What I Found Out Was...

...well, let me back up a bit. See this picture. What do you think it is? Me selling my house? No, that was just over three years ago. Me signing my divorce papers? No, that was two years ago. Me signing papers to buy a new house? Yes siree. I am now a proud new homeowner. But the thing that was so crazy was this: I had made my Bucket List Book in October of 2009 and I had not looked at it since then. I took the book out and began to flip through it. I discovered that I had accomplished 5 of the goals I had put in the book without even realizing it. Two of these goals were that I would live some place warm and that I would own my own home. I believe it is like "The Secret"...if you put the thought into the universe, your desire will be granted. Now of course I don't believe it always happens this quickly, but I do believe it can happen. And for me it did. So I am now encouraged, that my wishes and dreams can come true.

My Book

My bucket list began as a nice binder filled with black pages. Each page I decided to scrapbook. I put my "Wish/Goal" as a title, left a place to put a picture, and put a small square or circle that I could check off once it had happened to me...or I had made the effort to complete it. There were many random things on my list:

- Wish on a falling star....I have never been patient enough to stare at the sky long enough to see a shooting star.

- Give blood....when I was a teenager I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia and sometimes felt faint, so the thought of this had always scared me. Now I am just plain scared. But I want to buoy up my courage and actually donate so I can help someone else.

- Own a home

- Live some place warm

- Own a jukebox

- Have $________ in my savings account

- Weigh 145 lbs.

- Run a 5K

....and the list went on.

The first thing on my list was to get my passport. I had no plans to travel anywhere, but when I was ready, I didn't want anything to stop me. So I actively went to work on that goal. It was the first one I worked on and the first one I completed.

But then a strange thing happened. That was October 2009. I closed my Bucket List book and I didn't open it up again until last week...April 2010. What I found was amazing.........

My Bucket List

One night last fall, I was startled awake in the middle of the night and I could not go back to sleep. Have you ever had that happen? The thought came to me: MAKE YOUR BUCKET LIST. So at about 3 a.m. I began to think, and google, and remember the movie with the same name. My life was at a standstill and it was time to reclaim me. The next morning, I groggily awoke and looked at my scribbling on the paper by the side of my bed. I couldn't read my writing and I didn't remember all the things I had thought about in the early morning hours, but I was now on a quest to make a list. And so my story begins.....