2024 Bucket List
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How will you live life to the fullest in 2024? Whether you want to go back to school, learn to play the ukulele or eat pizza in Italy – we want to know what’s on your bucket list for the new year.
If you’d like to send your bucket list plans to communications@sdcounty.ca.gov, we may share them here on InSite.
Taryell Simmons
HR Services Manager
Human Resources
Bucket list: Thanks for this exciting opportunity to share my bucket list for 2024. One special adventure that comes to mind is a Disney cruise with my family. My wife and daughter have been discussing this magical experience, and I'm eager to make that dream come true. Plus, none of us have ever been on a cruise ship before, so this will be an entirely new and thrilling experience for us!
Fernanda Lopez
Group Communications Officer
Health and Human Serices Agency
Bucket list: After completing the Spartan Trifecta this year, my goal for 2024 is to do another trifecta but with the San Diego Triathlon series.
Deb Mosley and daughter on New Year’s Eve
Deb Mosley
Deputy Director
Environmental Health and Quality
Bucket list: I feel like there are so many places in San Diego county that are amazing and my family (husband and 3 kids) has not yet explored. I would like to go to 6 new places this year with my family in San Diego county – whether it be a new park, museum, or restaurant. Just something new to explore and see.
Also, I was given some sourdough starter last summer by a family member who brought it all the way from the Netherlands to share with me knowing how much I wanted to make start making my own artisan sourdough bread. I have yet to make any fresh sourdough bread with it because I have been too busy or just have not made the time. I have been keeping the starter alive in my refrigerator so it’s ready to go. This year I want to make sourdough bread at least once a month.
Thomas Bush
Procurement Professional
Purchasing and Contracting
Bucket list: I have one Major Bucket Plan, walk again!
Teresa A Rogers-Marsh
In-Service Education Coordinator
Behavioral Health Service
Edgemoor DPSNF
Bucket list: My Bucket list is both personal and professional.
Professionally I am going to obtain certifications for NC-BC (Nurse Coach Board Certified) and HN-BC (Holistic Nurse Board Certified) through the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation in 2024. My personal bucket list is to visit one Caribbean island this year.
Benevic Mallari
Human Services Specialist
Centre City Family Resource Center
Bucket list: More travel and healthy diet.
Rachel Kinney
Human Resources Analyst
Human Resources
Bucket list: This year I plan to push my limits and truly challenge myself mentally, physically and emotionally in new and exciting ways that also allow me to help my community as I am signed up for the 2024 Trailblaze Challenge with Make-A-Wish San Diego!
I will be hiking 28 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail in one day! This scenic trek provides participants an opportunity for adventure, fun and fitness while making a direct impact on the lives of children in our community battling critical illnesses. I’ll have to train intensively (this is longer than a marathon!) and fundraise as I prepare for the event at the end of May; wish me luck!
Cynthia Williams
Office Assistant
Self-Sufficiency Services - Document Processing Center
Bucket list: I went on a Pacific Coastal cruise in 2023 to celebrate 65th Birthday! This trip was amazing and it opened my mind to complete more of my travel dreams. This year, I plan to take a cross country trip on Amtrak to visit a few friends and primarily to see my daughter in North Carolina. Looking forward to checking this one off on my bucket list. 😊 I’m also working on health goals so I’m more prepared to travel. Love seeing different places and meeting friendly people from so many backgrounds.
Marcus Mathis
Information Technology Analyst
Environmental Health and Quality
Bucket List: Continue or finish seeing every Major League Baseball stadium and affiliated stadiums in the U.S., Mexico, and Dominican Republic. Marry off my 2 little girls when they are 30 years old, retire from the County of San Diego after 15 years, and walk on the moon holding my wife’s hand.
Napoleon S Ochoa
Office Assistant
Child and Family Well-Being
Bucket list: Reunite in Moab, Utah with my Marine Corps brothers and sisters, after almost 30 years, for this year’s reunion.
Araceli Casas
Supervising Office Assistant
Medical Care Services
Bucket list: Since 2019 Hubby and I started our bucket list to visit all 132 Pueblos Magicos in Mexico. We have visited 56/132, we are hoping to visit 9 this 2024! We are also looking forward to our Alaska cruise and hopefully incorporate a handful of National parks in Utah.
Shaina Lee
Health Advisor
Public Health Services – HIV, STD & Hepatitis Branch
Bucket list: My 2024 goal would be to better improve my interpersonal relationships with my coworkers – both in the clinic and within my immediate department. The last four years I have dedicated almost all my mental capacities attempting to “tiger parent” my daughter. However, after an intense 4 years of starting preschool early and endless trial/error within children’s classes and programming, she’s shared with me her life goals: she wants to be a butterfly or Super Mario when she grows up… Any who, mentally checking in to have casual conversation at work would be a change of pace (I’m a flower power mom now).
Griselda Reyes Gonzalez
Poll Worker Recruitment
Registrar of Voters
Bucket list: My bucket has the 3 most important items in my life at this moment. Find a full Time job.Get a VISA for my 3.6 Yr old, adopted son (got him when he was 16 days old). And see my two kids Graduate this year 2024!!
Rheana Corirossi
Library technician 3
County Library
Bucket list: I purchased an online 8 module course “how to make sourdough.” I want to make my own starter and create the perfect loaf.
Josh Alfaro
Office Assistant – Immediate Needs
North Coastal Family Resource Center
Bucket list: This year I want to eat healthier, spend more time with my family, and finish my accounting degree… but my most ambitious goal on my 2024 bucket list is to become a published author!
The first issue of my comic, Kontra – Against Evil is almost finished! Kontra is an original Filipino horror comic about a young monster huntress who goes on a quest to slay an aswang. By the end of February, it will be published. I can’t wait to check this off my bucket list!