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"1500 people want to do this…"

I stole this from a trivial place on the net and thought it would be fun to try here.

Go on what do you want to do, it can be as trivial as read a certain book to as monumental as run for governor.

List away.....

Want help ok list 43 things you want to do.... go for it see if you can hit 43

By the way 1500 people wanted to .... stop wasting time :wah:

I want to do this:

Here is my start

Write a book

write my memoirs

go back to england

take Jr Minks to Italy

take my oldest back to Jamaica

tone my abs for life

live with less

be better organized

buy a motor bike

stop wasting time (hah)

meet some more FG members

Read more

Learn another language

Retire someplace warm

live to 100

own a cabin in a remote wooded area

live to see a cure for cancer

..... more to come

Read and understand all the classics of literature

Explore the French Quarters and the Garden District (New Orleans)

Stay in a haunted castle overnight.

Find inner piece and happiness

figure out what the hell my talents are

Stop letting fear prevent me from doing the things I long to do



have to think will be back with more..

I don't know if this is what you meant....??



1 LIVE

2 See my kids

3 Drive a HUMMER

4 See the ocean

5 Go to Alaska

6 Marry Kenny Chesney

7 Jump from a plane

8 Party with the Denver Broncos team

9 Kick a nurses ass

10 Make my mom well again

11 Bring my dad back from the dead

12 Have a FREE Cellphone

13 Have SEX...........A lot of it!

14 Get a dog

15 Drink wine every day

16 Go to Australia

17 Eat food without having .........

18 Meet my unborn child that I lost

19 Make more smileys for the FG

20 Bring my NOMAD back

21 Eat a bag of Oreos

22 Make homemade Lemonade

23 Learn to play the guitar

24 Grow a beautiful bunch of red hair

25 Watch my kids graduate with good grades

26 Pay for their education with no worries

27 Meet an Italian MAN

28 Invent ever lasting batteries

29 Cure the world of every disease

30 Fix Sarah, my lil friend

31 Have smaller feet

32 Go to Boston

33 Swim

34 Sit on my couch in my home town and watch my soap Operas

35 Make the wind blow

36 Fix a broken heart

37 Watch all of Nicholas Sparks BOOKS in a movie..

38 Be a juror at Bullets case

39 Talk to Jives..LC...and all the others that have left us...

40 Never forget anything...

41 Learn to let go....

42 MEET MY FG FRIENDS!!!

43 FIX my Health

Here is a list from me:

I would like to:

Be able to build a small cottage in the country, by some trees and a small lake.

Go to Disneyworld again.

Meet some FG Members.

Write a book.

Be able to retire at age 62 and be financially comfortable..not rich, just comfortable.

Read all the books on my bookshelf.

Learn to crochet or knit.

Have another family reunion.

Own more guinea pigs.

Be more organized.

That is all I can think of for now.

you got it gals carry on

1. Finish my book-gosh, that is what summer is for again!

2. Complete and publish a book of poetry-it is almost completed.

3. Finish 2 articles to write.

4. Start a presentation for November-it is a good one and an honor to do it!

5. Have a candy bar-ha, I think that was enough of writing stuff, but it is my escape from life.

6. Sleep 8 hours every night during the summer.

7. Take nice walks every day.

8. Go to the beach-how I miss it.

9. Find something fun to do every week, and do it. 2 hours free time for me!

10. Work less next year.

11. I want to go to L.A. and see my kids and grandmother and mom.

12. I want to go back to Rosarito for summer vacation.

13. I want to go to Greece.

14. I want to go on an archeological dig.

15. I want to visit the Serengeti.

16. Practical ones: clean my house from clutter.

17. Get a gardener for my yard.

18. Fix a few things around the house.

19. Get some lounge chairs to sit outside on the porch.

20. Paint some rooms in my house.

21. Too many practical ones-ha! Go out to lunch!

22. Schedule ½ hour or more of music everyday.

23. Select something nice to practice this summer, I would like to polish the Warsaw Concerto.

24. Learn to relax.

25. I would like to learn how to surf.

26. I want some rollerblades-but I am afraid to try them. What if I broke an arm, I couldn’t do the nursing.

27. Spend some time kite flying.

28. Build some Estee rockets for 4th of July!

29. Mix up some cool stink bombs we made as kids-ha!

30. Start a Japanese garden.

31. Take the kids out somewhere fun.

32. Go see a movie this summer.

33. Go out on a boat, onto the pretty Chesapeake Bay.

34. Go to DC and spend time at the Archives.

35. Go to DC to the Native American Museum.

36. Fix up my living room with real furniture and not leftovers.

37. Take my kitty for a walk.

38. Play with my bunnies all summer long.

39. Learn to not snitch foods I shouldn’t eat.

40. Read 10 books for leisure this summer.

41. Take naps.

42. Make real Mexican food every week!

43. Have another list of 43 things I would like to do.

43. Have another list of 43 things I would like to do.


go for it

Oh, I like your cabin in the woods, Minks.

I want a place at the beach.:-6

18. get a photo contract to make calanders

work on a tree planting or reforestation project

Go remote lake fishing up north for a week

watch a salmon run

get a free make over for my house

go to Africa

cement my entire front yard and decorate with flower pots only

get the pink breast cancer tattoo done

procrastinate less

Dye my hair purple

de-clutter my life

Propose to a man one day

act on my impulses more often

beat my fear of enclosed places so I can go caving

get a patent for something

bike the powerderface trail

I like that free make over for the house!

chonsigirl wrote: I like that free make over for the house!


I can't decorate to save my life but love a nice looking place ... sigh

pay less taxes

hire a maid

Assure Bullet's freedom

Own my own home again

Have all the dogs I want

Own horses

Learn to speak Cherokee and Blackfoot

Learn to garden for REAL

See my son graduate college

See my son and step-kids happy in their lives

Be comfortable....all the time

Go back to animal medicine and/or behavior

Find the perfect, sexiest AND most comfortable pair of heels

Buy Bullet a chopper

Take all of Bullet's worries away

Grow very, VERY old

Skydive

Ride the Tail of the Dragon and live to tell about it

Ride it again

Dance with my son at his wedding

Live happily ever after with my prince

Meet more FG members

Quit smoking again

Get off the anti-depressants

Eat prime rib once a week

Write a novel

See Australia

Go on an African safari

Spend 2 or 3 years studying lion prides in Africa for National Geographic

Drink as much coffee as I want

Camp in the Appalacians

Ride cross-country, to one ocean, then turn around and ride to the other

See Hawaii



I don't know how many that is, and I'm not going to bother to count.....

Buy and totally restore a Plantation style home.

Browse the Vatican Library and Secret Archives

Tour the Northeast of US during the fall.

Tour the Southern states in the summer

Explore the vineyards of Italy, espicially Tuscanny area.

Sit in the stands on a cold Friday night, cheering my son on in a highschool football game.

help my daughter choose the perfect dress for her first prom.

Sit on my front porch on summer evenings, old and gray, yelling at the damn kids to slow down.

Take a photo that makes everyone stop and just stare.

Wear old overalls and frumpy straw hat and just spend my mornings working in my gardens.



just some more that came to mind.

it's wierd to sit and think about what you want.

See my youngest son 'live happily ever after'

See my daughter free herself of her hang-ups and find a soul-mate

See my eldest son continue to have a successful business and find personal happiness

See my grandchildren live happy and fulfilled lives

Win the lottery so that I can hellp my family reach their goals in life

Sort out my own life and find contentment

Own a cottage surrounded by garden, a wood and a stream.

Own 2 grey tabby cats

Visit some of the beautiful places round the world

Lose weight

Get fit

Stop smoking again

Cook proper meals for myself

Be a full time 'retiree'

Ride my bike more

Go swimming twice a week

Find a lifelong friend and soulmate

Make time to read more

Start a scrapbook / journal of my life

Visit my Brother and SIL more

See my sister in San Diego

Take my sisters pain and troubles away

Do more to help the environment

Meet my FG friends again

Meet more people from FG

Meet some of the US FG members

Spend my weekends in interesting placesI'm sure that there's more...need time to think.

I'm sure I could find more than 43 but here they are-



1. Spend Christmas on the beach in Cornwall by myself.

2. Go up in a Hot Air Balloon.

3. Learn to Ballroom dance.

4. Fall deeply in love and be loved back to the same degree.

5. Have my Dad back alive.

6. Improve my Mum's balance and eyesight.

7. Lose weight!

8. Live by the sea in Cornwall.

9. Swim with a dolphin.

10.Hear Andrea Bocelli sing live

11.Ride a really BIG roller coaster without fear.

12.Learn to ice skate.

13.Sleep well at nights.

14.Learn to touch type.

15.Experience weightlessness (but not by going into space!)

16.Take back every mean thing I've ever said.

17.Read every book that I want to.

18.See a cure for Alzheimers found (too late for my Dad but not for others)

19.Meet Johnny Depp.

20.Trace my family tree back as far as possible.

21.Find a hairstyle that I'm really happy with.

22.Eat as much chocolate as I want without weight gain.

23.Have my portrait painted.

24.Plant a tree.

25.Learn to say NO and mean it.

26.Fart in a lift and say "what the hell" to everyone else.

27.Fly a kite.

28.Own a cat.

29.Go gliding.

30.Learn to play the piano.

31.Learn to speak Italian.

32.Visit Canada and Switzerland.

33.Learn how to accept a compliment gracefully.

34.Stop dwelling on the past and learn to let things go.

35.Hear Placido Domingo sing live.

36.Be more organised.

37.Be more considerate of the planet & recycle more.

38.Learn to like gardening instead of finding it a chore.

39.Get an up-to-date computer.

40.Conquer my fear of heights and of spiders.

41.Be less afraid of other's opinions, who cares, it's my life!

42.Get a newer car.

43.Travel more.



That's just off the top of my head, if I stopped and gave it more thought there would be many others!

I like Bez's #19. Something to add to my own list.