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hmbld 11-29-2009 05:11 PM

Your bucket list
 
Since most of us have spent a considerable amount of time on other's and not ourselves, I thought this would be kind of a fun thread to start in order to get you thinking about what it is you would really like to do before you kick the bucket. This may have been done on here before but what the heck, let's start a new bucket list.

It doesn't really matter what it is. Doesn't have to be anything profound. Quite frankly, I have some really silly ones.

For instance, I want to dye my hair bubble gum pink some day. Just for fun.

I would also like to go out to Dog Town in Utah for a couple of weeks and volunteer my time.

Dreamer42long 11-29-2009 05:20 PM

I want to go to Italy before I kick the bucket.

Adragonfly 11-29-2009 05:25 PM

Lots of places I want to travel to...
Alaska, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone...etc

skydive
get a tattoo
swim with dolphins
camp in the snow
sleep all night on the beach
fly on a cmmercial plane my son is piloting

hmbld 11-29-2009 05:32 PM


Originally Posted by Dreamer42long (Post 2447375)
I want to go to Italy before I kick the bucket.


I spent two weeks in Italy several years back. It felt like I was in a painting. Everything was just so incredibly old and beautiful. It's on my bucket list to go back and spend much more time.

I really want to visit China too.

Cath 11-29-2009 06:06 PM

I want to...

learn how to play the guitar.
travel to Greece, Australia, Vegas, and a couple other places.
become a runner...or swimmer again.
have an extremely well trained dog...since mine is not at all haha

some of these I could maybe do now...but just haven't so maybe its time to start working on some of these!

Still Waters 11-29-2009 06:22 PM

I want to own no money to anyone, period.

RollTide 11-29-2009 06:42 PM

ride the Trans-Siberian Railroad from Vladivostok or Beijing to Moscow. Stop in Ulan Bataar, Mongolia for a side trip. Travel with nomads. Sleep in a Yert (ger). Go to the Nadaam festival.

PHIZ007 11-29-2009 07:00 PM

I want to go back to disneyland!,
visit my family and friends again in the UK (moved to Australia ten years ago)
be 58 kilos!....slowly getting there....very slowly!!
and win the lotto!! and share it with all my family and friends

Great thread very uplifting! Thanks Phiz :0)

tigger11 11-29-2009 07:10 PM

  • Travel everywhere, esp. Europe and Australia... with my sister
  • Fly a Lear Jet as Pilot in Command
  • Find the love of my life and soul mate for the rest of my life - REALLY this time
  • Live in the mountains with a spectacular view, and no neighbors to be seen, and a clear, bubbly stream next to my house, and a season's skiing pass every winter
  • Water ski
  • Live on a houseboat (summer home at the foot of my mountain?)
  • Scuba dive
  • Spend a summer in a cottage on a tropical island, just my soul mate and me, where someone brings fresh food every day, but there's nobody else around so we can go skinny dipping in the ocean (no sharks or jelly fish, please)
  • Get a tattoo
  • Cut my hair super short, and wear really cool, crafty, dangly earrings

Have I been watching too many movies, or what?

BuffaloGal 11-29-2009 07:10 PM

Oh, that's what bucket list means! I had never understood the term! Doh!

I want to have a job that allows me to support myself and that I love doing. I'd like to adopt a child (not financially feasible at the moment). And I'd like to travel in Europe and South America. Do weightlifting again and feel great when I look at myself in the mirror. :)

Still Waters 11-29-2009 07:21 PM

I want to be able to do kilo to pounds translations in my head...

tigger11 11-29-2009 07:33 PM

You're goofy, Still, and I love ya!

Dreamer42long 11-29-2009 08:06 PM


Originally Posted by BuffaloGal (Post 2447474)
I'd like to adopt a child. Do weightlifting again and feel great when I look at myself in the mirror. :)

Buffalo: I adopted a baby from Russia. That was something I did right! I also was a bodybuilder and did a show about (a-hem) 18 years ago.... that's one of my goals for myself....get back into that! I never felt so good about myself as when I was ripped!

wanting 11-29-2009 08:40 PM

I always wanted to have a custom aura painting done for me and I just ordered my first one! I'm so excited! It's going to be for my bedroom, which I am going to work to make into my safe, cozy little haven that is filled with love and belonging and me. I never tried too hard to make the bedroom nice, since the bed was pi$$ed in a few times per week and all that, and I ended up sleeping in the basement most of the time.

There are a lot of things I want to do before I die, most of them involving travel. Now that I don't have an extra mouth to feed, my debts are getting paid down, and it won't be long before I can take my first vacation.

hmbld 11-29-2009 09:01 PM


Originally Posted by Still Waters (Post 2447431)
I want to own no money to anyone, period.


That would be the most awesome thing EVER!!!!

bookwyrm 11-30-2009 12:58 AM


Originally Posted by hmbld (Post 2447562)
That would be the most awesome thing EVER!!!!

I agree!

I'd also love to dye my hair pink - or maybe purple!

I'd like to lose enough weight so that I can do stuff comfortably - swimming, cycling etc. I'd love to climb rocks!

I'd love to learn silversmithing.

I want to learn how to paint - pictures not walls.

I want to find my passion...

heavenlyone 11-30-2009 01:38 AM

I want to own a lovely house with land where I can rescue sheep, chickens, pigs, cows.

I want to have a horse

I want to have another dog

I want to get over my fear of driving a car

I want my health to improve

I want to become more assertive

I want to travel

I want to earn money from my photography

isurvived 11-30-2009 03:59 AM

I want to live long enough to meet and know my grandchildren. I hope that happens.

I'm not much of a traveler, but I would like to visit Egypt to see the pyramids.

Other than those, I'm pretty content with my bucket list... see the way I look at it, my biggest goal is now accomplished. I got myself out from under my AH!

JenT1968 11-30-2009 04:52 AM

LOL,
I've had bubblegum pink hair, and purple, and pillar-box red, but I'm in a very sensible job now so I'm saving going back to that when I'm retired.

I want to have a garden that is mine with all my different lavenders in it
I'd like to lose the weight from comfort eating,
I would like to learn how to fly a plane,
I want to go in a hot air balloon,
I'd like to visit the Ice hotel see the aurora borealis
I'd like to feel really comfortable in my own skin
I want to pay off my credit cards
and then I want to hire a cleaner.
I'd like to hire a (very, very small) castle for my 40th birthday and have a party with family and friends.
I'd like to find a job that pays as well as this one that I actively look forward to rather than just am grateful is there.
I want to learn to be more patient.
I want to keep ducks
I want to live in the countryside
I'd like to learn sign language, or if we stay here, welsh.
I want to laugh more.

and lots, lots more

FreeBird09 11-30-2009 04:58 AM

There are so many things I want to do in life. I love to travel, so I would start there.

A 3 month stay in Israel and take the steps that Jesus took during the crucifixion and resurrection.

Visit every National Park in the USA

Learn to paint

Dance at a fancy ball (did that once, but I want a big one, like in Europe)

Own a small dog that fits in the palm of my hand, so I wouldn't have to leave it behind anywhere.

Finish my education

Change legislation regarding domestic violence *more laws/punishment against the abuser

Write a book

Live in Italy for a year

I have so many more..

I am working on preparing to run in a marathon, something I thought my body could never handle. (still debating that!! lol) Now I don't have anyone telling me what I CANT do, and my mind telling me I can do ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING.


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