Fall Bucket List (2011)

Living with intention, deepening relationships, growth, fun, and in the moment requires me to be thoughtful and to have a plan. Lists like 101 Things in 1001 Days help me with long-term planning. Seasonal bucket lists help me to break it down into manageable time slots. Also on the bucket lists I can include items I didn’t put on my 101 Things in 1001 Days list.

Fall of 2011 is from Friday, September 23-Wednesday, December 21. Below are the things I hope to do in these 3 months. Some items are from my 101 Things list. Most are additional items. Even though I just posted this list, I have been working on a few of the items since late September.

What would you add to this list?

Activity

• Celebrate Advent.
• Celebrate Thanksgiving with the family at the beach.  It was supposed to rain so we decided to celebrate at my daughter’s home in Emeryville instead. 4 friends joined our Mexican themed dinner.
• Complete 4 Wreck This Journal activities (with niece).
• Declutter one bookshelf. 
• Fill a Operation Christmas Child Shoebox.  Filled two.
• Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
• Make a wish at 11:11 on November 11, 2011.
• Plant narcissus bulbs.
• Trick-or-treat.

Create

• Create a Fall craft. Made ornaments with the nieces instead. Some ornaments were for the church tree and some were for their own tree at home. Most ornaments were for Elizabeth’s tree.
• Make a flower barrette with niece.
• Make an advent wreath.

Food

• Bake 4 new cookie recipes. 1. Double chocolate cookies made with a cake mix. Too cakey for me. But had a fun time with Em (niece). 2. My daughter and I made gingerbread rim cookies that are egg-, dairy-. and gluten-free. Yummy!
• Have an outdoor fire with s’mores.   Planned to do this on Thanksgiving at the beach. But since the weather was supposed to be bad, I made a s’mores pie instead.
• Learn to make a cake roll.
• Make 2 Fall drinks. (Apple Cider Float and Pumpkin Pie Spice coffee)
• Make 5 recipes (besides bread and pie) that use pumpkin.
• Try 2 recipes in church cookbook.
• Try 2 recipes from the anti-inflammation diet.

Money

• Pay off my student loans. This might have to be deferred as I am having car issues with the “Check Engine Light.” Deferred! DONE September 2013.

Movies

• Have a Harry Potter and/or LOTR films weekend.
• Watch 4 Christmas movies.
• Watch It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
• Watch Monk Season 8.

Music

• Learn 2 hymns by memory (Thanksgiving theme).

Photography

• Do a photoshoot – Tell a fall story.
• Enlarge costume picture.
• Have a family portrait taken 2011.
• Transfer vhs movies to dvd format. DONE one June 2013.

Read

• Finish the books on my FIR list. I read 6 of the books.
• Read 2 Classics and/or other books on my Kindle.
• Read  A Christmas Carol and Tale of 2 Cities by Charles Dickens.

Write

• Make a list of things for which I am thankful
• Send a Christmas card to a soldier.
• Write a list of 12 cooking techniques/recipes to do/learn
• Write and send a message in a bottle.
• Write/post daily during NaNo/BloWriMo 2011
• Write Theological Bucket List

Your Turn . . .

• What are you most excited about for fall?
• What would you add to your bucket list?

Related Posts

• 5 Reasons I Love Fall
• 101 Things to do in 1001 Days
• ANTI Bucket List 

• Bucket List Index

• Bucket List Lie

• Fall Bucket List 2012

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