Bucket List and Goals

My ongoing, ever-growing bucket list. Full of little things, big things, and everything in between.

Important

• Learn Japanese
• Write the JLPT N4, N3, and N2
• Move to Japan
• Have an engaging job 2019
• Donate blood 2020
• Take a Standard First Aid course 2017
• Graduate from University 2019
• Register to donate stem cells/ bone marrow 2020
• Be debt free

Experience or Do

• Go skating again 2018
• Celebrate Oktoberfest 2020
• Watch more scary movies 2020
• Go for a fall colours drive 2018
• Go apple picking 2018
• Make a proper couch fort 2019
• Day trip up island 2019
• Keep a houseplant alive 2017-2020+
• Go on a heritage tour of Victoria 2019
• Go on a Ross Bay Cemetery tour 2019
• Learn to identify more constellations
• Learn to identify more plants – trees, wildflowers, common garden plants
• Learn to identify more fungi 2020
• Learn to identify more birds and birdsongs

• Visit the Raptor Center 2018
• Play squash
• Walk Recreation Road 2018
• Attend a book signing
• Go on a double-decker bus tour 2020
• Visit Uplands Park and Cattle Point again 2019
• Visit Fort Rodd Hill 2017
• Visit Fisherman’s Wharf again 2019
• Eat Dim Sum again 2019
• Learn the American Sign Language alphabet 2020
• Learn the Braille alphabet
• Learn to surf 2020
• Do a vow of silence for one day
• Milk a cow
• Participate in a pie eating contest

• Visit Cathedral Grove 2017
• Watch a sunrise and a sunset in the same day 2019
• Put change in an expired parking meter
• Pay for a stranger’s meal or coffee. Give $20 to drive-thru to pay for next person in line 2020
• Learn to whistle
• Forage for mushrooms 2020
• Gather clams, oysters, or mussels
• Get a scuba license
• Get a motorcycle license
• Go horseback riding again 2020
• Go to the Goldstream Trestle (I also walked across it) 2020
• Hike Mt. Finlayson 2019
• Do a chin-up again
• Read the 100 books on the BBC big read list

• See the Mt. Tzouhalem wildflowers 2019
• Pick berries again 2018
• Fly a kite again 2020
• Skinny-dip 2018
• Go to Sooke Potholes 2018
• Go to Shawnigan Lake 2018
• Feed the Ducks at Beachon Hill again 2019
• See salmon run again 2019
• Experience a day at the spa
• Get a pedicure 2019
• Get a facial
• Shoot a gun
• Take a cooking class 2020
• Have professional photos taken
• Visit an old timey, costumed photo studio

• Go to the Kinsol Trestle 2017
• Go on a long road trip 2020
• See Cirque Du Soleil
• Do paintball
• Go to a drag show 2019
• Go on a yoga retreat
• Do yoga teacher training
• Record a podcast
• Curate a website of my interests 2019
• Go to the opera
• Go to the ballet
• Learn to change a tire, change oil, and jumpstart a car
• Learn how toilets and sinks work so you can fix them if needed 2017
• See the midnight sun

• Ride in a helicopter 2019
• Submit a Post Secret secret 2019
• Learn more about architecture, mythology, clothing construction, plants, astronomy, history, philosophy, psychology, city planning, construction
• Do the SNAP challenge (live on $40 CAD a week for groceries for one month) 2020
• Celebrate a holiday I never have before with a different culture
• Fast and participate in an Iftar for Ramadan
• Try pilates 2020
• Use a batting cage
• Go hunting
• Send a postcard from abroad
• Buy a huge bouquet

• Go to a live podcast show 2018
• Pick up a full garbage bag of trash in a day
• Leave a note in a library book 2020
• Do a handstand
• Do the splits 2020
• Celebrate my half birthday on May 18th
• Send Christmas cards 2019
• Fresh water fishing
• Run a 5km race
• Read a book from a free little library 2020
• Explore a large abandoned building
• See a glacier
• Try beekeeping
• Finish a crossword puzzle solo 2020
• Participate in a polar bear swim 2020

• Visit Englishman River Falls 2017
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Attend a renaissance fair
• Cook every recipe in a great cookbook
• Go winter camping
• Snowshoe
• Watch every Oscar best picture winner
• Join a book club 2020
• Read 50 books in one year 2020
• Learn to swing dance
• Buy something from an ice cream truck again 2020
• Go river tubing 2020
• Camp at Little Qualicum Falls 2018
• Buy a lottery ticket 2019
• Pick flowers at a flower farm

• Donate your hair (I sent 24″ of hair to charity) 2019
• Find a signature perfume or scent
• Learn to clean and debone fish
• Learn butchery
• Try metal detecting
• Learn to juggle 2020
• Learn to curl
• See a show/play on stage
• Relearn all the minerals, rocks, and gems
• Be a regular volunteer
• Do 250000 steps in one week 2019
• Grow my hair to my tailbone 2019
• See a full solar eclipse
• See Halley’s comet in 2061 or another major comet
• Visit a distillery again 2020

• Find a four leaf clover 2019
• See an iceberg
• See the northern lights
• Go to a Makerfaire
• Sit in a natural hotspring after a hike
• Stay at a bed & breakfast 2020
• Explore a ghost town
• Get a tarot reading done 2020
• Stay in a cabin 2020
• Go spelunking 2020
• Re-pierce my second ear piercing 2019
• Go naked to a nude beach
• Eat at a Michelin starred restaurant
• Take another bicycle maintenance course
• Plant a tree

• Send a message in a bottle 2020
• Read all the books I own
• Listen to an audio book 2019
• Play every Final Fantasy game
• Play every Legend of Zelda game
• Go to a flower market
• Spend a day eating and drinking all the things with French in their name
• Throw axes 2020
• Walk on a frozen lake
• Do crow pose
• Sit in seiza for 30 minutes 2020
• Crack eggs one handed 2020
• Do a headstand
• Try Tai Chi 2020
• Take a ballet lesson

• Go for afternoon tea at the Empress 2020
• Leave spare quarters in gumball machines or money in a vending machine
• Post a YouTube video
• Get a photo published
• Get an article published
• Wake up before 6am everyday for two weeks
• Buy a plane ticket on the next available flight
• Start a small business
• Jump into a fountain, pool, river, lake, or the ocean fully clothed
• Camp somewhere for free
• Work or volunteer at a farm
• Get fancy acrylic nails done with nail art/gems
• Cross-country ski
• Go deep underground
• Try reflexology 2020

• Visit a drive-in movie theatre 2020
• Dress in drag
• Send someone a thoughtful care package 2020
• Write a letter to my future self
• Spend all day in bed (also known as rafting)
• Send a stranger a postcard via Postcrossing 2020
• Send flowers to someone anonymously
• Ride a vespa
• Tip 100% 2020
• Light a fire without matches
• Eat plant based/vegan for a week 2020
• Do a one-handed pushup
• Bike to another town
• Make a website from scratch
• Buy a round of drinks for the bar

• Buy and use a brick/cake of pu-erh tea 2020
• Get a tea leaf reading done
• Try pole dancing 2020
• Have a Ferris Bueller day
• Try a sensory deprivation tank 2020
• Go to an interactive showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show 2020
• Cook something new everyday for a month or cook 30 recipes from 30 countries in 30 days 2021
• Perform something on stage again
• Get something other than my ears pierced
• Backpack travel somewhere
• Spend two hours in complete silence doing nothing
• Fall asleep in a grassy field
• Hit a bull’s eye on a dart board
• Get a lash lift and tint done
• Tour a vineyard

• Do a 24 hour fast
• Celebrate Fumi No Hi (Letter writing day in Japan) on July 23rd
• Go to a professional baseball game
• Jump in piles of fall leaves
• Buy a drink in the pool at a poolside bar
• Create an original recipe
• Make a book of favourite recipes
• Take a bubble bath or bath bomb bath with candles and a drink 2021
• Release a sky lantern
• Hire a house cleaner at least once
• Learn classic games – Shogi, Mahjong, Bridge
• Learn to be a better story teller
• Learn to tell a few jokes well
• Try trapeze, aerial silks, hoop or another aerial circus class 2020
• Solve a Rubik’s cube

• Ride a unicycle
• Walk a pilgrimage route or other long path
• Paddleboard
• Try frisbee golf
• Snowboard
• Learn how to shave with a straight razor
• Learn to tie some useful knots
• Reremember all the countries of the world
• Learn a magic trick or a card trick
• Touch the back of my head with my feet in cobra with no assistance
• Do center splits/middle splits
• Do scorpion pose
• Do a bridge from standing
• Do a large puzzle solo 2020
• Take a voice/singing lesson

• Get a six pack
• Write my will
• Get a couple’s massage
• Point your finger at a map at random and go there. Make a day of it
• Read a book to my partner
• Try cognitive behavioural therapy 2020
• Try a barre class
• Try a Bollywood dance class
• Try Zumba
• Be in a parade
• Order extravagant room service
• Try belly dance
• Have a piece of clothing or suit fully tailored
• Learn a full dance routine (e.g. Rasputin from Just Dance 2)
• Make a fictional feast / meal from a book
• L-sit
• Bleach my hair
• Introduce myself to my next set of neighbours
• Tour a factory
• Watch a Shirley Temple movie while drinking a Shirley Temple
• Buy a few sets of nice lingerie
• Snowmobile
• Jetski
• Watch a Super Bowl game

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Create

• Dry herbs 2019
• Press leaves and flowers 2020
• Make leaf rubbings
• Do cross-stitch again 2020
• Knit an infinity scarf
• Sew patches on your bag
• Make tsumami zaiku (Japanese pinched cloth craft)
• Make a mushroom spore print
• Try calligraphy
• Take a silversmithing course 2020
• Spin yarn
• Try finger knitting 2020
• Learn to use a loom
• Make bath bombs
• Make stained glass

• Embroider 2020
• Make paper
• Make paper flowers
• Try beading again
• Make candles again
• Upholster a piece of furniture
• Stain a piece of wood furniture
• Learn to patch jeans 2019
• Blow glass
• Make a small Rube Goldberg machine
• Make teru teru bouzu
• Try ikebana
• Crochet 2020
• Make an amigurumi
• Make a balloon animal
• Try quilting
• Assemble a model kit
• Make soap

Cook

• Make homemade pizza 2019
• Bake a savoury pie 2020
• Bake a sweet pie again 2020
• Make a lattice pie crust 2020
• Make butternut squash soup 2018
• Make hot spiced cider 2019
• Make pumpkin or kabocha things – pancakes, latte, chai latte, pie, bread, oatmeal 2018, 2019, and 2020
• Make hot toddies 2020
• Make mulled wine 2019
• Make hot buttered rum 2020
• Make s’mores on a campfire again 2019
• Roast chestnuts on an open fire 2020
• Roast a goose
• Make shrubs 2020

• Learn to barbecue with charcoal 2019
• Make a sourdough starter 2020
• Make a gingerbread house 2019
• Make horchata 2018
• Make wagashi 2020
• Make sushi
• Cook liver
• Dehydrate food 2019
• Make a Dutch baby 2019
• Make tamagozake 2020
• Make yogurt 2020
• Make baked fish 2020
• Make lasagna 2020
• Make rice pudding 2020
• Make mango sticky rice 2020

• Can food 2019
• Make an elaborately decorated cake
• Make saag paneer 2019
• Make ratatouille 2020
• Make pakoras 2020
• Make enchiladas 2019
• Make kimchi buchimgae (pancakes) 2020
• Make moussaka
• Make nimono (simmered vegetables) 2020
• Make wu tao gou (taro cake)
• Make pozole
• Make gumbo
• Make etouffee
• Make honey buns 2020
• Make fresh pasta 2020

• Bake a good loaf of bread 2020
• Make ice cream 2020
• Make egg nog 2019
• Make mayonnaise
• Make souffle pancakes 2020
• Make my own tea blend
• Brew beer entirely from scratch
• Make latte art
• Cook something with goat 2020
• Make pate 2020
• Make terrine
• Make cheese 2020
• Make sauerkraut 2020
• Make a charaben
• Dry chili peppers

• Make focaccia 2020
• Make Irish soda bread 2020
• Make pretzels 2020
• Make dumplings 2020
• Make niku jaga 2020
• Cook pork hocks 2020
• Make fresh squeezed juice 2021
• Make umeshu
• Make a souffle
• Make colcannon 2020
• Bake croissants
• Bake baguettes
• Make macarons
• Make fish and chips
• Make beef Wellington

• Make homemade corn tortillas 2020
• Make bibimbap 2020
• Make biryani 2020
• Make Swedish meatballs
• Make moules-frites
• Make a Victoria sponge 2020
• Make cabbage rolls / sarma
• Make japchae 2020
• Make tagine 2020
• Make ceviche
• Bake challah 2020
• Make tiramisu
• Make old fashioned candy
• Simmer a can of sweetened condensed milk to make dulche de leche
• Cook lobster

• Make pita bread 2020
• Make jerky
• Make tarte tatin 2021
• Make a fresh fruit and custard tart
• Make chilaquiles 2020
• Make cullen skink (Scottish smoked haddock soup)
• Make kartoffel kloesse (German potato dumplings) 2020
• Make cassoulet
• Make Morrocan mint tea 2020
• Make perogies 2020
• Bake a Swiss roll
• Bake a galette 2020
• Bake babka
• Reverse-engineer a favorite dish from a restaurant
• Commit a cookie or cake recipe to memory

• Make crepes 2020
• Make baklava
• Make English muffins
• Make corn dogs
• Make tapioca pudding
• Make gyoza
• Make eclairs
• Make matzo brei 2020
• Make latkes
• Make milk bread with the tangzhong method
• Make chai properly 2020
• Make melon pan
• Cook Cornish game hen
• Make candied citrus peel
• Bake bara brith (Welsh tea loaf)

• Make tamales
• Cook beef tongue
• Make matzo ball soup 2020
• Bake stollen
• Bake panetone
• Bake pumpernickel bread
• Make fruit leather
• Make tempura
• Make baghrir (Moroccan semolina pancakes) 2020
• Make freezer jam
• Make kofte
• Bake borek (Turkish pastry)
• Make fondue
• Make atole (masa harina drink) 2020
• Make classic American buttermilk fried chicken
• Make Cuban picadillo

• Make beef mechado
• Make simit breads (Turkish “bagels”) 2020
• Make kefir
• Make kombucha
• Make strudel
• Make yuja tea (Korean citron/yuja/yuzu tea)
• Bake cream puffs
• Make mont blanc
• Make marzipan
• Make a Battenburg cake

Food and Drink (remaining things to try from https://www.listchallenges.com/the-food-list-challenge)

• Abalone
• Bird’s Nest Soup
• Black pudding 2019
• Chile Relleno 2019
• Crickets 2020
• Dandelion Wine
• Fugu
• Funnel Cake 2019
• Haggis 2020
• Head Cheese 2019
• Hostess Fruit Pie
• Moonpie
• Morel mushrooms 2020
• Nettle Tea 2019
• Phaal – British Asian curry
• Soft shell crab 2020
• Som Tam – Thai green papaya salad 2020
• Squirrel
• Tom Yum Soup 2019

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Food and Drink (other things I want to try)

• Giant cinnamon bun from the Dog House 2018
• Century egg 2020
• Deep fried cheesecake 2020
• Peking duck
• Seitan 2020
• Russian tea from samovar
• Seafood boil 2020
• Water buffalo ice cream 2020
• Dolmades 2019
• Smørrebrød 2019
• Applejack
• White Castle burgers
• Perry 2019
• Tempeh 2019
• Poi 2020
• Dole whip 2020
• Arepas 2020
• Taiwanese big chicken
• Turkish breakfast
• Courgette flowers
• Mutton bunny chow
• Paella
• Eulachon grease
• Bannock 2020
• Ackee and saltfish 2020
• Hagelslag (Dutch chocolate sprinkles on buttered toast) 2020
• Real wasabi
• Churrasco (Brazilian barbecue)

Travel

• Japan (again) – visit Hokkaido, see sakura, visit every prefecture, eat the specialty foods of every prefecture, climb Mt. Fuji, cycle the Shimanami Kaido, Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage or other walking route, visit Noguchi’s Play Mountain in Sapporo, eat fresh Morioka apples, visit more crusty kissaten, visit Tohoku region, go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios in Osaka, see Yakushima, visit Kumamoto, visit Gunkanjima, drink Denkibran at Kamiya Bar, fill out a goshuincho, bathe at Dogo Onsen, bathe at Nyuto Onsen, go to Design Festa, attend Ashikaga Wisteria Festival, hike Mt. Takao, eat Kobe beef in Kobe, go to a baseball game, go to a wrestling match, see fireflies, go to Doai Station, help carry a Mikoshi, visit Narai Juku and Tsumago Juku on the Nakasendo Trail, see Nachi Taisha
• The Maritimes, Canada
• New York, United States
• Napier, New Zealand
• Germany – Berlin, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Christmas market, eat currywurst, go to Oktoberfest
• England – Natural History Museum in London, drink Perry, Coast to Coast Walk, Booksellers’ Row at Cecil Court
• Calcutta, India – Drink chai out of red clay cups
• Spain – Alhambra, Puente Nuevo, Sagrada Familia, paella, tapas, Barcelona
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Hong Kong – Afternoon tea, dai pai dong, milk tea
• Laos
• Vietnam
• Scotland – Edinburgh, drive the countryside, Jacobite Steam Train, Isle of Skye, Oban
• Delft, Netherlands
• Hungary – Budapest, Hajmasker Barracks
• Prague, Czech Republic – Astronomical clock
• Turkey – Hagia Sophia, Pamukalle, coffee on sand
• South Korea – Jeju Olle walking festival, Seoul

Own

• A cute bicycle with a cute basket
• Vespa
• Camera – Learn to take better photos 2021
• Motorcycle license and motorcycle with sidecar
• Corset 2021
• Platform boots
• Thigh high boots
• Lucky iron fish for cooking
• Capsule wardrobe that makes me feel and look good
• Rent and decorate a home that reflects my interests and is welcoming for friends
• Grow a small herb garden
• Jewelry made with a beautiful piece of garden quartz/lodalite
• Fountain pen with green ink 2020