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"Vucket" "Wish List"
My recommendation to everybody is to pick out the most important thing on
your list, and do it as soon as you can. You never know what could come up to keep you from doing things, so do as many of them as you can. -- Joy Don't believe everything you think wrote in message ... This is a great topic. I'm not sure what "Vucket" means, actually it sounds vaguely profane. I gather that it refers to the list of things one wants to do before going on to the big cat-rescue center in the sky. (Hey, I don't know about you, but that's where *I'm* going.) Some things on my list (from the top of my head): - Lots o' travels. I have done very little travelling, actually, so I have a lot of places to see. Top of the list is Southern Spain. Why? I don't know exactly. It just sounds beautiful. All that Moorish architecture and culture, Mediterranean climate, and the fact that if I were there for any length of time, I'd pick up the language. But there are other places, too: Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Israel, Greece, and Bulgaria. Plus, the UK and Ireland, Denmark and Sweden. Lately I've been thinking that Vietnam would be a lovely place to visit. - Also in the travelling vein, but more touristy: I really want that lie-in-the-sun-in-a-tropical-paradise-for-a-week vacation. You know, the one where you drink alcoholic concoctions from a coconut shell? And swim in turquoise, bath-temperature water? Stay in a lovely hotel with a shower the size of my kitchen? I've actually had a couple of those vacations, but they were marred by bad company: one was with my dad when I was 24. He was a real jerk the entire week and totally ruined it for me. The other was with a company I worked for about 12 years ago. They took us to Hawaii for a *weekend*. (Don't ask.) I hated that job and couldn't stand anyone who worked there. I wanna go to a paradise with someone I like!! Doesn't have to be a romantic partner, someone I don't hate will suffice. - Live in some kind of intentional community. Co-housing, maybe? I'm a little too old and too private for a commune. But I really love the idea of being near people who know me. My life often feels so scattered, with friends all over the place. I'm not close enough to my family of origin to want to live with/near them, and I never spawned my own family. I don't have a partner, so, it's just me and my cats. Gets a little lonely sometimes. I'd really like a stable community to belong to. - Have some great musical group record and perform songs I've written. I sing myself, but I'm not really a professional quality performer. So I'd be just as happy if a more polished group did the honors. One that had similar musical values to my own, that is - I really don't want a heavy metal version of my stuff. - Take a bunch of art classes. I want to learn how to do mosaic, especially with colored glass pieces. - The older I get, the more I feel like I'm meant to do some kind of work with animals. I don't know what, though - other than what I do already, but I mean paying work. I don't have any ideas at the moment. Joyce |
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"Vucket" "Wish List"
"Vucket" most probably means that our slave didn't use the spell checker
before she sent the message. Should have been "Bucket" Mz Piglet thinking maybe they need to replace their secretary. wrote in message ... This is a great topic. I'm not sure what "Vucket" means, actually it sounds vaguely profane. I gather that it refers to the list of things one wants to do before going on to the big cat-rescue center in the sky. (Hey, I don't know about you, but that's where *I'm* going.) Some things on my list (from the top of my head): - Lots o' travels. I have done very little travelling, actually, so I have a lot of places to see. Top of the list is Southern Spain. Why? I don't know exactly. It just sounds beautiful. All that Moorish architecture and culture, Mediterranean climate, and the fact that if I were there for any length of time, I'd pick up the language. But there are other places, too: Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Israel, Greece, and Bulgaria. Plus, the UK and Ireland, Denmark and Sweden. Lately I've been thinking that Vietnam would be a lovely place to visit. - Also in the travelling vein, but more touristy: I really want that lie-in-the-sun-in-a-tropical-paradise-for-a-week vacation. You know, the one where you drink alcoholic concoctions from a coconut shell? And swim in turquoise, bath-temperature water? Stay in a lovely hotel with a shower the size of my kitchen? I've actually had a couple of those vacations, but they were marred by bad company: one was with my dad when I was 24. He was a real jerk the entire week and totally ruined it for me. The other was with a company I worked for about 12 years ago. They took us to Hawaii for a *weekend*. (Don't ask.) I hated that job and couldn't stand anyone who worked there. I wanna go to a paradise with someone I like!! Doesn't have to be a romantic partner, someone I don't hate will suffice. - Live in some kind of intentional community. Co-housing, maybe? I'm a little too old and too private for a commune. But I really love the idea of being near people who know me. My life often feels so scattered, with friends all over the place. I'm not close enough to my family of origin to want to live with/near them, and I never spawned my own family. I don't have a partner, so, it's just me and my cats. Gets a little lonely sometimes. I'd really like a stable community to belong to. - Have some great musical group record and perform songs I've written. I sing myself, but I'm not really a professional quality performer. So I'd be just as happy if a more polished group did the honors. One that had similar musical values to my own, that is - I really don't want a heavy metal version of my stuff. - Take a bunch of art classes. I want to learn how to do mosaic, especially with colored glass pieces. - The older I get, the more I feel like I'm meant to do some kind of work with animals. I don't know what, though - other than what I do already, but I mean paying work. I don't have any ideas at the moment. Joyce |
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"Vucket" "Wish List"
Joy wrote:
My recommendation to everybody is to pick out the most important thing on your list, and do it as soon as you can. You never know what could come up to keep you from doing things, so do as many of them as you can. I might refine that a bit and instead, try to do the more easily accomplished ones as soon as I can. In my list, it's the mosaic class. Then, maybe some of the trips. I could probably swing some version of the lying-on-the-sand vacation, too - maybe not with as much luxury as I fantasize, but still pleasant. But I don't want to do it alone, so I need to find a travel partner. I don't know anyone who has that kind of vacation in mind. I forgot to list one travel destination I yearn for, because I was so busy focusing on where I might want to go abroad. But one that's not very far from me is the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah. It sounds like a pain to get to, but I could manage it, and I could afford it. And I could even go alone, because once i got there, I'd have plenty of people and animals to relate to. Having an intentional community to live in is a long-term project. Not only is such a thing hard to create or find, but I'm not ready for it, in a number of ways. I don't have the money to buy property. And I don't have the temperament to live in close proximity to other people. I'm just too grumpy and paranoid right now. So I have to work on myself, get over some of this depression and negative thinking/moods, before I can even consider making a home with other people. That's probably a later-on kind of project. I get your point about "Do it now, because we never know when we'll run out of time," the whole "carpe diem" thing. But the fact is, if I'm not ready now, I'm not ready now - whether I have 10 years in which to become ready, or I only have 3 days, and therefore will never be ready. Just because it would be useful to be able to fly if cornered by a tiger, that doesn't mean a human being will suddenly sprout wings, if you catch my meaning. Some of my dreams probably won't come true because I'm not able to do them in the time I have allotted. That's unfortunate, but it's life. I try not to compound the stress by putting too much pressure on myself. Joyce |
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"bucket" "Wish List"
Joy wrote:
wrote in message ... This is a great topic. I'm not sure what "Vucket" means, actually it sounds vaguely profane. I gather that it refers to the list of things one wants to do before going on to the big cat-rescue center in the sky. (Hey, I don't know about you, but that's where *I'm* going.) Actually, it's just a typo. The movie that inspsired the topic is called "Bucket List", in which two men with cancer make a list of the things they want to do "before we kick the bucket". Duh, I'm an idiot. Joyce |
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"Vucket" "Wish List"
somewhere in Utah or Nevada there is a hotel where they provide a cat for
you in your room if you want, I lost the link, Lee wrote in message ... Joy wrote: My recommendation to everybody is to pick out the most important thing on your list, and do it as soon as you can. You never know what could come up to keep you from doing things, so do as many of them as you can. I might refine that a bit and instead, try to do the more easily accomplished ones as soon as I can. In my list, it's the mosaic class. Then, maybe some of the trips. I could probably swing some version of the lying-on-the-sand vacation, too - maybe not with as much luxury as I fantasize, but still pleasant. But I don't want to do it alone, so I need to find a travel partner. I don't know anyone who has that kind of vacation in mind. I forgot to list one travel destination I yearn for, because I was so busy focusing on where I might want to go abroad. But one that's not very far from me is the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah. It sounds like a pain to get to, but I could manage it, and I could afford it. And I could even go alone, because once i got there, I'd have plenty of people and animals to relate to. Having an intentional community to live in is a long-term project. Not only is such a thing hard to create or find, but I'm not ready for it, in a number of ways. I don't have the money to buy property. And I don't have the temperament to live in close proximity to other people. I'm just too grumpy and paranoid right now. So I have to work on myself, get over some of this depression and negative thinking/moods, before I can even consider making a home with other people. That's probably a later-on kind of project. I get your point about "Do it now, because we never know when we'll run out of time," the whole "carpe diem" thing. But the fact is, if I'm not ready now, I'm not ready now - whether I have 10 years in which to become ready, or I only have 3 days, and therefore will never be ready. Just because it would be useful to be able to fly if cornered by a tiger, that doesn't mean a human being will suddenly sprout wings, if you catch my meaning. Some of my dreams probably won't come true because I'm not able to do them in the time I have allotted. That's unfortunate, but it's life. I try not to compound the stress by putting too much pressure on myself. Joyce |
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"Vucket" "Wish List"
wrote in message
... Joy wrote: My recommendation to everybody is to pick out the most important thing on your list, and do it as soon as you can. You never know what could come up to keep you from doing things, so do as many of them as you can. I might refine that a bit and instead, try to do the more easily accomplished ones as soon as I can. In my list, it's the mosaic class. Then, maybe some of the trips. I could probably swing some version of the lying-on-the-sand vacation, too - maybe not with as much luxury as I fantasize, but still pleasant. But I don't want to do it alone, so I need to find a travel partner. I don't know anyone who has that kind of vacation in mind. I forgot to list one travel destination I yearn for, because I was so busy focusing on where I might want to go abroad. But one that's not very far from me is the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah. It sounds like a pain to get to, but I could manage it, and I could afford it. And I could even go alone, because once i got there, I'd have plenty of people and animals to relate to. Having an intentional community to live in is a long-term project. Not only is such a thing hard to create or find, but I'm not ready for it, in a number of ways. I don't have the money to buy property. And I don't have the temperament to live in close proximity to other people. I'm just too grumpy and paranoid right now. So I have to work on myself, get over some of this depression and negative thinking/moods, before I can even consider making a home with other people. That's probably a later-on kind of project. I get your point about "Do it now, because we never know when we'll run out of time," the whole "carpe diem" thing. But the fact is, if I'm not ready now, I'm not ready now - whether I have 10 years in which to become ready, or I only have 3 days, and therefore will never be ready. Just because it would be useful to be able to fly if cornered by a tiger, that doesn't mean a human being will suddenly sprout wings, if you catch my meaning. Some of my dreams probably won't come true because I'm not able to do them in the time I have allotted. That's unfortunate, but it's life. I try not to compound the stress by putting too much pressure on myself. Joyce You're absolutely right! There are some things we can't do, but it's nice to dream about them. And there are things we may do someday, but we may not be ready for them yet. I jumped out of an airplane on my 70th birthday, but there's no way I could have done that even one year earlier. The important thing is to have at least some things on your list that you can achieve, and go after at least one of them. Joy |
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Having an intentional community to live in is a long-term project. Not
only is such a thing hard to create or find, but I'm not ready for it, in a number of ways. I don't have the money to buy property. And I don't have the temperament to live in close proximity to other people. I'm just too grumpy and paranoid right now. So I have to work on myself, get over some of this depression and negative thinking/moods, before I can even consider making a home with other people. That's probably a later-on kind of project. What I found living in one 30 years ago was that temperament didn't matter a damn. What counted was people's economic interests. You need to look at what ties people have outside the community and where those ties are going to pull them. You can live with somebody with funny moods a lot easier than with someobody who wants to sell the whole place up as soon as possible for whatever the market will bear, however charming they may be about it. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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I will NEVER be ready to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, provided I
can ever find a perfectly good airplane, Lee Joy wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Joy wrote: My recommendation to everybody is to pick out the most important thing on your list, and do it as soon as you can. You never know what could come up to keep you from doing things, so do as many of them as you can. I might refine that a bit and instead, try to do the more easily accomplished ones as soon as I can. In my list, it's the mosaic class. Then, maybe some of the trips. I could probably swing some version of the lying-on-the-sand vacation, too - maybe not with as much luxury as I fantasize, but still pleasant. But I don't want to do it alone, so I need to find a travel partner. I don't know anyone who has that kind of vacation in mind. I forgot to list one travel destination I yearn for, because I was so busy focusing on where I might want to go abroad. But one that's not very far from me is the Best Friends Animal Society in Utah. It sounds like a pain to get to, but I could manage it, and I could afford it. And I could even go alone, because once i got there, I'd have plenty of people and animals to relate to. Having an intentional community to live in is a long-term project. Not only is such a thing hard to create or find, but I'm not ready for it, in a number of ways. I don't have the money to buy property. And I don't have the temperament to live in close proximity to other people. I'm just too grumpy and paranoid right now. So I have to work on myself, get over some of this depression and negative thinking/moods, before I can even consider making a home with other people. That's probably a later-on kind of project. I get your point about "Do it now, because we never know when we'll run out of time," the whole "carpe diem" thing. But the fact is, if I'm not ready now, I'm not ready now - whether I have 10 years in which to become ready, or I only have 3 days, and therefore will never be ready. Just because it would be useful to be able to fly if cornered by a tiger, that doesn't mean a human being will suddenly sprout wings, if you catch my meaning. Some of my dreams probably won't come true because I'm not able to do them in the time I have allotted. That's unfortunate, but it's life. I try not to compound the stress by putting too much pressure on myself. Joyce You're absolutely right! There are some things we can't do, but it's nice to dream about them. And there are things we may do someday, but we may not be ready for them yet. I jumped out of an airplane on my 70th birthday, but there's no way I could have done that even one year earlier. The important thing is to have at least some things on your list that you can achieve, and go after at least one of them. Joy |
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