To celebrate the fact that I have written 100 posts (in two months, shit I speak a lot), I will share my bucket list with you today! Don’t expect anything too wild like swimming with sharks or bungee jumping because this is not that kind of list. A few years ago, I think before I met Rui, I made a list of all the things I would like to do with my life, so this is more a list of all the things I want to do before I die! I decided I should come up with 100 and I did. I still remember writing them on this notebook with a cupcake patterned cover, where they still are and where I’m copying them from right this second. I would write them down whenever I thought of something new, during a class, on the bus, at home, whenever I would come up with them. This should be interesting!
100 things I want to do before I die:
- Learn how to ride a bike;
- Write a book (or several books);
- Read all of the books from my “books I want to read before I die list” and the thousands of eBooks I have saved up on my computer (through totally legal downloads…not);
- Buy an old house to renovate or just build my dream house;
- Having a garden and a vegetable garden with fruits and trees and vegetables and plants and herbs and flowers.
- Go to the United Stated and travel the 50 states;
- Learn how to sew, do more things in crochet and knitting;
- Be a mother;
- Feel comfortable in my own body and control my weight;
- Have two dogs and one cat;
- Finish my degree in Languages, Literature and Cultures, with a Major in North American Studies and a Minor in English;
- Create a playlist of all my favorite songs;
- Have a library full of books;
- Try playing tennis, volleyball, basketball, running and Pilates;
- Do a Master’s in American Studies or Education;
- Buy a car;
- Take a massage course;
- Visit all of the most important places and monuments in the world, see all of the most important works of art;
- See all of the best movies ever made;
- Take more degrees, even if I’m not going to work in that field;
- Do some courses and learn every thing there is to learn about English and Literature;
- Learn mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology and do exams, so I can take degrees that require these subjects;
- Teach;
- Learn German, French, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin;
- Live in the countryside in a place full of trees and near the water;
- Get cured from my depression;
- Wake up at the same time every day and get used to going to bed early;
- Be more sustainable and green (recycle, use more organic things, be more self-sufficient, make less garbage and have an electric car);
- Have a career;
- Have a shop or a cafe or a tutoring center or some other business;
- Get used to writing a journal;
- Buy better and more versatile and classic clothes that will last longer (more basics, etc);
- Stop being afraid of swimming in deep water and learn to swim better;
- Have healthy, long, beautiful nails and healthy hair;
- Stop being lazy when it comes to taking care of myself;
- Organize my finances and have a good savings account;
- Be completely independent;
- Be part of some groups like a book club or choir or collective sport;
- Go to a dance class;
- Forget about my past, get over all of the heartbreak and disappointment;
- Create a better relationship with everyone in my life;
- Organize my things until I feel like I’m 100% organized;
- Be the best in class in the next degree in decide to take and be 100% dedicated;
- Fill a notebook with all my favorite poems;
- Buy a pink laptop;
- Collect postcards and stones;
- Exchange letter and postcards with people from other countries;
- Learn more about Art, Cinema, History, Philosophy and Science;
- Have friends all over the world;
- Do a trip on my own;
- Write articles for a newspaper or magazine;
- Repeat all my exams from high school;
- Prepare myself to be able to teach Portuguese as a second language and to tutor Portuguese students for exams;
- Do some online courses;
- Do a play;
- Live alone;
- Learn how to play the piano;
- Be 100% healthy;
- Fill a notebook with recipes;
- Find my religion;
- Do some DIY projects like jewelry or restore furniture;
- Have a blog with 100 followers;
- Have singing lessons;
- Get married and stay married for 50 years;
- Write down all my expenses and live on a budget;
- Be in shape and like sports;
- Do volunteer work (at a hospital, with the homeless, for a suicide line and with orphan babies);
- Win an Award;
- Do an album with all my pictures;
- Adopt a child;
- Learn how to do things from scratch (soap, bread, clothes, detergent, etc.)
- Do a PhD;
- Help as many people as I can;
- Be great at something;
- Create a big folder, full of English learning/teaching materials;
- Get to know Lisbon better, like a tourist;
- Be able to say no to candy;
- Be informed about what is going on in the world;
- Do some kind of course related to computers or technology;
- Meet a famous writer;
- Write a movie or TV show script;
- Run a marathon;
- Be someone’s godmother;
- Take my driver’s licence and pass in the first try;
- Stop being ashamed of getting my picture taken and be in more;
- Write a Master’s thesis and PhD thesis;
- See all of Shakespeare’s plays in the theater;
- Learn how to meditate;
- Have 15/20 students at the same time for my private classes and make a good salary from them;
- Keep the friends I have and find more lifelong friends;
And that’s how far I got at the time. I started this list about three or four years ago and so many things have changed. Some of them don’t make sense to me anymore, some of them I have already accomplished and there are a few new goals. I will post an update and a current list but right now I’m just going to let you get to know 21-year-old me 🙂
Your 21-year-old self had a Lot of goals in life 🙂 I doubt I ever had that many. Hmm…I have to put a bucket on my head and get thinking. But will wait to see the update. Goodnight C. Hope the weekend was lovely.
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Hey dear, hope you had a lovely weekend. What should I call you, do you have a nickname or short form?
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I did love. I was scoffing cheese scones and lots of wrong things that can only wreak havoc on my hips. But weekends are for letting go 😉 You can call me Aru if you wish. Or Zara (I use that in Starbucks because I cannot be bothered to inflict my bloody long name on the people serving me).
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hahaha I would use my full name just to shit them if I were you. My friend is Alison, which is not that hard and the other day she got “Alissa”. Come on, Starbucks people, do some hearing exams! They are both so cute, Aru and Zara. I prefer to call you Ary because it’s closer to your name but I would totally call my daughter Zara. It would be kind of ironic since I worked for H&M for a long time, but it’s beautiful!! Don’t worry about scones, I had a batch of brownies!
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I hear you sister! Brownies and scones are the perfect way to spend any weekend 😉 I have had such vast mispronunciations of the name that I can write an ode to it 😛 I think I am done with that, thank you. Aru is short and you cannot be tortured as others have. I am good with either. Actually you can call me anything. I don’t even mind a new name 😉
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Okay, Catherine. We’re cool.
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HA HA HA. I think I might haunt you like Cathy in Wuthering Heights 😀
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oh yeah, the Juliette Binoche version
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No I shall be darker. Cathy was a complex thing right? I would choose somebody more brooding. Binoche is so pretty and innocent 😉
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Alright then, you can choose!!
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😀
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I want to write a book someday too! And haha, I live in the US but I haven’t traveled all fifty states. 😛
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Well, you’re closer than me to do so lol
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😛
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This is such a lovely post, per usual. It’s such a unique idea and I like that your list items were less typical like “jump off of a waterfall” and more realistic and catered to yourself! And hey, you always have a friend here in California!
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Thank you, Natalie. You’re so sweet!!
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Those are some really fun goals and I would totally be up to be a pen pal from a different country! 😉
And we actually have a few things in common, though I doubt my 21-year-old self would’ve been as driven to learn as much as possible and be well educated as you were! I am also still hoping that my sister asks me to be godmother to one of her boys (whenever they decide to get them christened) because I love them both like crazy and being their godmother would be great. 🙂
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I was going to be godmother to my aunt’s baby, that she miscarried! 😦 Life goes on, we will both be grandmothers one day!! I would totally be up to be pen pals! Can you give me an email so I can send you my address so we can exchange letters and postcards?
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Oh no, that’s horrible! 😦 Hopefully one day you’ll get the opportunity to be a someone’s godmother! 🙂 I’ll send you my email via your contact form on your website!
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Thank you, girl!! xx
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I’m impressed with the fact that you’ve kept this list. I’ve written about 3 lists like this and (I’m blaming this on the sheer number of notebooks that I own and my penchant for writing on loose sheets of paper despite the number of notebooks I own) I cannot find any of them. Looks like I’ll have to start over a 4th time! In short, good for you!
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I have an immense collection of notebooks and planners, I keep them all. I knew this was in this one, I don’t know why. Maybe because I know the cupcake notebooks are from 3 or 4 years ago at university and I knew I had written this then? I associate memories with each notebook lol
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Oh okay, I think you’re onto a simple and brilliant idea. Buy notebooks that have images. I make buying new journals a big deal, but I never thought to do a simple thing like this with my random notebooks. I just whip them all out and look through each one by one trying to find what I’m looking for. Ugh. I may write a blog post on this. Thanks darling!
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You’re welcome my friend!!
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First of all congrats on 100 posts!!!! Like I have 5 I think??? How??? Are??? You??? So??? Amazing????? And your bucket list is cool and realistic and so nice???? Also you have a friend in the US 😉 (Also I’ll read any writing you want to publish – and if you want to learn how to play tennis I can give you some tips 😉 )
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You’re so sweet!! Thank you girl!!
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Beautiful. 90 is the best of all friend 😉❤
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90 is extremely important!!
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Congrats and love this post! Awesome bucket list and I really hope you accomplish each and every one of them! Go for it girl ❤
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Thank you, my friend!!
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We have a lot of the same things to get done lol
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Let’s do them together 🙂
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Congrats on your latest milestone Cheila! I love your bucket list 🙂 so many good ones in here! When you do your great US tour I can help you cover the states of Illinois and Wisconsin so stop by!
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You can be sure you will be asked to help 🙂
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Woohoo!!! 😀
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Congrats on reaching 100 posts! That’s a great list. I think this blog has helped you cross so many things off that list! Btw if you’re still up for it, I can help you with 47 🙂
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Of course I am!!! I need some pen pals!! Thank you, girl!!
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I would like that too!
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Send me an email with your address or with your email so I can send you mine!
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Yes! Will do 😊
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These are reasonable and achievable things 🙂 I want to learn Japanese lol. I know English (obviously lol) and Spanish. I took German in HS but have forgotten over 50% of it. I’m currently taking ASL because it’s fun. I too would like to help people in some way shape or form. 🙂 and having my own home with a garage big enough to fit my cars with a flat driveway and a garden is my dream lol.
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You should not lose the rest of your German vocabulary girl!! We can be pen pals and right in German (I know like 10 words but I would manage). And go for the Japanese. It’s sort of easy to learn languages by yourself these days!
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I love the variety of the list. Bucket lists are often just a list of crazy activities or travel destinations, but I like that you include everyday things too like being able to say no to candy (I can never do that :D), and buying a pink laptop. It definitely makes the list more relateable and achievable! Good luck on your quest 🙂
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Thank you, Angela!! This was written a few years ago, I need to update it, but I wanted to give you guys the raw version first. I still want a pink laptop but hardly think it is a life goal lol
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A beautiful list indeed
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Thank you!! Do you have any life goals you would like to share with me? I’m always curious about that!
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I should write a post about it someday and there is much thought to put in 😉.
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Congratulations on your 100posts 🎉 haha your bucketlist is so funny 😊
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Thank you 🙂
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Congrats on how successful your blog is, it’s well deserved!
Really loving the bucket list too and I share quite a few of the hopes and dreams with you – apart from owning a pink laptop, that would be on my bucket list of ‘not-to-dos’! 🙂
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That is such a stupid one!! Who thinks owning a pink laptop is a life goal? Such a stupid girl I was lol
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Hey, happy pixel!! Congrats for your first 100 posts!! I’m sure that more lovely posts are coming.
You’ll make all this things, I’m sure you can do alll of them!!
Love, thp
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Thanks, dear. You’re sweet!
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You’re welcome, my happy pixel!! 😄😄
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Cheila, what a list girl! I do share some hopes with you as well. I enjoyed reading your list. 🙂
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Thank you, my friend!!
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Most welcome! 🙂
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You’re going to be busy! Good Luck with all of them , interesting bucket list x
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Thank you so much!! I love being busy 🙂
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your bucket list is very awesome Cheila. I liked it so much, many of the things you mentioned here I also really want to do the same
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your bucket list is very interesting Cheila. I also wish to do the many of the things you mentioned in your bucket list
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Thank you!! It’s fun that we have some common goals 🙂
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yup its really a fun
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