Bucket List 1-10

1. Finish my degree
   So, this one is pretty easy.  I get financial aid, so as long as I can continue to make the grades and work enough to pay for food, car payment, insurance, phone, etc... I should have this one taken care of in 3 years.  The classes are tough and a lot of the 3000 classes are 3 hours per day... each.
   
   
   Most Probable Date of Completion:  We're looking at a probable graduation date around May 2013.
   
   
2. Become a best-selling author
   This one is a lot harder.  First, I have to get a book published.  Then I have to somehow get decent enough advertising or get enough of a grass-roots movement to become popular, then sell more.. rinse and repeat several times.  So, I'm going to say.. if my first book is a moderate success..  my second could have the same success.. then I think by the third, I'll have rep enough to sell.. and it'll hit the list.
   
   
   Most Probable Date of Completion:  I'm going to say 10 years on this one.  2020.
   
   
3. Turn book into a movie
   Now, this one could be even easier than becoming a best-selling author.  Since I'm a film major and my end game is to direct, when I graduate I'll have the prerogative to choose what I want to do.  Now whether I get a job working on movies with someone else, doing them myself or working in some other field entirely, I'll at least have the knowledge to do it myself.  Even if I worked on it for five years after I graduate (or even some while I'm in school... it could be sooner than the best-selling author date est.)
   
   
   Most Probable Date of Completion:  I'll give this one 7 years.  2017.
     
4. Climb to the top of a mountain
   I think it depends on what mountain I decide to aim for.  If I'm going for Pike's Peak.. it may be this year.  But I'm thinking of something a little more substantial.... Maybe Mt. McKinley in Alaska.. or perhaps Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.  I'll probably make this one a little more difficult... like add multiple mountains to the list.  But for now, I'll give myself 3 years to climb the first.
   
   
   Most Probable Date of Completion:  2013.
   
   
5. Visit different countries
   This one I really want to do next year.  I'm really setting my sights on Croatia, but it'll take a bit of planning since I'd rather take a little group over to do some sort of ministry or outreach.  Probably mixing a group of UTA students with Antioch-Dallas / Christ Fellowship people..
   
   
   Most Probable Date of Completion:  2011
   
   
6. Visit every state, not just travel through
   I'm going to have to make this one my far into the future one.  Basically because if I finish all of these 100 things in 10 years I'll have nothing left to do for the rest of my life.. and I can't have that happen.  So, seeing as I've been (and done something significant in) these states:
   I've lived in: Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Virginia.
   Vacationed in: California (San Diego Zoo), Arizona (Grand Canyon), New York (City/twice, Broadway), Colorado (Church Camp), Missouri (Silver Dollar City), Tennessee (Cabin in the Smokey Mountains), New Mexico (Carlsbad Caverns), Georgia (Church Camp).
   Visited friends in: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Oregon, Louisiana, Michigan
   
   
   This leaves: Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, Alaska, Hawaii, Utah.
   
   
   Barring the fact that half of these states have nothing I'd really be incredibly interested in seeing (your comments and suggestions are welcome) I could be one of those RVing grandparents roaming the countryside to find something fun to do when I'm 90. 
   
   
   ...I doubt it.
   
   
   
   

   Most Probable Date of Completion:  2040

   
   
7. Get married
   I have virtually no control over this one.  At least, not until I meet the girl.  There are many girls I've met in the past few days, weeks, months, etc.. who have made me look twice just in the instance something happened... but I haven't had that gut "this is her, go after her with everything" feeling yet.  Now, this isn't to say someone I've already met isn't that girl (I get the feeling I've met her... or at least know her) but the feeling just hasn't come to fullness yet.  So, I'm going to give the control of this one over to God... though I do want children, and that by itself makes me stick the timeline on this one around 2 to 4 years.
   
   
   
   

   Most Probable Date of Partnership:  May 2013

   
   
8. Have a child
   Now, if we're subscribing to the May 2013 date for being married..  I'd have to give it at least a year .5 for the first child..  with that being completely up to mutual consent and decision, barring a miraculous intervention of God for some sort of precursor.  So... 
   
   
   
   

   My Best Guess for Fruition:  September 2014

   
   
9. Sell a painting for over $1000
   Hmm... since I want to paint some sort of masterpiece ... I'd say this is definitely one of those life-long quests.  Though $1,000 isn't an enormous amount of money, especially when talking about originals.  So, masterpieces aside (that one is a few numbers up the list), I'd say this one is imminent... albeit a couple of years imminent.
   
   
   
   

   Most Probable Date of Completion:  2012

   
   
10. Own horses
    Well, this one is inexorably linked to #11 which just so happens to be on the next page.  So whatever date I place on this page will justifiably be a date farther down the line than #11.. so I have to take that into account.  Since the dream I had showed my wife, our child and I still fairly young (and in my mind it felt 5 years.. ) I'm going to say.. 2015.
    
    
    Besides, even today I look 5 years younger than I actually am. ;)
    
    
    Most Probable Date of Completion:  March 2017.  I have to get the house finished first...