July 2, 2009
I have just returned from one of the best adventures of my life. I have many photos, and will share them as time passes. But I need to update my Bucket List. First of all, here was my original post concerning the Bucket List. Oh how it has changed!
June 1, 2008
Not long ago, a movie was released called The Bucket List. The premise was evidently these two older fellows making a list of the things they wanted to do before they kicked the bucket.
This has been on my mind, particularly as things come up that are on my Bucket List that maybe I didn't realize.
I'm very fortunate that some things that would be on my bucket list I have already had the good fortune to be able to check off.
Here are a few examples:
Get all three kids baptized. No matter what else I do for them, seeing that they get their basic grounding for their eternal salvation is by far the most important.
Attend a space shuttle launch.
Swim with dolphins
See the whales...three times and it never gets old. (Now four)
See lava pouring from an erupting volcano.
Learn to play blackjack
Then there are things I've experienced that I didn't even realize were on my bucket list until I had the good fortune to experience them.
Go on a cruise...now looking forward to number 7 (9). This time, however, I'm going with a dear friend. I'm not anyone's mom or anyone's daughter. I'm just me. I look forward to it.
Swimming in the ocean in the Bahamas.
Then there are the things still on the Bucket List:
Panning for gold...Aunt Leslie is taking me in July!!!!! I can hardly wait!
Walking with ease for long distances again. Like to walk Disney instead of the wheelchair.
Be cured of lupus and all health related problems.
Get my writing career back.
Learn to ballroom dance.
Fly in an F-16 (?) with an experienced pilot and land on an aircraft carrier.
Allow somehow, my husband to know and appreciate how much love, admire and respect him as a man, a husband and a father.
Then there are things that are NOT on my Bucket List.
Swimming with sharks
Swimming with stingrays
Riding in a hot air balloon
Parachuting
Bungee jumping
Anything to do with reptiles.
Back to July 3, 2009 now.
I think I might be ready to take that bungee jumping off the NOT Bucket List. I'll give it some thought.
I can take panning for gold off the list. Aunt Leslie took me and we had the BEST fun ever! YES I have a vial with 3.2 grains (wt) of gold, but we'd have stayed longer except I had to get to my next Bucket List thing.
This is the trough. The round white thing has a name that has escaped me
(I remembered...classifier) but it pulls out the bigger rocks, then the black
or green pans are what you use to get rid of all the superfluous dirt and
stuff until suddenly you see, shining as brightly as a star....
GOLD.
I was privileged to get a lesson in how to shoot a handgun from a 70 year old Marine who is a friend and neighbor of my Aunt Leslie's. I shot a Smith and Wesson 38 special. It was a revolver and he was meticulously careful with it and with me. But by golly, I hit the target three times. We policed our brass (nod to Gibbs, NCIS) and I have the casings sitting on a little shelf in my room.
I am observing while Bob shows me how it's done.
Now my new, revised Bucket List is going to include the following:
Learning to shoot a 9 millimeter an a sniper rifle. When I say learning, I
mean to do it one time. LOL
I want to fly in an F 16 and land on an aircraft carrier.
I want to pan for more gold.
I want to ballroom dance.
I want to walk like a normal person for long distances.
I want my lupus to go into permanent remission.
I *might* want to bungee jump.
I want to learn to blow glass...the kind that makes large pieces, not
the little bitty pieces.
I want to go back to Alaska.
I want to visit the Vatican and Florence and see the art.
I want to go to the Louvre.
I want to go on the cruise that rounds the cape and allows you to step foot on
Antarctica.
I want to visit New Zealand.
I want to get off some of this prednisone so my eye pressure will go down.
I can go on, but I'll leave it there for now.
Tomorrow...more photos.
I have just returned from one of the best adventures of my life. I have many photos, and will share them as time passes. But I need to update my Bucket List. First of all, here was my original post concerning the Bucket List. Oh how it has changed!
June 1, 2008
Not long ago, a movie was released called The Bucket List. The premise was evidently these two older fellows making a list of the things they wanted to do before they kicked the bucket.
This has been on my mind, particularly as things come up that are on my Bucket List that maybe I didn't realize.
I'm very fortunate that some things that would be on my bucket list I have already had the good fortune to be able to check off.
Here are a few examples:
Get all three kids baptized. No matter what else I do for them, seeing that they get their basic grounding for their eternal salvation is by far the most important.
Attend a space shuttle launch.
Swim with dolphins
See the whales...three times and it never gets old. (Now four)
See lava pouring from an erupting volcano.
Learn to play blackjack
Then there are things I've experienced that I didn't even realize were on my bucket list until I had the good fortune to experience them.
Go on a cruise...now looking forward to number 7 (9). This time, however, I'm going with a dear friend. I'm not anyone's mom or anyone's daughter. I'm just me. I look forward to it.
Swimming in the ocean in the Bahamas.
Then there are the things still on the Bucket List:
Panning for gold...Aunt Leslie is taking me in July!!!!! I can hardly wait!
Walking with ease for long distances again. Like to walk Disney instead of the wheelchair.
Be cured of lupus and all health related problems.
Get my writing career back.
Learn to ballroom dance.
Fly in an F-16 (?) with an experienced pilot and land on an aircraft carrier.
Allow somehow, my husband to know and appreciate how much love, admire and respect him as a man, a husband and a father.
Then there are things that are NOT on my Bucket List.
Swimming with sharks
Swimming with stingrays
Riding in a hot air balloon
Parachuting
Bungee jumping
Anything to do with reptiles.
Back to July 3, 2009 now.
I think I might be ready to take that bungee jumping off the NOT Bucket List. I'll give it some thought.
I can take panning for gold off the list. Aunt Leslie took me and we had the BEST fun ever! YES I have a vial with 3.2 grains (wt) of gold, but we'd have stayed longer except I had to get to my next Bucket List thing.
This is the trough. The round white thing has a name that has escaped me
(I remembered...classifier) but it pulls out the bigger rocks, then the black
or green pans are what you use to get rid of all the superfluous dirt and
stuff until suddenly you see, shining as brightly as a star....
GOLD.
I was privileged to get a lesson in how to shoot a handgun from a 70 year old Marine who is a friend and neighbor of my Aunt Leslie's. I shot a Smith and Wesson 38 special. It was a revolver and he was meticulously careful with it and with me. But by golly, I hit the target three times. We policed our brass (nod to Gibbs, NCIS) and I have the casings sitting on a little shelf in my room.
I am observing while Bob shows me how it's done.
Now my new, revised Bucket List is going to include the following:
Learning to shoot a 9 millimeter an a sniper rifle. When I say learning, I
mean to do it one time. LOL
I want to fly in an F 16 and land on an aircraft carrier.
I want to pan for more gold.
I want to ballroom dance.
I want to walk like a normal person for long distances.
I want my lupus to go into permanent remission.
I *might* want to bungee jump.
I want to learn to blow glass...the kind that makes large pieces, not
the little bitty pieces.
I want to go back to Alaska.
I want to visit the Vatican and Florence and see the art.
I want to go to the Louvre.
I want to go on the cruise that rounds the cape and allows you to step foot on
Antarctica.
I want to visit New Zealand.
I want to get off some of this prednisone so my eye pressure will go down.
I can go on, but I'll leave it there for now.
Tomorrow...more photos.