anyone have a bucket list?

by chickpea 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  chickpea

  i dont have an official written down list
  of things to do/ things done, but i was
  reflecting the other day about some of
  the singular types of experiences i have
  had and i found that some of the the
  one-off occurences in my life were pretty
  amazing....

  the highlight of the year just past was being able to lobby in DC...
  including an infamous "walk and talk" in the hallways of the Hart
  Senate Office Bldg, putting a face to the pending legislation, being
  marginally literate in the policy process, using arcane phrases
  like an sycophant, handing out "leave behinds" (<< arcane phrase)
  and establishing direct contact points with my legislators' offices
  which i have used on at least two other occasions this past year...
  "hi, brendan, this is XXXX... we spoke in march about HR 3132..
  nice to talk to you again... (<<<sycophant)

  it was definitely a tick mark on my bucket list.....
  but then again, i hope it has repeat potential

  anyone out there doing things they always wanted to do?
  things you didnt know you wanted to do?
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  chickpea

  wow.... seriously?

  no one? anyone? bueller?

  my hub and i ended up
  on a month long holiday
  in NZ, and since it was my
  idea and fully planned and
  executed by moi, i made sure
  that a few adventure pkgs
  were part of the deal....

  one of which was black water rafting
  which was actually tubing down a
  river that ran thru a cave system
  (waitomo caves if anyone knows NZ)
  home of the famed glow worms...

  it was a 3 hr trip in 12-14° C water
  with the only light being provided
  by the dozen headlamps of the rafters...
  
  there were leaps off waterfall edges into
  pools of the blackest water i have ever
  seen... claustrophobic passages that had
  to be managed with a frikkin inner tube
  slung over one shoulder and drop dead
  hilarious tour guides who could not resist
  torturing the tourists...

  at one point, they told everyone to turn
  off their headlamps and they would slap
  an inner tube on the water, in order to
  disturb the glow worms so they would
  begin their display of bioluminesence....
  then we were to float out following the
  glow from the cathederal roof of the
  limestone caverns....

  the guides warned us, there in a dark so deep
  you could not see your hand in front of your face
  that the river forked before it got to the end...
  we would know we had drifted down the wrong
  fork if the lights disappeared!!!! then they said
  "if you have any questions, raise your hands"

  this belongs on someone's
  "things i would like to do before
  i miss my chance to live forever
  in paradise" list
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  snowbird

  I hate the thought of dying.

  Always have.

  That's how I was so easily swept off my feet by JW's.

  Sylvia
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  chickpea

  awww mate!

  bucket lists are about living

  living out loud!!!
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  Deputy Dog

  I still have one more dog to train. I'm looking at a world record.