Bucket List Tuesdays

It's Tuesday which means it's time to link-up with me and tell me one thing that's on your bucket list and one thing that you've been blessed enough to cross off!

On The List:

I'd love to be a professional photographer. And by professional, I mean someone who is absolutely persistent in their quality of work, someone who is confident in what they're doing and someone who is respected in their field of work. I'm working on it. I have a small client base, but it's a client base. I am confident when it comes to some sessions and a nervous willy when it comes to others. My equipment however is anything but professional. I still use the original camera that Jeremy surprised me with almost four years ago and it was the cheapest model (clearanced from the year before) that we could buy. But, it was all that we could afford and as much as I'd like to go out and just buy a new camera - it's not that easy. Cameras are expensive and considering the four or five lenses I have for this one, I'll stick with it as long as it will be useful to me.

Crossed Off:

I know I've only been married for four years. I know that my marriage could potentially crash and burn at any time or it could blossom into something even more precious than what it is right now. But no matter what happens, and no matter what the future brings, the marriage that I have now and have had for the past four years has been one of the most beautiful parts of my entire life.

Not to mention, we have this little boy - and really, does it get any more beautiful than that?

'Bucket List' Tuesdays

So here’s the thing. I have pondered a lot lately as to what I would include on my ‘bucket list’ if I was ever to make one. Well, I’m going to make one…and I’m going to do it weekly. I figure it’s much easier to come up with one thing at a time rather than a whole list. With a list I always feel as if I’m leaving things out and it’s such a pain to go back and edit and add and all that jazz. So I’m going to dedicate my Tuesdays to my bucket list. I will come up with one thing every Tuesday to add to my list (Okay, let’s admit that I’m sure there will be weeks that I come up with more than one) and I hope that you’ll add your own ‘bucket list’ hopes and dreams too.

Since I'm doing this via blog and obviously I like to write, I found it fit to start my bucket list with one of my deepest hopes and dreams. Since I was a little girl, sitting in my room with one of those cute little diaries that had a lock that never did work, I've always dreamed of being a writer. I have notebooks and pages and folders full of stories and poems and pondering and just random tid-bits of this and that that I've wrote over the years. I refuse to throw any of it away no matter how silly or foolish it seems.

When I say I want to be a writer, it doesn't mean that I want to sell hundreds upon hundreds of copies of a book or have this huge fan base where every one knows my name. It simply means that I want to write in a way that will touch other's lives. I want people to want to read my words, simply because they feel something from them. Perhaps one day I will be lucky enough to publish something out there will hundreds will get to read it. But if I never do, it won't make much of a difference to me.

So the first thing on my bucket list is this::

1) Become a writer; one who touches people's lives and creates words that can be felt and not just read.