whats on your bucket list?

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fredntan
fredntan Member Posts: 1,821
edited June 2014 in Stage III Breast Cancer

I feel so great. I am on top of my mountain. I laugh now.



I want to do things I havnt done before

Heres mine so far.

Whats on youlls?



Want to go horseback riding.

Want to do the mule ride down the grand canyon

I want to learn to take better pictures with my camera and take portraits

I want to take painting class by local artist EdKing. I love his simplustic style

I want to travel- planning trip out west this summer

I want to dance, i want to hear the music blasting in my ears

I want to learn to play that banjo DH bought me last year during chemo?



I would like to go over to europe but omg those flights are so pricey.

Would like to be able to go to sleep like DH can







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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited March 2013

    Funny, riding a horse is on mine too. I also want to visit the Middle East, but they are making that a bit tricky right now with all the shooting going on. It would be a bit stupid to survive BC and then go  get blown up by some Jihadist dude.

  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited March 2013

    I don't really have a bucket list.....but I want to do things that make me happy....I want to spend time in Israel every year and more often when I retire...I want to be happy and to feel good....I want to grow old!!!!

  • Colt45
    Colt45 Member Posts: 771
    edited March 2013

    I am a husband and caregiver. I know my wife was not diagnosed stage 3 (and I hope it's OK I'm here... You ladies comfort me on tough days).



    I want to dance with my wife at my daughters' weddings. They are 4 & 8 now.



    That is my dream.



    I also wouldn't mind babysitting our grand kids with my wife.



    Everything else is just details.



    Bless you all.

  • Gitane
    Gitane Member Posts: 1,885
    edited March 2013

    I bought an electronic keyboard that I'm learning to play.  The music I've learned so far is very simple, but I enjoy it.  

    I've learned to knit, and do that at odd moments.

    I've begun reading again, nothing heavy, just mysteries, something I stopped doing when dx with BC.

    Today I made Madelleine cookies, and am making paella for dinner,  YUM.

    I've put up a bird feeder and a humming bird feeder and have birds galore in the backyard.  My cats can't get them, but are sure entertained.

    Spent some time pulling weeds in my mom's back yard.  We got to talk.  It doesn't sound like much but was really a special time.

    We're enjoying some warm, sunny days.  I love California on days like this!

  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited March 2013

    I guess I'm like Karen on this one.  I don't really have a "list".  But, I do make sure I am spending some time doing things that make me happy.  That fill me up, not drain me down (well, besides school..but that's almost over). 

  • mary625
    mary625 Member Posts: 1,056
    edited March 2013

    To sing as well as I can

    Go to Las Vegas and stay in The Venetian

    Go back to Florida

    Ride a lazy river or go tubing (several plans for this last summer failed)



    I'm going to see my son graduate from college in May, and I'm out in Seattle now to help him find an apartment for when he starts his job at Microsoft in the summer. Life doesn't get much better than that, does it? So lucky and blessed to be here for this.

  • hopefour
    hopefour Member Posts: 459
    edited March 2013

    Love Colt45's bucket list desire...to dance with his wife at their daughter's wedding....some of the most loving things I've read have been on these boards. Such a blessing!

    Hoping each of you and all the other sisters live to fulfill their bucket list! I want to love my family as long as I am blessed to do so...praying its many many years!

  • momof2doxies
    momof2doxies Member Posts: 342
    edited March 2013

    Ahh, yes I have a bucket list:

    1. Dance with my husband at my daughter's wedding. It is a year away...

    2. See the Aurora Boreallis

    3. Get a passport (soon)

    4. Train ride across Canada

    5. Swim with the dolphins

    Anyone with advise on the above please let me know.

  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited March 2013

    Short list...Take my girls to Disneyworld.  Long list...see my girls grow up, go to their proms, go on their first date, go to college, get married :)

  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited March 2013

    I would like to be making love with my husband of seventy years (that would make us both in our nineties), on the pool table, and right after...well, you know...we're both blissfully swept away to heaven, leaving our clammy carcasses behind and locked together for the fire department to find.

    Oh, yeah.  That would rock.

  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited March 2013

    never mind about husbands and weddings, I would like to be able to dance, just once.

  • lovujja
    lovujja Member Posts: 119
    edited March 2013

    -I would love to have a normal body image (for me) -do my boobs job within couple of year.

    -Visit my friends and family more often.

    -Learn to play guitar..i am working on.

    -Go to dance classes.

    Be happy and relax.-working on.

    - Go to cruise vacation with my family one day.

    -Take my 5 and 6 yrs old to Disneyworld some time soon. 

    -See my girl and boy grow up.

    -See my two little growing up and going college.

    -Able to dance with my husband and kids on my two kids wedding.

  • lovujja
    lovujja Member Posts: 119
    edited March 2013

    -I would love to have a normal body image (for me) -do my boobs job within couple of year.

    -Visit my friends and family more often.

    -Learn to play guitar..i am working on.

    -Go to dance classes.

    Be happy and relax.-working on.

    - Go to cruise vacation with my family one day.

    -Take my 5 and 6 yrs old to Disneyworld some time soon. 

    -See my girl and boy grow up.

    -See my two little growing up and going college.

    -Able to dance with my husband and kids on my two kids wedding.

  • kelly279
    kelly279 Member Posts: 55
    edited March 2013

    Be there for my son's first day of school, little league games, first dance, graduation...you get the idea! If I can beat this and see my little boy grow up I will be the happiest woman in the world!

  • flopsy
    flopsy Member Posts: 365
    edited March 2013

    I want to grow old with my husband and die of natural causes in my sleep.

    I also want to see my beautiful daughters really happy even though they are adults.

    I would like to ride in a helicopter and maybe learn to fly one.

    I want to spend 10 days in Hawaii with my husband and also take an Alaskan cruise.

    I want to fully live for however many years I have left and I would truly like to help someone else everyday.

  • MaxineO
    MaxineO Member Posts: 555
    edited March 2013

    My daughter asked me to write out what I would do if I had a pot of gold...and could only spend it on myself.  I think with the bucket list, we need both TIME and money, most precious of which is TIME.

    I would take a tour of Scotland and England and another trip to Australia.

    Quit my job and spend more time with my kids.

    Ride my bicycle 100 miles

    Take cooking classes

    Hold my future grandchildren

    Complete my 'life list' of books I want to read

    Grow old with my husband and drink tea in the evening together

  • sbelizabeth
    sbelizabeth Member Posts: 2,889
    edited March 2013

    Maxine, that was lovely.  When I see elderly couples together, helping each other along, I have such a longing to experience that too.

  • Colt45
    Colt45 Member Posts: 771
    edited March 2013

    @flopsy:



    We did an Alaskan cruise as part of our honeymoon 10 years ago. It was awesome.

  • lostinmo
    lostinmo Member Posts: 922
    edited May 2013

    I want to go with Maxine to Scotland and Australia

    I would also like to get brave enough to go white water rafting.

    Continue traveling 

    Watch my son grow up.

  • NancyD
    NancyD Member Posts: 3,562
    edited May 2013

    My kids are grown, so I guess I can take that one off my list, but I'd like to see them happily engaged in a career and partnered with someone they love and who loves them as much as I do.

    I have mixed feelings about travel. There are a few places I'd like to see for the beauty, but photos seem to be pretty satisfying, plus a lot cheaper. Still, it would be exciting to actually walk along the Great Wall in China.

    I'd like to put hardwood floors in my home, and have my sofa and some living room chairs reupholstered in fabric of my choosing.

  • mary625
    mary625 Member Posts: 1,056
    edited May 2013

    I wanted to share that today I saw my son graduate from college, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa! Although I wasn't diagnosed when he was very young...it was when he was starting his junior year of college...I still wanted to share it with all of you in the hope that it provides some inspiration for all.

  • fredntan
    fredntan Member Posts: 1,821
    edited May 2013

    very impressive Mary! what a joyfull day

  • jennyboog
    jennyboog Member Posts: 1,322
    edited May 2013

    Congratulations Mary!  I celebrated my daughter's birthday this past Saturday, she turned 7, she was 4 at my dx. 

  • mary625
    mary625 Member Posts: 1,056
    edited May 2013

    Yay, Jenny! That is wonderful to hear!

  • SweetCaroline2
    SweetCaroline2 Member Posts: 72
    edited June 2013

    I want to take my daughter and her husband and 4 children on the tropical vacation that they have wanted and haven't been able to afford. I want to see my grandchildren learn to snorkel and see them having a wonderful time. I used to jump horses competitively. During cancer treatment, I retired my horse who was getting older. I am getting older,too( I will be 60 this month), but I still want to compete at another horse show! I bought myself a wonderful little companion- a Coton de Tulear puppy- she makes me laugh and brings me lots of joy- definitely getting a dog was on my list. I want to go to Italy and visit the Vatican and see the works of Michealangelo and DaVinci. 

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2013

    Fredntan:  I want to learn the banjo too !!!  My list is also: 

    **do a zipline

    **learn to knit (again)

    **open a bakery business

    **see my grandson's first day of school -- no wait, see his graduation from high school

    **go to Rome (Italy)

    Do-able right?? 

    --Shelly

  • fd1
    fd1 Member Posts: 239
    edited June 2013

    - Get married (just did that one last weekend!!!!)

    - Have a child

    - Study quantum physics

    - Visit Capetown

    - Laugh each and every day!!!

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited June 2013

    fd1: Congrats on your marriage !  Many happy years to come.

  • Ihopeg
    Ihopeg Member Posts: 399
    edited June 2013

    I have actually just crossed off many things on my bucket list! I saw both my kids graduate college and get jobs! I went with my parents to Italy and was there when the new Pope was elected, and I flew over the Alps. Im working on them!!

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