I woke up today with this thought. I know that all of us are doing things that we don't want to do, our whole life is filled with things that we don't want to do. I think it might be fun to write down what we would like to do. Go wild and crazy with it KICP-keep it clean please! ;) I will start, I want to...get in my car(I would have to get a car first haha) and take what little money I have, fill the gas tank and drive and then when I run out of gas that is where I live(of course as long as it is not in the middle of no where.) I know it is not very wild but that is the first thing I came up with, I know you all have more imagination than I do. Let's have fun with it!
I want to get on a cruise ship and go whereever it goes for at least a month or 6 weeks. I love cruising and we had to cancel our dream cruise that we had already booked and paid for. We were to leave FL, cross the Atlantic, Go all over the Medeterain (sp) into the Black Sea and end up at Rome. That was to take 36 days. That was AZ struck, and he couldn't handle the idea.
I want to live in Paris for a summer. I've looked at apartments on the net and for 3000 euros a month with a little kitchen I can be within a mile or so of Notre Dame. A little fruit and vegetable market and find a bilingual butcher and I'm good. Then take thousands of pictures and learn to get by in French, and I could come back and spend the fall and winter painting.
Or was that somebody else's life I was reading about?
MaryinPA, I am sorry you weren't able to go but I think you should do it! Lori, not what I had in mind by clean but it sounds like fun! haha blue, or maybe three or four? Wolf, nice to hear from you, I knew that yours would be very imaginative! Keep in going, I love it!
I want to travel through Europe by rail and/or bike, and sing an aria on stage in an opera house in Italy. I want to end up in that hide-away that Julia Roberts ended up in at the end of the Pelican Brief movie. I want to spend a year taking care of babies in an orphanage somewhere.
I want to spend a month at the beach in a darling beach cottage. I want to be close to the open sea so I can hear the waves every night and walk out my door every morning with a cup of coffee and feel the sand between my toes. What peace that would be!
Deb, what fun this is......go by rail to see the West Coast, giant redwoods and Oregon cliffs....on to the Canadian Rockies and then a cruise to Alaska and when that is over maybe a Disney Cruise with my kids and eight gkids!!!
Live in Anguilla in a cottage by the beach, make local friends and just live the life I (we) always dreamed of. Oh and should I get bored, join Wolf in Paris!
I want to stomp puddles and run through the sprinkler. I want to attend a prom. I want to have a part in a big screen movie and go camping, catch fish and eat them for supper. I want to hear lots of concerts beore my hearing is gone. I want to stuff my days full, and when they're done, I want to say, "It was a damn fine ride!"
I agree with the ones who just want a normal life and a normal conversation with my DH again. Of course if we had that, we could also do a lot of the other things mentioned here. I'd like to go back to Florida where my parents had a winter home and pick oranges off the trees. Only place I know where you can go out in the yard and get your breakfast. Joan, bluedaze and others who live there, I envy you.
I want to adopt older dogs and give them the love they deserve in their final days,I've been an animal lover ever since I was a toddler.We have only one dog now(9 cats) but I have room and love for more.My children will fight me on it but ,hey,it's my life.
I want to learn to do the right things in life, the things that truly matter. To know what is right. To learn to give love freely and not be mad at others so much.
(deb112958, I am covered in tattoos, from many travels to Tahiti. All of them are traditional Polynesian. No regrets, I got them in my late 40's, glad they are not ugly ones. to me.)
My son has a tattoo he got when he was in Thailand a year or so ago. He had it done in the traditional way (no needles...ink and bamboo sticks, I think) and it means a lot to him. He got it for his dad.
I want to know what Coco found out about her health and how Dado is doing. But, mostly I want to find out why I can't start a new topic...In Red...it says something about "value input". First time I ever saw that...what does that mean? Help!!!
I want to loose 100 pounds, get rid of my back pain - then fire up the motorhome, travel with no worries about paying for the gas, get a bike to ride around seeing places.
I want t the "undo" button of life...you know like the one we have on our computers. All the screw-ups of life would soon be deleted with the click of a button or mouse. Yup...give me the "updo button" and no more looking back wishing I hadn't said this, did that, or didn't do that...yikes, carpal tunnel surgery may be in order!
I would like to take the train across Canada, then a cruise to Alaska (that would be the only cruise I would consider!!) After that, just a small place of my own (wait, I already have the small place !), enjoy solitude, come & go as I please, be responsible for no one but myself for the first time in my life. Then I think "be careful what you wish for" ! ;)
Ok. How about this? The Alaskan cruise and Charlotte's bike for the trip to dreamland with Don and Bama and Fiona's eurorail pass plus a free Frank Lloyd Wright tatoo?
No? How about this then? Your house cleaned top to bottom. two older adopted dogs, Carosi's fish for dinner, the Disney cruise with the eight kids, and the cottage on the beach in Anguilla... for the apartment in Paris, a night at the prom, coffee with Judith, and to be fluent in six languages.
Come on! That's a good deal.
Ok last try. The hideway with Julia Roberts, an orphanage full of babies, and an orange tree... for the aria in the opera house in Italy, a small place of your own, and a two hour session of normal conversation.
I say yes to a cup of coffee with you Wolf...maybe some day we can have a big meet-up (convention) type thingie...So many interesting things that people want to do...that is great.
I don't know how therapeutic 2 hours of conversation with me would be but I can gaurantee some laughs and of course we could all shed some tears together,but I'm all for a "meet up" as JudithKB has suggested,how bout Michigan, my place for the Fourth,I always need help with the yard an the flowers,and I'll buy the beer an wine......or should that be whine?
Ain't no weeds here,just flowers an lawn,and the fridge is full of beer,& bubbly,Bama can just sit and admire all the LSU flags,souveniers ect and just maybe I can talk Phranque to show up an entertain us with his special humor
Some of the things wished for I actually got to do. One of my sons said some people talk about doing stuff but you and dad actually did. So glad we did too. But a couple of things on the bucket list we never got around to doing was going to Australia and a river cruise in Europe. So that's my wish and of course dh to be going with me well and happy.
We, like flo39*, did a lot of the things we talked about after he retired. We never got to Australia and we talked about that a lot but were waiting till after he retired so we would have lots of time.
We did a riverboat cruise in Europe, several Carribbean cruises, an Alaska cruise, and took the Queen Mary 2 from NY to England and then flew to Copenhagen and took a Baltic cruise from there. I'm really glad we did it all. We always said "Go while we can because you never know when we won't be able to".
Ok, singing an aria on the stage of an Italian Opera House may not be practical, but I'd love to attend a meet up at ol don's place in Michigan. I'll be down in the dirt with Coco. Here in Minneapolis it's cold, snowy and bleak. I can hardly wait until I can get my hands in the earth again. It's my therapy.