~!Get your buckets!~

[laci_baby]

Bucket list that is! It can be absolutely anything just be truthful to yourself!!! (And us since we're far away and won't know any better. ) What are twenty thing's you wanna do before you die???

Mine:
1. Backpack through Europe.
2. Be someone's heroine.
3. Change the world for the better.
4. Fall in love in Verona. And lose him somewhere soon after.
5. (to go with number 4.) Have an unrequited yet eternal love.
6. Save someone's life.
7. See the sun set then fall asleep under the stars and wake to see the sun rise.
8. Join the gang in Ireland for a drink... or several.
9. Sky dive/Paraglide. Any and all types of flying.
10. Give a generous amount to charity.
11. Feel the ocean on my skin.
12. Travel the world.
13. Conquer my greatest fears.
14. Write a book and get it published.
15. Finish the first 1001 reading list. (It's never ending.)
16. Kiss a total stranger under the Eiffel Tower.
17. See the Mona Lisa Smile in Louvre.
18. Sun bathe on a beach in Fiji.
19. Make someones greatest wish come true.
20. Become immortal ( hey a girl can dream, right?)
OR Drag Dee along and go out Thelma and Louise style. ( You knew it was coming. heehee...)

Your turn!

[October_rains]

oooooh i like yours laci!

Uhm okay here goes
1 I have to meet Zach Braff. (Scream) I LOVE HIM!
2 Visit my homeland Switzerland and do the Cresta Run
3 Eat unknown icky food in Thailand and it not be so icky
4 I want to go on a safari! Any kind of safari
5 Be taught a different language by some gorgeous hunk of man
6 I want a camel to take me to school every day
7 Spend all day in bed
8 I want a From Here to Eternity beach moment
9 Join an Etiquette's class
10 Be in a ballet
11 See Carmen performed
12 Own my own island. Or share Mr. Depps.
13 Fall and be fell in love with
14 Adopt a pet
15 One great marriage
16 Two kids
17 Thousands of grandkids
18 I want to grow old with someone even if it's my cat
19 Get a tattoo
20 Move to New York

[StephenKingman]

Hmmm....brilliant idea for a thread, Laci, i have to think long and hard but here goes:

1. See all the major states in USA
2. Raise and love 2 Labradors
3. Visit Iceland
4. Join the mile high club
5. Win the lotto!
6. Spend a whole weekend buying books in the biggest book store in the world
7. Spend a week on a paradise-type Hawaii beach
8. Meet Stephen King
9. Be self-employed before im 40
10. Spend the night in a haunted house
11. Give my folks a decent funeral
12. Donate as much as i can to charity
13. Learn from my mistakes!
14. Go on the biggest roller coaster
15. Run my own cinema showing exclusive horror movies
16. Visit more of my beautiful home country
17. Bungee jump (after several drinks!)
18. Do my bit to eliminate animal cruelty
19. Bike through Italy
20. Live old enough to enjoy life but not too old as to be helpless and feeble

There you go!

[laci_baby]

Hmmm....brilliant idea for a thread, Laci!

Thanks!!! I'm trying to throw stuff out there to keep people here. What makes you happy. Things to do before you die. Surely it will work, right?

I like your list Mike! Very you-ish.
After i get there we'll see how many numbers we can mark off our lists together, okay?

[StephenKingman]

Hmmm....brilliant idea for a thread, Laci!

Thanks!!! I'm trying to throw stuff out there to keep people here. What makes you happy. Things to do before you die. Surely it will work, right?

I like your list Mike! Very you-ish.
After i get there we'll see how many numbers we can mark off our lists together, okay?

No problem Laci its a great way to get to know the members here better and attract a few more!

Ha i just looked at my list and it looked funny seeing the funeral thing there but thats the Gods honest truth, it would be stupid to lie on those lists, yeah ill tick them off as i go along. A nurse will have to tick the last box when im 90

[GotThatSwing]

My list looks like that:

1) Travel the world
2) Do the whole Camino de Santiago in Spain
3) Travel with transsiberian railway
4) Learn to speak perfect Spanish, Russian and some other language (maybe Arabic or Portuguese)
5) See the northern lights
6) Bungee jump
7) Fly balloon
See musical in Broadway
9) Have my own apartment
10) See the birds by Iguazu falls where they come only one day a year
11) Spend Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
12) Visit whole Latin America
13) Drink mojito in Cuba
14) Take my mum to Crimea as I know she dreams about it
15) Keep my closest friends till we’re old
16) Write a book
17) Have back braids
18) Visit my penpals (or be visited by them)
19) Wet my feet in all three oceans
20) Leave everything and follow the list

[laci_baby]

These are great! Come on people you know you want to share with us!

[Mairin]

Let's see... 20 things before I die??

1. Work with rescuing elephants from abuse and poachers
2. Go to Africa to work with Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton on his Save the Elephants project!! (that man is my hero!!)
3. Travel the world (beginning with Indonesia)
4. Have children
5. Try Rocky Mountain Oysters (I know what they are, but you gotta try everything once)
6. Overcome my fear of heights and skydive! (don't see this one happening though!!)
7. Find and get reacquainted with my half brother
8. Quit being so shy and be willing to meet and make new friends
9. Start a local sanctuary for abused and neglected animals
10. Go to Comic Con dressed as either a brown coat or a storm trooper
11. Get my husband to agree to go to Comic Con with me dressed as either a brown coat or a storm trooper
12. Grow old with my husband
13. Watch my sister get pregnant (they are having a hard time at it and she would make a wonderful Mom)
14. Go to South America and make my own fresh batch of coffee
15. Watch a space shuttle launch
16. Go to space and see the stars outside of our atmosphere
17. See my husband finish grad school and become a PhD in social psychology
18. See a tornado in real life
19. Go to Yellowstone and drool over the amazing geology
20. Learn to draw

[Tralala]

In likely order:

1. Attend my daughter's college graduation
2. Attend my son's high school graduation
3. Attend my son's college graduation
4. Attend my best friend's prison "graduation"
5. Get eight (consecutive) hours of sleep

[October_rains]

I'm actually really surprised by the answer's your getting, Laci. So far they're great

[laci_baby]

Me too! Yays! Woot Woot! Still waiting on some people though...

[Dodge]

Cool!

Before I die I want to:
1.) Go on an around the world cruise and have a massive suite on the ship
2.) Sail across the globe in my own 50+ foot sailboat
3.) Go on an archeological tour of the world (ancient sites in South America, the Middle East, etc.)
4.) Hike around Area 51
5.) Visit Malta for at least a month
6.) Travel to Antarctica and stay for awhile
7.) Travel to the Congo
8.) Sell at least a million of my books (eBook or print)
9.) Have BookBarista get at least 100,000 visitors a day
10.) Write at least 10 more novels
11.) Get back to working out
12.) Visit New York City again and have unlimited cab fare and dining cash
13.) Become a master DJ like Tiesto, Taucher, etc.
14.) Visit the Vatican basement and understand ancient texts
15.) Write a book that unravels "it all"... and everyone believes it!
16.) See an assault and I give the perpetrator the worst beatdown ever:)
17.) Learn to fly a helicopter
18.) Fly in space and visit ISS
19.) Make sure my kids get a great education
20.) Most importantly to know that my wife and kids know how much I love them everyday and even beyond the grave. To always be there for one another. To be a great family rich or without money. Together we prevail:) Everything else takes a backseat.

[laci_baby]

Alright since it's been awhile, and things have changed, i'd ike to change mine.

1. Have a housefull of children of my own. I'm thinking five.
2. Have a long, happy and healthy marriage.
3. Publish my books.
4. Have one of my books as a best seller.
5. Have my dream record room where i can spend day after day listening to the best of the oldies and the blues.
6. Save someones life.
7. Change the world for the better.
8. Be someones role model, and never let them down.
9. Give my children the happiest life i can.
10. Make someones greatest wish come true.
11. Be hands on to feed the hungry.
12. Help LGBT with gay awareness and support.
13. Live in Antartica (while i can... its melting. Poor penguins.)
14. Open a successful Inn (Bed n Breakfast).
15. Drink sweet tea on a porch swing while the sun sets in my dream house in Louisiana.
16. Own a hearse ( i know it's weird. but i want a lime green one. and yes i do blame Six Feet Under.)
17. Have the same pet for a long time. Newborn to old age. Atleast once.
18. Learn how to ride a bike (I HAVE NO CLUE HOW! Dont make fun of me..)
19. Make someone as happy as they can possibly be.
20. Make a strangers day better. Even if it's just because i smiled at them (i smile at everyone..)
Oh and of course..
Drag Dee along and go out Thelma and Louise style. Haha. Couldnt leave her out..

[Fran]

@laci
Have you considered that No 1 probably rules out all the rest

[laci_baby]

Haha good point.
I can still try though.