My Bucket List

Wishing you all a very belated, but also a very; HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Cue the party popper.

Ok, so let's face it; I am actually rubbish at blogging! You know it, I know it... but I swear I will improve! (See point 58).

At the moment I feel like I'm stumbling around my life blindfolded (I mean this mainly as a metaphor, but also because I literally keep falling over and banging into things) and I hate it!! It is time to start getting my life in some kind of working order and that is why I have made my very own bucket list and intend to scratch off as many things as possible before I die, or the world ends (which I certainly hope is not this year). I will share it here so I don’t just avoid it.

Here it is:

1.    Reach ideal weight.

2.    Maintain ideal weight

3.    Leave my job

4.    Get a job doing something I love

5.    Apply for jobs everyday (this one, I really need to focus on more)

6.    Learn a language

7.    See as much of the world as possible

8.    Visit Zock

9.    Write something, even if it’s bad, everyday

10. Go bungee jumping

11. Go skiing

12. See the Green Lake in Austria (as both meadow and lake!)

13. Learn how to play guitar

14. Make a difference in someone’s life

15. Get a short story collection published (one can dream right?)

16. Fall in love

17. Experience the perfect kiss

18. See the Northern Lights

19. Stay out all night and watch the sun rise with friends

20. Move out of Manchester

21. Live in another country

22. Get a pen friend (that’s a big middle finger to technology! I just really love the idea of this!)

23. Throw a letter in a bottle out to sea

24. Read a book a week

25. Go on a road trip

26. Go snorkelling

27. Learn sign language

28. Go to Groezrock 2012

29. Go to at least five festivals in different countries

30. Volunteer for literature festivals

31. Speak at a literature festival

32. Read more European fiction

33. Meet an idol (someone kidnap Bill Bailey with me?)

34. Make my own creative zine

35. Go running everyday

36. Go to a drive in movie

37. Get a pet

38. See the Colosseum in Rome

39. See Stonehenge

40. Finally make it to America

41. See the Golden Gate Bridge

42. Complete my 10 year run of Leeds Festival

43. Steward for Leeds Festival 2012

44. Lie in long grass in the sun (alone and with someone special)

45. Do something spontaneous

46. Go on the top of a human pyramid

47. Apply for TEFL

48. Apply for PGCE

49. Decide on whether or not I want to do my Masters

50. Go back to gigs in Manchester

51. Go to zombie boot camp

52. Visit Tom in Russia

53. Grow my nails

54. Take a photograph within the giant picture frame in Ramsbottom

55. See as many of my favourite bands live as I can

56. Volunteer at libraries reading to children

57. Take part in World Book Night

58. Blog MORE (at least three times a week!)

59. Go to London and have an awesome time with Zock 
60. Start getting work experience towards TEFL/PGCE

As you can see, so far, my list is rather short but I keep thinking of new things everyday so it will get larger eventually!