List Ten Things You'd Like to do Before...

Hhhmmm, can't think of anything right off the bat.

I'd like to take my family to the Grand Canyon.
I'd like to go to Israel and be well enough to make the trip
I'd like to see my newest grandchild after the child is born.
I'd like to see my youngest child get married.
I'd like to see my husband retire.
I'd like to die before my husband does.
I'd like to die before my best friend does.
I'd like to die before my children or their children die.
I'd like to not die and to be lifted in the sky when Jesus comes.
I'd like to lose so much weight, no one knows who I am..

If money were no object, I'd love to travel a whole lote more. I'd love to leisurely see all 50 states and see some places like Australia, England and Ireland.

I'd like to actually save some money--enough so that I don't have to worry about having enough for "emergencies".

I'd like to see my children grow up, follow their passion and do something they care deeply about, no matter what it is, and watch them start their own families. I want to experience the joy of my grandchildren like my parents do with my children.

10 Things I'd Like To Do Before . . . (These are all selfish things I'd do just for ME!)
1) Publish a book of my own poetry (this really could happen).
2) Sing professionally (not a chance - but I sound great in the shower).
3) Have lunch with my favorite poet, Barbara Crooker.
4) Go to Ireland with my husband and our children (We've been. Kids have not).
5) Get a new hairstyle.
6) Buy a convertible to drive just for the summer months.
7) Buy a home on Lake Superior.
8) Learn to speak French.
9) Dance the tango with my husband and look GREAT doing it!
10) Get a fountain for our back yard.

I want to go back to Ireland, but also include England and maybe France. And be able to stay as long as I need to see and take in everything I want to.

I'm adding Cathy's to my list! That gives me two. And you know Deb--I know you are serious and I'd love to try it. Maybe this fall when I plan to be there.

Now that I've been married for a while, I'd like to feel that feeling with my husband that you feel while courting, that magic that is there that at times gets lost in the reality of life.

I've traveled a good part of the Western world including Australia and New Zealand, taken 14 cruises including the Greek Isles, been to most of the major ports in the Caribbean, gone to Alaska 3 times, took a overnight cruise boat from Oslo to Copenhagen, etc etc (I was a group tour travel adviser and wrote an ebook on how to travel free)

The one place I've wanted to go but haven't yet, and that's going on my list, is a fall foliage trip in the Canadian Rockies and see Banff and Lake Louise.

\that gives me three so far.

1) I'd like to go back to Greece.
2) Ditto to Italy.
3) And England.
4) I'd like to find an arthritis prescription that works well enough so I can play the Emperor Concerto again.
5) I'd like to win a figure-skating medal at the Olympics.
6) After I learn how to skate.
7) I'd like lose that last 5 pounds.
8) I'd like to have as much money as Donald Trump, and use it to buy the Minnesota Twins.
9) And after that I'd like to win another World Series. Or at least get into one.
10) When I finally do die I want to be laughing.

I would like to find true love
I would like to travel all over the world with my daughter
I would like to learn Spanish and do more medical missions in Central America
I would like to paint portraits of my children
I would like to build a smaller home with a big kitchen and a view of the mountains
I would like to get another degree
I would like to travel the west with my brother
I would like to learn how to fly fish
I would like to scrapbook all my photos
I would like to take singing lessons

Mary M - does the musical have to be ON broadway? I bet there are some community theater groups around where you can get this dream off the ground. Never limit yourself!

Things I want to do before I'm too old:

Visit Egypt with my Husband & boys.
Own a Ford Mustang, dark blue.
Retire!
Scuba Dive for treasure
Learn to snow ski

everything else will come. Like grandchildren will come, one day...just hope I'm not feeble minded or too frail to play with them. Guess that means I'd better stay in shape now!!

Have to think about it/

Visit Scotland
Visit the Netherlands
Go to Australia
Geocache in all 50 states (I have 34 more to go)

I would love to be able to take my family on lots of vacations.
I would love to be able to buy my family nice homes.
I would love to meet some famous celebrities
I would love to publish a best selling novel
I would like to be able to help people who is down and out and just needs some kind of help

I would love to find love again, just once, before I die.
I would like to see Ireland with my children.
I would like to visit the Isle of Capri.
I would like to own my own condo.
I would like to have a nest egg.
I would like to write a book
I would like to get my PhD
I would like to sit and have coffee with Anna Quindlen, Elizabeth Berg, and Gail Godwin.
I would like to have a summer cottage at the beach.
I would like to have and love a lot of grandchildren (when I am a lot older, of course)

I've always wanted to spend a winter at the ocean in solitude and reflection of my life. As I get older I might need two winters since there's so much more upon which to reflect with each passing year.

I'd love to travel the world with my lover and see things through his eyes. Other than those two things, there isn't anything, off the top of my head, that I can think of that would be included. I'd love to relive some of the moments and days of my past, but that's not the question, nor is it possible.

Mary, there's another way to deal with these lists: The Bottom of My New Year's List

Write a children's book
Travel
Move to the East Coast

I would love to travel more and see the beauty of the world that GOD created.

Hi Mary and thanks for mentioning lulu.com. I actually just read about it in an article by Candice Choi, "In digital age, authors can publish an opus overnight themselves," at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20080102/ai_n21181901. Guess I need to get moving!!!

Go read John Philip's article on lists! It's hilarious and makes a lot of sense. I feel so much better already having started my bottom of the list list.

What I would love to do?
1. Get out of Michigan! I think I've been out of this state 3 times in my whole life.
2. Have a lush, green, productive vegetable garden that I can can and freeze.
3. Accept the things I can't do anymore with grace and finesse!
4. Have a truly decent camera that takes great nature shots.
5. Get back outside and hike in nature more.

If money were no object I've love to have "just enough" for my whole family.

God bless!


Aesop for Wednesday, January 23

Go to Hawaii!!

Be a bestselling writer, but I'll settle for being a selling writer.

Finish college

Great question!

I would like to travel to Ireland and while there spend time at a little cottage writing.
I would like to go with our daughter's and their fellas to a Disney park (we weren't able to do this when I was little because of my health and it's never too late to be a big kid!)
I would like to have one of my plays produced in New York City.
I would like to have a book of my poetry published.
I would like to have a book of my essays published.
I would like to travel back to England with my husband.
I would like to have a de-cluttered house! (We're working on that one, just took three bags to Goodwill.)
I would like to have an organized writing room.
I would like to have my play LUMPs produced in every state and then there no longer need to be a play about breast cancer!
I would like to go to a Gather gathering and meet some of my on-line friends.

Oh Mary, Banff is incredible. My husband is Canadian and from Calgary so we have been there a few times. You must add it to your list!

I am following your lead and your wonderful ebook and travelling. I'm hoping to do some tour leading like you did - so many thanks my friend for the wonderful tips. I can always count on you for some wonderful ones.

I'll be spending my 39th birthday in Rome, Italy. Then next years we are taking a family trip to France. And I want to go to Ireland, China, Norway, Alaska

I also want to have my books published, find an agent

I want to build a house, farm and have animals: alpaca's, goats, a few dogs, one more cat ... and then take in any others who need a home (maybe set up a refuge)

And I plan on learning more about my children's disorders so I can help them as much as possible (Aspergers & Tourette's as well as ADD/ADHD)

See a volcano erupt!

I'd like to be a famous and successful author.
I'd like for my husband and me to be healthy again so we could enjoy traveling.
I'd like to have the time and the money to travel.
I'd like to have the house and all of our bills paid for.
I'd like to move somewhere where there is no snow.
I'd like to see my daughter and granddaughter financially comfortable.
I'd like to have a great grandchild. (But not for awhile yet).