Yes, I am up very early… already went to church and stopped by the Ritz on the beach to get a scone and croissant… and instead of my usual tea i am getting a capachino…. it feels like i haven’t been here in ages but i guess that is because i really haven’t been here in a bit… in fact i hadn’t left my home for about two weeks i guess… i would get on the computer or do more research for www.mysearchforjustice.com or write in this blog… so my car battery died.. nothing really wrong with the battery just hadn’t moved the car at all…. i ended up getting some great help for jeff who is at Publix right by my home… so thank god for the Ritz Carlton and for Publix…. my hero’s and saviors this week!
The bucket list was on television a few days ago… and it is so funny since i put a post about it in my blog… but i wanted to mention more of my own bucket list… gosh I could go on and on about it.. but most of the things that were on the bucket list.. i had already done by the time i was 18-22… like going to France.. i actually went to school there…. then seeing the Taj Mahal… and the Pyramids… and an African safari.. even being on Mount Everest… i was really blessed in my childhood… actually most of my life…. only until I met that ucky con artist…. oh you can read more about the truth of all of that … in www.mysearchforjustice.com… anyway… oh so more about my own list… on my bucket list….
Some of the funny things i put in there… like…. when i cut my own bangs in college… the moment when i stood in front of the mirror… and went Opps….. right there and then i decided i should have learned to cut hair the proper way…HA!… of course i never did take any lessons… and my bangs today are fairly easy to trim… they are straight…HA!
whenever i would see any thing that i thought looked fun or interesting or would be great to learn to do i would put it on my list… ( I more or less called my list the list of things i still had to do or still wanted to accomplish)….
when i was 14 this this friend from boarding school .. Beth, well, her dad had a little plane… so i actually thought of learning to fly …. (i originally came up with the idea…. when we took this tiny little flight to Mt. Everest.. as the plane flew and i looked out the window…. i thought…. if something were to happen.. someone else should know how to fly the plane… then i thought of how wonderfully freeing it must be….. to be the one to fly the plane…. wow can you imagine…. I’m not talking jumping out of an airplane… not my style at all… but to be able to fly the plane.. glide in to a very small runway on the side of Mount Everest… wow!…. the trip to Nepal… and Mount Everest was one of those trips that my mom and i got to do together… no other sisters… just us… it was a really great idea she had for bonding and making some amazing memories…. she planed special trips for each of my sisters and myself… with just her.. and of course all the other trips the whole family got to go… but this trip will always seem extra special for me… because no one else got to go…. o the memories are ours alone… you know? no one else can interject their perspective… no one can say it wasn’t sunny when i remember it being nice and sunny… no one else in my family got to ride a yak…. and i rode that yak to the resort… my mom tells the story of how the yak ran away with me and this big tall man jumped in front of the yak and when it stopped i immediately jumped off…. a bit harrowing…. and a bit terrifying when i looked over the edge of the huge cliff to where a very small and not very sturdy fence… ( if you could call it that) stood between me and the very long drop off a very tall area of Mt Everest! HA!
Tons of other items on my list… some of them were more or less ways of living… like having a spa day each month…. preferably at a great spa like the one at the Ritz Carlton…. here in Naples is great! and having flowers delivered every few weeks to my home…. I read once in a magazine that that is something so very nice and special to do for yourself.. to fill your home with the fragrance of beautiful and aromatic flowers…. whether someone sends them to you or not….so i thought that was a nice idea… to treat yourself as you would want to be treated …. also i could go on and on but I’ll add more to this later…