8. Go to a Broadway Show

I know, I know, I know!
I'm sorry!!
It's just that I haven't had time to write! I am a full time teacher now you know?! It's hard to find some downtime when I don't want to sleep or i have all of my work done.. (Wellll, I still don't have my work done, but it's not a lot tonight)

But I was thinking. I haven't added to my list in a while...over a month! And i mean it's understandable, I don't know all the the things I want to do...they just come to me at random moments, but then sometimes I forget.

Well this was inspired by the movie Newsies, of which i love so so much!

DID YOU KNOW THEY MADE IT A MUSICAL!!?!?! I mean right?!
Awesome!
 

So it's only on Broadway, and I need to see it...like now.
But even If i don't see Newsies on Broadway...i want to see something on that main stage where dreams are made and the place that haunts every actors dreams! To be there, and be where the greats once stood, to watch pure emotion pour from every motion?! Ah.... if only I didn't have stage fright.

Anyway. I want to go to Broadway. It's exactly 10 Hours and 51 minutes from my house...639 miles. And i will travel every one of them to get there.


Stick with me,

K

7. Travel somewhere by Train

Channeling Leann.. I'm gonna buy a one way ticket on a west bound train. See how far I can go..

I've never been on a train. Can you believe it?! Yea me either. A lot of people tell me it's not worth it and it's awful and dirty and disgusting. Well... my middle name is stubborn... :)

I don't know why I want to ride a train... Probably because all the fun things happen! I mean look at Wild Wild West.. Will smith and Kevin Kline had a lot of fun on a train


Ok. So I don't have a solid reason...

Trains look fun and I've been on every other form of cross-state-country form of transportation!

Ooh. Except a trolley or street car. Adding that to the list too!


Stay with me,

K

6. Whistle with two fingers

Ahh so I realize that I won't be updating all the time... But that's ok because I'm young so my bucket list, I would like to believe, comes with time.
And right now I'm watching an unbelievably corny movie that has someone whistling with 2 fingers. You know what I mean? That loud whistle that people could hear for miles? Yea I want to do that!

How cool would that be? And like this movie, maybe it would come in handy. I mean she teaches him to whistle and in the end thats how he finds her again.
So maybe it's romantic notions filling my head but whistling like that would still be really cool

Until then!

Stay with me,
K

5. Yell off of the Brooklyn Bridge

If you haven't seen Newsies. Watch it. You will understand why..

The gist of this Bucket List addition is, Jack and Boots are crossing the bridge with Davey to get the infamous Spot Conlon on their side for the 1899 Newsboys strike. And as they are crossing the bridge, they lean over and yell their hearts out!

Newsies fans all over the world have gone to that Bridge, and doggone it SO WILL I

I will lean over that bridge, let my hair whip around in the wind and yell my heart out.

So help me, I will



Stick with me,
  

     K. ....or. Queen of New York..one day!

4. Go to the Globe Theatre

Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo! Deny thy father and refuse thy name. If thou wilt not be by sworn my love and I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Yes I'm an English Major and yes I'm a huge shakespeare nerd!

I love everything about his plays and sonnets so much so that I decided to be an English teacher. To impart my knowledge and love of all types of literature, especially Shakespeare, to the young minds.

Teaching Shakespeare to highschool kids? Not as pretty as it sounds.

"is he even speaking English?" "what is he saying?" "when was this a million years ago?"

Ahh love it. A Challenge. One which I will rise to every day when I start teaching my classroom.

But back to the Bucket List. I've always wanted not only to go to England but to see the Globe, Williams most famous theatre. To stand where Shakespeare may have stood (albeit there was a fire and it burnt and was rebuilt... The spirit lives on) would be just amazing. And for an English geek like me? Paradise.


I'm also not opposed to finding the Peter Pan status and seeing that.
Another childhood love.

Stick with me,

K

3. Hit a HomeRun

Haha this one is a kind of... I'm-super-pissed-off- after-my-softball-game-tonight

So i used to be ok at softball...it wasn't my sport and apparently it still isn't.

I play on a coed league on Fridays at this ballpark near my house, with some good friends and my sister and her husband. Well apparently I suck super bad.

This is the second week in a row that i've lost the game for us on the last play or whatever. I play catcher and last week I didn't catch the ball to tag the guy at home...and we had to hold them to beat them..so we lost.

Tonight I was up at bat, bottom of 7th, two runs down, two outs. All night I haven't been hitting well or catching well, and I hated it. So i hit the ball.. goes 5 feet in front of me.I take off and what do I do? I SLOW DOWN INSTEAD OF RUNNING THROUGH FIRST. had I kept running I would have been safe. but nope. i got out.. And I KNOW I should have ran through. I know all those durn rules, but I just didn't! I hate when the catcher throws to first behind me. Gonna beam me in the head and stuff..no way. It's worse when I see the whole team just pissed and aggravated that I can't do shit. They do cheer me on whenever I get up and I love them for that..i just wish i could do better

once again I lost the game. and I feel like crap. I keep bringing the team down and sucking...and it sucks so bad. I want to be awesome but it just isn't happening..

So Bucket List?
 I want to slam the crap out of that ball...like Benny the Jet and just destroy it. Sadly i'm slow so I will settle for a couple things:

1. Hitting it over the fences.
2. Hitting it over the outfielders head (They all move up when a girl hits)
3. And/ or bringing in atleast 3 runners.

One or all of those would suffice as a completion of this Bucket List number.

Essentially I just want to prove myself to my teammates and all of those other teams.

Stick with me,

K

2. Learn the Free Willy Tune on the Harmonica

*Cue inspirational music*

Ah Yes, that classic little diddy of a boy and a whale!  I mean, come on, and look at this

That’s probably the coolest whale in all of history. If you haven’t seen this movie…seriously… get a childhood. Or go on YouTube and watch the whole thing…or just buy it.. Totally worth any price!

So you know when Jesse, the original bad misunderstood kid finds Willy? He plays a tune on the harmonica and poof! Willy comes up for air. So Jesse runs, slips, and FALLS INTO THE TANK OF A KILLER WHALE! While in real life this kid would die, this is a family movie. So a large killer whale instead lifts jesse out of the water, saving his life, and making kids everywhere jealous. A lifetime friendship is born and they save each other time and again.

But back to this tune…  it sets the whole tone of the movie. Jesse plays it when he needs Willy or he is feeling down, and throughout the whole movie there are variations of it culminating in the epic scene shown above.

Have a listen..

Free Willy on Piano.. first 25 seconds

It was so hard to find the clip but the first 25 seconds on the piano are what Jesse plays.

 

And I love it. I don’t know what it is about the song but I’ve loved it ever since I saw this movie.

Because of my love/obsession, I tend to buy a harmonica wherever I go. I also really like the boxes they come in. The older the better.

Well I have at least 5 harmonicas now. I used to have more, but it was ridiculous. I had never learned how to play…

Until now!

I recently bought a harmonica that has numbers on it. Now listen I am not musically inclined at all. So I don’t know major notes or if it’s a C harmonica. (But I mean I do know because it says so on it…but if it didn’t, I wouldn’t, you get what I’m trying to say.)

I keep trying, but I’ve not yet mastered the harmonica playing ability. But I will.

Stick with me,

K

1. Throw a Penny in the Trevi, or, Oh the places I'll go.

Ahhh sounds completely like a common Bucket List dream. And yet....

I don't even care!

It's not even just about the fountain.... although,  

Who in their right mind wouldn't want to see this?

I can't even imagine what it would be like to go there!

From all the pictures i've seen and the movies i've watched (Lizzie McGuire movie anyone?) it looks like its hidden from the main street, and you turn a corner and BAM! there it is! in all of its magnificent glory! a gift from the gods..

*collective sigh*


Besides the Trevi, I would love to have my own Roman Holiday (Ahh Audrey)...and not just in Rome either! I would kill to go to Tuscany and Bellagio, and Positano.. all of those beautiful places! Italy seems like the place to go when all you want to do is bask in the beauty that is our world.
I mean seriously... look at these

It's like a dream. Hidden discoveries just waiting for me across the Ocean!!

Just the chance to travel and lose yourself in another place  where you don't know anyone sounds terrifying...but then the flipside? They don't know you either. It's a chance to be yourself...and i know you're always yourself...but in a new place? You can be yourself without any judgement! you can be a wildly romantic dreamer with her head in the clouds, and everyone admires you for following your heart.


At least... that's what I hope



Ahh so Number1: Cross the Pond...that is theAtlantic to get to Italy...

In Conclusion.. I want to travel, but i'll need to make some dough first. But it will be there when i'm ready. It has to be. It's all I dream about.
 


Stick with me,

K

My Bucket list

Interestingly enough I have never seen The Bucket List, and for some reason I don't really want to. I have this nagging suspicion that I will not like the ending...meh...C'est la vie..

I'm a young person... and sometimes I feel like my life is already over. I've graduated college and unlike others I was lucky enough enough to become employed before the ink dried on my diploma. So is that it?

 I have a job, and I will have an apartment next year when it becomes available.....but is that how the rest of my life goes? A normal day to day experience? Channeling "Working 9-5" as we speak.

I've always been a dreamer. That sounds so cliche and corny and yet it's true.I dream of traveling and seeing new places and becoming a new person in an instant My mind is full all the time of things that could happen in a instant and it depends on what I am doing. If i'm standing in front of a person I catch myself envisioning every single scenario that could happen If I do something. Like what if right now I'm a spy meeting a contact...or what if the person in front of me is the one i'm going to spend the rest of my life with...I guess, in truth, that's what this meaningless ramble comes down to.

Will I be alone forever?
As a hopeless romantic...this sounds terrifying. I have many people in my life who love me and who i love unconditionally, but where is that someone who loves me unconditionally...and without reason? Am i searching too hard? All of those stupid romantic quotes that say If i keep looking I will never find someone and that they are standing right in front of me.

That went a little off topic. I apologize

REEEEELING IT BACK IN......

So going back to the I'm a dreamer part. I've made multiple promises to myself that  I will do these once in a lifetime things, sometime in my one life time.

I'm not good at blogging. I get these ridiculous notions in my head at 3:13 in the morning that what i have to say will inspire others.. i know i'm not that cool.

but what  i need to do for myself is keep this list updated. My own personal bucket list of things i want to do and why before I die. And honestly try to complete them.

This isnt a Julia Child thing. I'm not going to complete this in a year..but I'm going to try. Im going to try and add to my Bucket List... but also check things off..

Stick with me.

K