The Beginning

1. Get married in an Orthodox Christian church. To some people this may not seem like much of a goal, but for me it lays out the future of my life after my wedding. Getting married in an Orthodox Christian Church not only tells me what kind of a person I am marrying, but it also strengthens my relationship with my religion, current, and future family. The reason being, even if my husband is not Orthodox, if he understands me well and respects and loves me, he'll know that in order for my to be happy I must be married by a priest, in a church, and our children must be my religion. Granted, there is always room for flexibility depending on the man that I fall in love with, but I'm not quite there yet.

I began to write this list of life goals in 2007. After starting the list while thinking about my future, and where I would like to end up, I began to wonder what other possibilities for major goals could be noted. And so, like the giant marshmellow thing in Ghost Busters... the list GREW! I wrote major objectives that could possibly take my entire life to pan out. Example: 5. Live until October 25, 2100. My birthday is October 25, if I live until I am 110, I will have lived in three centuries, which I think would be a major feet. Possible, yes. Predictable, no. Doable at the present time, nope. Boring... a little bit.

Veering away from goals that tended to be obscure at the present time, I decided to brainstorm ones that I would like to achieve that were much more minor, and doable. It occurred to me that in order to feel the least bit accomplished with this list, I should be getting some of this stuff done. In result, the final list of my goals ranged from 1 to 107, and I still add to it from time to time.

I like to think that this is not a bucket list. It's not like in the movies where I spend my entire day and life getting this stuff done. No. Often I even forget that I wrote them and I probably look at the list only a couple of times a year to see if I got anything done.
According to the well-equipt Urban Dictionary, bucket list has 3 definitions:
1) A list of things to do before you die. Comes from the term, "kicked the bucket."
                         I do not need to do these things before I die. The lists purpose is to remind me  
                          of things that I forget about, whether I've done them or plan to do them.
2) A "Bucket List" is a list you make with your friends of things you always say you'll do and you don't. Not before you die... just for fun.
                       That's partially right, it is just for fun... but I didn't create it with friends. Also, I
                       actually am doing most of what I wrote, so it's not something I'll say I do and then
                        don't.
3) A really bad movie where a lot of money was wasted on unnecessary CG work that is unconvincing and you can tell the actors were in front of green screens during most of the shoot.
                     Agreed, hence: not a bucket list.

Which brings me to this blog. I've decided that taking note of the goals that I achieve as I do them, or in recollection of how I did so, would be full of interesting, and sometimes audacious and provocative stories. I'm not the best writer, but this blog is all about my experiences. I obviously have a list that I'm going by, but I thought if I showed you the entire list right away it would ruin half the fun. Besides, there is so much explanation required that it would be boring and uninteresting to just go through reading everything off.

So, welcome to my blog. I hope you enjoy it, and I'll try my best to keep you interested.
No bucket lists, or stupid generic crap. This is not a movie, it's personal. Enjoy!