Bucket List

Dear Me,

So, I thought I should record my bucket list and goals on here, so I have something to look back on.
I'm also going write in this this thing every day for a year.  Just to see where it takes me, which will be on my list of goals/bucket list.

So here it is:

My Goals and Bucket List

1. Watch a U2 concert live

    Goal or Bucket List: Bucket List

    Achieved: 02 June 2011

2. Attend a live opera
    Goal or Bucket List: Bucket List
    Achieved:

3. Attend a live ballet
    Goal or Bucket List: Bucket List
    Achieved: 

4. Visit the U.K. and France
     Goal or Bucket List: Bucket List
     Achieved: 22 April 2014

5. Start working out for the next trip
    Goal or Bucket List: Goal
    Achieved:

6. Climb three hundred stairs on the step machine
    Goal or Bucket List: Goal
    Achieved:

7. Walk two miles (3.2 km) a day on a treadmill in a gym
     Goal or Bucket List: Goal
     Achieved:

8. Walk five miles (8 km) a day on a treadmill in a gym
    Goal or Bucket List: Goal
    Achieved:

9. Walk ten miles (16 km) a day on treadmill
    Goal or Bucket List: Goal
    Achieved: 

10. Find out when people might be able to come to wedding.
      Goal or Bucket List: Goal
      Achieved:

11. Set wedding date
      Goal or Bucket List: Goal
      Achieved: April 05 2015
      Wedding date has been set for 31 October 2018

12. Save for wedding (at least $18000)
      Goal or Bucket List: Goal
      Achieved:
      Start saving $500.00 a month 01 September 2015 

13. Plan and organize wedding
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

14.  Find a venue with wedding package that is relatively cheap
       Goal or Bucket list: Both
       Achieved:

15. Go to the National Library of Edinburgh (look up documents North Berwick Trials)
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

16. Visit Edinburgh Vaults
      Goal or Bucket List: Bucket List
      Achieved: 

17. Visit The Shakes in the city of York
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

18. Visit Yorkshire Cathedral
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

19. Visit Yorkshire Library
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

20. Visit Pendle Hill, Lancashire (to learn about Pendle Witch Trials)
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved: 

21. Visit King Richard III burial (Lancaster)
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

22.  Go to Oxford Bodleian Library
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

23.  Go to Cambridge Library
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
        Achieved:

24.  Attend a live Shakespeare play in London (hopefully MacBeth)
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

25. Go to the National British Library (look up Witchcraft act 1562)
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

26.  Go to the National British Museum (again)
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

27. Save for puppy ($1700)
      Goal or Bucket List: Goal
      Achieved:

28. Learn to budget better
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

29. Take London School of Writing Novel Writing course
       Goal or Bucket List: Goal
       Start:
       Finish:
       Achieved:
       Start 01 September 2015

30.  Finish Percy and Esme's story
       Goal or Bucket List: Goal
       Achieved:

31.  Get an agent for Percy and Esme's story
       Goal or Bucket List: Goal
       Achieved: 

32.  Get Esme and Percy's story published (first print in the U.K!)
       Goal or Bucket List: Both
       Achieved:

33. Do research on the following witch trials:
          - St. Osyth witches (1582)
          - Witches of Warboys (1589-1593)
          - North Berwick Trials (1590)
          - The Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1597
          -  Pendle Witch Trial (1612)
          -  Northamptonshire Witch trial (1612)
          - Samlesbury Witches (1612)
          - Witches of Belvoir (1619)
          - Bury St. Edmunds Witch Trials (1645, 1662, 16655 and 1694)
          - Great Scottish Witch Hunt of 1661-1662
          -  Bidford Witch Trial (1684)
          -  Paisley (1696)
          -  Islandmagee witch trial (1711)
    Goal or Bucket List: Both
    Achieved:

35.  Write a new story about witch trial
        Goal or Bucket List: Both
         Achieved:

36. See my books become best sellers
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:
      Become beloved author a la J.K. Rowling and/or Phillipa Gregory

37. Sell enough books so that I can:
      1. Buy my own condo at home
      2. Buy a cottage on the border lands
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved: 
      To do this I would have to sell over 80 million copies (weirder shit has happened)

38. Get married by a Catholic Priest
      Goal or Bucket List: Both
      Achieved:

39.  Pay off credit card debt by end of July 2015
       Goal or Bucket List: Goal
       Achieved:

40.  Read more fiction
       Goal or Bucket List: Goal
       Achieved:

So that's what I want to do before I die. As you can tell, the last two was just sort of tacked on.  For some reason I can't stand it when lists don't end in a five or a zero.  
 Anyway, some of it might be insanely unrealistic, but you know what, it doesn't hurt to put it out in the universe.  Maybe some one will listen.
People win the lottery don't they?
I'm fairly certain they pour a lot of work into it too, I mean after slaving over the story itself, you have to market the shit out of it, which in itself is kind of scary for me.  But you also have to have a bit of luck on your side.
I mean, look at the people who wrote the Twilight series and the 50 Shades of Grey series.  They're not exactly literary geniuses and yet their books have sold millions of copies.  
This is what makes this whole writing thing a bit scary for me.  
I'll work my butt off trying to finish it, perhaps in the vain hope that it might be seen on a bookshelf in a store.  
I'm hoping to finish my first story in the next two years.  
Then I'll get to whine about more shit.  Yay me!