The Real To-Do List

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that I am an adventurous type of person. I refuse to live my life in fear or regret and I do not like to waste a single minute. My philosophy behind being audacious is simple: You only live once. There's no more or no less to it. I will only get one single chance to be the woman that I am. I will only get one single chance to make a mark on this planet, on the people that I encounter throughout my journies, and most importantly -- I only get one single chance to live up to the expectations that I have set for myself. I have a strong opposition to the people in this world who are simply weak minded individuals. There is nothing more annoying then hearing someone bitch about how much they hate this or they hate that, or how they dislike the direction in which their lives are headed or how they make it seem like certain things are so unattainable. Life is fucking hard people. It takes hard work to have the things that you want and to live the life in which you truly want to live. I cannot understand how/why people are not driven or do not take advantage of the things that are good at. I know that some people are totally unaware of their strengths and others only focus on their weaknesses but it's not so hard to just put forth a little more effort to have what you want. People simply give up or quit when something gets hard. Or people will take the half-ass way out. There is no excuse why you should have to sacrifice your hopes and dreams just because something became hard -- if you want it badly enough then you will stop at nothing to get it. Hard work = Success. Call me a snob or call me crazy but I am an extremely driven person and if I do not like how something is working out I make the necessary changes to work it out the way I want it to. Everyone has things that they'd like to accomplish before they meet their maker and I, myself, have been working on accomplishing my own list of things that I'd like to do before I relinquish life. And thus, I have decided to share this steadfast list with all of you. Everything in bold has been successfully accomplished. 1. Travel alone. 2. Drive in another state that required air-travel to get there. 3. Get a tattoo. 4. Build a and fly a kite. 5. Learn how to fly an airplane and a helicopter. 6. Earn my Doctorate. 7. Build a house for Habitat for Humanity. 8. Climb Mt. Fuji. 9. See Paris...from the top of the Eiffel Tower. 10. Go to Prague, Ibiza, Formentara, and St. Tropez. 11. Invent something. 12. Sing in a band. 13. Take professional racey photos. 14. Ride a bicycle across the Golden Gate Bridge. 15. Have 15 minutes of fame. 16. Save a life. 17. Own a BMW that I purchased with my own money. 18. Drive in a rally race. And of course, win. 19. Be referred to as Doctor Lauren. 20. Watch my best friend get married to the man of her dreams. 21. Go to Las Vegas and do something wild. 22. Dance, dance. Become a dancer. 23. See a Red Sox game at Fenway instead of from my own TV. 24. Meet my match -- the man of my dreams. 25. Become a college professor. 26. Publish the books I've already written. 27. Buy my crazy ass mom the Mercedes that she's always wanted. 28. Live an entire day without my cell phone in my hand. 29. Be in two places at once. 30. Fall madly in love -- real life long love. 31. Live in Florida, California, and Boston; even if it's only for a few months in each place. 32. Learn a 3rd language. 33. Make an impact on someone's life, even if it's only one person. 34. Ride in a hot air balloon. 35. Go topless on the beach. 36. Work at Hooters. 37. Work in retail. 38. Have my artwork published in a book. 39. Have my artwork purchased. 40. Have my artwork hung in a famous museum. 41. Dig for fossils. 42. Own the entire Walton's TV series on DVD. 43. Ride the ferris wheel on the Santa Monica Pier. 44. Take a train from the east coast to the west. 45. Hear the words "my wife, the Doctor" being spoken about me. 46. Dress up like a geisha. 47. Work at a tanning salon. 48. Give my friends the world. 49. Save a relationship/marriage. 50. Put money in a Swiss bank account. 51. Visit Disneyland California, Paris, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. 52. Go to a different time zone. This list will be constantly updated, so check back periodically see what has been accomplished and what has been added.