Bucket List (As Kidnapped From My Facebook Notes)

--> There shouldn't be rules to dying. With one exception. Live. Live with everything you've got and then some. The following list is not to be taken lightly. The following objectives are not to be half-assed. Those that are unfinished are to be read aloud at my funeral, and hopefully, accomplished/completed by some poor, grief-stricken sucker in the crowd.
All my love, Samantha Mairson.

1) Travel ---> Bermuda, CT, CA, NC, SD, NYC, FL, GA, WA, CO, NM...
2) Visit Graceland and buy an Elvis doll.
3) Learn martial arts.
4) Write a book.
5) Skydive.
6) Perform stand-up comedy.
7) Read at a poetry reading. Use bongo drums.
8) Run a 1/2 marathon.
9) Run a marathon.
10) Run for miles on a soft sand beach. 08-12-2011 Coronado Navy Beach
11) Learn to give a mindbogglingly good massage.
12) Eat sushi ---> & have it become a favorite food...
13) Kiss someone with a lip ring.
14) Write a story about a chicken nugget and submit it for publication.
15) Go strawberry picking.
16) Sleep in the Disney castle.
17) Play twister, while drunk, and win.
18) Spend 1 week camping and hiking in a beautiful mountain range.
19) Swim with dolphins.
20) See the Grand Canyon and take a photograph worthy of publication. 08-09-2011
21) Touch the Great Wall of China.
22) Work in a library/bookstore.
23) Give a motivational speech.
24) Floss my teeth everyday for a year. 2011-2012
25) Swim with sharks.
26) See the Eiffel Tower in person.
27) Spend a day with Marie and Emma Mairson.
28) Paint a mural. Tolland Public Library 2010
29) Read the short story Everyone Poops to a good-looking group of boys.
30) Learn to shoot a gun or get shot.
31) Take a taxi and have the driver order fast food for you (and buy him whatever he wants).
32) Create/contribute to yearbook for the THS class of 2011.
33) Successfully complete 50 consecutive pushups.
34) Drive a motorcycle; without crashing.
35) Learn to play the harmonica. 2011
36) Take a Disney animator to dinner.
37) Go to a Superbowl game.
38) Create a piece of art, sell it, and make at least $20.
39) Paint a room orange.
40) Learn to surf.
41) Go ziplining. 2010
42) Bake extremely delicious scones.
43) Chug a beer.
44) Catch a firefly, then set it free. 07-04-2011
45) Read The Giver. 06-30-2011
46) Watch Pulp Fiction.
47) Participate in a (simulated) sumo wrestling match.
48) Bar tend.
49) Play oozeball.
50) Skinnydip.
51) Stand in a field of lavender. Better yet, have a picnic there.
52) Be an audience member during a TV show.
53) Invite a complete stranger to coffee. 09/15/2011
54) A score of 150 or better in a game of bowling (NO BUMPERS).
55) Perform in a karaoke bar.
56) Have a successful ping-pong rally (10 pings or more).
57) Write a letter to the president.
58) Sleep on a beach in Hawaii.
59) Ice skate in Rockefeller Plaza.
60) Travel to New York City independently.
61) Eat in a blackout restaurant (or make dinner, turn off the lights, and save money).
62) Eat in an ethnic restaurant where you sit on the floor.
63) Go white water rafting. 10/15/2011
64) Initiate a cake fight.
65) Go kayaking.
66) See meteorite shower.
67) Get doctoral degree.
68) Jump in a public fountain.
69) Have a three way.
69.5) Avoid announcing my sexual exploits on Facebook.
70) Hug a Wal-Mart employee.
71) Fly an airplane
72) Visit Alaska (before everything melts) and pet a sled dog.
73) Graduate from high school. June 2011
74) Go clubbing.
75) Be able to answer the question, "What is love?"
76) Sleep overnight in a library.
77) Volunteer or work at the Library of Congress.
78) Ride in a hot air balloon.  (Sleep inside a hot air balloon) 10-01-2011
79) Attend Bonnaroo.
80) Have a conversation with a zen master. January 2012
81) Create a storytelling project.
82) Cover my entire body in paint.
83) Attend a hippie festival. 09-30-2011
84) Attend Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
85) Compete in a Tough Mudder.
86) Hike the PCT.
87) Cut my hair like that anime video I like so much.
88) Write one handwritten letter per day for a year.
89) Make & mail a post-secret.
90) Save someone's life. (Must be confirmed/described by someone in comment portion of this note.)
91) Inspire someone.  (Must be confirmed/described by someone in comment portion of this note.)
92) Write lyrics to a song.
93) Make at least 10 YouTube videos.
94) Camp in 20+ National Parks.  (Yosemite, Great Sand Dunes National Park)
95) Backpack through Europe.
96) Couchsurf to the extreme!
97) Hike the Appalachian Trail.
98) Dye hair silver/light blond.
99) Earn Congressional Award.
100) Journal like a beast.  Capture life to the best of my writing abilities.
101) Nude beach.
102) Smokey jazz bar.
103) Donate $500+ to charity.
104) Be fluent in three languages.
105) Have and maintain a fantastic garden.
106) Make a red dress or a little black dress.
107) Make an outfit out of duct tape.
108) Tour a chocolate factory.
109) Ride a horse.
110) Get picked up by an elephant.
111) Kiss someone in a planetarium.
112) Windsurf.
113) Il volo libero.
114) Get a tattoo.
115) Cross country bike trip.
116) See Cirque de Soleil live.
117) Experience epic zipline.
118) See Mumford & Sons perform.  (Bonus: See Mumford and Sons perform at Red Rocks).
119) Ride on a parade float. 11/29/2012
120) Do a stint in jail.
121) Go on a maple sugaring getaway.
122) Thanks to Facebook post/comment, experience grin blossom on my face and emanate faint sound of nearly silent giggle. 12/03/12
123) Watch all of the Star Wars movies (preferably with Cedar).
Ultimate) Be original, be Sam.

This list is subject to change.

"Live to the point of tears." - Camus

Let the living begin.