If I haven’t participated in a few Caligula-style orgies by the time I’m dying, I’ll be pretty disappointed.
Others:
Purchase the century-old mansion that I grew up in and lived in until I was 10, and live in it once again. This has always been a huge dream of mine and I plan on making it a reality once I’m financially able. I especially want to restore the cellar (which was a dark dungeon when I lived there) to its former glory, especially the “gun room” which was a cozy den with carved wood-and-glass gun cabinets lining the walls.
When I was a kid, I used to put my toy guns down there. Someday there will be real ones. I hope to Christ that the people who bought that house after we moved out didn’t remove or otherwise fuck up those gun cabinets.
Go to California. I’ve never been there.
Go to Europe. Also never been there.
Meet the author Tom Wolfe (I should get to work on this one, because he’s pretty old.)
I actually took a good look at my life a few months ago and made a quick list of things I would regret having not done if I were to die soon.
One that was on my list, and I am currently signed up for this coming August, is to attend the Penny Arcade Expo (large gaming expo in Seattle). Living in Michigan, and being on a very tight budget, attending this is not a good use of my time or money, but dammit I’m going! Gotta start on the list somewhere, right?
Actually, I’m trying to do #4 next year, but might be getting married instead so might try to do that for my honeymoon. The fiance wants to go there as well…
Slight hijack:
My brother is taking a kind-of early retirement and is going to work just a couple days a week in a different department, down the hall at his workplace.
It was announced today and his co-workers all wished him well.
His co-workers are all in their 20’s and one seriously asked, “So, have you made your bucket list yet?”
My brother said, “One thing on my list is to back my car over smart-assed youngin’s.”
My list, in order of likelyhood (from easy to maybe-if-hell-freezes-over):
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[li]Get comfortable enough on my bike to ride to work[/li][li]Own a dog (and get the lifestyle that would allow me to do that)[/li][li]Take a cooking course an exotic locale to learn the local cuisine (like Thai food in Thailand, or Moroccan food in Morocco)[/li][li]Set foot at least once on each of the continents (so far, I’m up to 3)[/li][li]Find a plot of land with a pretty view, and build my dream house on it[/li][/ol]
Visit Japan in the springtime and see the sakura in full bloom. I’d sit under a tree and look up into the gentle blossoms, letting my mind drift on the wind just like they do.
Visit Africa and see some wild lions. Just because I have to.
Go somewhere where I could touch a lion for real. Pet its mane, maybe even hug it. …what? It’s my favorite animal, let me have my fun.
Visit Ireland. I have some Irish blood from my dad’s side of the family, and for some reason I have a part of me that keeps pulling me to the Emerald Isle. A Celtic part of me is being drawn there, I can’t explain it, I can’t say why, but I have to visit Ireland. I won’t feel fulfilled until I do this. I also feel/know in a past life of mine I was there. Maybe there’s something waiting for me.
Start that laser tag company with my friend. We have plans to open up a laser tag center here, because kids on Maui don’t really have much to go out and do besides hang out at our small little shopping mall. We’d have laser tag, video games, pool tables, and eventually expand into a bowling alley, maybe have a club on a higher level…
Have a home and live happily with my boyfriend of 8+ years. Fly his ass over here from Voctoria, BC and keep him here.
My list includes laughing at such lists.
Of course I do expect to finish writing that book I have boxes of notes on.
And figure out how to get the ark out of my basement before the rains come.
