My Bucket List

[Clydiechick]

Thanks everyone, they are all GREAT!

Nicolette, I have done a few things in my life, becoming a mother is one of the greatest achievements. Being good at my old job was another.

But sadly I don't feel happy. My greatest dream was to grow old with my husband and do all the things we planned to do. He stole this dream from me.

Amethist, I too have the dream to see my Dad again and know he is proud of me. Since his passing I vowed to take my mum to a different country every year. He wasn't one for travel and in the end his health wouldn't allow it. So I hope he sees that I am doing what I can to keep his good wife and my fabulous mother happy and fulfill some of her dreams. I have been to Austria (and forgotten til I saw your post) and seen the Lipizanners in action, brings chills to your spine, amazing creatures.

My greatest dream right now is to find peace within myself, I was making good headway before my husband stabbed me in the heart, ripped it out and threw it away. I have a lot of healing to do and I'm not really sure how to start doing that.

And despite the comments I have had all my life in relation to jumping out of a perfectly good plane, I still want to do it. Just one of those things. Maybe I will wait until I'm 80ish and if it kills me, so be it.

Clydie

 

[rjtransient]

Question to everyone who's gone skydiving. What does it feel like, physically? Is the initial jump anything at all like the freefall rides at the amusement park?

My list includes:

-go hang gliding
-go caving
-take up welding (a work in progress)
-get back into wildlife rehabilitation
-stay in touch with people
-read all the books I own
-learn aikido
-get a Bengal cat
-become a good enough photographer to open a Flickr account
-go back on my own to: the St. Lawrence River, the east coast, Florida, England

Ultimately: Change my name, get a green card, and travel from coast to coast, maybe by motorcycle. Yeah darling, gonna make it happen. Years down the road. Already have my licence, but I need a bike.

I'd love to see the California redwoods and Antelope Canyon sometime in the distant, distant future when I have enough money to travel.

 

[Tiger Kitten]

rjtransiet, welding is really fun. I used to do that for work. It's like drawing with molten metal, and it's really warm in the winter. It also has a really comforting sound when you are wearing ear plugs, which you should always do just in case the sparks fly into your ear.

My list:

1. See the northern lights
2. Become self sufficient again
3. Ride a mechanical bull
4. See a really big waterfall
5. See the Pacific Ocean
6. Pet a tiger (checked off the list)
7. Get married
8. Ride every roller coaster in the country... want to say world, but don't want to be too greedy.
9. Learn to stand up for myself in a positive way always.
10. Be content

Skydiving might be interesting. I haven't really considered that before. I don't have a problem with heights or anything unless I am stationary. I don't think the skydiving ride would stop and leave me stranded looking down.

 

[suzie q]

Great thread!!! That movie was awesome!

My bucket list...things I want to do before I kick the bucket:

1. Move to the Tahitian Islands and hang out/all expenses paid
2. Spend a month diving the Great Barrier Reef
3. Dive with whales and dolphins and be able to swim with and touch one
4. Participate in a safari (no hunting)
5. Learn how to hang glide and do so with my own glider in the Grand Canyon
6. Ride my own Harley sporty from east to west coast with friends
7. Completely restore my hubbies 1969 Firebird convertible
8. Own an Appaloosa
9. Have the money to provide "no kill shelters" where needed
10. Visit Australia

 

[Clydiechick]

Hey Suzie q

Gr8 list! I'll be here in Australia, whenever you get here!

Clydie

 

[anni]

Amethist,

Do the Lippies!!! The school's head instructor and his wife had 5, a Galleano, a Maestro, and I forget what other lines. I also forget spellings after all this time. When we did our levels we were allowed to (rarely) ride one through a dressage test format. Oh my. It's as close to the state of perfection in the moment as anything I've ever done. They're smaller than you'd expect, close up, and for not being gelded quite mild mannered. I never, ever got over that feeling of being around royalty or something in the time I was assigned to their stableyard and care. It was very intimidating, even given the sort of animals we had to deal with in that particular school. `If I'd had a Bucket List as a child, it would have had the Lippies on it. You don't have to go to Austria, either. Various professionals own private stock in schools around Europe. SORRY to ramble, but oh my your post was just lovely and made me a little teary! :) I have some pics I could dig out, I think.

Kudos to all the plane jumpers, but insert shudder here.

Bucket List

-Take all my children back to England with me.

 

[amethist]

Any of you wanting to do the Sky Diving you will love it. My daughter did a tandem Jump last year for charity, she was really sacred at first, that was until she saw who would be her Sky Diving partner would be. A good looking tall guy with, as she put it, eyes you could fall into.

She loved every minute of it, and has said she is saving up to go again just for fun.

Oh anni, the horses. Since a child I have loved the Lippizaners, they are truly royal in the way they move. I can't quite remember exactly where in Austria we were going, (Will have to look it up again). It was not too far from the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, we had a choice of the length of stay 5 days so I could have 3 rides out or 8 days 5 rides out. It was a spa centre, so after the rides I could relax in spa pools and have a massage to loosen up my aching muscles. I have the web site for the school in Vienna if you want it.

If you get back to England anni, maybe we could meet up.

Amethist

 

[Clydiechick]

Wow this thread is stirring some amazing happy emotions! Love it.

Clydie

 

[anni]

Oh I would love that. Thank you! The school is down in Somerset, by the Bristol Channel, and in those days was a BHS Center. For years I couldn't really bear the thought of even going back because that whole segment ( 5 years or so ) was just such a lovely time before it all went to dreck. These days I've been giving it serious thought. My 2 eldest sons were born there, in Porlock, and spend time there with family on regular basis. They're dual cits, and have been bugging me to get back with them sometime. Now it's a Bucket List item. :) You all stirred up some 'stuff'!! :)

Lovely to have that info-thanks much! When you get there, it would be very nice if there would be Lippie-Bucket-List pics posted. THAT would be a fabulous continuum for this thread, wouldn't it? Folks posting as items get ticked off.

When you do the Lippie 'thing' just FYI ( and please, please don't think I'm trying to sound annoying and self-important or what I refer to as Big-Pants. Really not-just informative I hope! :) ) I wanted to let you know that I've ridden nicely tuned dressage gigis but the Lippies really are very, very different in my opinion. It's like riding water. Oh my, what a lovely thing to have planned! I read a child's book at the age of 8 about the The Spanish School, and was enamoured, besotted and enslaved from there. It was one of Margaritte Henry's, did you read it?

Yes Clydie, it's a thread that's stirring things up here, too!

 

[JohnnyM53]

My bucket list:

- win the lottery so I can make my dreams come through and help people I know who really need financial help
- own a big, beautiful home
- own and drive a 1970s muscle car, especially a 1970s Charger R/T
- build a specially designed drum room in a basement with one or two large video screens and play to concerts on the screen
- own the most wicked set of acoustic and electronic drums, and have the drums microphoned to give it that concert sound
- see the Pyramids
- go to Australia to visit a close friend
- experience something deep that will change my emotional life in a positive manner
- ride a horse fast
- drive a motorcycle
- find love again

 

[gdf]

Things on my bucket list:

Masters degree (87)
Learn to swim (91)
Travel abroad (93)
Build my own house (95)
See all lower 48 states (38 and counting)
Earn my Ph.D.
Learn to fly (small plane)
Retire at 55 and teach college as a second career

Back when I wrote this all down it wasn't cool to call it a bucket list but I guess it's close enough : )

 

[Clydiechick]

Hey gdf. It's all cool!

Johnny ride an Arabian in the sands below the pyramids! You can go as fast as you like, it's fantastic, you feel like you are floating on air!

Clydie