Everyone knows about the Bucket List. The list of things you want to accomplish before you die. Well, I don't plan on dying this year, but there are a few easy things to attain that I would like to try before this year ends. I've been slacking and I've let three and a half months go by before starting this list. So here it goes. Now mind you, these are not monumental achievements, but things I could probably accomplish in a weekend, but probably won't for any number of reasons.
1. Play Beer Pong - as a professional beer drinker it's almost criminal that I have not played this game. It seems to me to be the perfect sport for me. For some reason I have never played. To be honest, I've never even seen the game being played. Can someone please invite me to a game. I love to drink, I love sports, and who doesn't like Mononucleosis? It's the Kissing Disease!
2. Try Foie Gras - it's rich and bad for you. PETA is against it. How could this possibly be a bad thing.
3. Not cry at my brother's wedding - My brother's getting married in September and I love that (not so) little son of a bitch more than anyone in the world. I never tell him and he never tells me, but we both know. I can't wait for this day. I won't cry because he's getting married, but because my mother won't be there to enjoy it. All she ever wanted was for us to be happy and have kids. That day will probably be an emotional one. Thankfully he is marrying one of the sweetest people I know, and I hope they have a wonderful life together, but nobody wants to see an overweight drunk guy stuffed into a tuxedo cry. It's just not a pretty sight.
4. Go to Ellis Island - How sad is it I lived in Brooklyn for 15 years and live in Westchester and I have been to the Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center but never to Ellis Island. Criminal!
5. See my friends Brett, Troy & Simon - Good friends I saw every summer & every Memorial Day for years. Then I missed the summers but we continued the holiday tradition. People got busy, I crashed a car, I had to help out at a mini-special Olympics (which the guys still don't believe), and assorted other life altering events. These are three great people who I miss dearly and I've been so bad at keeping in touch with. I will try and make amends. Hopefully this reunion can take place in Wolfeboro.
6. Rent a house by a lake - This ties into 5, but if not with them, maybe another group could participate. Even if for only a weekend. I want to wake and make breakfast, then sit on a dock, have drinks, soak in the sun, play simple games like horseshoes and bocce. Watch the sunset while eating barbecued anything and spend the evening laughing. Two or three days of this and I'll be set for the next couple of months.
7. Go to Boston - I haven't been in a while and while NY is great, walking (and drinking) in Boston is an experience. From Fenway to Cambridge, Faneuil Hall to Back Bay, I want to soak it up. I've never had a bad time in Boston. I can't say that about too many places in this world.
8. I want to eat at a top restaurant - I want to see how the "other half" lives. I want to dine at Le Bernardin or Per Se or any number of top ten places. I would love to eat an entire menu of flavors and foods I have never experienced before. I want that feeling of trying something different. A once in a lifetime experience.
9. I want to spend a day in NYC & Brooklyn (My old stomping grounds) seeing all the things I've passed over - I've been to quite a few museums and sites, but I'm sure there are some I have overlooked. Despite living minutes from Manhattan, my ventures into the city are usually yearly treks to McSorley's or on occasion meeting friends for drinks or dinner. I need to explore my own backyard and enjoy what the city has to offer.
10. The last item on my list is the easiest - I want to try to stop procrastinating. I've always been the kind of person that needs the flame under my ass to get going. I would have weeks to do a research paper in college and I'd wait until I had about 16 hours to finish. I'd lazily get to the library right before it closed, print our some info from the Internet, grab a book or two and then start my research. About 10PM I'd start typing the paper that was supposed to be 5 pages and I'd end up handing in about 12 pages that I would finish around 5AM. The scary thing was that in all my years of college, other than a kinesiology paper, I don't think I ever got anything lower than a B+. Sadly this doesn't translate in the real world. In the real world waiting to do stuff usually means missing the boat. There are more consequences. Bad grades are unimportant, bad outcomes are very important. Waiting doesn't make things go away, it only enhances the pressures and negatives. If there is one thing I....oh I'll finish this later.
1. Play Beer Pong - as a professional beer drinker it's almost criminal that I have not played this game. It seems to me to be the perfect sport for me. For some reason I have never played. To be honest, I've never even seen the game being played. Can someone please invite me to a game. I love to drink, I love sports, and who doesn't like Mononucleosis? It's the Kissing Disease!
2. Try Foie Gras - it's rich and bad for you. PETA is against it. How could this possibly be a bad thing.
3. Not cry at my brother's wedding - My brother's getting married in September and I love that (not so) little son of a bitch more than anyone in the world. I never tell him and he never tells me, but we both know. I can't wait for this day. I won't cry because he's getting married, but because my mother won't be there to enjoy it. All she ever wanted was for us to be happy and have kids. That day will probably be an emotional one. Thankfully he is marrying one of the sweetest people I know, and I hope they have a wonderful life together, but nobody wants to see an overweight drunk guy stuffed into a tuxedo cry. It's just not a pretty sight.
4. Go to Ellis Island - How sad is it I lived in Brooklyn for 15 years and live in Westchester and I have been to the Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center but never to Ellis Island. Criminal!
5. See my friends Brett, Troy & Simon - Good friends I saw every summer & every Memorial Day for years. Then I missed the summers but we continued the holiday tradition. People got busy, I crashed a car, I had to help out at a mini-special Olympics (which the guys still don't believe), and assorted other life altering events. These are three great people who I miss dearly and I've been so bad at keeping in touch with. I will try and make amends. Hopefully this reunion can take place in Wolfeboro.
6. Rent a house by a lake - This ties into 5, but if not with them, maybe another group could participate. Even if for only a weekend. I want to wake and make breakfast, then sit on a dock, have drinks, soak in the sun, play simple games like horseshoes and bocce. Watch the sunset while eating barbecued anything and spend the evening laughing. Two or three days of this and I'll be set for the next couple of months.
7. Go to Boston - I haven't been in a while and while NY is great, walking (and drinking) in Boston is an experience. From Fenway to Cambridge, Faneuil Hall to Back Bay, I want to soak it up. I've never had a bad time in Boston. I can't say that about too many places in this world.
8. I want to eat at a top restaurant - I want to see how the "other half" lives. I want to dine at Le Bernardin or Per Se or any number of top ten places. I would love to eat an entire menu of flavors and foods I have never experienced before. I want that feeling of trying something different. A once in a lifetime experience.
9. I want to spend a day in NYC & Brooklyn (My old stomping grounds) seeing all the things I've passed over - I've been to quite a few museums and sites, but I'm sure there are some I have overlooked. Despite living minutes from Manhattan, my ventures into the city are usually yearly treks to McSorley's or on occasion meeting friends for drinks or dinner. I need to explore my own backyard and enjoy what the city has to offer.
10. The last item on my list is the easiest - I want to try to stop procrastinating. I've always been the kind of person that needs the flame under my ass to get going. I would have weeks to do a research paper in college and I'd wait until I had about 16 hours to finish. I'd lazily get to the library right before it closed, print our some info from the Internet, grab a book or two and then start my research. About 10PM I'd start typing the paper that was supposed to be 5 pages and I'd end up handing in about 12 pages that I would finish around 5AM. The scary thing was that in all my years of college, other than a kinesiology paper, I don't think I ever got anything lower than a B+. Sadly this doesn't translate in the real world. In the real world waiting to do stuff usually means missing the boat. There are more consequences. Bad grades are unimportant, bad outcomes are very important. Waiting doesn't make things go away, it only enhances the pressures and negatives. If there is one thing I....oh I'll finish this later.
i will join you in 1, 6, 7, and 9! and i should probably work on 10 myself!!!
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