*Not* Bucket List Updates!

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I went down my own rabbit hole like Alice, about my time in 2019 in NYC and a few lessons I had learned. Then I found this i'm not calling it a bucket list bucket list - a would be cool list of things to accomplish that have no actual bearing on my humanism, just things that might be cool to see or try or taste or do. 

So I'm going to reread this list, as I only remember and saw a few before coping and pasting here. I don't have many photos stored on this laptop or else I'd update them but hey, nobody really reads this to notice a lack of updated photos anyhow.

I've truncated my list for easy reading to focus on how far I've come in the new year (2019) thus far (with 2025 updates):



  • See flowing lava.Iceland 2024 we went to an in-house lava show with real lava (recirculated but just as bright as pictures show)
  • Learn to surf better.
  • Visit the Simpsons store in Myrtle Beach
  • See the Ellen show live in Burbank. I tried to get tickets but wasn't accepted!It's gone, she's british now and that's okay!
  • See one new country - I've seen Iceland! And almost all of the UK - England, Scotland, Wales and Isle of Man!
  • Do more Blogger meet up events. Spent some quality time in Chicago with Bettina and Rachel Olivia to not only discuss blogging and Instagram secrets, but also bond as human people. Shout out to the gross tea at Beatnik that tasted like grass water stirred with a dirty stick and ginger roots. Ack, why? Also, rachel sucked and unfollowed me three days later thinking I wouldn't know. Bettina yelled at her. But she is a liar and a clout chaser brat so i didn't care because I had already muted her.
  • I'd like to work on Affiliations or Sponsors for my blog this year.
  • Create an email subscription list - decided i hated that idea because it'd suck the fun out
  • Go to NYC.  Just got back yesterday- trip of a lifetime and I never wanted it to end! I saw and did and ate and met so much! It's my new American city. Sorry, Venice! Exclamation points abound!!!
  • Do a show with my old band, or at least some of it. 
  • Meet a celebrity I met Matthew Gray Gubler at a book signing and was THIS CLOSE to a shot with Jake Gyllenhaal. Twice.(after 2019 I've met and worked with so many)

  • Learn how to make chocolate bonbons I have a class coming up - I did, I learned! it's hard as shit.
  • Explore a real, legit haunted spot again - several times!
  • Get the Dutch Liberation Day logo tattoo Did it!


  • Read 40 books. I'm on book 11 so, so far on par. (I stopped counting during the pandemic. I also mostly stopped reading because reading was escapism fun and during the pandemmy i didn't have a lot to escape from and just kind of left it. Now I do five books a year or so and don't post everything)
  • Be in the Pacific Ocean.
  • Scratch off/record three new states on my Travelled maps. I'm now able to cross of 2 new states- New York and New jersey, after an 8 day trip east. Saw much of Manhattan and visited my amazing cousin at Princeton. (I've also hit Connecticut in 2021, Texas and North Carolina in 2023, a Nashville Bachelorette party in 2020 for Sammers and I feel like I'm missing one)
  • Meet a llama (this probably came true several times but especially the hilarious ass llama at the Lansing zoo)
  • See a screaming goat in real life and also get screamed at by a goat
  • Go to more concerts Just purchased tickets for Showoff's 20th anniversary tour in July! 20 years? I'm so old I guess, but somehow still a big kid
  • Get published three times (I did a time or two in Commoner Mag but they botched it and added in negative connotations to Detroit because they thought it made it look more exciting by calling us a shothole with burned down buildings and shit and I yelled at them and dropped my "partnership" with them. They went under a few months later. I've also, not published, but been produced a few times in the theatre)
  • Roller skate again This was the first thing I checked! Thanks to The Library Collective installations in Detroit I was able to have a spectacular and FREE night out with my Theatre Bizarre pals. And, believe it or not- I didn't even fall! Almost, but, according to Brandy, almost doesn't count.


  • Write more     Started ground work for a script and am working on an idea for a theatre script or something more one act/monologue based like a one man show with two men (two one acts) or something more along the stylings of vagina monologues in the way of movement and storytelling avenues, not necessarily topic. But who knows.
  • Try that melty cheese log thing everyone's talking about Thought about it in NYC but it had $$$ next to it.looks disgusting.
  • Try a cronut. Totally forgot to look this up in NYC! Had one in Nashville and it was TOPS
  • Go to a convention or event that has a free gift bag There's just something about gift bags! I did attend the Lit Exchange launch party in February in Chicago, scored some free makeup and treats and one of the best chapsticks by Savvy Derm Diva.

  • Pet more foreign dogs Both bolded and crossed off because I pet many dogs already but will continue to pet your doggos. 
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  •  My blog page won't let me undo the bullet points. Basically I did a lot of things, went a lot of places, hvae no money, more friends and the start of a good career. I'm trying to get into the WGA, just got back from NYC where I produced and directed one play right off the fire from another short play in the Queens Short Play Festival in Feb/March of this year. I'm submitting to AFF again with Disproportionate and just sent it to film bestie Ted that I met at last year's AFF. If i get first or second round I'll think about going back but never again as JUST a producer. Ever. Total Scam. But top rounders get meetings with professionals at AFF and special panels and symposiums just for that top tier. Might move to New York if I get one of the jobs I applied for. Just got my 34th tattoo, because after each theatre gig in NYC I get a tattoo. One for Kevin's death, two for Emerging Artists festival showings.


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