Thanksgiving and The Bucket List

I was looking at my journal this morning and realized that it's been almost a year since I made my bucket list. These have been popularized on blogs all over as women come close to a decade birthday. I created my bucket list with the intention of attacking it and trying to accomplish it in little bits before my 40th birthday. I had over 2 years after all. How could I NOT accomplish 40 items in more than 100 weeks right? Fast forward to today and I am now just a hair over 62 weeks until my big 40. I was looking at some of the things on the list and realized that in order to accomplish the book lists (yes, there are TWO separate items relating to books), I would have to read at least one book each week now to get those two crossed off of the list. While I have done some things toward accomplishing several items on the bucket list, I have not actually finished any of them. Today, that is going to change (I hope)! One of the items on my bucket list is to learn how to make the perfect pie crust. I have struggled with this for years. I love to bake, especially around the holidays. But the pie crust has always eluded me. I found a recipe a few years ago that suggested using a food processor, but I didn't have one so I just put it on the shelf for "to try later". Well, today is later. Being Thanksgiving, it is time to get into the kitchen and experiment again. Last year, for Christmas, my sweet hubby gave me a large food processor so I am going to try the recipe for food processor pie crust. I have pinned the recipe, the butter is chilling in the fridge and I am ready to get baking. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! What recipes will you be trying new this year? P.S. I thought I would leave you with the list since I haven't posted the entire thing on the blog yet. 40 by 40 Bucket List 1. Finish my book. 2. Run a marathon. 3. Lose all the weight onece and for all. (Right now, I'm thinking 80 pounds?) 4. Look good in a bikini (and actually wear it in public!). 5. Finish K's baby blanket (she's 3 now!) 6. Learn how to knit. 7. Pay off all debts (except student loans and mortgage if we happen to get one in the next year). 8. Buy a house. 9. Take some prerequisite courses for PhD. 10. 11. Read at least 12 classics I never got around to reading in high school. 12. Complete A's baby album. 13. Complete K's baby album. 14. Learn how to make the perfect pie crust. 15. Sell my teaching stuff online (sold some books already back in August). 16. Read or get rid of any unfinished books in my current collection (sold some in June). 17. Learn and start using the art of Feng Shui. 18. Try Zumba! 19. Buy a red dress that I look sexy in. 20. Go to an opera (preferrably in the aforementioned red dress). 21. Submit my book for publishing. 22. Start and maintain a saving account with more than $1000 in it. 23. Learn Italian. 24. Learn how to wear a scarf (and start wearing them at least once a week). 25. Knit a cable knit sweater. 26. Complete our wedding album. 27. Transform my wardrode (and start dressing everyday). 28. Sew all the projects I started in the spring of 2011. 29. Get my passport. 30. Visit Canada. 31. Take a ballroom dance class. 32. Buy a pair of knee-high boots that fit my calves. 33. See Andrea Bocelli in concert. 34. Read 50 books on the New York Times Best Seller List. (I think I'm up to 4 for this list from this past year. I read Micro by Michael Crichton and The Hunger Games Trilogy). 35. Have dinner in the Space Needle restaurant. 36. Learn how to swim (for real!) 37. Spend (at least) one night in a 5 star hotel or a bed and breakfast. 38. Fix my grandmother's ring. 39. Write an article and get it published in a magazine. 40. Build something with wood.