DC Bucket List

“I’m already thinking of New Years Resolutions, something I want to do is create a bucket list.”  - My supervisor at my current job.

What a great idea!  A bucket list!  Ok, I’m completely stealing the idea from my boss, but she has great ideas and this is a stroke of genius.  Some of the things on my list might seem impossible to achieve, but at the same time, I jump out of planes. 

-Visit every museum in Washington, D.C.

-Celebrate MLK day at the new MLK statue

-Watch the inauguration

-Rally behind something I believe in

-Take a picture with the occupy movement so I can show my future grandkids “I was there!”

-Have my name published in the paper for a great achievement

-Shake hands with the president

-Make snow angels on the National Mall

-Read beneath the Cherry Blossom Trees

-Take artsy photos of the monuments

-Learn a new language and order food in that language

-Learn something about every animal at the zoo

-Go to the Kennedy Center Honors

-Promise to laugh every day

-Get into a great graduate program

-Watch the sunset over the monuments

An Introduction

Stolen from a friends facebook page:

Want to be amazing? Want to be epic? Want to be outstanding?

All right. Here’s your recipe:

Look at what you feel you should do, what you know would change your life and the lives of others for the better. Let it overwhelm you. Let it terrify you. Let it mock you with its impossibility and insurmountableness. Let others tell you it can’t be done. Let your friends and family call you stupid or foolish or naive. Let fear chatter in your ear and erode your confidence and your ability to think rationally.

Then, do it anyway.

Starting on my new journey certain feels like this quote.  After years of wishing, hoping, and wanting to be the change I want to see in the world, I'm finally doing it.  Starting in January I'm moving from a comfortable life in my small southern hometown to our Nations Capital.  This blog will help chronicle my journey.