the Magic Wand

the Magic Wand…a.k.a. Life List.

I’ve had a “Life List” for awhile now and it has been scribbled on post-it notes around my office and bedroom just waiting for a place to call “home.” This blog seemed like an OK place for the time being and serves as a platform to capture and even write about the wishes that I have granted myself with the help and encouragement of others! You can read about my adventures under the categories–“Wish Granted”, “Life List”

magic-wand-hiIn no particular order (subject to additions)

  • Visit all 7 continents (Europe(Spain))
  • Walk/Hike Glaciers
  • Get professional headshots done for this blog.
  • Hike a volcano
  • Update my professional website
  • Sky dive
  • Participate in #VEDA (vlog everyday in August/April.
  • Pose for a “jump” photo at the “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign
  • Get a tattoo
  • Be in a music video
  • Design my wedding dress
  • Go on a cruise
  • Eat pasta in Italy
  • Photograph the countryside in Interlaken, Switzerland
  • Go to the Kentucky Derby, large hat necessary
  • Live in Los Angeles for a year
  • Audition for a reality show
  • Travel back in time
  • Drive cross country
  • Write to Oprah (April 2011 a letter about Dr. Mark Warner from JMU)
  • Learn a new language
  • Try out for a professional cheerleading team
  • Learn to bartend
  • See Shania Twain (Vegas May 18, 2013!) and Garth Brooks in Concert (Nashville Dec. 18, 2010)
  • Go to the airport and pick the 1st flight out
  • Take one photo everyday for a year
  • Go to the Ellen Degeneres show or Jimmy Fallon show
  • Skinny dip in the ocean
  • Scuba dive
  • Visit the Great Barrier Reef, maybe snorkel it
  • Hike the grand canyon
  • Live in New York City for a year
  • Visit Mt. Rushmore
  • Own my own apartment/home
  • Go white water rafting
  • Swim with dolphins
  • Get Zumba fitness certified
  • Stay in an ice hotel
  • Turn business ideas into reality
  • Go see the Olympic games, anyone want to join me for Rio in 2016?
  • Go to the Super Bowl (hopefully Redskins will be playing!)
  • Take an African Safari
  • Get a Masters Degree
  • Go on vacation alone
  • Ride in a hot air balloon
  • Start my own business
  • Fall in love
  • Meet a president past or present
  • Take a trapeze class
  • Have a beach side massage
  • Makeover by a celebrity stylist
  • Win a car or any contest
  • Put my feet in 5 different bodies of water (1. Mediterranean Sea in Spain, 2. Atlantic Ocean)
  • Read 20 books in a year
  • See the Aurora Borealis
  • Get married barefoot
  • Take a dip in hot springs
  • Own a pair of Christian Louboutins
  • Be front row at a concert or theatrical event
  • Stay in the overwater villas in Bora Bora, Tahiti
  • Camp at an RV camp
  • Walk through a drive-thru
  • Experience an earthquake (Aug. 23, 2011 east coast earthquake)
  • Try “juicing”
  • Do a pull up or three
  • Write a children’s book
  • Go Glamping 

Want to join or help me grant these wishes? email me! 

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