The "Bucket" List: March 2008

Monday, March 17, 2008

#5: pass the CPAT

PASSED WITH FLYING COLORS

8 Minutes 21 Seconds.... 10:20 is failing

one second faster i technically would have wound up breaking the 8 minute mark since 20 seconds is a warmup.

Thursday, March 6, 2008

#25: Go to the Final Four

I'm leaving at 7pm today with Jon and Brynn to head down to Greensboro for the ACC Final Four.

PEACE!!!

COMPLETE 3/6/08

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

#46: Be able to do 250 pushups

3/3/08 No sweat!!!! COMPLETED

The List

VVFD & Volunteering Related
1. Become a Certified EMT FINISHED 2/26/08
2. Voted in as a Member of my Volunteer Fire Department FINISHED 1/28/08
3. Pass the CPAT and get into Fire Academy 3/15/08
4. Graduate Fire School 12/21/08
5. Become a certified Driver and/or Aide
6. Apply to get my EMT-P and actually begin classes
7. Volunteer at a homeless shelter on Turkey Day
8. Raise $1000 dollars for St. Baldricks
9. Raise $1500 dollars for St. Baldricks
10. Raise $2000+ dollars for St. Baldricks
11. Become a "Big Brother"
12. Volunteer as a tutor at a school/afterschool program 1/05/09 - JMHS FIRST Program
13. Help SAVE a truly SICK patient...complete 2/18/08

Organizational & Money
14. Keep my room organized for 1 whole year
15. Save up for a house downpayment
16. Pay off my Car
17. have 1 years salary saved in my savings account
18. pay off credit cards 100%
19. get my grandmother's will sorted out completely

Travel
20. Go back to Asia
21. Go to Cleveland to visit family
22. Go snowboarding in the Rockies
24. Go snowboarding in the Adirondaks
25. Go to the Final Four Complete 3/6/08
26. Take a cruise
27. Make it to SEMA
28. Go to NAIAS
29. Go to the Great American BeerFest
30. See Mount Rushmore
31. See the Grand Canyon
32. See Yellowstone & Old Faithful
33. See the "Golden Spike"
34. Climb the Statue of Liberty
35. Drive up/down Lombard St.

Fitness
36. Lose 60 pounds (starting at 258)
37. Run and finish a 5k
38. Run and finish a 10k
39. Run and finish a half marathon
40. Attempt a marathon
41. Get my underbite fixed
42. Complete a century bikeride
43. Play rugby again
44. Be able to do 10 chinups
45. Be able to do 20 chinups
46. Be able to do 250 Pushups...complete 3/3/08
47. Be able to do 500 Pushups
48. 6 Minute Mile

Learning
49. Learn to knit .... again COMPLETE 1/29/08
50. Learn how to read an EKG
51. attend at least 2 High Performance Driving schools
52. Learn another language
53. Learn how to dance
54. take bartending lessons
55. take art lessons (painting or pottery)
56. learn about gardening
57. re-learn oboe/basoon
58. Learn to play guitar
59. Take spanish lessons for conversational use
60. Learn ASL
61. Get my EVOC II/III certs (emergency vehicle license)
62. Get my PE license
63. Take Graduate school classes in M.E.
64. Take martial arts lessons
65. Read the holy book from another religion
66. Learn to ski

Purchases
67. buy a motorcycle/jet-ski
68. buy a condo/house
69. buy a dog

Miscellaneous
70. Be interviewed for something
71. Be quoted in a newspaper/magazine
72. take a train ride in a sleeper cabin
73. rent a lamborghini
74. get another tattoo
75. have a long term romantic relationship
76. swim with stingrays
77. go skydiving
78. go bungee jumping
79. go scuba diving
80. be a better friend to Eric
81. make money panhandling (and donate it back to charity)
82. give clothes to goodwill COMPLETE 1/29/08
83. Donate money to the ALS Association
84. Leave flowers/pebbles on all my relatives grave markers COMPLETE 11/11/07
85. Participate in a vaccine/drug trial
86. Donate Blood x4
87. plant a garden and harvest something from it
88. Go streaking
89. Learn how to do a handstand
90. get someone else to write/finish a "HUGE LIST"
91. Write a children's story
92. Make an informed decision in the presidential election
93.Quit drinking soda 2/12
94. Get someoen to quit smoking
95. Get back into the Heavy Rail Industry
96. Have more patience with my brother
97. Sleep on the Beach
98. Go camping with a significant other
99. Attend a lecture series on an engineering or EMS topic
100. Solve a Rubik's Cube WITHOUT the book FINISHED 2/25/08

THE LAST ITEM
101. MAKE A NEW LIST!!!!

The "Bucket" List