R2D2.
161]Go surfing in San Diego.
162]Covert my VHS Tapes to a more stable medium.
163]Do a stunt scene with Jessie Graff.
164]Eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's in one sitting, in January. -Done!Jan,2017
165]Photograph lightning hitting the Empire State Building.
166]Mail a potato.
167]Enjoy a beach bonfire with friends.
168]Have a Chinese food date.
169]Go to a Packers game just for the experience.
170]Be drawn or painted by Todd Nauck or Alex Ross.
171]Walk the Grand Canyon skywalk, look down and laugh in terror.
172]Do a polar plunge.
173]Attend an Olympic event.
174]Have a picnic with the gal of my dreams.
175]Go kite surfing in a storm.
176]Acquire a piece of Meteorite.
177]See a manned space launch.
178]Go on a library date.
179]Make a hamburger in the shape of the USA.
180]Build a baseball out of LEGO.
181]Make a functional surfboard out of Duct Tape and cardboard.
182]Send a Go-Pro into space on a weather balloon.
183]Have cherry pie a'la mode in a Gazebo on a summer day.
184]Gold leaf a brick.
185]Get a screenshot of me on the Jackson Hole town Sq and/or Vegas strip webcam.
186]Make someone belly laugh. -Done! Lauren, Oct, 2017
187]Get a punching bag. - Done! June 2021 
188]Go tech-free for 24 hours.
189]Learn morse code.
190]Catch A foul ball.
191]Be on someone's Youtube channel.
192]Draw on a street with chalk.
193]Trick someone with the Mentos/Diet Soda geyser.
194]Choose Chewbacca as a write-in candidate for an election.
195]Write a movie script.
196]Make breakfast in bed for the girl of my dreams.
197]Enter a butter carving contest.
198]Use a giant wrench.
199]Acquire an airstream trailer.
200]Be happy with the girl I love.

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