Alright, I'll come clean. I wasn't just browsing, I was searching for an app that allows me to make lists. I need lists. Can't function these days without a list. Shopping list, things to do list, things to take to wherever list etc etc. Anyway, I digress. Intrigued, I installed the app and started my list.
I've mentioned to a few people that I've started this list and they had the same reaction - a grimace and a remark of 'how morbid'. Not at all - I see it as something postive, things to aim for, goals. I think I managed to convince them once I showed them what my list includes - what I'd like to do/see and what I've already achieved in my forty-something years. Surprised myself actually. I'm not as boring as I thought!
There's also the option to share your items which get uploaded to the server, so others around the world can see your aims but equally, you can see other people's stuff (and pinch ideas, or not, in the case of the person who wants to 'Live Through The Zombie Apocalypse' - wtf?!).
Some of the things on my list are unlikely to be achieved unless I win mega money on the lottery - but what the hell, they're staying. For example, I'd like to view the wreck of the Titanic from a submarine. Highly unlikely to happen, but staying. I'd love to fly in a Typhoon. Not going to happen, but is so staying on the list. Having a helicopter lesson is most certainly achievable, as is learning to salsa dance and holding a tarantula (hence the title of this blog), but not all to be done at the same time I hasten to add.
A green tick appears next to the stuff you've already done. Right at this moment, top of my list, with a big, fat, very satisfying green tick next to it is Do A Skydive. Oh yes. Achieved in Australia, over a beach, in February this year. 14,000 feet no less. Wooohoooo!!
What else appears on my 'to do' list? Things like: sail on a tallship, see the earth from space (yes, I know), see the Northern Lights, go whale watching, blah blah blah.
What appears (apart from the skydive - did I mention the skydive?) on my oh so pleased with myself, green ticked 'done it' list? Things like: walk behind a waterfall, have a mudfight, raise my children to be independant, go to New York, blah blah blah.
I constantly add items to both lists as I think of them. Added to my 'done list' the other day was 'Climb into an overhead locker on an Airbus 319'. Not that for one minute do I think it's high up on many people's must do lists, if it's there at all, but yes, I've done that and got the photo to prove it. No, it won't be posted on here - maybe my sister can use her imagination and do an artist's impression instead. And no, it wasn't easy to do wearing a skirt.
Let me elaborate a bit. I used to be employed as cabin crew for a low-cost airline and sometimes when waiting for passengers, we'd get bored. Very bored. Anyway, moving swiftly on, somebody commented on this Bucket List item. The comment? 'You're awesome'. Was very flattered, but then realised they probably think I was a passenger who randomly decided to climb into an overhead locker when boarding an aircraft and thus created chaos.
So, should my anonymous admirer ever find and read this blog, I've just shattered his/her illusions.
Oops.
