The Bucket List: work in progress

I've had an ongoing bucket list for a while now...  I think originally I called it my "List of things to do before 30," but that was when I started it as a senior in high school or something.  I was inspired by Mandy Moore or someone like that who said in a magazine article that she had a list of 30 things to do before she turned 30.  Well, 30 is looking a lot closer to me now than it ever did before, so I'm not going to be that ambitious.  Many of the items on my list are either time-consuming or costly or both.  Anyway, I still have that first list I made on a piece of receipt paper while at work in a department store, and since then I come back to it every once in a while and realize how important it is to udpate that list.  A few of the items I can check off, but some of them don't seem as relevant or desirable or realistic as they maybe once did.  Now that I'm more mature and have more experience, I have a better understanding of how to construct such a list -- because now I put items on it that I can see myself actually doing someday.

These are in no particular order, by the way:

• Live and work in Havana, Cuba
• Road trip across America
• Attend Mass in the Vatican
• Hike part or all of the Camino de Santiago de Compostela
• Run a half-marathon
• ^ and if that goes well, then a full marathon!
• Own a dog
• Achieve fluency in French and Portuguese....and maybe Italian
• Write a book (and get it published, hopefully)
• Have an awesome map and globe collection
• Get a vintage Tiffany lamp
• ONE OF THOSE GREEN LAMPS!!!
• Do a vintage-style pinup photoshoot
• Visit every Spanish-speaking country in the world
• Speak British on the streets of London (i.e. visit the U.K.!)
• Do a mission/service trip
• Be a lector in church
• Find a new home parish where I can be really involved again
• Have a starring role in a theatrical production
• Eat Belgian waffles in Belgium
• Stand inside the famous Stonehenge (are you even allowed to do that?)
• Learn Latin
• Take a calligraphy class
• Be a potted plant parent : D
• Visit a real cowboy ranch!
• Run freely like a little kid on the wide open plains of Montana or somewhere-Western like that
• Give an inspirational talk (TED talk?)
• Visit the Redwood forest
• Meet a toucan in its natural habitat
• Hold a baby sloth
• Learn to (properly) swim
• SEE THE CORAL REEF!
• Find a freaking starfish - alive - in its natural habitat
• Make a masterpiece oil painting