The Bucket List

Tackling 5. Get in shape – be a comfortable size 10.

Ready set go, see me move

Check out my Biggest Loser post xxx

I have always wanted to be a published writer. I am here with blog as someone wise (my Man) always says, “if you want to be a writer then write", and I didn’t realise that yeah he’s right until I began writing here. It’s lovely to get your comments and to know that someone out is reading what I’ve written. So without a drumroll I announce that I am starting this again. I am using National Novel Writing Month - November - to start and finish a book that I have been thinking about for a couple of months now. A new story for a new me. I will keep you posted as I go along but I am determined to have a finished novel this year. Of course that’s only the start, re-edits will be needed but I am confident this concept is an interesting one

Come join me if you too are into writing as there are lots of like-minded peeps on there. I am Rahgoddess there too! Make me your writing buddy and together we’ll make our 1,700 words a day!

Nanowrimo 2009

Happy Writing!

xxx

I have been working hard since last month on researching my family tree and it has been really interesting. My sister is also very curious about our ancestors and so it is something we have started doing together. I am enjoying it, it is difficult though to complete with only snippets of information but we are getting there. A lot of my Mum’s family are from Southern Ireland, near Cork and we manged to find some details for her aunt (her father’s sister).

Today my Mum and her sister rang her, they hadn’t spoken in so long due to my Nan uncomfortableness in relation to her Husband’s family. You see my Grandfather died when my Mum was only 12, and so my Nan was a young woman and she met someone new. I think being in touch with her dead husband’s family was hard for such a proud woman. She worried about what people thought and I imagine it troubled her greatly. Plus they lived in Ireland, and she, in Yorkshire. Distance, out of sight, out of mind. It was easier. But we’ll never know if that is true because my Nan died last year. Which is why we want to know more. My Mum does too. It is important to me as I felt like I was close to my Nan but never really knew her and that is weird. To me anyway

So the call made my Mum happy and it was nice to think we’ll get to know our relations in Ireland a little better, make up for time lost. I am not crossing this one off for a longggggg time I think, especially as it will take me and my sister ages to complete the research for both sides of the family. “Who do you think you are?” has a lot to answer for!

Hugs xxx

Hello cyberspace,

So I think this qualifies as a website and I am using it, will cross it off my to do list.

One down, ninety-nine to go

Yay xxxx

So I am currently an extremely comfortable size 14 - (US 12) but I am aiming for a UK 10 (US 8). The reason I am talking about this today is that I own many lovely dresses and would love to wear them over the party/Christmas season - we already have one function to go to and I am sure we’ll gather a few more invites before the year is through. Anyway, this is a goal that I feel is important to start tackling now.

So diet wise, I am relatively good, I have indulgent days and obviously enjoy the odd bar of chocolate or glass of wine. My issue is exercise, I get bored easily and need to keep challenging myself so I am going to mix it up a bit. My aim is to fit into this sixe 12/10 dress (bought it in Malaysia and it has no sizing on it - it is a gorgeous orangey batik chinese style frock. I fell in love with it and it was quite pricey. I am a spoiled lady, the husband bought it for me anyway! So I am determined to wear it. Here’s a little taster.

Am excited, bring it on!

Smiles today xxx

So this blog is mainly about this list and of course me My approaching 30th year, 1 year from now (take away about a month) made me consider what I have achieved and what I want to do before I hit the big 30. Hence my list. So it took me awhile to really think about things and almost a month later here it is!

The Bucket List

1. See the Northern Lights
2. Go to the Opera and Ballet
3. Have dim sum in China Town
4. Grow my hair long
5. Get in shape – be a comfortable size 10
6. Try ice-skating outdoors
7. Complete my NQT year
8. Ride a horse along a beach
9. See a pod of whales
10. Make gorgeous handmade presents for Christmas
11. Spend Mardi Gras in New Orleans
12. Visit Stonehenge
13. Drink a bellini at Harry’s Bar in Venice with Dan
14. Make a beautiful dress and wear it
15. Sit on the bench in front of the Taj Mahal
16. Play Fur Ellise on the piano
17. Donate Blood
18. Create a website and use it
19. Research and make a family tree
20. Kiss the Blanery Stone
21. Learn to sing and sing on stage
22. Buy a car and drive
23. Be a Mother, have a family with Dan
24. Go on holiday again with my family
25. Organise all my video and photo albums
26. Have a mud bath
27. Dance on Copacabana beach
28. Learn to trapeze
29. Ride a rollercoster with my eyes open
30. Meet Oprah
31. Wear a fabulous hat out
32. Get a MA
33. Swim in the World’s largest swimming pool in Chile
34. Sleep in a castle
35. Be able to do a headstand and touch my toes in Yoga
36. Learn how to make the perfect cosmo
37. Have a kitchen garden
38. Have a second go at my Hen weekend
39. Finish and publish my book
40. Organise, sell and donate unused clothing, and items I own
41. Become a Doctor of some description
42. Walk on the Great Wall of China
43. Visit the east coast of America
44. Visit the west coast of America
45. Plant pots of bright plants and flowers
46. Create a sacred place for me
47. Take an unusual class
48. See a play at The Globe, London
49. Go to a roller disco with Katie
50. Drink champagne in Reims, France
51. Own a pair of Gucci heels
52. Attend the Sapporo Snow Festival (Japan)
53. Witness the sun setting on Uluru
54. Speak Russian in Russia
55. Dance the tango in Buenos Aires
56. See Bette Midler in concert
57. Share a wine fuelled picnic with friends
58. Learn to pole dance
59. Rollerblade by the beach
60. Go on a retreat with my close girl friends
61. See Machu Picchu
62. Save for a new bike and plan a weekend cycling
63. Participate in a carnival
64. Organise a teeny festival style camping weekend for friends - Danstock
65. Act, have a small part in a film or play
66. Interview and learn more about my family and friends
67. Safari – see the famous five
68. Create and read a 100 book reading list
69. Create and watch a 100 film watching list
70. Make gorgeous bags
71. See Wicked
72. Learn to surf
73. Try Zorbing
74. Have a romantic meal, overlooking the sea, in Sorrento
75. Go to a proper karaoke club, pod style
76. Make a film
77. Go Danish with Kirsti
78. Spend Christmas or NY somewhere snowy
79. Learn conversational Spanish
80. Learn to count to ten in ten different languages
81. Make jewellery
82. Spend the day at a spa
83. Live by the beach
84. Participate in Burning Man
85. Be financially independent
86. Volunteer for a Charity Challenge
87. Celebrate our wedding anniversary in style by renewing our vows one year
88. Move to a house and make it a home for our family
89. Learn a new skill from each of my close friends
90. Go to a film premiere
91. Have a makeover
92. Make ten new good friends and take the time to cement ten friendships already gained
93. Go to on the SATC tour with my sister
94. Have a garden swing made especially for me
95. Had a party on a summer’s night in a garden filled with fairy lights and music
96. Buy a piece of art that makes me happy and hang it in my home
97. Surprise my nearest and dearest to make them smile
98. Stay in twenty-five Five Star Hotels
99. Have my own studio/study
100. Carry out the trip to Rome that I planned to take my Nan on one day with my Mum

More tomorrow on this and my already done list

Phew!

Danielle x

Things done
Things I’m currently working on