A dream is a wish your heart makes

In a recent list of 16 random things about me, as you may recall, I postulated on the idea of my own destiny for more than the average bear - if you will. A short time later I read a friend's blog post about having dreams in life. It got me to thinking about exactly what it is that I'd like accomplish in my short time on this planet we call home - what will be my mark of greatness. Now, I'm no John Goddard, and I don't think I'm nearly as altruistic as my friend in what I want, but still, in my own way, I'd like to do something with my life. Life's too short for regrets. So, here is the beginning of the list of things I'd like to do before I die, my own bucket list, as it were.

Learn French

Teach in a foreign country (Canada and Mexico don't count)

Get a master's degree...or two

Get married and hopefully discover - and subsequently develop - a talent for making babies

Write a New York Times best selling book

Be a children's author

Audition for a Broadway show

Be in a movie (not as man number 1,387 in the crowd, but something significant)

Own a house with a huge family room and a wrap-around porch

Visit all 50 states

Road-trip across America one summer visiting all the random weird things in our country that you never really hear about

Host a talk show

Visit the seven wonders of the world (all of them, there are actually more than 7, there are in fact, several lists of 7)

Visit every temple in America (I'd like to say the world, but there are getting to be so many, that that may actually become rather unattainable, however I'll do my best.)

Be a presenter for some program or another. Preferably something I'm rather passionate about.

Be a Dapper Dan at Disneyland.

See an opera at the Sydney Opera House

Walk a stretch of the Great Wall of China

Go on an African Safari

Take a ride in a 2-seater plane

Play Seymour from "Little Shop Of Horrors", sometime, somewhere

See a Solar Eclipse live

Stay a night at the Plaza Hotel
See the Aurora Borealis

Roles I'd like to play, but aren't necessarily imperative to my ultimate happiness:
LeFou - Beauty and the Beast
Percy - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Man in Chair - The Drowsy Chaperone
Max - Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical

I'll keep this list updated (if it's red, that means I've done it), and, per the example of said friend, linked, so you can all read how cool I've become *wink*, and whatever other crazy aspirations I've invented.