~My Adventure. Oceanside, CA~

I am back! And in more ways than just one. It sounds terribly cliché, but I would go as far to say that my time in Oceanside CA. has changed me, even if only a little bit. But you see, I am one of those people who believe that every event or place -in fact everything we do in our lives- changes us even a little. In the end it is these things that help shape us into who we are.

On that note, I too have made some changes, and realizations during my experience. But the only pertinent one for this blog is this: I just have to keep living. That's it, as simple as that. Yet, it feels like all this time it has been such a foreign concept to me. Through this moderate epiphany I realized something else. This blog, is NOT about a bucket list. It is NOT about everything I want to fit into my time on this earth before I die. In short it is NOT about death. No, this is a blog about life. This blog is about exactly what I discovered to be so important in California; this blog is about living. Because what is a bucket list really? It is a list -that part is pretty self-explanatory- but it is also a guide to nothing less than living!

So now that that is all cleared up I feel like I can express just how amazing my vacation was. I did so many things that I never thought I would do. Among them which I have decided to add to the Almost list are:
2. Watch the sunset on the beach/over the ocean.
3. Try to 'find Nemo' in an aquarium.
4. Go boogie-boarding.

And lastly, this entire experience has leant me to add a new entry to The List:
65. Return to Oceanside California.

As for this one I don't mean next summer, or even next year. More specifically one day years down the road, when I am older and lived more than I have as of now. One day, I want to go back. Because I really can't express how much this place has helped me in a sense. I picture maybe a time in the future when I can go back and just reminisce about all the changes I felt there; then again maybe it'll be a time in the future when I again feel lost and need to just take time to figure everything out. I am curious as to what the future holds, so until then I suppose I will just keep living.

~Onward! To California~

So even though it's not specifically on my bucket list, I am going to California over Spring Break; my senior spring break to be exact. And it's sort of really and truly enthralling, because I've never done anything really exciting over spring break. Which, if I'm being honest kind of makes me wish I would have added 'go somewhere awesome for Spring Break' to my list. I won't add it now, because that feels like cheating -especially seeing as I will be leaving in only a few short hours. But, that does bring me to a good point. There are going to be things that I will do and think 'darn! I wish that was on my list' but of course I won't write them then, because that would be like cheating. After all, right now my goal is just 101 things I want to accomplish before I die. And I don't want to add more until I'm done doing all of those! So I've decided to keep track of all these little things, like: going to California for spring break as well! The catch? It'll be under a different name of course. It will be my 'Almost list' things I've done/am doing that I should have written on my bucket list, and would have had I had the foresight. Things I /almost/ wrote. So keep a look out for that. Plus, it'll give me a little more to talk about that doesn't sound like: "And then I was like OMG. And then she was like WTH?! And THEN we were both like LOL...and stuff" I mean because, seriously, does that even mean anything?!

On a separate note. Here are some new additions to my bucket list!
60. Read every comic in at least one of the original X-Men series
61. Make a giant cupcake
62. Finish my ‘Trinity’ of screenplays
63. Order chocolate milk, like its wine
64. Giant finger-paint