The Starting Point

Although I have been consistently interested and intrigued by a "different" way of life since my mid-teens, as of late I have realized as a full fledged adult, those dreams have fallen by the wayside.  Perhaps I should specify my meaning of "different".  Some would call it homesteading, others perhaps would prefer sustainable living or self reliance.  It is an interesting way of life that can encompass both the left and right wings of the political sphere who, for many varied reasons, finds value to things such as food preservation, locally sourced and home grown food, alternative energy, and a "make do and mend" mindset.  

Let me preface by saying, for me and my family, this is very much the beginning.  We are just taking our first steps.  

My greatest accomplishment thus far on this endeavor has been research.  I remember in high school always being the odd ball checking out the complete Foxfire series along with The Good Life by Helen and Scott Nearing.  For years I have been grabbing varied issues of Mother Earth News or Rodale's Organic Life.  My Google history is not lacking variety in this department either.  As a senior in college, my health professor had the entire class watch Food, Inc. which further fueled me to question whether there were different options aside from the conventional.  Since this time, my kindle app has filled with works by Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan.  

After a long standing track record on inactivity, one may be questioning why there would be such as inspiration for change now.  

Currently I am a 24 year old, overweight woman working a standard 9 to 5 desk job.  I was recently married and we purchased our first home.  It took little time for me to fall into "the rut'.  The schedule of work, trips to big box retailers, come home and make a frozen pizza before accomplishing bills and laundry and retreating to the couch kind of rut.  This was not the big dreams I was planning in the high school library.  While overall I felt successful at work and as a homeowner, not to mention the luckiest gal alive having my husband, something was still "Off" and my health was just a piece of it.  If I wished to initiate change, now was the time... for as they say, old habits die hard.  

Enter "The Galvanized Bucket List".  This was my game plan, my goals, my dreams.  If I wanted to complete such as overhaul, I needed some sort of path to follow.  Something that could adjust over time.  Something that as behaviors successfully changed, I could check off.  Why does my bucket list have to be galvanized, you may ask?  There are simply times when a cheap-o plastic bucket will not do.  This is it.  

Feel free to take a look at the list linked at the top of this blog. Let me know what you think.  What should I add?  Perhaps you are on a similar journey yourself.  Let me know how it is going!

And now that you know the background for the story...let us begin!