Bucket Listed

To attempt to get myself out of this stuuuuuuuupid funk, I am doing what I do best—PLAN. This is separated into a few different categories, cause I'm organized like that. This doesn't include anything I've already done/experienced, and this will constantly evolve...

NY(C)

  • Find the best Old Fashioned (so far Little Branch is winning)
  • Scotch Flight for my 30th birthday
  • WTC Memorial
  • Stare at Monet's "Water Lillies" for 30 straight minutes (again) in the MOMA
  • Ride something shady at Coney Island
  • Catch a Knicks game at MSG
  • Take a train in/out of Grand Central Station
  • Jameson & pickle back (anywhere…)
  • Go home when the sun rises
  • Walk across as many bridges that allow pedestrians
  • Hit up Atlantic City
  • Visit the Hamptons
  • Cooperstown

 

Travel

  • Visit ALL MLB parks & buy a team pin (my old roomie is only 31 and has accomplished this feat. I'm so impressed and jealous that he's already done it.)
  • Scotch tasting in Scotland 
  • Stay in an over-water bungalow in Bora Bora
  • Do the same thing in the Maldives
  • Eat / Pray / Love in Bali
  • Release a paper lantern into the night sky in Thailand
  • Stay in a spot with a bright blue roof in Santorini
  • See the Aurora Borealis in Alaska
  • Visit Christ the Redeemer & beaches of Rio de Janeiro
  • Ride in a gondola in Venice (I'm pissed it was too cheap to do this when I first visited, BUT I was also only 19 y/o.)
  • Chill like Marie Antoinette at the Palace of Versailles (ex-Mr didn't want to leave Paris when we visited, so guess who got assed out? ME.)
  • Eat a brownie in Amsterdam
  • Drive across the Southwest in a RV
  • People watch at a sidewalk cafe in Montreal
  • Visit a lavender field in the French countryside
  • See molten lava at 5 am on the Big Island, HI
  • Go to the airport and take a random flight

 

Restaurants

  • Per Se - NYC
  • French Laundry - Yountville
  • Gary Danko - SF
  • Babbo - NYC
  • Michael Mina - SF
  • Joe's Stone Crab - Miami
  • Peter Luger's - Brooklyn

 

Life

  • Crown tattoo (even though I promised my mom I would stop)
  • Watch Gone with the Wind
  • Learn to drive a stick (hahahahahahah, almost… August/Sept 2012)
  • Make a family tree, legit
  • Send my parents on an all-paid trip
  • Take a fencing lesson
  • Learn to cook Kare Kare
  • Throw a bill down at roulette and be unaffected by the outcome win/lose and walk away
  • Buy a bottle of Ace of Spades
  • Get a shiba inu
  • Write myself a letter and read it 10 years later
  • Make it rain on my future kids and record them grabbing at money
  • Purchase a pair of Red Bottoms, don't act like you wouldn't either... 
  • Make a mixtape/soundtrack of my life

 

to be extended...