2025 Bucket List
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How will you live life to the fullest in 2025? Whether you want to learn to sew, run a marathon or eat fish and chips in England – 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.
Ebony Shelton
Chief Administrative Officer
Chief Administrative Office
Bucket list: Ice skating, spend the day at a lazy river in Las Vegas, and to visit Tucson in the summer (to test the heat).
Erik Aguilar
Administrative Secretary II
Office of Homeless Solutions
Bucket list:
Visit Brussel, Belgium for Tomorrowland 2025!
Travel Europe for the first time
Pay off (at least) ONE credit card :D
Olga Lucia Acosta
Library Technician II
Del Mar Branch
Bucket list: This is my bucket list for 2025:
Being healthy
Training for my 2026 goal of doing the walk along the "El Camino de Santiago" (Spain)
Reach the calendar time needed to get retirement from my country (Colombia) at the end of 2025
Be at my home country by 2026 to begin living "la vida loca" as a retiree!! ✈️🏃♀️💯🐶🐶
Bharath Mallikarjun
Engineering Technician - III
Public Works, Capital Improvement Program
Bucket list: I want to go to Maldives, Curacao, and Fakarava Atoll. This is the year of Atolls.
Dahvia Lynch
Deputy Chief Administrative Officer
Land Use & Environment Group
Bucket list: My bucket list for 2025 is to choose learning over lounging more often! I’ve started by reading summaries of books on growth and leadership each morning.
Benevic Mallari
Human Services Specialist
Centre City Family Resource Center
Bucket list: Go inside the Sagrada Familia, one of the most iconic churches in Spain.
Obriannie Ford
Protective Services Worker
Child and Family Well-Being (Office of Child Safety)
Bucket list: This is my bucket list for 2025.
Take a trip to England and Poland
Hold a handstand for 30 seconds
Take a train ride to Oregon
Read at least 1 book every two months
Create better consistency in the gym and fitness.
Joan Bracci
Chief Financial Officer
Finance and General Government Group
Bucket list: My bucket list item for 2025 is spend more time with family!
Daniel M. Vasquez
Group Program Manager
Human Resources | Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
Bucket list: This year I’m adding to a few resolutions from the previous year…
I want to continue to read every day, but this year I want to read the same amount of non-fiction books as fiction books (last year I read every day, finishing 32 fiction books and 0 non-fiction books).
I want to increase my average daily workout time from 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
I want to increase my total single rep max for back squat, deadlift, and bench press by 15% (last year I increased them by 33%)
And a carryover from last year that I didn’t accomplish, I really want to do a muscle-up. 😊
Joy M. Nagal
Confidential Paralegal
Office of County Counsel
Bucket list: I’ll be running the Tokyo Marathon on March 2nd as part of my Abbott World Marathon Majors (AWMM) journey. So far, I have Five Stars of the AWMM: I’ve ran the Boston, Chicago, New York, Berlin, and London Marathons. I only need to run the Tokyo Marathon to complete and earn this AWMM Six Star medal. It’ll be a “racecation” with my family and it’s our first time going to Japan. I’m super excited and can’t wait!
Sarah J. Ewing
Paralegal 1
Office of Primary Public Defender
Bucket list: To find my purpose in this lifetime. I believe the elements of my purpose must include:
Offering service to those who are suffering and in need.
To believe in dreams.
To love and be loved.
To see the good in everyone and to diffuse the bad in everyone.
To survive and contribute to the greater good.
Natalia Bravo
Chief of Staff
Chief Administrative Office
Bucket list: Visit at all the presidential libraries (I am a poli sci nerd). Specific to 2025, visit at least 2 new libraries this year 😊 and take more time for myself – spa here I come!!!
Cynthia Reid
Legal Support Office Assistant
Child and Family Well-Being
Bucket list: My bucket list is to visit my daughter and her family when she starts teaching in Madrid, Spain! We are going to travel all over Europe when I go out there.
Kimberly Giardina
Deputy Chief Administrative Officer
Health and Human Services Agency
Bucket list: My bucket list for 2025 is to spend more time with family.
Lesley Pinka
Multimedia Designer
Communications Office
Bucket list: I want to go to Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks with my granddaughter.
Caroline Smith
Assistant Chief Administrative Officer
Chief Administrative Office
Bucket list: Mine is to touch a penguin. Seriously... I am dying to do the experience at SeaWorld where you get to see one up close.
Tammy Glenn
Director
County Communications
Bucket list: My bucket list item is to take a new class – maybe finance or ballet – something that helps me engage my brain in a new way and meet new people.
Sarah Aguirre
Admin Analyst I
Chief Administrative Office
Bucket list: As a major foodie and museum lover, my 2025 bucket list is to finally take my first ever trip to Mexico City. While I’m there, my goal is to dine at two of the Michelin Star restaurants within the city and visit multiple museums a day.