The Daisy List

By Contributor

April 5, 2010

The phrase "bucket list" grosses us out, because buckets make us think of 1) mopping the floor, and 2) puking in the middle of the night. "Daisy list" is so much nicer. Great invention, neomaxizoomdwbi! —SparkNotes editors

The other day I watched The Bucket List for the first time. It wasn’t my favorite movie, but it got me to thinking: I should write a Bucket List of my own! But "Bucket List" sounded too boyish. I needed something more girly. I thought of other euphemisms for death and remembered "pushing up daisies." Hence, the Daisy List. Here are 20 things I want to do before I die (not in any specific order, of course):

1. Go to Australia to buy toothpaste. (It's a long story.)

2. Fall in love.

3. Get away with murder. (Just kidding...)

4. Become a photographer for National Geographic.

5. Kiss in the rain.

6. Pass my AP World History exam.

7. Get into a good college.

8. Marry Taylor Lautner.

9. Meeting Ringo Starr and/or Paul McCartney.

10. Meet Dan Bergstein. (Don't we all?)

11. Learn how to speak another language.

12. Go to a Harry Potter midnight movie premier. (Only two more chances!!)

13. Learn how to do a cartwheel. Without falling on my face.

14. Help save a life.

15. Read everything ever written by Shakespeare, Poe, Austen, the Bronte sisters, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, etc., etc.

16. Hold a ritualistic burning of all things Twilight. Even those creepy action figure doll things. No—especially those creepy action figure doll things. I think I saw an Edward one move. I swear. *shudder*

17. Not get hit by a car. Again.

18. Find my other shoe.

19. Get something I wrote published on SparkLife.

20. Learn how to read in my sleep.

Since #8 (and most likely #20) will probably never happen, I guess I'll have to live forever.

What's on your daisy list?