My Bucket List...

Ever see the movie "The Bucket List"? I would like to knock some more things off my bucket list this year. Last year I killed quite a few (go to Europe, ride a high speed train, stand underneath the Eiffel Tower, ride in a pod on the London Eye, go to my first PH conference, start my 401K, etc.). So here is my partial and forever growing list for 2009, I might not get to it all but I can always try. These are in no particular order...

- Take a cruise with best friends though the Caribbean (in particular, the Southern Caribbean).

- Live to my 26th birthday

- Go to the Aquarium of the Pacific
- Go back to the San Diego Wild Animal Park

- Go back to Sea World

- Go back to Julian for apple/pumpkin picking

- Drive up to San Fran/Sonoma

- Drive to the Grand Canyon and stand on the rim

- Go to the annual Eichler Home tour

- Go to the 2009 PH midway-to-conference on the road tour in San Fran

- Go back to Hawaii

- Find a new home! (which requires us to sell our old one)

- Decorate my new room once we move using my "metropolitan home" as my inspiration

- Enter photos into the OC fair again (but this time win!

- Do group xmas photos again in Laguna Beach (they came out so well last year)

- Make another 12 payments on Mona (my Lexus)

- Get a raise at work (no matter how small it is!)

- Apply for my Master's in Marketing (based on whether Saggar gives me the ok to go back to school and work at the same time).

- Go to Joshua Tree for the first time

-Finish knitting Ayden his blanky (half way there!)

- Master Photoshop (or at least learn some new tricks on it...)

- Come up with a battle plan with my financial advisor on how to buy a place of my own

- Get Saggar to say it is OK to live on my own...

- Continue to live my life the way I want to and not be pressure to find a boyfriend in order to be "happy"...I say screw that...if he comes into my life so be it...but I am only 25 and I am not rushing out to get married just to say "I'm married"...foolish young people getting married now...

- Try to solve/address my Sleep Apnea issues due to my PH

- Try to get back on Revatio

- See a massage therapist

- See a chiropractor

- Solve my liver issue (aka go see Saggar's Liver specialist)

- Research genetic testing on PH and see how I can get a DNA test to see if I a connective tissue disorder, if I have primary pulmonary hypertension, or if I have PH from something else.

- Meet at least one new friend and one new PH friend

- Take Ayden and the boys to the beach this summer (and pray that Ayden doesn't eat the sand)

-Go to another Angels game

- Host at least one party this year

- Go see a play up in LA

- Treat myself to one thing each month that I want, no matter how big or small it is...because I deserve it...

- Learn more about photography and enjoy every second of it...

- Get at least one new lens for my Rebel XTi

- Create a online cookbook of all my mom's recipes that I enjoy so that I have them to keep for as long as I live

- Investigate adoption/private surrogacy for the future so I can incorporate it in my future

- No line infections!

- Expand my photography portfolio

- Participate/Co-Host at least one PH fundraiser

- Buy a Wii

to be continued....