Here's my top 40, whats yours????

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE checklists; I've had a few Bucket Lists since seeing the movie in 2007. There's something so cathartic about crossing items of a list, it makes you feel goal oriented and accomplished at the same time. It is because of my love of checklist that I found myself listing my mid-range goals to a friend earlier today; nothing too extreme, just owning a house with a real bedroom, something to call my own. I realized that I have a lot of big, and small, dreams but I've never actually written them down, so that's what I am doing now. Below is a list of 40 experiences, goals, trips and other things I want to do before I turn 40.

The ONLY rule: While I do want to get married, settle down, have a discussion about whether kids are in my future, I can only control these things halfway. Accomplishing these goals means I have to meet someone first and I can't control when, or whether, that will happen. Instead this list is comprised of things that are entirely within my control. Ten years from now, when I look back, I'll only have myself to blame if something isn't done.

Realistically speaking I will probably lose interest in at least a couple of these things in the next ten years so I may end up updating this list from time to time. What's important is that on my 40th birthday I will be able to hold whatever version of this list I have at that time and know that in the previous ten years, I had 40 great moments.

I've already crossed off the first item, so that leaves me just under nine and a half years to accomplish the remaining 39. It's going to be an exciting decade!!

My own personal TOP 40 Hits:

1. Come out
2. Own property/have a bedroom
3. Go cage diving in Guadalupe
4. Have my " Breakfast at Tiffany's" moment in New York City
5. Have a Harry Potter marathon weekend
6. Get the heart and "Noseworthy" tattoos
7. Buy a car
8. Buy a Fossil watch
9. Buy a real couch
10. Write a novel (it doesn't need to be published)
11. Run a marathon
12. Learn to skate
13. Learn to play ice hockey
14. Go to Philadelphia and run up the "Rocky stairs" with the music, obviously
15. Lose 40 pounds
16. Go to an Ed Sheeran concert
17. Go see an IIHF World Juniors tournament abroad
18. Go on a portage trip in Algonquin park
19. Do a creative writing course
20. Host a holiday family dinner in my new house
21. Pay down my consumer debt
22. Go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Florida
23. Go to ComicCon
24. Go to VidCon
25. Read all of the A Song of Ice and Fire books (Game of Thrones)
26. Take a painting class
27. Go to Toronto Pride
28. Go watch x-Games Aspen (though how cool would it be to participate!)
29. See a playoff game in Pittsburgh
30. Visit San Francisco
31. Start doing Yoga weekly
32. See a play on Broadway in New York City
33. Go to a taping of Last Week Tonight in New York
34. Drink Champagne in Paris
35. See orcas in the wild
36. Go on an African safari
37. Go see a football game at Michigan Stadium (The "Big House")
38. Join a rec sports team, and don't quit before the end of the season
39. Sing Karaoke (without lip syncing)
40. Love and accept myself for who I am