A movie about a wish list of to-dos before you kick the bucket.
What are yours?
I’ll start. My first inclination is to say: Twins (just kidding….sorta) but seriously, I’d have to say something rather mundane like finish my reading list.
Your turn.
Just for fun: The Bucket List
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Visit the great gardens of the world.
See Machu Pichhu.
Right one injustice.
I have pretty much done everything I have ever wanted to do,but I wouldn't mind moving to hawaii and living there for awhile
posted by camaroman2125 on Jan 17, 2008 at 06:47:47 pm #
For real camaroman2125? Oh my gosh. I'm 62 and are there are still a ton of things I'd like to see, taste, accomplish or experience. Paring the list to three was extremely difficult. I'd need another full lifetime. I was born curious and I guess I'll die that way! Also broke!
Live to be 110 and be shot by a jealous husband.
Sail around the world, single handed.
Lose the extra weight I'm carrying around.
Screw the IRS out of a ton of money.
Screw the credit card companies out of a ton of money.
Screw Toledo Edison out of a ton of money.
Use the money to buy a fifth of gin, a gold handled cattle prod and two shelters: One no kill animal shelter and another for battered women. Put the shelters next to each other and when an abusive husband shows up turn the dogs loose on him.
Hire a professional woman boxer to punch Carty Finkbinder in the nose.
Take pictures of Cary with a busted snot locker.
Publish the pictures on Toledo Talk.
Run a marathon.Create a community Web site.- Open a live theatre that features original plays, similar to the 30-seat Black Dahlia Theatre.
- Go birdwatching in Peru.
- Walk on the moon, but I guess I'd settle for some time in Earth's orbit.
I'm not so silly as to actually put such a personal list online. [DECLINE]
I’d like to travel to interesting places not necessarily exotic but interesting to me and stay/live there long enough to more fully understand and feel the local customs. This should be a foreign country like New Zealand, Romania, or Miami.
My biggest to-do wish before I buy the farm, croak, cash in my chips and, yes, kick the bucket is to not to say I wished I'd spent more time having fun with my kids and wife.
Work and etc. are fun, but, for the most part, they are the means, not the end.
-- Mike
Holland to tell ya the truth I been very fortunate in my careers and can do what I want when I want.
So If I wanna take the next two weeks off I can and it won't affect a thing for me.
Thats how I've been able to do pretty much everything I have ever wanted to do in my 29 years.
posted by camaroman2125 on Jan 18, 2008 at 10:18:37 am #
Cameroman2125 - If you're single I've got a (never been married childless) daughter. She's cute! Honest!
My list...or some of them...
1. Sail the J-Class boat Endeavor (I've already sailed on Shamrock V, but Endeavor has always been my favorite)
2. Combined with #1, cruise the Mediterranean Sea...
3. Catch a big tuna (can I do that in conjunction with #1 and #2? If so, even better!)
posted by MaggieThurber on Jan 18, 2008 at 11:48:43 am #
BTW - madjack, I think you've got a pretty creative list! LOL!
posted by MaggieThurber on Jan 18, 2008 at 11:49:29 am #
Sorry holland I am married with 5 kids lol. Our oldest being 8 and our youngest are twins that are almost 6 months in a few weeks.
I worked my butt off while I was single now I get to be at home with my wife and kids and spend every minute with them and get to watch my kids grow up.
posted by camaroman2125 on Jan 18, 2008 at 03:14:43 pm #
Wow, camaroman2125 is 29, has five young kids, and can take time off to do whatever he wants when he wants to do it.
My bucket list:
1. Be camaroman2125.
Sorry Holland lol
LOL, You don't wanna be me cause you didn't see what I had to go through when I was young to get where I am now.
when I was young my brother and I were always with babysitters but don't hate my parents for it. They did what they had to do to provide for us. I actually think thats what made me work so hard so I didn't have to do that with my kids.
So here I am both of us stay/work from home and get to watch our children grow up. Helped my mom be able to retire early.
Actually I have thought of something else now that you people have me thinking lol.
My next goal is to get some property here
http://www.turksandcaicostourism.com/posted by camaroman2125 on Jan 18, 2008 at 04:49:10 pm #
holland: I'm 29 and kinda well off now ;) what's her #... j/k
Hope you are well.
jr: after looking at that link I've added that to my list. I wish toledo had more theatre.
I'd pay $100 a seat to see a good version of MacBeth right now.
$150 for something original and bohemian :)
Unfortunately society doesn't praise the arts as much as they should.
Well, jshriver. You've got me. I don't know where to go with this one. Every time I try to introduce "Laura" to someone she gets really, really irate. Something about me being a typical Jewish mother. (We just had our family DNA done and there were some surprises there!)
I'm walking now and getting better every day. Thank You!
AA reports a 95% failure rate for the completion of its list.
AA isn't for completion of anything, Char. AA is to give the drunks a good feeling while they continue to be drunks ... and continue to abuse their families, and threaten the public on the road, and waste our Human capital. The one thing which fixes a drunk is violence -- a really good beating delivered by the family for each and every time the drunk does something stupid -- but our mentally limp-wristed society demonizes the "tough" in "tough love".
Any organization that emphasizes "one day at a time" has no serious expectation of a better future. Living constantly in the present ensures the destruction of the future.
Maggie: I had the opportunity to hitch a ride on a commercial tuna boat off of Cape Cod once. The fishery was much (arguably) less threatened than now and sushi grade giant blue fin were fetching around $14 per pound. A slammer was near 1,000 lbs, do the math. To catch one of these speedy monsters with rod and reel, I’d still be out there! I have seen yellow fin caught in the Keys, weight about 100 lbs, nice fish.
GZ: Did they nicely make it fit the disease model or the disease model fit it?
This movie looks great. A friend went to see it last night and said it was a must see.
For me?
* Write a books or two. (One being all the things I've learned in life then hand it down to my kids)
* Visit Nagoya and Tokyo Japan.
* Hike across Ireland.
* Be in the international hot dog eating contest :)
* Visit the galapagos and touch a turtle.
* Live in an igloo over night
* Photograph penguins in the antarctic.
* As long as my family is financially fine, donate everything else I have to charity.
lol just off the top of my head.
posted by jshriver on Jan 17, 2008 at 09:37:33 am #