My bucket list

For the last several years, quite a few people have asked me what's on my bucket list.  To be honest, I never really wrote down a bucket list because it is forever changing.  Some things that were important to me 3 years ago just aren't as important anymore.  But the idea of a list of things I want to do before I die is intriguing.  How many things would I put on it and how many would be considered really frivolous?  Would it sound stupid to others?  Could I actually write such a list?  

The answer is yes, I could write such a list.  And here it is.  My bucket list as of August 8, 2012.  Subject to change, depending on my mood. 

• Meet President Obama, Former Presidents Clinton, Carter, and George HW Bush, and their wives.
• Meet Sam Harris, Barbra Streisand, all 4 members of ABBA, and Taylor Hicks.
• Finally travel to the last 5 states so that I've been to all 50.
• Drive cross country at least 2 more times, in each direction.
• Own a house.  (Doesn't matter if I'm paying a mortgage)
• Travel to see England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa.
• Skydive once.
• Take a hot air balloon ride.
• Record my own album of duets with several of my favorite stars.
• Sing the National Anthem at a major league baseball game.
• Weigh under 200 lbs.
• Do one of the swim with a dolphin/beluga whale interactions somewhere.
• Have a party and be able to give all my guests gifts.
• See Garth Brooks in Vegas while sitting in the front row.

See, not that big a list so far.  But like I said, changes can happen at any time.