Bucket List

After watching The Bucket List several times, I decided to create my own bucket list. I did not write a bucket list because I was dying, rather, I wrote a bucket list so I would not forget to live. Having Lupus for seventeen years...it is always in the back of my mind - when will the other shoe drop? It struck me I was living not to die instead of living - What a perfect waste? We can't do that! For a fact each of us know we have an expiration date. With this knowledge we should be driven to squeeze in every ounce of living during every day. Yesterday I caught my first fish - 20 inch Northern Pike - he was an ugly mother of a fish! Big teeth and a big mouth, yuck! Took the picture and threw him back. Last week I shot a gun. It was not my first time shooting a gun - it was the first time I shot a gun at a target because I wanted to do it - checked two things off my list. Flying a kite has not been as successful, Eileen and I have tried (The kite we tried yesterday had very specific directions; Have a friend stand 75 feet away. Have your friend hold the kite as high as they can) I wondered if the person holding the kite could be someone who was not a friend - will it work? Will the kite not fly if the "kite holder" was an acquaintance? Do we need a measuring tape? What if we are only 65 feet apart? Such specific directions are daunting.) I'd like to win the lottery. Make the completion of my bucket list much easier. I want to buy a Jeep, soft top, and drive across the United States. There are so many beautiful places in this country - so many interesting people - I want to stop at country stores in the middle of no where to buy a bottle of pop then sit on the front porch and drink it. I want to see the Liberty Bell - I have been to Washington, DC, but I want to go back when I can spend more time there. I want to see the Mets play at Citi Field, visit Wrigley field and watch a ball game with Bug A Boo and Rick at Fenway. I want to see Mt. Rushmore. I want to try a cruise - a short one, just in case I don't like it. If I do like it then I would like to cruise up to Alaska. I still want to get my motorcycle license. 5 more classes and I will have finished my Masters - finally! I have this book I have been writing, would like to finish it - send it out - probably have it printed and bound myself - just to say I finished it. Whole lot of stuff to do. I better win the lottery. I know we have to work and tend to the business of life. There are obligations we have to keep. The moments in between, these are the bucket list moments, the moments we can live. Everything on the bucket list does not have to be a grand feat; mixing the perfect martini can be on a bucket list - shaving your head and starting over(I've thought about that, only problem is when my hair is short I am often mistaken for a man) A little girl asked me if I was a boy or a girl; I told her I was a girl, she inquired; "Why?" I replied; "Because God made me a girl." She responded; "Me too, God made me a boy and now I am a girl." At the same party another little girl inquired if I was a grandmother - kids beat me up that day. I look like my father, what can I say? When my hair is short I look even more like my father - too bad I can't put face reconstruction on my bucket list. I mean I could but I wouldn't. I am a firm believer in being the person God made me, no chin, chubby cheeks, and masculine jaw line. God pretty much gets things right. So what is on your bucket list? Do you ever think about it - maybe not the specifics of it - just the thought of the time you spend when you are not doing the things you have to do; there are so many obligations we have to keep - a wise woman once told me "When you get paid, pay yourself first." Think about the instructions the flight attendant gives, (why don't people pay attention when the flight attendant give those directions. I know we know what she is going to say, but common courtesy should dictate us to at least feign interest) The flight attendant tells us if there is a sudden loss of pressure in the cabin oxygen masks will automatically drop form the overhead area, this is the important part - Place the mask over your own face before attempting to help othersou should know - today is July 27th, it marks the beginning of the month of my 47th birthday! I celebrate a month of my birthday - I'm worth it!