August 1, 2013

Bucket List 2013





 

~~2013~~~

 Summer Bucket List

1*           Lose 5 pounds
2*                      Do some kind of sport for 30 (not necessarily consecutive) days
3*                        Create a Summer Playlist, and use at least 30 new songs
4*                     Pick a “Summer Song 2013”
5*                       Have a Water fight
6*                       Have a balloon water fight
7*         Watch a meteor shower
8*                        Play 3 variations of Twister
9*                        Take a photo every single day
10*                 Combine said photos in a music video
11*                    “Fall” into a water fountain
12*                 Try Laser Tag
13*                  Go on a road trip (even if it is only one day long)
14*                Make cupcakes
15*                  Get a tan tattoo
16*                  Take pictures under water
17*                  Shoot off fireworks
18*                  Make vodka gummy bears
19*                  Tie-dye something
20*               Make assorted friendship bracelets for everyone who takes part in my Summer Bucket List madness
21*                 Color my hair/tips a crazy color
22*               Send a letter to an actor/actress
23*               Try the Chinese Fire Drill
24*             Have a bonfire and roast marshmallows
25*               Play spin the bottle
26*               Group scavenger hunt
27*                Karaoke with friends
28*               Try Strip Poker / Learn Poker first
29*               Collect shells and then write something on the ground with them
30*               Go ice skating
31*                  Give rock climbing / indoor climbing a try
32*               Try 5 DIY projects
33*                  Make Sun tea
34*              Write in a diary at least twice a week, but don’t read it until the last day of summer
35*                Finally go to the National Library and spend at least 3 hours in there
36*                Make a random act of kindness
37*                Write notes and put them on random cars
38*                Watch 15 movies I always wanted to see
39*                Have a horror movie night in the backyard
40*             Try every flavor of ice-cream in an ice-cream shop
41*                Jump in a pool fully dressed
42*             Catch fireflies
43*              Send a message in a bottle
44*            Go on a Roller Coaster
45*              Make a wish jar
46*              Sing “Call me Maybe” to a stranger
47*              Make a Time Capsule
48*              Spend an entire day with my little sister
49*              Watch the sun rise and set in the same day
50*               Swap phones with someone for a day
51*                  Build a sandcastle
52*               Go to a music festival, or at least a concert
53*                Make a water slide
54*              Start my Life Bucket List
55*                Go to a waterpark
56*                Walk around for a few hours in a part of town I’ve never been to
57*                Visit 2 museums and the Zoo
58*                Dance in the rain
59*                Sneak into a movie
60*               No internet or TV for 3 days
61*                  Learn to stand in hands / Learn to do a backflip
62*               Take a photo in a photo booth with at least 4 other people
63*                Midnight Bike Ride
64*              Cloud Watching for a couple hours
65*                Find a Four-Leaf Clover
66*                Make a friend on a random chat generator
67*                Pull an all-nighter
68*                Spy someone while in disguise
69*                Go bowling and learn pool
70*                Play hide and seek during the night
71*                  Get a henna tattoo
72*                Get a few people and fool around with helium
73*                Night swimming
74*              Photobomb someone
75*                Write at least 50 pages of a story
76*                Complete a 2000 piece puzzle
77*                 Convince a stranger I’m from a foreign country
78*                Dance in public to a really well-known song (Macarena, El Meneaito, Gagnam Style, etc)
79*                Prank someone
80*               Fill an entire coloring book
81*                  Push someone into a pool
82*               Run through sprinklers
83*                Take crazy jumping pictures
84*              Go on a bike ride for more than 10 miles
85*                Go on a picnic
86*                Blast music while driving around
87*                Send a few handwritten letters
88*                Run a 5K
89*                Complete my family tree
90*               Enter a photography contest
91*                  Win a contest
92*               Read 4 books
93*                Try scuba diving
94*              Relax at the beach
95*                Watch 5 movies at the cinema
96*                Pay Hide-and-Seek in IKEA
97*                Prepare a full meal for my family
98*                Attempt 10 different planking places
99*                Eat at an authentic foreign restaurant
100*        See a fortune teller
101*          Hold my breath for 2.5 minutes
102*        Rock a Red Lip
103*        Go to a sleepover
104*      Attempt Parkour
105*        Participate in an online movement/program

September 16, 2012

#17 - Try yoga for a week straight



Ever since this year began, I was a couch potato. The New Year Resolution that said „Do more sport” had the same fate as most resolutions (and pretty much as #58, since I could only say I did some sport for half the days from the summer vacation) . When I made the Bucket List I tried hard to stay away from things that were too hard to accomplish – not necessarily out of laziness.

So when I put this item on the Bucket List I chose the lazy way. Yoga appeared to be easy enough not to scare me away, but sportish enough to feel good about myself at the end of the summer.

Oh, did I say it was easy?
BIG mistake.

Those damn poses seemed so easy in pictures, but when I actually tried to do them I started feeling like a pretzel. One made of bad flour, that breaks and crumbles when you try to eat it.
Ok, maybe not the best analogy.

At first I started easy. And I felt proud. Disregarding what I said(um, wrote?) earlier, some poses were actually easy enough. But that gave me courage so I just skipped the „medium” level and got to the hard ones.

I found online a picture of the Scorpion pose, and it looked so cool, and I could understand how to get there and it was all peachy. Except when I actually tried to do it. Aside from the fact that I kept feeling like I would tumble over, my back killed me. And I wasn’t even halfway through it. That was definitely a wake up call, and I will never underestimate yoga again.

However, even though until now all I did was whining, this week was great.
Yoga gave me so much enegy, and I felt calmer (maybe it was placebo though). On a side note, never try doing it before bed. I did it once and couldn’t fall asleep fore 2 more hours (like I said, it gives you lots of energy).
Moreover, by the end of the week the poses were starting to feel easier, and I actually looked forward to my daily yoga dose.

I think I am going to keep doing it – maybe not daily, but definitely a few times a week.


Give it a try! It’s worth it.
Alice

September 14, 2012

#98 - Participate in an online movement/program

This one was harder than I thought to cross off. I just couldn't find any programs that interested me enough.
Eventually, while watching a video on You Tube I got my answer.

There was a little ad at the end, asking people to join iobffp.com. I looked to their website and it really sounded nice. After all, I always thought peace should be thought of as a goal, not as a dream.

Doing something towards world peace was really awesome. So I signed up.

After 2 days I still didn't get any mails from them, so I had no activation code. I sent a mail to their help center, but got no response. I tried signing up again with another email address. No luck either. I started thinking that maybe the Universe was trying to tell me something. I eventually gave up.

After one week though, I opened my email and there it was - my registration confirmation. Maybe the Universe was wrong after all.

If you try to register too (and you should, since this a great cause), have patience. The mail will come eventually.



Peace out!
Alice

September 9, 2012

#62 - Destroy a watermelon



Stupid? Check. Useless? Check. Wasting perfectly good food? Check.



Great feeling of satisfaction when you feel it crack? Triple check.




#23 - Climb a really tall tree



When I was little I was a bit of a tomboy. I would fight, and jump fences, and climb trees, all that good stuff.

As I got older however, I started feeling awkward doing those things. Eventually I stopped doing them altogheter.

As I mentioned in an older post, this is my last summer being a child (at least from a legal POV, since I don’t feel like growing up anytime soon – or ever, for that matter), so I thought there would be no better way to celebrate it but by doing something I used to love as a child.

It was harder than I thought to find a „really tall tree”, since the ones that were tall enough would be way too hard to climb given my now rusty skills, and the one that I could deal with were too small.

I eventually compromised, and found a medium tree that gave me a bit of work to do before getting to the top.




The view from the top was great, even more so beacuse it’s been so long since I climbed a tree.




Have fun this summer!
Alice