Dear liza, a hole.

What inspires me today...

Buckets.

I will admit, this post is not of original inspiration.  One of my dear friends created a bucket list today, and suggested that I should do the same.  Since I now have a reader who is mildly interested in what I would place on a "bucket list," and since I love a good list just as much as the next gal... here it is.

50 things I would like to accomplish before I kick the bucket (in no particular order): 

1. Watch every movie on this list
2. Read every book on these lists
3. Visit/live in SE Asia
4. Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
5. Participate in La Tomatina
6. See at least 30 of America's largest roadside attractions
7. Take in a foster child
8. Ride in a hot air balloon
9. Attend the hot air balloon races in Albuquerque 
10. Learn a new language proficiently 
11. Tell all the influential teachers in my past how much I appreciate them
12. Learn a musical instrument 
13. Win at bingo
14. Ask for a raise
15. Learn to sail
16. Build a piece of furniture
17. Take the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok
18. Become an expert in something unexpected
19. Surf
20. Hike through the Zion Narrows in Utah
21. Do the Master Cleanse
22. Make my own clothes
23. Hike the Inca Trail in Peru
24. Go Spelunking
25. Ride in a helicopter 
26. Live alone
27. Attend the inauguration of a US President 
28. Visit the Sistine Chapel
29. Milk a cow
30. Be debt free
31. Have something published
32. Start a collection
33. Learn the constellations
34. Read the Bible cover to cover
35. Learn how to cook
36. Visit the wonders of the world
37. Grow my own fruit and vegetables
38. Visit the top ten US lighthouses
39. Learn to flyfish 
40. Go snowboarding
41. Hike the Tongariro Circuit in New Zealand
42. Tour Ann Frank's house
43. Learn how to cut hair professionally
44. Give a large amount of money anonymously to a charity or non-profit
45. Build an appreciation for jazz
46. Cross a country by bicycle
47. Talk to Sam Beam
48. Safari 
49. See all the big world monuments (eifle tower, big ben, pyramids, dome of the rock...)
50. Eat at Falafel's Drive-In in San Jose

There are so many more things I could put on there, but I will spare you and cut it off at 50.
And now, a rant.  

Why do they call it "kicking the bucket" anyway?  Where is the mystical bucket, and which religion requires that it be kicked in order to enter the great beyond?  If there is to be any cosmic item to be kicked it should be a can, in my humble opinion. 

Further research on the subject proved very informative.