The Bucket List, a new movie starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, has been getting really lousy reviews, but the premise perhaps is intriguing:
What are the things you really want to do before you leave this world (i.e.) "kick the bucket"?
Don't worry if your wishes are impractical or expensive, what's on your own bucket list?
It's nice to see a familiar face here, Aunty, as I try to jack up my post count so I can compete with you in future story competitions. I apparently need 100 and I'm told this is a good place to increase my count.
I have been married once, had four children, and then divorced once. I have travelled extensively over the world, both with the U.S. Navy and on my own. I now have seven grandchildren. I still enjoy my work, and I'm nearing retirement age at which time I'll probably cut back to part-time work.
My 'bucket list' is a completely blank sheet, and will remain so. I'm very happy with exactly the way everything has turned out.
If I could have made a bucket list when I was 18 years old, and had perfect foresight, I would have written my own life story exactly as it eventually evolved.
Last edited by DickZ; 01-11-2008 at 05:00 PM.
I hope I can say that when I get close to retirement!Originally Posted by DickZ
I want to live in Ireland for at least a year before I kick my bucket. Preferrably a very small cottage with my own milking cow.
Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in geardagum,/Þeodcuninga þrum gefrunon,/hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!
Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,/ monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,/ egsode eorlas, syððan ærest wearð/ feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,/ weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,/ oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra/ofer hronrade hyran scolde,/gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!
Find some really evil partner and together we don't let other people do whatever they want to do before leaving this world.What are the things you really want to do before you leave this world (i.e.) "kick the bucket"?
Don't worry if your wishes are impractical or expensive, what's on your own bucket list?
*edit to add*
Would love to 'own' such a pleasure.
Last edited by Pensive; 01-12-2008 at 05:52 PM.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.
Fabulous thought for a thread Aunty. It's better than that silly thread on whether our pets are prisoners in our houses.
For me, I would love to write a novel. I wish could, even if a publisher never picked it up. I would publish it at my expense if I could afford it. Perhaps when I retire and have more time.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Speak for yourself!...I think that Pet thread was wonderful, enjoyable and challenging ;-)Fabulous thought for a thread Aunty. It's better than that silly thread on whether our pets are prisoners in our houses.
But regarding this thread - Live life for God's sakes...don't worry about death...it happens to everyone
And whether you seen Monsa Lisa or Eiffle Tower before you pop it makes no blind bit of difference
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell :"
Blog: Rubaiyats of Lote-Tree and Poetry and Tales
Before I die,
I would need to go to the US.
Also, even though it might not be a good idea, I would somehow need to see Chris and talk to him.
Some of the main places I want to go are Dresden and Arnsdorf in Germany where my grandparents are from, Odessa in the Ukraine, I want to visit Edinburgh for Hogmanay (I might at the end of this year), Boston (specifically Fenway, for obvious reasons), Pier 21 in Halifax, and a ton of others.
Of course on top of all the places are certain activities as well,
-I want to go skydiving! My dad says he'll go with me so I gotta work that out.
-I have several tatoos each representing a part of my heritage I wish to get but I want to get them all in the countries they represent so that means, I need to go to Scotland, Ukraine, Germany and France to get them all
-I want to visit every continent with 2 down so far.
-I want to learn as many languages as my brain can manage to hold.
-I want to fall madly in love and get married and have 5 kids.
Oh, theres so much to do and see in life I don't know how anybody can't have a list a mile long.
Of course I am rather close to completing some things on my list, in July I'll be in Pamplona to attend the fiesta of San Fermin
"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
-Walt WhitmanThey have their worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.
-Jack Kerouac
My Bucket List:
- Join the Army
- Kill a few... hundred
- Get a decent job in trades
- Manage to buy a good house ($500,000-$750,000)
- Marry a pretty wife
- Raise 3 kids
- Publish a book
- Retire
- Buy a temporary home in Vancouver
- Visit the Philippines
- Visit New York
- Visit Germany
- Visit London
- Get shot by a gun
- Die by saving a loved ones life.
Not a very exciting list. Lots of things on here that isn't normal... Not very many people want to be shot by a gun...
Why do we cry?
My bucket list:
- Travel to Thailand
Travel to Africa
Go on a cruise
Visit Hawaii every year
Raise my family well
Read all the books on the 1,001 books you must read before you die list
Write my life history
Create a book for each of my children
Create my dream garden
Become an Advanced Master Gardener
Build my dream home
Natasha-so many books, so little time
Read my book blog!
Like many I aspire to write a book; I just need to come up with a plot/premise/thesis/idea.
My bucket list is not that long so I guess I can say my life is pretty good. For me,I would say the following:
*Rent a villa somewhere in Italy(maybe Tuscany) and live there for at least a year
*Do volunteer work at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah - has anyone else ever heard of this place ?
* See my husband get something published
*Raise a family and live long enough to see them get married
What Are You Crazy!!!
-Read everything in my collection and make sure that nothing goes unread. I still got a good couple decades..but the list just gets longer.
-Experience something supernatural.
-Visit Europe.
Read every Shakespearian work(I'm not tooo far off, I guess. :-/)
and...Save the world!
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Go to the San Diego Comic-Con in full Green Arrow regalia.
I'll have to get back to you on the others.
Por una cabeza
Si ella me olvida
Qué importa perderme
Mil veces la vida
Para qué vivir
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