Clever, MO
(Laying in bed listening to the babes create my "surprise" birthday breakfast in bed. I'm pretty sure the eggs have burned.There is no other explanation for the accost that has bombarded my nose.)
Babes' ages-11,9,8,7, almost 2
Thw ramblings of my sleep dwprived mind...
Last night, my sweet Knight of 12 years pulled off quite a feat and surprised me with a lovely little birthday dinner at a Brazilian grill with my two sister/friends (friends who have known you long enough that sometimes you forget they aren't your actual sisters) and their husbands. It was everything I needed, intellegent conversations, delicious foods, happy dispositions... I even managed to keep my gory Medic work stories to a comfortable level and mentioned bodily fluids just ONCE!
Somewhere between broiled sea bass, calamari and fried bananas, my sister/friend asked me if I had accomplished everything on my "Turning 30 Bucket List".
Hmmmmmmmm
I HAVE a bucket list, but I haven't thought about a 30 year one! She went on to tell of several different lists you can find online of things on before you turn 30 and laughingly stated that she was pretty sure I had done ALL of them.
Naturally,this morning while waiting for the adorably sloppy breakfast that will soon come my way, my curiosity won over and I decided to do a little research and find out just what most people feel are accomplishments worthy of a 30 year bucket list.
Here are some highlights-
#1 from Urbanette- Enjoy a one night stand
Gen20 had a mix of the emotional and physical- forgive all your mistakes, date someone not your type, remove 2 main stressors from your life, move to a foreign country...
One guy aspired to run a farm for a week, climb an active volcano, learn to swim, float in the Dead Sea (Ewwww) and have a garden tea party (?)
Some of the obvious favorites that I have found online, yet have not-and probably never would dare dream of accomplishing:
Crash a strangers wedding
Consciously overdraw my bank account
Run a marathon
Eat an insect *horrors*
Attend a cop raided part
Wear only body painted clothes
Of course, I ran into an article from Huffpost that explained why one shouldn't have a bucket list at all. Killjoys.
The conclusion of it all?
I don't have one.
Live life. Make a bucket list. Don't make a bucket list. Do everything on the spontaneous whim. Plan out every second of your existence. Enjoy every precious, stressful minute. Relish every painful, wonderful moment. Take pause and experience as many non-personally-mundane things that you can. Snuggle yourself in the familiar and live out your days in peace. It doesn't matter!! Be happy! Life is always fatal.
And on that incredibly cliche note, have a fantastic day, world. Do what makes you happy.
As for me, you may just see me standing on the street corner in Springfield MO shamelessly selling tabloids like a 1914 Newsie. (A fantastic bucketlist item!)
Or maybe I'll stay here in this bed all day and sleep like a newborn.
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