Get a fulfilling and hopefully well-paying career.
Marry TonyF.
Have two happy and healthy children.
Live happily.
Btw Large Marge, if you want suggestions on where to go in Thailand, feel free to pm me! My family’s from Thailand so I know the ins and outs of the country.
For the past 5 years I’ve had a list of 25 Things to Do Before I Die, in no particular order. It took some thinking to narrow it down to just five, but here they are (still in no particular order):[ul][li]Find me somebody to love (with apologies to Queen)[/li][li]Do as much traveling as I can, both CONUS and OCONUS[/li][li]Get my helicopter pilot’s license[/li][li]Jump out of a perfectly good airplane[/li][li]Be at the game when New York wins a Stanley Cup and/or World Series[/ul][/li]I still want to do the other 20 things, too.
Get a better-paying job so that next time I move out of my parents’ house, I stay that way. (Third time’s the charm, right?) Preferably owning my own home, but between my parents some days, a cardboard box might be ok if I were to move someplace that didn’t have winter.
Go back to Ireland. First time I went, we visited the west first on account of our Clan Rally, then I broke my collarbone in a fall from a horse. Got to find out what it’s like trying to get into an Irish ER during World Cup, but had to come home early and missed Dublin.
Go to London. Been to England twice to go to Castle Donnington Festival in my teens, flew into Prestwick to stay with a Scottish pen-pal both times, never got that far south. (I’ve also been to the Netherlands and Germany without really seeing any major cities or typical tourist stuff, with the exception of walking past the royal palace in The Hague.)
Finish my book. You people who want to get published are way ahead of me. I’ve been working off and on for six years and so far have an outline and a few scenes. On the other hand, I average 60+ hours of work per week most of the year and for the last ten months have been taking care of a disabled parent going through cancer treatment, so forgive me if when I have some time to myself I prefer to squander it on “relaxing.”
Without getting into numbers, get back the body I had before I met my ex-fiance. Though I daresay, considering, I’m not doing so badly in the male attention department now… there are just cuter clothes in smaller sizes and I’d feel better about what I see in the mirror. I was pleasantly curvy, not super-thin. Right now I’m a little more curvy than I like. I have lost half the weight that I gained during the misery that was the last year I was with my ex, the other half is just a little harder. (See #4 for why I’m not exercising as often as I ought. I tried joining a gym with the theory that it would motivate me more, but I just ended up getting ripped off by two different places which in turn resulted in bounced checks. Not worth the hassle.)
Have another dog like Dottie. It is said someone has a perfect pet once in their life, she was mine. And I had her way too short of time. I still miss her terribly. sniff, sniff…
Win the lottery. At least 10 million would do fine. Wouldn’t turn down a smaller amount though. Though it’s too late to do alot for my children, I would love to leave something for my grandchildren so they can have a good life.
Drive a race car at Daytona or Talladega.
Travel the US in a motorhome. I have seen very little.
Lose some weight. If I was to learn to cook in a leaner fashion, that would help.
Swim in every ocean, including Antarctic. ( This means I’d visit every continent, of course ).
Learn to scuba dive.
Witness the birth of a baby. Never have, to me it is something that helps to define being a human being on this planet. No idea how I’d do such a thing, but I want to.
Make amends.
See my children be as happy to go back to their homes as they are coming to visit me in mine. (Or, will be, since they’re currently obnoxious teenagers. )
[ul][li]To fall in love with a woman, and she with me; and to live our lives happily together[/li][li]To have my own helicopter[/li][li]To travel all over the world[/li][li]To be handsome[/li][li]To do something really amazingly amazing that changes people’s lives in a positive way[/ul][/li]
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[list][li]Get my helicopter pilot’s license[/*][/li][/quote]
You go, girl!
Easy-peasy! ‘You bring milk and I’ll bring flour / And we’ll have pudding in half an hour!’ A cup of milk, a cup of flour, two eggs, half a teaspoon of salt, and some drippings from your roast. Mix everything together except the drippings. Put some drippings into a tin, pour in the batter, and cook at 425°F for 20-30 minutes (until nice and brown – but don’t peek a lot). Serve immediately, because they’ll start to deflate.